QWhat's the song that plays when the girls are in detention?
AThe music during the P.E. detention scene (as well as the similar music that plays when the boys are renting tuxedos) is part of the film's score by Pino Donaggio. It is referred to as Groovy Track on a few bootlegs that have surfaced on the internet (ripped from the laserdisc's isolated audio track). The track was released as part of the limited edition complete score CD issued in 2010 by Kritzerland Records. The track was titled Calisthenics.
QWhy was Miss Collins laughing at Carrie?
AAfter Carrie got drenched in blood, several of her peers did begin laughing. Carrie's mother had previously planted a seed in her mind the idea that "they're all gonna laugh at you," so, in Carrie's mind, everyone was laughing, including Miss Collins (Betty Buckley) -- when in reality, very few were. This part of the film does, however, differ from the original Stephen King novel, in which Carrie is in fact humiliated. In the DVD Special Features, Brian DePalma pointedly addresses this question: "One of the questions that's come up over the years is: 'Was Miss Collins laughing at Carrie in the scene?' and the answer is no, not at all. A good deal of that sequence is really in Carrie's mind, which tips over at the point of the blood. What is occurring is a mixture of what her mother has threatened and promised will indeed happen, her worst fears, her imagination, her paranoia, and everything else." DePalma's explanation extends to why other characters, who would be unlikely to laugh in such a situation, are also shown laughing here. The "actual" reactions of most people at the prom are most likely the looks of shock and dismay they express immediately after the blood has been spilled, while the sequence is still in slow motion.
AWith the school ablaze behind her, Carrie walks home. She draws a bath to wash off the pig's blood, then goes in search of her mother. As Margaret holds her daughter, she says that she should have 'given her to God' when she was born, explains how she was conceived 'in sin,' bemoans the fact that 'the Devil has come home,' and then stabs Carrie in the back with a butcher knife. Carrie falls down the stairs, and when Margaret starts coming at her again with the knife, she uses her powers to send knife after knife at her mother, crucifying her in the kitchen doorway. Because of her anger, the ceiling of the house starts to cave in, so Carrie pulls her dead mother into the closet. The house catches fire, burning everything in it. In the final scene, Sue (the only one to escape the burning school) dreams that she's putting flowers on the burnt out spot where Carrie's house stood. Suddenly, a bloody hand reaches up through the ground and grabs her wrist. Sue wakes up screaming in her mother's arms.
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