When the movie was released in one city in Australia, they found a local guy who had a ‘58 Plymouth Belvedere coupe in red and white (about as close to the film car Fury as possible), and while everyone was inside watching the premier, they got him to park it on the footpath outside, facing the front doors of the cinema so it was the first thing the viewers saw when they walked out.
"Don't get any on her seat she hates that" might imply that Christine had a history and it was conveyed to her new owner... That's my take on this scene.
The previous owner's daughter and wife died in Christine. The daughter probably messed around in the car, like kids do. And I think Christine killed the wife out of jealousy. Like when Leigh chokes at the drive in.
Arnie loved Christine so maybe he was doing stuff when he was in the car (her). I haven't read the book yet but I've read a lot of books by King. i wouldn't be surprised if something like that was going on in the book.
Christine was the first novel I ever read. I read it again while I was in jail for a while lol. Also my favorite movie since I was a kid. My Uncle had HBO and recorded it for me on VHS. Must've watched it over 100 times
It's hard to believe this movie was a flop at the box office. I consider it one of the best of King's movies. It's extremely well done on every level. It's a great story. It's incredibly well cast. I like everything about it. It just goes to show, you can do everything right, and sometimes things just don't work out. There's a lot of horror movies that got a lot more box office than this movie, that are nowhere near as good in my humble opinion.
Christine is a movie about the love between a young man and his shared love between himself and his first car. A car that was junk, but he saw beauty in her and with love, poured his soul into her and gave her a new life. Unless you have experienced this,you could not possibly understand. My Christine was Daneilla Rea, a 65 Galaxie 500 Ltd crown Victoria coupe.
I wouldn't say that necessarily but I'm not disagreeing with you It was completely badass. I'm sitting here watching it on RU-vid on my phone and it is still an awesome movie. Nice to see somebody that appreciates the same type of stuff that I do
@Thomas F According to an interview with the lead special effects guy, they used hydraulic rams to suck the car in on itself and then ran the film in reverse. Also interesting is the scene where Christine crushes Moochie Welch into the loading dock, he revealed that the front fenders for that car were made out of rubber.
I LOVE Christine. Thank God they didn't have CGI effects back then. Carpenter did a terrific job making it all look very believable. The reverse footage effects look really smooth and it works to perfection. Also, the continuity of the car damage and self repair scenes are perfect. Carpenter & the editor didn't drop the ball anywhere. It's perfect.
@@Neilapolitan08 Yes I know. That's why I said, thank God they didnt have CGI back then. I'm 51 yrs old. I rem when CGI first got big with Jurassic Park. But most of my faves movies are still pre CGI. Some CGI is good but there's still a fakeness to it. You're eyes know it's not reality.
@@t-boog2173 they did an awesome job with the effects back then with this movie. I find cgi movie effects these days hard to watch. You're totally right on that point. Although if it's a cartoon style movie its more bearable and the characters can be highly expressive.
While I appreciate the effects, there are some continuity errors. The most noticeable one is the first time Arnie sees Christine repair herself. In the wide shot before the repair, although the car is smashed up, the grille is straight. In the close-up a few seconds later, the grille is completely smashed in before it repairs itself.
Christine’s killing isn’t random. She kills the people who hurt Arnie or who threaten their love. Its one of the things that makes the book and movie interesting. At our core we can understand her emotion and reasoning even if steps she takes to protect herself and Arnie are too extreme. I mean who isn’t a little happy when the bully punks get their comuppens? We can relate to the characters arnie and christine. We both like them and fear them.
You are right Vernon. Christine only wanted to hurt people whom did not want to respect her as an old car, or hurt her. The important thing to remember is it took a little while, to make friends with Arnie, because she did not love Arnie back, for a short while. Also, what we have to remember about the rock 'n' roll era is, most of the fights with the Teddy Boys, with anyone else whom wasn't, were started by other cult music people, whom started a fight with them.
I love this book and the movie as well. Remember going to see this at the drive in. I feel that this is a love story. Car loves boy and won’t let anyone get between them. I have always named my vehicles. My wife thinks I’m crazy but I feel they have a “ personality”. My youngest daughter has picked up the same thing, she has name her little Saturn.
If it's not random then why did she kill Arnie at the end? He was extremely devoted to her and only her. Arnie didn't love Lea he loved christine. And why did she kill Darnell what was her reasoning behind that?
