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''Christine'' is a 1983 American horror film directed by John Carpenter and starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul and Harry Dean Stanton. The film also features supporting performances from Roberts Blossom and Kelly Preston. It was written by Bill Phillips and based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King, published in 1983. The story, set in 1978, follows a sentient and violent vintage Plymouth Fury named "Christine," and its effects on the car's teenaged owner. ==Plot== In the beginning, a red/white 1958 Plymouth Fury is being built on the assembly line. While a worker begins to inspect the engine for any mistakes, the car surprisingly closes its hood on his hand, injuring him. After the injured man is taken away, and during closing time, another worker is killed in the Fury, supposedly from inhaling exhaust fumes ''in'' the car. Twenty years later, Arnold Cunningham (Keith Gordon) is a nerdy teen with only one friend, Dennis Guilder (John Stockwell). Arnie's life begins to change when he buys the same used Fury coupe, now named "Christine," that is in need of extensive repairs amounting to a full restoration over Dennis' objections and against his advice. He gets into a fight at school with Buddy Repperton, an overaged for high school teenager, who draws down on Arnie with a switchblade and is expelled as a result. Arnie begins to restore Christine in defiance of his parents (who force him to park Christine at Darnell's Do-It-Yourself Garage). As he spends more of his time repairing her, he begins to change, shedding his glasses, dressing better, and developing a cocky arrogance at odds with his previous nerdiness. Everyone is interested in the hot new girl at school, Leigh Cabot (Alexandra Paul), even Dennis (who asks her out only to find that she has a date). As his best friend changes, Dennis returns to Christine's seller to ask some questions about the car. He discovers the Fury's previous owner, Roland LeBay, was obsessed with Christine despite his wife and daughter having died in the car; and that he had kept Christine until he killed himself in her. Leigh and Arnie attend one of Dennis' football games as an official couple. Dennis not only sees them together, but that Christine is completely restored. Distracted by what he sees, he is gravely injured by a triple tackle. Arnie visits him in the hospital and learns that he was almost paralyzed and can never play football again. Leigh and Arnie's relationship is going well until they attend a drive-in movie one rainy night. They are making out until Leigh stops and tells Arnie that she's uncomfortable in Christine, then bails out of the car. Arnie runs after her and she explains that she is too uncomfortable in Christine to have sex with him in it. He apologizes, so she returns to the car with him. Once back inside, Arnie notices that one of the windshield wiper blades is bent and gets out to fix it. Meanwhile, Leigh unwraps a hamburger and begins to eat it. The radio comes on by itself playing "We Belong Together," a blinding white light emits from the dash, and she begins to choke violently. As Arnie attempts to get into the car to save her, the doors lock by themselves. She is able to unlock the car while choking and another movie patron pulls her out and performs the Heimlich Maneuver, saving her. After they arrive at her house, they argue on her front porch about what happened, his behavior, and Christine herself. The incident puts a serious strain on their relationship. The still-angry Repperton and his gang of toadies vandalize Christine while she is parked inside Darnell's. Leigh accompanies Arnie to Darnell's to retrieve his wallet from her and is with him when he finds the wreckage. He is devastated at the sheer amount of damage; when she tries to console him, he lashes out violently and swears at her, effectively breaking up with her. He returns that night to start restoring the Plymouth. He speaks to Christine, saying that he knows she's safe now that the thugs have done all they could to her and that they can rebuild her together. He walks away only to turn around after hearing the creaking of metal and seeing the engine is now fully restored. Arnie steps in front of the car and commands Christine by saying, "Show me." As Arnie watches, Christine restores herself to showroom quality as if by magic. Later that evening, she seeks out and targets Moochie Welch (Malcolm Danare) first, who she crushes to death in a small alley after running him to ground. A few days later, Rudy Junkins, a detective, finds Arnie at school. He questions him about Welch's death, and why the car he'd heard was trashed appears to be in brand new condition. Arnie replies that the damage wasn't as bad as Junkins had heard, and he was glad that Moochie had gotten what he deserved. Since