10 Classic Movie Details You Never Noticed

4. Norma Wears A Baseball Cap In Every Scene - Carrie

Carrie Norma
United Artists

Brian De Palma's all-timer horror Carrie is such a white-knuckle piece of work that you really couldn't be blamed for missing this utterly bizarre but very deliberate detail.

Throughout the film, you might notice that Carrie's (Sissy Spacek) classmate Norma (P.J. Soles) tends to wear a red baseball cap, but did you know that she actually wears it in every single scene she's in?

This even extends to the scene where Norma is in the salon getting her hair done for the ill-fated prom, with the hat visible on top of the hair dryer covering Norma's head.

As for why De Palma committed to such a strange visual quirk? According to actress P.J. Soles herself, she auditioned for Carrie wearing the cap, and De Palma became a bit obsessed with it, insisting that she wear it to all other auditions for the role.

Soles complied, and once she'd won the part of Norma, De Palma seemingly saw the cap as an elemental component of the character, given that it's on screen just about every time that Norma is.

 
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