"Don't get any on the seats, she hates that." This deleted line by Arnie references the opening scene where the factory man flicked cigar ash on Christine's seat (rejecting her). Possibly a reference to LeBay's daughter too; she died in the car, choking to death, spewing and spluttering painfully. Think Leah at the drive-in, too. At any rate, Christine likes her interior clean, damnit. LOL
I disagree. Any good insurance company would charge a very high rate if they did any calculations regarding risk versus reward, what with the whole death and dismemberment of everyone ever insured to drive the car. Geico would have had to pay a shitload of money to Arnie’s parents in the end.
For better or worse, _Christine_ changed my life. I was 18 when I first saw the movie in 1988. I became obsessed with American cars, began collecting, and eventually moved to USA in 2007 so that I could pursue collecting.
Wow man! I’m here to salute you 👍 I watched it as a child in 1992. And yes it shaped my love for cars. To this day I’m always looking around for my next Christine. Glad to know it shaped others in a certain way
Not gonna lie, since reading the book back in the eighties, I always pat my car’s dash and tell her she did a good job when we get home. Just in case...
I felt "Christine" was a love story. A sick and twisted love story between Arnie & Christine. Arnie fell in love with Christine, at first sight. Christine reciprocated his love and protected Arnie. "Let me tell you a little something about love, Dennis. It has a voracious appetite. It eats everything. Friendship. Family. It kills me how much it eats. But I'll tell you something else. You feed it right, and it can be a beautiful thing, and that's what we have."
yes it is ... that is what it is about ... sadly the younger generation that do reviews on movies from before they were born or before they made it to double digits in their life are useless as they have no idea what the times were like nor understood what the movies were about .... originally christine was billed as a love story and horror/ thriller ... not some killer maniac car as modern reviewers would have you believe ... this movie is from a time when muscle cars and motor heads truly loved their cars more than the girls they tried to pick up with them ... that was where the story premise came from.
Seatbelts didn't come from the factory in 1958, they were a dealership option. Most buyers back then didn't go for them; they preferred using the extra cash for more performance-orientated options.
Said the same myself as well. Wasnt a requirement, federally, until 63 in cars. Had to add them to register my 58 in NY, as they were required after Sept of 57, in cars in that state. (Grandfather joined the NYSP in 50, and still had his VTL nooks from.then to 77, when he retired. ) Wife's 47 Checker Cab was made in April 57, and didn't have, or need them. We still run it without.
@@kenyafleming9584 yeah and we just fucking look past that obvious fact and suspended our disbelief because Newton John and Travolta were so fucking hot...
I could have sworn that the car did a have seatbelts. There is a scene in either the movie or the book where Leigh get coked by the seatbelt from a jealous Christine.
You probably wouldn't have seatbelts in a 58. My father's 57 Pontiac Star Chief has 2 lap belts in the front only but his 51 Kaiser and 58 Pontiac Bonneville don't have any. There's so much metal in those old cars, short of driving into building, you're probably pretty safe. The beginning scene where the guy gets his hand crushed in the hood always creeped me out because I know how heavy they are.
I didn't view it as such for many years, but as I get older and watch the film.. this is my opinion exactly! she's a jealous woman doing what any insanely jealous woman would do.
She’s a woman in love with her man! She was jealous but that was the least of her motives, she primarily protects Arnie. Many women will risk life and limb for their man (not sure why since many aren’t worth putting their life on the line) or to have one especially considering the era she came from (late 50’s). She killed more people who weren’t romantic conflicts for her. She killed that gang of kids, she killed that Darnell at the garage, she killed that little girl years earlier.
I like to imagine that Christine legitimately loved Arnie. Especially how we see her give a moment of silence when he dies in front of her, almost like she is taking a moment to cry, then tries to avenge him which ends in her own destruction.
@@outpost31737 everyone misses that...the car didn't grieve anyone, the car was Roland Lebay and he was setting up to posses Arnie. He/it was dumbstruck when its plans dissolved in an instant and then it went into a blind rage....not for Arnie but for itself.
