John Carpenter's Christine [1983] - "I'm fixing up Christine!"
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- Опубликовано: 3 ноя 2024
- Arnie reacts - his car, Christine, has been vandalised.
Not sure if I should be finding this scene with his parents funny... 🤭
Love this film. Almost a guilty pleasure (although it's better than that), but a top 5 favourite for me. An absurd concept that works because it's so well executed. A tough film to sell to those that haven't seen it!
Keith Gordon was frighteningly fast with the way he reacted and moved during these scenes. Fast and accurate movements.
He was... his reaction to Leah is lightning!
114 Octane
Obviously he was operating on pure adrenaline. The throat lock counter on his dad at 02:12-02:16 was insanely fast reaction with his hands. Didn't know Arnie can handle himself
I think Arnie startling Leigh wasn't exactly in the script.
I think a behind the scenes clip, stated he was supposed to yell, but it was Keith's idea to throw in some minor shoves.
The way Keith Gordon grabs him frightened me, I'll say that. He was so nerdy and sweet in the beginning and once he bought Christine, he changed so rapidly. His eyes are the most frightening thing.
He made the movie believable..
Without Arnie.. Christine wouldn't have been the Timeless classic it is today
Fantastic actor in a brilliant performance here. Probably improvised the throat grabbing part as the father genuinely looks shocked by it. I read somewhere that the part where he finds Christine damaged with his girlfriend and then reacts violently towards his girlfriend pushing her away, was improvised. She didn't know he was going to do that and that reaction of hers is real.
Because he WAS Arnie and HIS car was fucked up! So he inhalated this role and made it to his. How great acting! 😊
@@user-uh6lm5wv6nI came to the same conclusion! I hoped he did not hurt her too much with the push or shouting! But how great acting! Absolutely real!
Always loved this movie. It takes how a man can his car to the extreme, and of course twists it. The car loved him back.
I spent 6 months+ this year recommissioning an old car that I really care for. Scenes and quotes from this film often came to mind. Always loved this film but have since realised the filmmakers understood the obsessive love an owner can pour into a car. I didn't try the 'OK... show me'. Might have saved me a lot of work!
James I will save you the trouble of saying it - it doesn’t work sadly!
@@muckle8 If only! Would have saved me a lot of time with my 30+ year old Audi 😆
It's hard to believe the film is almost 40 years old.
@@JamesGadburyeah I think I could easily fall in love with a car that can literally fix itself. That's the ONE option my Nissan 370z didn't come with unfortunately.
I read somewhere Keith completely ad-libbed his lines, genuinely terrifying Alexandra and she ran away in tears. He was only supposed to turn to her and say “shitter.”
The scene with his parents, Arnie is 100% in the right here. He is right to be angry at them. Everything he says to them is the truth. He finally stands up to them and they can’t handle it. That half-assed apology from his mother, she wasn’t crying for her son and the pain and anger he was feeling, she was crying coz they had lost control, their doormat son was replaced by this confident, charismatic, if driven psychotic because of love and thirst for revenge young man, their nerdy son had come out his shell.
You've nailed it, Amy! Uncomfortable and unpleasant as this scene is, especially viewed in isolation, Arnie was right and his parents couldn't handle the truth. I felt a bit sorry for the Dad but his Mum was a right bit*h to Arnie (and Dennis, even more undeservingly) when Christine was first brought home. The parents didn't want their 17 year old son making his own decisions.
Screw her son
He was operating on pure adrenaline and his parents were easy meat. Not sure he could have done the same with Buddy being the bigger guy even though he beats him up in the book but not the film.
Even a worm will turn. Push someone too far and they will fight back.
In the book he didn't exactly best him up, he got lucky through his rage and struck Buddy in the Adam's Apple.
Arnie's torso was covered with bruises though.
Arnie DID impress Darnell though, and actually threw Buddy out of his place
Loved this movie ...my favorite scene is when he says to CHRISTINE ..SHOW ME...AND SHE STARTS TO FIX HERSELF UP AGAIN LOVE IT...
Absolutely killer scene. For those of you who like this movie and have not read the book I would highly recommend it. The book is not only magnificent but it's different enough from the movie that you will not get bored. Some of the characters are significantly different and the plot is slightly altered.
I read the book in fifth grade, 1985. It was in our school library. Saw the movie a few years later.
The book was way superior to the movie. The trouble is, few Stephen King movies would be made to into a movie that could capture the real essence of the horror and details that King wove into his novels.
