Sue Snell

class is making her life hell, there is one student who was kind to her.

And that is a girl named Sue, played by Gabriella Wild.

And she actually tries to make amends for what has happened by asking her boyfriend Tommy, played by Ansel Elgort, who people will recognize from many other things since then, to take Carrie to the prom.

But a cruel plan to humiliate her once again leads to all this bottled up rage coming, boiling over into very violent consequences.

So when she heard about this remake, she was like...

Me, me, me, me, me, me, me.

I... her first thought was like why would i want to do that like it's already this great movie what could i add to that kind of thing but then she went on vacation and she re-read this book after not having read it since she was in high school and fell in love with carrie white and her story all over again and she realized that kind of making a new version of carrie would allow her to explore things that weren't explored in that first movie as much for instance Sue's character trying to show the complexity of somebody who's like trying to do the right thing, but ends up kind of being villainous accidentally.

And then also showing more of the bullying.

good job margaret yeah

Um, do we want to talk? I did want to talk to you a little bit more about Sue Snell, just like kind of doing an autopsy of the character, um, here at the end of it all, because

I think

my favorite character in the story, I think just full stop.

I wonderfully complicated.

Um, how, how are you feeling about her at the end? I guess the question is, was it Sue Snell's fault? Is she, is she the Lee Harvey Oswald? Not, not Tommy.

Um,

I mean, I think only in the sense that she was too frightened to do what she probably should have done.

So you're taking that... how that power happened and you're just going back in time with it to connect it.

And there are supposed to be an expansion on certain characters like Sue Snell and Chris Hargensen.

okay which is since it's on prime would be a really cool way to like start building up telekinetic kids into the telekinetic kids that exist in the dark tower

there you go that's actually interesting

We skipped over something a little bit here.

I want to talk about they interview Sheriff Otis Doyle as he drives into town because he bumps into Sue Snell.

And we can see here in the White Commission that the narrative that you mentioned that they're starting to build here where they ask Sheriff Otis Doyle, did she being Sue say anything else? Yes, sir.

She said they've hurt Carrie for the last time.

She's arguing.

And...

I don't know that I would say that Sue Snell gets a happy ending necessarily, but she is at least trying to live her life on her own terms when she writes her book later.

Yeah.

That concept remained an important part of the finished movie.

To connect to the story of Carrie, Rachel was rewritten as what you said, Carrie's half-sister, sharing the same father, while Amy Irving returned as Sue Snell, now working as a school counselor.

Sissy Spacek declined a cameo, but ultimately allowed footage of herself from the original film to be incorporated into the flashbacks.

Reminds me of how Die Hard 3 started, as Simon says.

This week on the show, we are tackling the second third of Stephen King's Carrie.

At the urging of Sue Snell, Tommy invites Carrie to the prom, while Chris and her completely normal boyfriend Billy plot to ruin the event.

We end with Carrie White on stage, a bucket of pig blood hovering above her, and a cord pulled by Chris.

And we just stop right there, man.

This is one we hadn't seen in the book up until now.

And it actually drives a lot of the epistolary sections of the week.

And what I'm talking about here is a book called My Name is Sue Snell.

This is Sue's biography written.

You don't get the deep history of her religious mania that the book provides.

And Amy Irving's character, Sue, barely interacts with Carrie.

Quiet moments are lost, like the principal scolding a bully's parent or Sue comforting Carrie at the end.

And the movie trades the book's poignant finale for an iconic, out-of-left-field shock ending.

In the novel, after the massacre, Sue Snell finds Carrie dying in the parking lot of a roadhouse.

And in her final moments, Carrie reaches out telepathically and Sue lets her in.

They share this profound, tragic moment of empathy.

Sue feels Carrie's entire life of pain.