Arnie's alibi checked out and he was in Darnell's car, the detective has to let him go. That evening, Buddy Repperton (William Ostrander) and his toadie Richie Trelawney (Steven Tash) leave a liquor store in Buddy's Camaro and encounter a car that first puts its high beams on and then tailgates them, unaware that it is Christine. After stopping and backing up with her anticipating their actions, they take off at a high rate of speed with her tailing them. They believe they've lost her when they exit the car at the gas station where Repperton's other toady Don Vandenberg (Stuart Charno) works, but then she arrives, crashing into Repperton's car and smashing it nearly in two. With the Camaro locked to her front bumper, Christine crashes into the garage bay, killing Richie, rupturing the Camaro's gas tank, and causing an explosion that kills Don and sets her ablaze. Buddy believes he is safe until Christine comes roaring out of the garage and chases him down the highway, still on fire, eventually running him over and leaving his body burning on the asphalt. When Christine arrives back at the garage, Darnell is just preparing to leave. He watches her enter, still smoldering. He calls the customer that Arnie was to deliver to and asks if he showed. When told he did, and in Will's Cadillac, Darnell hangs up and grabs a shotgun before leaving his office. He walks up to the car and grabs the handle, which is still hot from the fire. Christine allows him to open the door and he looks inside, seeing there is no one behind the wheel. He sits down behind the wheel with his shotgun, thoroughly confused. The radio comes on, playing "Bony Moronie," the door slams shut and locks, and the seat ratchets forward, crushing the overweight Darnell to death against the steering wheel. The next morning when Arnie shows up, the police are there. Darnell is dead in Christine's front seat and she is once again in like-new condition. Junkins questions Arnie again and he gets angry, challenging him to call his mother to verify he was home all night and had had Darnell's car. Once again Junkins is forced to back off once he establishes Arnie has an airtight alibi for his whereabouts during the killings. On New Year's Eve, Leigh calls Dennis, asking to come talk to him about Arnie. Dennis and Leigh reason that the only way to stop Christine and save Arnie is to destroy the car. Dennis scratches "Darnell's Tonight" into Christine's hood, then makes his way there with Leigh. Dennis hot-wires the bulldozer out back, moves it into the garage, and they discuss how to lure Christine inside so they can destroy her. The plan set, Leigh exits to head to the office so that she can close the overhead door on the street side after Christine arrives, trapping her so they can kill her. However, Christine had been lying in wait the entire time under a pile of scrap metal and charges Leigh as soon as her feet hit the floor. Leigh runs from Christine as Dennis attempts to run interference and Christine smashes into a car abandoned in the garage, T-boning it as she had Repperton's Camaro. The Fury returns to the shadows to regenerate. When it emerges, it's revealed that Arnie is behind the wheel. (All the other times when she attacked her windows were too dark to see inside, but Arnie had not been driving, having solid alibis at the times of the attacks.) While attempting to kill Leigh by crashing into Darnell's office, Arnie is thrown through Christine's windshield. When he attempts to stand and grabs Leigh, she sees that he was impaled on a shard of window glass and mortally wounded. Before he dies, he reaches out to touch Christine one last time. Leigh exits the wreckage of the office to tell Dennis that Arnie is dead. However, even without him Christine is not done. She continues to attack Dennis and Leigh, sustaining damage and regenerating even faster than before. Dennis pulls Leigh into the cab of the bulldozer and the two of them smash Christine with it, driving back and forth over her, tearing her apart and finally disabling her for good. Dennis and Leigh return to the junkyard the next day and see the remains of the Fury crushed into a cube. Detective Junkins is with them, and tries to console them, pointing out that they managed to stop Christine even though they were unable to save Arnie. They are spooked momentarily when they hear a '50s rock and roll song playing and they think it's Christine regenerating — her radio only played 1950s rock and roll. They are relieved to find that it's just a workman walking through the junkyard with a boom box. The closing shot of the film is a closeup of the crushed cube that was Christine as a piece of the grill slowly begins to unbend. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christine (1983 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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