@@Maples01 I have never read the book, but as far as the movie is concerned, with the exception of the first guy that has the hood close on his hand, I still don't know why Christine did that, all of the people Christine went after had wronged Arnie or her at some point. Anybody that has ever had a car vandalized can relate to wanting to kill those people.
meatybeatybignbouncy I know I did! Ah..a time when King was King and you could still see a new John Carpenter film in the theatre..those were the days..
Sadly those Times are over but now we have self driving Cars. Time to get an old Plymouth to discreetly equip it with that Stuff. There are some who will remember that kind of Car and maybe freak out if it really drives itself. Just pretend that the Book was based on a true Story and now You are the Owner.
@Dave Iaucco Chachi as anyone but Chachi is horrible casting. Did you see him in Arrested Development as Bob Loblaw? He was cast as a kind of inside joke with the connection to Ron Howard and Henry Winkler, but even with the gibberish name, he wasn't even the slightest bit funny on a very funny show.
Iker Casillas I know right! At the end when the car moved. I yelled out: "It Moved, It Moved there's gonna' be a Christine 2." The fact that they didn't make another one was so disappointing.
Here's a couple more fun facts. Christine was a Belvedere with the Fury trim package. Plymouth made the Fury it's own model a few years later. The engine in Christine was the 350 Golden Commando, Chryslers first big block wedge which evolved into the 361, 383, 413, 426, and 440. 58 Belvedere, Fury's were only available in Buckskin Beige, not red. The opening seen of the movie shows this. The 318 wide block with dual quads was also available in the Belvedere. At the time this movie was released, the Plymouth Fury was still available as a four door sedan, often used as police cars with the 360 V8.
I loved some of the extra fun facts you shared !!!! please, I would love to know more, im a huge fan and many of the times, people has more info than the internet lol
I disagree with your analogy. Christine made Arnie a tough guy to be reckoned with. She gave him confidence & self respect. But his nosy friends & others kept sticking their "UNWANTED" noses into Arnie & Christine's business, they earned their ghastly demises! Christine is the ONLY film that I left the cinema angry as Hell!!! I was pulling for Christine!!!
damn i have to brough up facts by myself first:she never had some kind of killing spree no it was just avenging her damage if you watched the film you will notice christine never killed anyone who didnt touched /damaged / or tried to drive her in fact if the christine killed you it was ALWAYS your fault at the end arnie got killed by mistake christine was atacking other two and why she kills him she litterally starts to apologize in the film christine never killed anyone if she hadnt a reason so saying like they had some kind of killing spree is a bit off if you say it sounds they didnt have any reason to kill anyone or they did it just for fun not i was basically an revenge/self protection
If it’s Lebay haunting the car, why is the car already giving Deniss bad vibes? He even thinks he hears it talking to him, and dreams about it. All before Lebay has passed away?
Always had older kids that failed and had to held back in order to pass requirements to move to the next grade. Usually, it was the rebels, with little parental guidance. “Sweat-Hog” types.
It is unfathomable to me, to think that Stephen King and John Carpenter both were disappointed with the results of the movie...I saw it on the first weekend of it's release in 1983 , with a bunch of gear head friends of mine, and we all were blown away how great the movie was...the music score was spot-on during the revenge scenes , which by themselves, were worth the price of admission alone...I absolutely loved that movie, and can't see how it didn't fair better at the box office.
I kind of wished they gave him some makeup to make it look like he had acne tbh. in the book that was one of the main reasons he got bullied, and I could easily sympathise with him as I had horrible acne until I was 19
@@sasquatchbong955 He was 22 when the movie was made. I remember the acne mentioned in the book. I had it too when I read the book. Regardless, he was perfectly cast. I really doubt anyone could have done a better job. All the other actors, while good, could have been done as well by other good actors. Keith MADE this movie. He was great in Dressed to Kill and Jaws as well. I always wondered why he didn't do much more.
Ehhh, still shoulda said "CUNTINGHAM" on his lunch so big bad Buddy and crew wouldn't had to hassle him! LOL! I get such a kick outta Buddy ( being Buddy) and STILL having to have ALL his badazz buddy friends to pick on ONE poor little kinda nerdy guy like Arnie! Yeah, YOU go Buddy Repperton! REAL badazz...LOL!
