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CichlidAsh — 9 years ago(April 11, 2016 08:44 AM)
The film is a bit different from the book but in the book she must move in order too repair, this why she is finally overwhelmed in the book when she became too damaged too keep moving and thus repair herself.
In the book she was like a very manipulative woman she wanted Arnie too feel sorry for her. Although it might have been funny if she did repair before he got there and Arnie just found a random crap on his dashboard lol
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Green-Eyed-Girl31 — 10 years ago(April 04, 2015 05:13 PM)
Christine needed Arnie's faith and utter devotion to her to enable her to reconstruct herself. She had effectively "died" when the previous owner killed himself in her, hence her becoming decrepit but was renewed when Arnie came along and came under her power.
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SpaceMountainMike — 10 years ago(January 22, 2016 02:29 PM)
Which made me realize something
Arnie died before they made Christine into a cube
so how was she able to regenerate herself?
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jameswgarrity — 10 years ago(January 23, 2016 01:14 PM)
Arnie's spirit had joined with the car. I mean, we're talking about a car possessed by an evil spirit anyways, right? Not exactly a leap from the story's logic
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MissTexasMcCoy — 9 years ago(January 15, 2017 12:36 PM)
Y'all do realize you're trying to explain a Stephen King story, right? His tales always contain some kind of supernatural element that cannot be explained by logic or common sense. That's what makes his stories so good, is the mystery factor.
With that said, I did wonder how Christine was able to keep on going
after Arnie died,
as they did seem to have a synergistic relationship and fed off eachother's energy. But Stephen King's stories don't typically give all the answers, and I'm okay with that.
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mysticals — 9 years ago(January 21, 2017 07:23 AM)
With that said, I did wonder how Christine was able to keep on going
after Arnie died
as they did seem to have a synergistic relationship and fed off each other's energy. But Stephen King's stories don't typically give all the answers, and I'm okay with that.
Going by the movie alone, I think Christine was possessed early on by some evil spirit or supernatural force as shown during the events that happened during to the two workers during the assembly line process.
You'll notice that George LeBay gives Arnie the keys to start her up and says that "she'll start" as later he told Dennis that Arnie has that gleam in his like his brother had for Christine. She was sad and depressed after all the years with that guy's brother getting worse and worse sitting there. She needed someone new to love her. If the wrong person came along, she wouldn't have started up. I'm surprised that Arnie never noticed the car beforehand.
For the reason she still drove afterwards, it was because she was seeking revenge and always was able to drive under her own power if necessary. I think also that once she knew that Arnie was devoted to her then she wanted to show him that she could heal and repair the damage while of course her odometer always went backwards. Again not going by the book but just the movie as the book has other elements in it such as having to physically move Christine to turn back the clock and repair her to new.
I had some ideas for a sequel which I posted on the Riding the Bullet board but I'm not sure if they are still there. One element of course was that more cars were possessed including one with positive energy and being "good" as there would be a "good" vs. "evil" battle with that '58 Plymouth being released from the time capsule a few years ago.