![]() ![]() He played the part of Billy Nolan the way I wish I’d written it, half-funny and half-crazy. ![]() Sissy Spacek was excellent, but right behind her-in a smaller part than it should have been was John Travolta. The attitude of the film was different from my book I tended to view the events straight-on, humorlessly, in a straight point-to-point progression (you have to remember that the genesis of Carrie was no more than a short story idea), while I think De Palma saw a chance to make a movie that was a satirical view of high school life in general and high school peer-groups in particular. I liked De Palma’s film of Carrie quite a bit. Here's his full quote from the former chat: King, like most, is a big fan of Brian De Palma's movie, saying in a 1978 interview with Cinefantastique that he " liked De Palma’s film of Carrie quite a bit." He did say in a 2010 interview with Florida Weekly that he now found the film a bit dated. Carrie was King's first novel, and naturally, his first hit movie adaptation. ![]()
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