I read Christine when it was released in paperback in late fall of 1983 when I was in high school. A unique thing about this Stephen King book is that it is written in three parts. The first and third part are told in the first person by Arnie’s friend Dennis. The second part of the book is written in the third person, which begins just after Dennis is seriously hurt in a football game, and ends up in the hospital, separated away from Arnie, his girlfriend Leigh, and of course, Christine. Christine might have had something to do with Dennis’s football injury, and the book switches back to the first person when Dennis leaves the hospital, and with the help of Leigh, they try to find out what happened to Arnie, and why he’s changed so much. I really liked John Carpenter’s movie adaptation of the book.
Truthfully, the 1958 Plymouth Fury wasn't available in red. Most of the cars they used in the movie were Belvederes or Savoys. I think Stephen King went with the Fury because it more menacing.
Christopher C: Well, They called Lucas the "Prince of Darkness" for a reason.. And whats more terrifying then that? MILLER electrics.. I'm sweating already just mentioning it. Your know what they say about Miller: "LIGHTS OUT *SS OUT.." haha
Oh trust me, I know! My father traded an MGB GT toward a Fiat 124 because he figured the Fiat would be more reliable... When he traded in the Fiat for a Toyota Hilux truck he swore he'd never go back to British or Italian again.
I just love Christine. It holds up, like a fine wine... still makes me grimace, and puts goosebumps on my arms.. Last Halloween I was watching it and I was just at the end when a friend knocked on my door. I jumped. Christine is a fantastic film!
Regarding your point @ 10:21 - actually we know Arnie wasn't driving during Christine's killing sprees, because when she returned to Darnell's garage, old Darnell himself opened the driver's door and it was empty - and Arnie was out in Darnell's Caddy. Thanks for making these videos.
Wow! Fancy meeting my friend and fav odd person here! I know I'm late. Oh well. Hi Oddie! I have SO many SK books. Collected them for more than 30yrs. This one has a special place in my heart. Idky King and Carpenter didn't like it other than the money part haha. Best interpretation of one of his books IMHO. See you on your channel soon!✌😈🚘
@@66cuda Carpenter's film is actually more plausible. In the book Christine is running into houses-which is blamed on Columbians Darnell was doing coke deals with.
I love the way the movie started with Christine's birth at the assembly plant! I'm an automotive assembly line worker and we joke about certain cars that have that Christine type of attitude lol
i have never seen this movie ( and have no plans do so because im not into horror films ect. no reasons to give myself a fright or gory nightmares ) but i like old morpars so of course it comes up in my friend circles of mechanics/engineers. that and the jimmy dean's little basterd / France ferdnan dukes 1911 ride / unsolved mysteries i guess its kinda like listening to ghost / paranormal stories ( not that im into believing most of it because science / reasonable logic has the answers to it most of the time ) well id kinda agree with your statement. i may have had one of those cars but it was a Cadillac ( i got good at working on the same make and model but not always the same vin tag so this one car stands out as being different and difficult to deal with ironic that i got suck with the car/bills o well i guess in someways it's better than a paying costumers ride ps. btw more than 3 👨🔧 before / after me gave up tying to tame that one so glad i knew when to quit ) and a horsepower branded tractor that trying killing and maming more than once so which car line James if you don't mind me asking did you notice that are "possessed" and btw as someone down the line i got to know which ones someone cared about assembly /making it right and or had fun finding "innocent easter eggs 🥚" like the inside of my personal work trucks oe doors i guess some line workers autographed it in st. louse mo usa
@@twistedyogert im not sure what you're asking me but my involvement with hood-laches is mostly with the back of my head mostly with b-body mopars or something similar that should come with a warning ⚠️ 😂 because im so tall and it's kinda my fault
@@twistedyogert its that awful designed safety hood hook o im sorry i meant laches that gets me when i stand back up all the way and forget it's there to get tools from my toolbox
Stephen is not as talented as his fame makes him appear. Watch Twilight Zone. Many of his stories come from that. I think Christine, The Dark Half, Rose Red, and a few others might actually be his own.
Even though you dislike the scene, the scene where Dennis and Leah make-out in Dennis's car only for Arnie to show up is actually in the book, but I feel King did an actual good job at showing an internal struggle of anger and care that Dennis has for Arnie, as well as guilt over his betrayal. I do think that it would be difficult to work those in the movie though, so maybe it was better that that scene was removed from the film adaptation.
