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Carrietta N. "Carrie" White is the protagonist of the 2002 version of the film Carrie. She is portrayed by Angela Bettis. Jodelle Micah Ferland portrayed Young Carrie.

History

Childhood

Margaret White conceived Carrie alone in their bungalow. One day, Carrie spotted her neighbor Estelle Horan sunbathing and approached her, curious about her womanly features which Margaret had attributed to sinful deeds. Margaret saw her and forcibly took little Carrie inside. The child reacted by bringing down a rain of meteorites upon their house, which Estelle, her mother and their neighbors witnessed. Carrie also telekinetically thrown their dinner table out the window.

Still in childhood, Carrie experienced what was seen by her classmates as a "seizure" at school.

Teenage years

Years later as a teenager, Carrie became the target of severe bulling from her peers and Ewen High School. Her more popular classmates - the "Ultras" - considered her inferior. One day after a P.E. class, Carrie had her first period in the shower and thought she was beelind to death, much to the other girls' mocking.

Their P. E. teacher, Mrs. Desjardin intervened and calmed her down. Carrie's telekinesis first manifested with the light above them exploding. At principal Morton's office, Mrs. Desjardin suggested that Carrie walk home. The Principal, however, mispronounced her name repeatedly, and Carrie reacted by violently moving his table. This left Morton and Mrs. Desjardin confused, and she measured the table's movement in disbelief.

On her way home, Carrie was tormented by Danny Erbter and telekinetically threw him out of her way, hurting him. At home, Margaret accused Carrie to have menstruated for committing sins and punished her by dragging Carrie inside their closet. There, Carrie secretly kept things her mother had forbidden her from keeping, such as teen magazines.

The following days, the Ultras accused Carrie of being responsible for Chris Hargensen's expelling from school. Chris had actually refused to accept Mrs. Desjardin's punishment for abusing Carrie.

Online, Carrie looked the "miracles" that had been protecting her from torment up, and was led to the true nature of her powers: telekinesis, the ability to move objects psychically.

Later, Carrie was invited to prom by Tommy Ross - a student she secretly had a crush on. She initially refused, but accepted after his insistence. When she told her mother about the prom invitation, Margaret forbade her to go. At last, Carrie was provoked into using her powers to confront her mother and Margaret seemingly gives in. Carrie made her own dress, much to Margaret's distaste.

While at a store looking for makeup supplies, Carrie was approached by Tommy Ross's girlfriend Sue Snell. She confronted her about the reasons Tommy had invited her and opened up about how she wanted to be taken for being liked, not pitied. Carrie also pointed out that, while everyone (including Sue) believed they were better than her, that did not mean it was true.

Prom night

Margaret tried one last time to make Carrie stay home, suggesting that they burn her dress. Carrie telekinetically pushed her mother away and, while waiting for Tommy, anxiously caused her mobilia to levitate. At prom, everyone was startled when Carrie arrived. She was well received by Helen, Roy, Norma and Mrs. Desjardin, but still experienced mockery and rejection from Tina, Lou and some of the other more popular attendees.

When voting for the highly anticipated election of the Prom King and Queen started, Carrie was shocked that her and Tommy were listed as candidates, when Helen honestly voting for them. Much to everyone's surprise, Carrie and Tommy won. During the coronation, Carrie was already imagining a dance with Tommy - when a bucket of blood was dropped over her. With her boyfriend Billy's help, Carrie had secretly set up Carrie's coronation to humiliate her once again.

Covered in blood and targeted with laughing by most of the prom attendees, Carrie fell into a trance and completely lost control of her powers. Her anger made the gym tremble and locked everyone inside, setting the place on fire. Unaware that Carrie was responsible for the destruction, Mrs. Desjardin still screamed for her before she tried to escape the fire after Norma and a few more students. Carrie ultimately electrocuted the attendees (including Helen and Roy) and brought down the gym.

On her way home, Carrie's telekinetic mayhem followed. Chris and Billy saw a fire hydrant opening by itself and then, Carrie on the street. Billy tried to ran over Carrie, and Chris begged him to stop. Carrie then crashed Billy's car and thew it aside, killing both of them.

Sue spotted her from the Critter King gas station before the place blew up. At home, Margaret tried to kill Carrie by drowning in the bathtub. Before losing conscience, Carrie pressed Margaret's heart, killing her. Sue then found and tried to revive Carrie by administering two breaths. When she woke up, the two were psychically connected and found out the truth about all the events behind and leading to prom night.

Aftermath

As the high school massacre and town destruction became subject of investigation, Sue kept Carrie hidden. She lied to Detective John Mulcahey about Carrie's whereabouts, although telling their whole backstory. While visiting the graveyard resultant of prom night, Sue assured an undercover Carrie that the massacre was not at all her fault. Carrie would suffer nightmares about Margaret, Chris and probably other victims of the massacre. Carrie would then go to live in Florida to live a normal life and where no one knows who she is and possibly help other telekinetic people.

In the Bonus Short, it was punch. She taste the punch and began laughing. She became a belly dancer and sings Aladdin songs.

Powers and abilities

Carrie is telekinetic and a latent telepath. As a child, she also displayed the mysterious ability of casting a destructive meteorite rain-like phenomenon, ignited by Margaret's physical and psychological abuse. During her massacre, Carrie mentally dispels the pouring pipe water away from herself, and walks out of the gym protected from the deadly electric shock that decimating the prom attendees.

Trivia

  • Angela Bettis was supposed to star a TV series continuing the events from the film. Thus, Carrie's massacre is more played as accidental rather than purely vengeful in this version, as to keep the character likeable.[1]
    • Writer Brian Fuller also acknowledged the Columbine massacre as still being too recent in people's memories when Carrie was in production. Thus, he was careful in addressing the "teenage vigilante" theme.[2]
  • Angela Bettis was called in as Carrie following her portrayal of May (2003), a similarly outcast young woman whose social difficulties have murderous outcomes. Since May was not released until after Carrie premiered, audiences believed it was the other way around - that she played May because of Carrie.
  • Young Carrie is played by Jodelle Micah Ferdland - who starred in Silent Hill (2006), based on the survival horror game series of the same name, to which Carrie was an inspiration.
  • Angela Bettis was 29 years old when she played Carrie, two years older than Sissy Spacek when she filmed the 1976 classic.
  • The character is for the first time portrayed as a telepath (or empath), closer to the source novel.
  • Bettis's portrayal marks the first time Carrie destroys her whole town in an adaptation.
  • Chris' memory of Carrie having had a "seizure" in their previous school years could mean the students had witnessed a early manifestation of her powers.

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