Like christine in the book is a 4 door and also Darnell is a shady drug dealer if I remember correctly
@@kevinmalone3210 Hey bro, I think that's with any great book from any author. I've been waiting my whole life for someone to capture Brett East Ellis on screen. Although I think they did a tremendous job on Christine despite the differences.
"Don't touch me shitter!!!!" powerful scary acting that scene when Arnie screamed at Leigh enough to scare the shit out of you.
"don't touch me 🤬! This is what you want huh?! Just get away from her! Get away from her!" 😠
Keith Gordon was phenomenal in this movie. Love how he went from a weak nerd in the beginning to the badass psycho path towards the end. I wish Gordon was still acting and did more movies after this.
CHRISTINE TURNED ARNY INTO A PSYCHO. 😎
One of my favorite movies!!
I love the music in this one
Keith Gordon was excellent in this.
I think one of the finest actors ever
Where is he now? Is there a modern day pic of him on the Internet?
@@ttown918he's at least in his mid 50s now.
Nowadays you can marry a car and nobody thinks it’s weird.
😅 boy if I did that too my parents my Ass would be Grass 😆
Yeah but you aren't possessed by a World War 2 combat vet (Roland LeBay) or the demon from Hell that lives inside Christine. Arnie was possessed by one of them. His parents' asses would be grass
I would've copped it from my dad if I'd spoken to him or my mother like that.
@@sharonjensen3016 FR, Lol
😂
That thumbnail is gold.
When Arnie snatches Michael up by the stairs, i always thought it was Lebay who did it. You never get any references in the movie like the book but they already had the (owner) Lebay, dead. Just a little thing my kid brain always contemplated
There's certainly a hint of LeBay "giving up" before Arnie buys the car in the movie. He couldn't see to drive anymore and it led to Christine rapidly deteriorating, almost like a corpse left in the hot sun.
Great movie! Thanks for posting!!😃
Yes, it's superb - an underrated classic! I read there's a really good 4K release out. Might treat myself 😎 Thank you for commenting Miranda 👍
And this is the relationship between me and my crown Vic LOL she loves it when I call her Viki
I remember this movie. Back in the days. And it was kind of referenced in the Star Trek Voyager episode "Alice"
Arnie’s mother is a domineering alcoholic in the book, but in this she’s just a simple control freak that simmers down. His father is a reasonably balanced man in the book, but in this, he’s passive, but tries to stand up to Arnie, and Arnie’s demonic
control takes hold of him.
She wasn't an alcoholic, she starting drinking when Arnie started falling apart, and he started to turn into Lebay
She wasn't an alcoholic. She was a controlling shrew (book terms, not mine) and Arnie's dad was mostly meek and laissez-faire.
All of that work that Arnold Cunningham put into just a restore a 20-year-old classic from the late 1950s to its original and then someone comes there and destroys it because I remembered watching this movie over 30 years ago as a teenager because that was just a brand new car back in the 50sand decades later, Arnold Cunningham bought the piece of junk off of an old man and had restored it to its original only to have it destroyed by a few vandals, who had broken into Darnell’s auto wrecking place and destroyed the car. They did not know that the car had a curse on which would take all of them down.
Both scenes are pretty great. The acting is solid too.
I felt for lLiegh... I believe she truly cared for Arnie as well as Dennis...Darrnell too he didnt bully Arnie.
I felt Darnell did initially bully Arnie (just old school tough love?) but soon realised he had misjudged him. Darnell, seeing Arnie's passion and hard work, warmed to him even offering a decent deal. He was looking out for Arnie in the end.
@@JamesGadbury
I dont think he truly cared, but grew to respect him and his work.
I don't know if you read the book, but it was more so in the novel.
Pops got put in the choke!!
Arnie's dad: "Listen mister you've been disrespectful to us once too often! You go back in there and apologize to your mother right now!" 2:03
“TAKE YOUR MITTS OFF ME, MOTHERFUCKER.”
The word shitter has now been added to my vocabulary. But I obviously won't use it the way Arnie does.
John Carpenter?
Thought "Christine" was a Steven King book. Old age catching up.
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You're right, it is a Stephen King book. I recall John Carpenter saying King was so successful at the time so he agreed to do the film before the book was released!
Stephen King wrote the book, John Carpenter directed the movie.
Good scene thanks for uploading!