It seems Dennis has a love/hate relationship with Arnie. Like the jock who only befriends the nerd because he feels sorry for him NOT because he actually likes him.
I just got done watching Christine for the first time... And it's now one of my favorites. So good. And what a stunning car. OMG! And I for one, LOVE the music she played. ❤️❤️
I’m pretty sure that my 1979 c10 Cheyenne is possessed by the original owner cause it doesn’t matter how cold it is the driver side of the seat is always warm but I think he’s harmless cause he was just a old farmer guy but still it’s kinda interesting its the truck that is my profile picture
The deleted scene with Dennis and Arnie in the parking lot with Leigh was in the book. It adds a whole other level of tension, since Dennis, who narrates most of the book, does feel guilty for falling for his best friend’s girl.
The whole time I was listening to the critique of that scene I'm saying to myself "tell me you've never read the book without telling me you've never read the book".
@@misuseofpower just because the scene was in the book doesn't mean it doesn't deserve to be critique i agree that it would have made the characters unlikeable
@@homermontana2392 The critique came off like he couldn't even understand where the scene was coming from. Like it or hate it, the Leigh/Dennis/Arnie triangle and Dennis/Leigh falling in love were kind of a big part of the story. I don't think anyone really "liked" how it went down. Hell, Dennis even addresses it within the story multiple times (as stated in the above comment). That scene in particular was pretty pivotal as it was pointed out in the book that they hadn't become targets of LeBay/Christine yet because up to that point neither of them had done anything unforgivable to Arnie.
This is more of a criticism of the critic. Books are not movie scripts. When making adaptations changes have to be made for a variety of reasons. I think the change for the movie was for the best. It changed the dynamics, but I don’t think it was a bad change. It made the movie and book different. I don’t think the Dennis/Leigh subplot would have worked in a 90 minute movie.
Its probably based more on the golden eagle,which apparently if you mess with hom/her you die heck a kid just TOUCHED it and he does a manslaughter and burned his parents house,and now it kills around 32 people and wendy remantle it
I think the deleted scene with Dennis and Leigh actually would have worked if Christine had rolled up behind them with the blacked out windows. Then when Dennis and Leigh notice Christine and turn around, Christine drives away slowly, leaving you wondering if Arnie was there or not.
Speaking of Halloween and Christine being in the same universe: I used to think all these movies happened in my city or close to it as a child. You see, Close Encounters of the 3rd kind started in Muncie, Indiana. A city just about 40 minutes away from me. In Christine, the teens wore red letter jackets with a huge "R" on it. Just like the teens here! I really thought they were going to Richmond High School! I grew up scared as shit I was going to see a crazy killer car, an alien ship, or a crazed masked killer. Which in some ways was freaking awesome!
On Arnies weird line "dont get any on the seat She hates that" possibly the previous owner who shot himself in her. Or the clip from the factory worker in to opening scene.
At 15:00 when you are making fun of the fact that Arnie wasn't wearing a seatbelt, I can tell you are young or haven't been around classic cars much. Seat belts didn't make a widespread appearances in cars in the united states until the 1960's. Sure they where offered in the very late fifties ('58 & '59) as options and as standard in imports like Saab's and Volvos. The truth is, most cars didn't have them. Especially in 1957 when the plymouth fury was made.
Nash in 1949 and Ford in 1955 offered seat belts as options, while Swedish Saab first introduced seat belts as standard in 1958. After the Saab GT 750 was introduced at the New York Motor Show in 1958 with safety belts fitted as standard, the practice became commonplace. In 1968 by law all cars had to have seatbelts.
I miss my 59 Chevrolet pickup 56 Ford f100 1960 C10 no seatbelts in nether one... I've been pulled over and the cop asked why I wasn't wearing a seatbelt...I tell them because they didn't have seatbelts in them when I bought them..cop said here is a warning ticket next time I pull u over and you don't have seatbelts in them I'm writing you a ticket...i never put seatbelts in them....it makes cops mad when they tell you to do something and you don't do it and get away with it...
