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Carietta N. White is the main protagonist of Carrie (2013). She is portrayed by Chloë Grace Moretz.

Plot

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Little Carrie In Alternate Opening

Carrie, in this version, is a little more similar to the book version, but in more modern terms. At the beginning of the film, Carrie is shown missing the volleyball when the class is playing pool volleyball. Carrie then accidentally hits the ball on Sue's head, but Sue laughs it off. However, Chris makes fun of Carrie for it, saying, "you eat shoot". After pool volleyball, all the girls must go and shower off. After a few seconds of showering, Carrie figures out she has gotten her first menstrual cycle in the showers. Carrie believes she was bleeding to death because her mother never taught her about having a period. The other girls are unsympathetic and throw tampons at her, while she pleads for help. Chris also films Carrie with her phone. The gym teacher Miss Desjardin tries to calm Carrie down by slapping her, and a light fixture is unlit by Carrie's power. Carrie is then picked up by her mother Margaret, and is driven home. Margaret, who believes menstruation is a sin, shoves Carrie into the praying closet.

The closet door cracks abruptly. Both are shocked. Carrie suspects that she may have telekinesis. She then begins to study everything she can about her power. While practicing at home, the lights flicker and her mother comes up with a knife to check if she is alright. She quickly, but in control, puts the bed softly on the ground along with books. Margaret then goes on the bed with her, whispering to her that she is safe.

Carrie makes the knife fly off the desk onto the ground, her mother doesn't see it but hears it looking over quickly than looking back at Carrie. Carrie is asked to the prom by Tommy, but thinks it is a trick and runs to the hallway. He follows her and she replies saying "Stop!." He then gives Carrie her coat, as she runs crying. Carrie and Miss Desjardin have a serene and peaceful talk together about Tommy asking her to the prom. She is confronted again while walking home, but this time she accepts. Carrie tries to tell her mother but she is disinterested and attempts to walk away after telling her no. Carrie reveals her power to her mother by lifting up all the furniture and her mother off the floor. She demands that she is going and wants to be normal.

Carrie sews her own dress, and buys makeup, and on prom night, but her mother tries to convince her, that it is a trick and threatens to tell Tommy the truth. Carrie telekinetically pushes her mother into the closet and locks the closet door. She leaves with Tommy and arrives at the prom. She feels amazing, as if her whole life has led to this moment. In the meantime Chris's friends manipulate the election, so that later she and Tommy win the election and while on stage, Chris drenches Carrie in pig's blood. Carrie is nearly in tears. She reacts with no noise, but gasping. Tommy screams out "What the hell!" The video then plays of Carrie in the shower room pleading for help. 

Carrie remembers her mother's words and begins to walk briskly for the door. Before she can take another step she glances over seeing the video humiliated and enraged. Chris, Tina, Nicky and Lizzy laugh hysterically, because the plan worked. As Billy pulls on the rope more, the bucket of blood plummets onto Tommy's head, killing him. Carrie then mourns over his body. After spotting Billy's glasses, she finally has enough as her inner psyche snaps, as she stands up, flickering the lights. She then levitates the blood on her body, while demonically transfusing, astonishing the crowd. Heather, scared about what she is seeing, attempts to scram from the gym. Her powers, now reaching an incredible level, make sure, that Carrie screeches and unleashes a monstrous tsunami of air with a roar, that forces people to the floor, flinging furniture into the air and obliterating everything. When the storm disappears, Heather's eye is eradicated as Carrie pushes her into the glass on the door right in front of Sue, while another student, trying to scatter, is crushed by a pole. Nicki and Lizzy are forced to the ground telekinetically, while being stampeded by scrambling students, killing them. Carrie then proceeds to turn the sprinklers on, soaking the gym in water. After ripping apart the electrical system, Carrie proceeds to electrocute Tina, whipping her with electrical wires and pushing her into a fire and setting her ablaze. Not only is Tina set afire, but the whole school begins to collapse under the flames. Carrie then spares Miss Desjardin, throwing her on stage, and electrocuting the water, shocking anyone who stepped in it. Most perish in the fire, and Carrie levitates out of the school. After seeing Chris and Billy, she stalks them.