I hope he won an oscar for this performance.
Kool scene where he takes control of his life, and christine, decides to fix her up, something that nowadays is rarely seen, and the fear he puts in pops, wow
Taking control of his life? He goes mad and dies the end, so much for control. Being disrespectful to his parents doesn't make him powerful.
@Ace Williams what I meant was his parents controlled him, up to that point, something you wouldn't understand
@@marioparedes4936 Lol!! I wouldn't understand? I was a teenager, everyone in life was a teenager, get outta ya bubble. He's a teenager in rebellion who goes off the deep end. So much for control.
@Ace Williams is anyone really in control, at he got his kicks in before the shithouse went up in flames
@@marioparedes4936 If you can't control yourself, then you're weak. Only the worldly and the weak think like you and fall by the wayside.
I like how he took charge
There's no way Arnie had the stones to choke his dad or recover from being thrown at a wall so quickly. That was either LeBay or Christine's demon
Or anger over his car
In the book I think they made it clear that Arnie had been taken over by the spirit of Lebay. It’s not as clear cut in the movie.
@@gretchennelson7056The movie applied the Christine was cursed the day she was made and made no details of tying the car to Roland Lebay other then George mentioning that the car used to belong to him and how obsessed it made him.
In the film Christine was already "evil". In the book it's 100% LeBay, who through pure instinct (he wasn't particularly smart like Arnie, who is a certified genius) figured out he could preserve Christine forever with the "souls" of his daughter and then his wife, finally himself to complete the trifecta.
"His Unending Fury".
I know what he mean. I restored also an old car. My brother broke it. I also did not like to buy another one. I fixed it up, with my own hands. And never again let anybody else drive it. Even not touch it. Because I've spent so much time to repair. Am I mad about my car? Probably yes. But the feeling, to have, for the first time in your life, such a big property on your own...
Christine really changed him
So the car was alive and it made this dude fall in love with it while killing everyone that might take any attention away?
The car is a demon or something similar and is feeding on arnie to gain back her life. He's just a host who she does care for but as something to sustain her
Ultimately, Christine can't make anyone do anything. She holds some level of sway and influence over her owners, but it's their choice to keep showering her with more and more attention. The moment in the movie where Arnie says "Ok, show me," that is him voluntarily giving into his obsession with her. It's at that point she knows he now belongs to her, and she then feels comfortable showing him what she really is.
my step dad would have wiped the floor with me if I did that!!!
Although it is an old movie.. but it is the best movie for me
Great movie!!
Since Arnie met Chistine, he spent a long time adjusting it, moving and carrying scrap metal for weeks, I guess he gained strength, he looks less weak and more robust. I'm not saying that he had the most incredible physical change in the world, but anyone who starts with mechanics in the cars moving those objects is fucking exhilarating
Reminds me of my first love. 1991 Ford Mustang LX hatchback. Everyone said I was insane and wasting money. Obsessed. But they were wrong.
Brilliant acting
I had the same reaction when my wife put her foot up on the dash of my corvette
I know the feeling.I was washing mine and the wife said to me that she wished I treated her like I did that car so I turned the hose on her. Looking back, that wasn’t a good move but it was fun.
Took the wife out to dinner.
@@BigLisaFan Tell her she should count her blessings you weren't pumping gas at the time.
Arnie stood up to John Holmes… good for him
We’ll what do you think it was that stood him up so high lol 😉🍆
I would say the dad lost the psychological advantage there. My kids 6 inches taller me and I don’t let him get away with that you can’t ever let your kid whoop you.
Arnie was no ordinary teenager at this point. He was either possessed by a World War 2 combat veteran (Roland LeBay) or a demon straight from Hell. His dad had every right to be terrified
His parents were also overprotective. You can see that they basically made decisions in Arnie's place all the time without giving him any choice.
You're a coward who doesn't assert himself over anybody in real life, which is why you're here on the internet, posting under the moniker "American patriot777 777"
I hated the way Arnie treated his beautiful girl when this happened Arnie was so lucky to have one of the most beautiful girls like him it pisses me off so much, I hated to see how he turned out he went from being a nerdy but likable guy you felt sorry for into a class a douche.
I saw the deleted scenes the other day. Annie was even more unpleasant in those, especially to Dennis.
@@JamesGadbury ?