The coolest fact about Christine the car and it's a little known fact but she makes an appearance in Stephen King's IT novel !! I'm kinda surprised that it wasn't mentioned in this video..but in the IT novel, adult Henry Bowers is in the mental asylum, Juniper Hill, and IT appears to him as his old dead buddy, Belch Huggins (That IT killed 27 years prior in the sewers as the Frankenstein monster)..IT kills the security guard as a Doberman Pinscher and then Henry Bowers escapes and goes back to Derry in a red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury AKA Christine. Cool fact about Christine. Haha. 😁😀
In the new version of the movie IT"..when the kid are going to the evil house the first time, there is a fenced in yard across the street..with weeds and old cars..in the fenced yard is "Christine".. looking like she did when Arnie found her in LeBay's yard..
Christine was another adaptation of a Stephen King novel like "The Shining" that differed in many ways from the book, but was a solid movie of its own. Many SK adaptations were terrible, but those two were a kind of alternate version of the books that were well-made with "The Shining" obviously being a classic.
7:13 there was some violence they destroy Christine every blow to that car was like a slasher movie I died on every blow to the car from Buddy and his crew
Cannibal Nectar Fury’s Belvederes Savoys Only 16 fury’s were used in the movie 7 were parts cars only. The other 2 models were painted to match and used in chase scenes and distant shots.
Agreed...Starting in the Junkyard behind Darnel's, but it is renamed something new and takes place in 2020 with another dude finding it in the yard and bringing her home not knowing the original story.
Yes Sir.! But they may still must be pouting from not making enough $$$ the first time? But I guess you really can't please people most of the time. LOL! I still thought it was/is an awesome movie.
Well the book ends with Dennis getting a newspaper clipping about how the one member of Buddy's gang that just skipped town and moved out west (The book takes place in Pennsylvania) was killed by a drunk driver that crashed into the snack bar he was working in in I think Arizona. Dennis wonders if it is a coincidence or if Christine has fixed herself and will be coming for him and Lea next.
Funny that you mention that - while I was watching this clip, I was wondering if they'd do a remake of Christine (it looks like they're doing remakes of a few previous movies from Stephen King right now).
They left it open deliberately so they had the potential for a sequel where Christine gets revenge on the survivors, it's alluded to in the book. But like Ozzyman said the original didn't make enough money to make a sequel viable.
Quick Note: A few people in the comment section have poitned out the Plymouth Furies didnt have seatbelts in regards to my commetns about 1 seatbelt would have saved Arnies Life, some versions of this car did come with lap belts but you can clearly see in the movie the car has NO belts but regardless that was just meant to be a flippant joke not to be taken too seriously but eitherway I do think it was a kind of an anti climatic exit for the character and whether or not the car had a seat belt if Arnie HAD one it still would have saved his life lol
Anti climatic yes but...its perfect in showing how fragile Arnie was compared to Christine. He lived his life now devoted to his car now ironically dies in her hands as well. A fate that be falls all of those who fall in love with Christine.
SL, when I was young I did NOT read. My attitude was that if a story was worth telling, Hollywood would make a movie. Then my senior year in high school, I came home the night before Thanksgiving and was faced with a 4 day weekend. On the table was a paperback copy of CHRISTINE that my mother had just gotten and left because she had other books to finish first. I picked it up and read the review blurbs, then sat down with it at the table. I figured I'd read a page or two of the intro and never touch another filthy, dirty, germ-infested sheaf of papers ever again. I ended up finishing the introduction. I then stood up and went into the living room. I kicked off my shoes, turned on the end table lamp, and kicked back on the couch. I read a hundred pages that night. I read a hundred pages a day until I was done, finishing up Sunday evening about six thirty. Christine (and Stephen King) changed my life. I'd never known the power of the written word until that November night in 1983. Funny thing, I'd met King at a convention in Saint Louis the year before and gotten his autograph for my mother and sister who were both hardcore King fans. I hated the move when it was released the following month. It had little in common with the book. Today I look upon it as a fun popcorn movie. But I'd like to see a 6 hour 3 part mini-series made for HBO or even NETFLIX. And I'd like to see everyone die the way they died in the book.
I was 8 when my uncle showed me this movie because it was just released - I was overly obsessed with it. Christine is also the reason why I love 50s rock and roll, even back then.
I loved this movie as a kid. My mom turned me onto king at a early age I have every book he has written on hardback. In 1983 I was 10 years of age and loved horror movies
Wow!! Same with me!!! They had a contest back then to win a Christine...and me and my mom filled out probably 100 5 x 7 index cards and mailed them in!
