Chubbuck is a maddening person to those who love her. Even her supporters are eventually pushed away. Chubbuck was by all accounts tormented by her lack of personal life, as well as her envy towards co-workers who got offers in larger national markets. She was a journalist disgusted by the increasing sensationalization of the news she's a counterpart to her fictional contemporary, Howard Beale in " Network ," whose screams "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" become a rallying cry.
So disgusted was Chubbuck that her on-air suicide is seen by some as a critique of said sensationalism. Hall , her arrested-development relationship with her mother J.
She volunteers at a children's hospital, teaching lessons to the kids with puppet shows. She sings along to John Denver songs in the car. What Hall really nails is Christine's intensity, her awkwardness, her compulsive and off-putting self-deprecation, as well as the gathering storm of an obliterating depression. She cuts a striking figure, with her veil of hair, hunched slim shoulders, gangly body language.
She comes off as a teenager, uncomfortable in her own body after a growth spurt. Her demeanor is humorless. When someone sincerely compliments her, she is suspicious. Hall plays these black-cloud thoughts, the explosive temper tantrums, so close to the bone that it's an extremely confrontational and uncomfortably accurate performance.
Whether or not it is representative of the real Christine Chubbuck is another question. The production team recreates the period—its music and clothes and decor—in a refreshingly un-condescending way. What is most palpable is the mood of the s: the "Watergate" mood of exhaustion and cynicism; the tapped-out emotional reserves of a population following the burn-out of the s. News anchor George brings Christine to a "transactional analysis" meeting, thinking it might help her work out her issues it has the opposite effect.
You're a feminist. There will be those who do not like that so much of the film focuses on Christine's personal life her virginity; her yearning for a boyfriend; even a date , for God's sake; the surgery she needs that will render her infertile, thus closing out the window of a future she had always hoped for. Is this "reducing" a woman to her reproductive functions? But these are serious issues in some women's lives, and pre-existing depression can turn them into Greek Tragedy-level confirmation of worthlessness.
Well, yes. John Stockwell Dennis as Dennis. Alexandra Paul Leigh as Leigh. Robert Prosky Darnell as Darnell. Harry Dean Stanton Junkins as Junkins. William Ostrander Buddy as Buddy.
David Spielberg Mr. Casey as Mr. Malcolm Danare Moochie as Moochie. Steven Tash Rich as Rich. Stuart Charno Vandenberg as Vandenberg.
Kelly Preston Roseanne as Roseanne. Marc Poppel Chuck as Chuck. Bruce French Mr. Smith as Mr. Douglas Warhit Bemis as Bemis. John Carpenter. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. In , in Detroit, a red Plymouth Fury is built and is the cause of two accidents, one of them fatal, still in the assembly line.
Twenty-one years later, the outcast and bullied nerd Arnold "Arnie" Cunningham is getting a ride with his best and only friend Dennis Guilder and he sees the wrecked car for sale in a garden. Arnie immediately falls in love with the car. The car was given the name Christine by its first owner. He brings the car to a repair shop of the despicable Will Darnell and works hard to restore the classic car.
While he works in the restoration, he changes his personality to a cocky teenager and he dates the most beautiful girl in the high-school, Leigh Cabot. Soon Arnie becomes selfish and jealous of the supernatural Christine that kills everyone that is a threat to them. She'll possess you. Then destroy you. She's death on wheels. Dennis and Leigh survive and leave behind the remains of the car. The closing shot of the film is of Christine, now having been crushed into a cube by a car crusher, as a piece of the grille slowly begins to straighten, implying that Christine's still alive to some extent.
There were 14 Red Plymouth Furies used to portray Christine in the film. John Carpenter also composed the musical score for the film.
The film was too light to be rated R, so at the time of its release, it would have been rated PG. The PG rating didn't exist yet So, the producers added the word 'fuck' multiple times so more people would see the film. Christine's license plate is yellow and says CQB, which means Close Quarters Battle, where it is a duel between two people, and one is obviously overpowered, with little chance of escape. In the scene where Buddy and his gang trash Christine before denting the engine Buddy grabs the bonnet and throws it up with such force that he throws the bonnet off and away.
But when Christine shows her regenerative powers to Arnie her bonnet miraciously comes back. After Christine crushes Richie against the wall and Don backs away after Buddy's camaro leaks gasoline there is a car on a hoist. But when the gas station blows up it is on the ground. Stephen King Wiki Explore. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account?
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