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King subscribes to a mythos in his world of horror where death and suicide 'stains' or marks a place or event. If the car/Christine was evil at all before then the death made it a killing entity that was possessed. It doesn't really matter because the suicide or other death could have 'opened the gates of hell' and stopped at the edge of the car. It, the car, Christine, was frozen in time. Ergo its power and evil.
Christine is the name that Arnie associates with the entity inhabiting the car and the possessing him as well.
The Name Christine
Do you remember seeing the papers (registration and/or title) in the glove compartment and the later discussion with the guy Arnie bought the car from?
The papers are a quick flash and I didn't catch it until years later. It's not in the version usually presented by the movie channels/netflix etc. The name Christine is on paperwork associated with the car. I don't recall off the top of my head which one or if it was even another piece of paper that Dennis and Leigh find in the car. It is a brief, few seconds, flash on the screen.
There's another clue in the film that is usually not cut out but I'll leave that to others
Well, I saw Carrie as a movie when it was first released in the theater. So I suppose that since I had read the book before that I've been reading King 35 years or so.
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King subscribes to a mythos in his world of horror where death and suicide 'stains' or marks a place or event. If the car/Christine was evil at all before then the death made it a killing entity that was possessed. It doesn't really matter because the suicide or other death could have 'opened the gates of hell' and stopped at the edge of the car. It, the car, Christine, was frozen in time. Ergo its power and evil.Christine is the name that Arnie associates with the entity inhabiting the car and the possessing him as well.
The Name Christine
Do you remember seeing the papers (registration and/or title) in the glove compartment and the later discussion with the guy Arnie bought the car from?
The papers are a quick flash and I didn't catch it until years later. It's not in the version usually presented by the movie channels/netflix etc. The name Christine is on paperwork associated with the car. I don't recall off the top of my head which one or if it was even another piece of paper that Dennis and Leigh find in the car. It is a brief, few seconds, flash on the screen.
There's another clue in the film that is usually not cut out but I'll leave that to others
Well, I saw Carrie as a movie when it was first released in the theater. So I suppose that since I had read the book before that I've been reading King 35 years or so.
There is a shot in the original theatrical release of the film that explains where the name Christine comes from, but not exactly who it was.
The reader has to pay close attention to Dennis and Leigh and what they find out that explains a lot the evil 'deposited' in the car. The film makes more of a point of another (though not King's intention) reason for the evil because King's writing brings up the ugly topic of suicide that would have made the film too much like another of his stories that had been previously filmed. Even by the 80's suicide was a topic that didn't always play well with the box office minders.