I've always loved this movie. I'm currently the proud owner of a '58 Ford Edsel, about as close as I'll ever get to a '58 Fury for a long time, lol. And of course as a tribute to Christine, I've decided to name her Chrissy. Luckily the only thing I really need for the car currently (aside from a few engine parts) is a matching dashboard radio and a battery
To me it was more of a sad rather than a horror movie. Christine only went after those that abused her, Arney, or tried to separate them. I think that if the bullies didn't attack and shit on the dash that there wouldn't have been a movie. I wanted Christine, just think about it. You can drive to a place and the car would park herself. When you ready to leave the car would come and get you. Also on long trips you can sleep while the car drove. It would of been great.
Wow. You are totally correct about that deleted scene with Leigh and Dennis kissing. Completely, utterly wrong for the movie. This is one of the best examples I have seen of a deleted scene whose omission was completely necessary. You are totally on point about how the scene completely changes the characters of Leigh and Dennis and undermines their heroism and compassion. Whoever chose to ommit it made an excellent choice.
Have to agree, and disagree with the video maker. The mass changes, taking it from an obsession/haunted car to the 'just effing evil car' idea totally changed the dynamic of the book, and to me showed the limitations of Carpenter as a filmmaker. Christine's written as a book about teenage rebellion still, about the unloved and shunned suddenly having the 'key' to power. But he still carries the hate, the anger, inside him. That's classic teenage angst, and would make a great movie in and of itself. And the subplot between Dennis and Leigh just add to it, and make the characters both imperfect, heroic, and relatable.
In the book that scene is there... by that time Arnie is so far gone he wasnt coming back... he was completely taken over by lebay... I understand carpenter's reasoning for taking it out, but as a person who read the book I enjoyed that scene coming to life.... and in the book they tried like hell for a long time to get Arnie back to himself but he never came back.. so cant blame them for getting together, nobody would believe their story about the car.. they have went through hell and they were all each other had basically...
Also Stockwell played an implied killer in Dangerously Close. As for Christine, one error. She DID talk although in a roundabout way via the radio. Remember it only plays 50s songs and Christine picks certain song lines to "communicate" like "I hear you knocking but you can't come in" and others.
Sounds like the book and movie were somewhat inspired by the events of James Dean and his Porsche 550 Spyder,huh??I mean,Dean dies and the car disappears??Doesn't kinda sound like CHRISTINE??
The first deleted scene is actually in the book, as is the second scene. It just shows that Dennis and Arnie had a very complicated relationship, especially as Christine's hold over Arnie increases. Leigh and Dennis do have a relationship in the book which continues years after Arnie dies.
And of course at the end until the epilogue we expect them to marry and ride into the sunset. But as Dennis says she moved away and married a guy who drove a Honda Civic (not exactly flash in 83; good line)
@Aussie Furby/Mogwai Fan At the end of the book, it is about five or six years later. Dennis tells us that she marries a chap who drives a Honda Civic, a nice safe car, and he is alone but moved away. He had, from time to time, tried to contact the inspector unsuccessfully, and his final comment regards an unusual incident that killed someone. The inspector? I cant recall. However, he closes wondering if Christine has come back and is moving across the country, killing all who opposed her. King may have been considering a sequel.
In the book Darnell actually dies from a heart attack brought on by Christine trashing his house, she never touches him. it's moochie welch who's repeatedly run over. also, she kills Darnell because he discovers her secret, not over arnies transporting of contraband that involves a lot more than just drugs
I love this film myself, I fell in love with the 58 fury and 50s rock and roll because of it. If you haven't read the book I'd recommend it, not to encourage comparison but because it's a great book
Liam Deakin awesome! Thanks so much for the facts! Makes me want to read it, I've never read Kings books before but always hear about how much better they are than the films. And the Plymouth Fury is awesome
Was at the local video store as a teenager looking for something to rent and, admittedly, only picked it up because my name is Christine lol. Knew nothing about it, wasn't a horror fan but thought, eh, why not. Watched it and absolutely loved it!
@@Rickertsred I think the original cast were the best choices. Each of them fit the part perfectly. That's just my opinion for my personal preference. I really wish they made a proper sequel for this movie. This is in my top 5 of favorite movies. I agree that Kevin Bacon could have pulled off a great Dennis.
