CHRISTINE directed by John Carpenter (USA, 1993)
“I hate Rock’n’Roll!” A good pub quiz question would be to name the movie of a Stephen King novel that ends with this statement.
Here it is in ‘Christine’ a mix of high school melodrama and sub-par horror.
The line is spoken by the movie’s human romantic interest, Leigh Cabot (Alexandra Paul) as she mistakes music from the ghetto blaster of a passing scrapyard worker for the car radio of the now crushed and cubed 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine.
This car’s theme tune is George Thorogood and the Destroyers’ ‘Bad To The Bone’ and its identity is also defined by a series of rock classics. Bored to the bone would be more accurate.
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.Yesterday I sang the praises of James Joyce’s short story The Dead which contains the affirmation that it is “better pass boldly into the other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age”.
