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    Carrie Fisher was a talented actress, wonderful mother, and inspiration for all. A woman who overcame her problems and showed the world she could do anything she put her mind to, Carrie Fisher had amazing potential. Even though she struggled with drug abuse along with mental disorders, she was an amazing actress and role model because she made women feel powerful and she was an advocate for mental health. Carrie Frances Fisher was born October 21, 1956. She was delivered in Burbank, California to parents Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. Her mother Debbie Reynolds became a star in 1952 when she performed in Singin’ in the Rain. She also wrote three autobiographies. Married three times with two children, she grew up with a Protestant faith and was in beauty pageants. Carrie's father, Eddie growing up with Jewish beliefs, always loved to sing and even dropped out of high school to pursue. He had his first hit “Thinking of You” in the 1950’s. Eddie was married five times and had four children. Carrie…

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    Carrie Movie Comparison

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    In 2013, Kimberley Pierce directed a remake of Brian De Palma’s horror film classic Carrie. The arrangement stays the same, but by using a little modernization, additional character development, and new scenes here and there, Peirce essentially reinvents the same familiarity while making the film her own. Pierce jettisons the focus off of Carrie’s tumultuous relationship with her mother and puts a microscope on Carrie’s desire to fit in. While Brian De Palma’s version focuses on the sexual…

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    using the ‘male gaze’ and punishing women for any kind of sexuality. Brian de Palma’s 1976 film adaption of Stephen King’s novel Carrie is no different. Although marketed to young women, Carrie is fraught with female objectification and fetishization with an overall lack of progressive female characters. It would seem having a female protagonist as…

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    Director Kimberly Peirce reimagines the classic story of Carrie, a highschool teenage girl who is tormented by the entire senior class. Given the excellenct casting of Carrie as well as her mother Margret, this movie delievers effects which the original wasn't able to support in it's time. Chloe Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) portrays the role of Carrie White, giving us a satisying performance which by the time the movie is over, your happy that little vampire girl from 'Let me In' ended up landing the…

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    Women In Horror Films

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    dichotomy of the virgin vs. sex kitten, innocent vs. deviant, pure vs. impure female image and the religious undertones that drive this binary. This film does, however, stray from what feminist theorists have called the “male antagonist,” as Carrie acts as both the antagonist and protagonist in this film. On the contrary, Carrie does fit the virgin profile while other females in the film fit the sex kitten profile. In order to better understand the reflective theory in the context of this film,…

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    Stephen King Carrie

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    Carrie is a book by Stephen King and the book was banned because it was a violent, and had a sexual themes in parts of the book. Carrie is a just teenage girl and is trying to get by in school. She has these telekinetic powers and she barely found out about it. She does not know how to control her powers. There was an incident when she was little, she cause a rain storm to occur when it was sunny. The sad part about her life is that she has this psychopath mother who hurts and abuse Carrie…

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    Stephen King Sacrifice

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    Stephen King, in the novel, Carrie, illustrates the character, Margaret White, and leads that character to her destruction to suggest that mothers who are abusive, insane and unloving will lead to their destruction. Margaret White is the biological mother of Carrie and is the main villain of the novel. She is the major reason why kids in school treats Carrie as a social outcast. Margaret is a fundamental christian who twists the meaning of the words in the bible to claim that almost everything…

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    Carrie Bickmore

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    Personal life and childhood Carrie Bickmore was born 3d of December 1980 in Adelaide, Australia. Carrie was the only child of loving and loyal parents Brian L. Bickmore and Jennie Bickmore-brand. In her early years Carrie and her family had moved to Perth. She had attended an Anglican girl’s school and studied journalism at Curtin University of technology and graduated in 2000. In 2005 Carrie had married Greg Lange and gave birth to Oliver in 2007. Greg had died in 2010 from brain cancer. After…

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    of the lavish stores, hotels, and houses lead Carrie to fall…

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    Carrie Underwood: American Idol Legacy Could you imagine singing around close to 100 people? Carrie started her career at a very young age. Just when Carrie was three years old she was already singing at local churches around her. Later on she started singing in talent shows. During Carrie’s young teenage years she learned how to play the guitar, and piano. Throughout Carrie Underwood’s life, she has been very successful with the help of her family. Carrie Underwood's successes at a young age…

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