Eventually she encounters them, who then attempt to kill her by running her over, but she uses her power to stop the car and in the process kills Billy and traps Chris in the car, then sends the car flying into the gas station. Chris goes face-first into the windshield dying of blood-loss and glass sticking out of her cheeks, causing open wounds. She dies because of the wounds. Carrie then blows up the station destroying the car.

Carrie returns home, where she finds, that her mother has escaped the closet and has gotten hold of a kitchen knife in a deleted scene. Carrie strips of her bloody clothes and takes a bath washing off the blood. She changes into her nightgown and meets her mother in the upstairs hall. Her mother tells her of the night she was raped and therefore conceived her. Margaret stabs Carrie in the back but they fly in opposite directions. Carrie then falls down the stairs and brutally hits the wall leaving a blood stain. Her mother manages to slash her leg than arm in the process. She nearly stabs her in the face, so Carrie has no choice but to defend herself. With her last strength she impaled her with the household objects, crucifying her to the wall.

Carrie panics as is filled with regret, and dismounts her from the wall and attempts to pull all the sharp objects out; but she was too late, and it begins to rain stones from the sky. Sue appears shortly afterwards but is held in the grasp of Carrie. After scanning Sue's brain, she realizes that Sue had nothing to do with the prank. She tells Sue that the baby she is pregnant with is a girl before throwing her out, thus saving Sue's life. Carrie's house then goes into the ground taking Carrie and her dead mother with it, which would indicate, that she was buried alive.

At the end after Sue's words at the White Commission, Sue visits Carrie's grave and places a white rose on it. Carrie's headstone then cracks, forming a heart before exploding and Carrie screams at the end. This indicates that Carrie's still alive.

In an alternative ending, Sue is screaming in the hospital, but instead of a baby, a bloody hand comes out from her and grabs her arm as she screams in terror in her mother's arms, hinting that it was just a dream after all. There also is a quick millisecond of Carrie holding Sue's baby, which implies her baby may be the reincarnation of Carrie. Sue laughed and laughed with her.

Powers and abilities

Carrie is a powerful telekinetic and empath. She is able to move objects with her mind and was able to identify Sue's unborn child as being a girl. Carrie also appears to display minor pyrokinetic abilities: after she forced Margaret into the closet, Carrie mentally sealed her mother inside, melting the door lock. She likely used this same ability to lock the prom attendees in the gym.

Trivia

  • Carrie is for the second time portrayed as a telepath in film, after the 2002 version.
  • The original character is for the first time adapted as wrecking her murderous havoc intentionally, more similar to what the novel describes. Previous film versions had the character snapping trance-like.
  • Chloe Grace Moretz avoided watching previous portrayals of the character, intending to give her her own spin, which she has described as "method"-like.
    • Director Kimberly Pierce had Moretz watching footage of people at homeless shelters to prepare for the role.
  • Carrie's reading of the Samson Agonistes poem foreshadows the horrifying events to come at the prom. The verse "All in flames, ascended" is how Carrie leaves the gym: levitating in the midst of the fire.
    • The verses also associated Carrie's fate to the biblical character of Samson: humiliated at a temple, Samson used his superhuman strength to kill the people inside by pulling (or pushing) two pillars.
  • The 2013 movie was criticized for having Chloe Grace Moretz in the title role, as she was considered "too pretty" by audiences. The actress pointed out in interviews that the bullies target Carrie not for her looks, but for "the innocence they don't have anymore".
  • The shots of Carrie murdering her peers at the prom were filmed separately from the attendees' death sequences.
  • The teaser trailer indicated that Carrie would unleash her power on the town as well, but the final cut only has her burning down the school and exploding gas ducts.
  • In the bonus short, the attendees laughed with her.

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