Well, at least in the book that looks consistent : In the beginning Arnie is mocked and shunned by EVERYBODY except Dennis. Even his own parents see him as a dork unable to stand for himself. Then, he sort of finds some way of escape in Christine (and, being a demon car, it's all that consistent that she has worked to magnify that wicked tendency in him).
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Like, grudge x clinging to a (devilish) newfound love = terrifying drug to one's mind...
@@herheartbeats5727 I just would love to have a beautiful Woman like Leigh, sadly they fall victim to too many abusive jerks.
let's be honest, his dad had that coming
I never really hear the f word used in a lot of movies today, like they did in the 80”s
All the regeneration in the world won’t remove that memory of a greasy turd, looking up at you from the dash.
At 38 I look at this part with a son about his age now and realize how I'd be in jail if I ever felt my sons hands around my neck lol.
Arnie was either possessed by a World War 2 combat vet or a demon from Hell. You'd probably be in the hospital in all honesty
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To be fair he did shove him pretty hard into the wall.
The father was the one that started getting physical.
Do you mean you'd beat your son up if he choked you?
One of my son favorite movies😊
Its gonna take a good body specialist to fix Christine up infact a new shell plus other parts etc ...... Could always ask overhaulin or chip foose..... They are on hand lol 😂
I 100 percent understand Arnie.. he’s right….
The Choke Hold!
The book is even better
No it isn’t
@@smokingzombiefilms It's kinda like 2 sides of the same coin, the book wouldn't make a good movie, and the movie wouldn't make a good book, Stephen King learned that the hard way when he hated on the shining film, and tried to make it his own way, closely following the book in a mini series, and it completely sucked, and was a flop.
The world was against Arnie but Christine was there for him. ❤
2:09 Arnie is a BAMF. Sonning his own DAD.
ALRIGHT! I’ll watch Christine again tonight.
I've lost count of how many times I've watched Christine over the years! 😅
0:41 Where did THAT come from!??
I was hated like this too.
I took care of it.
I'm on Arnold's side
bro was so psyco he chokes his own father
I love christine
One of my neighbors has a Plymouth fiery
That's the best f you I've heard 1:50
What I really want to know about Christine. Was Arnie being controlled by the Demon powers of Christine? or was he so obsessed with the car that it changed his personality?
It's one of those things - we'll never know!
Arnie had vision problems without his glasses on at the start of the film. However, he magically gains perfect vision and no longer needs glasses. There was something supernatural going on there. The demonic energies in Christine changed him, that or the spirit of the previous owner took him over. Plus, most people can't go from mild mannered to tough and aggressive overnight, and maintain that new personality naturally.
2:08 the moment when Arnie turned into Samuel L. Jackson
Damn, not my parents 💀
In all fairness to be honest Christine aka Plymouth fury would need a good body garage to fix the damage done lol 😀
I wouldhave been madder than hell
his dad was so weak and get locked by his own wife
It was more the jacket than the car it made him into the bad ass
Imagine if they were black..he wouldn't of made it out the kitchen 🤣 his dad showed him mercy though you can tell because he knew something was wrong with him..Cool scene
im sorry Sorry?!
Esse homem aí que empurrou a mulher ele tá bêbado é esse miserável é
Wish they made 2
I always wondered what a sequel might be like - the very last few seconds of the film leave it open. I hear there's a remake coming though... 😬
@@JamesGadburyyes i heard about remake but instead remake a sequel should be made
Lol
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0:41
His mom was a drunk
I tried to watch this on AMC just before Halloween & only got about 20 mins into it cause it was way to edited.
That's a shame. What was missing? 👍
@@JamesGadbury I couldn't watch the edited version either. Pretty much most of the Arnie/Buddy Repperton encounter in shop class was cut and I couldn't go any further and had to get my Blu Ray out and watch the unedited version :)
@@chuckstroud1410 I've heard the 4k remaster looks incredible. Must check it out!
Mother and I decided to buy you a new car 😊
What is killer is the fact he fixed that car up better than what a body shop would and even had it running well. But yet the didn't let him park it at home
dad is a beta male ...
Men don't have to be aggressive at all times to be strong. There's a time and a place imo. I'm not surprised the father backed down. Arnie was acting psycho. I think the Dad was in shock. I wonder too whether he felt a supernatural force in Arnie. The way he reacted was like he was hypnotised.
Arnie had his dipstick in Christine's tail pipe .....@@JamesGadbury
Gotta admit that was a bad ass choke grab Arnie did at 2:10.
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