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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.

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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I think Christine was just toyin' with that boy!
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she needed someone (the right one) to come along and love her. lebay had locked her up after he was not able to drive anymore but in the book it says she waited for the right person to come along.

Which made me realize something so how was she able to regenerate herself?
She even started back up and going after Dennis & Leigh again after Arnie died

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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Good call SpaceMountainMike, I never thought about that.
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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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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.
"You met me at a very strange time in my life"

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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Furthermore, why didn't she fix herself before he ever saw her? I mean when she was in Lebay's yard.
So that Arnie could relate to "her" decrepit condition and his own crisis.
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Furthermore, why didn't she fix herself before he ever saw her? I mean when she was in Lebay's yard.
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He actually went half insane
He was getting possessed by LeBay

He actually went half insane and hurt his back seriouslly from dragging the car by himself so that it would heal it.

For the movie, that is a good question, and the answers tied to emotional responses from Arnie are what I would probably side with. However, in the book, if I remember correctly, Arnie actually had to drive the car backwards (rewinding time or something) for the repairs to work.
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I've seen the movie, read the book, now im watching it again. Just realized something, why didnt christine just fix herself BEFORE arnie even saw the damage??? I know there would be no point for the story to go on after this, it just seemed funny to me. Love both versions by the way.
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Christine does not always need Arnie too be present in order too heal, she heals herself after she kills Moochie, which if I remember right is before she ever demonstrates the healing factor.
Moochie was killed AFTER they trashed ChristineChristine "healed" in front of Arnie before that.

The restoration or the Show Me scene as it's called by most is the one just before Christine's chase and killing of Moochie.
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Christine does not always need Arnie too be present in order too heal, she heals herself after she kills Moochie, which if I remember right is before she ever demonstrates the healing factor. Christine is an emotional vampire and evil though and probably wanted sympathy from Arnie although I do think that even Christine would have had trouble wiping the crap off her dashboard.
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I always wondered why Christine didn't fix herself before Arnie first saw it
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She didn't know they bullied him but.
It didn't matter if she knewhe already hated themuse your head.

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Just realized something, why didnt christine just fix herself BEFORE arnie even saw the damage???
To show what his "friends" had done to her
Agreed, cause if she fixed herself, he would have never known.
so that he'd hate them as well?
Disagree.they bullied him, probably for sure bet he already hated them lol