More video interviews with Linda Blair and Owen Roizman promoting THE EXORCIST Blu-ray

Thanks for putting these up, finally more from Owen :>

Phillip, you’re right on every count. I hope people won’t bother with the cut from 2000 and will keep the 1973 version as the “definitive” version. Why try to improve upon an already made classic? What happened to Billy Friedkin’s convictions back in 1973?
If anyone has had the joy of reading Blatty’s original screenplay and compared it next to the final version of the 1973 release, you’ll see just how much influence Friedkin had in keeping this horror story as a simple exercise in just that, horror, without getting bogged down in Blatty’s original story that had too many confusing plots which had no (filmic) plausible connections with the main story (IMO!). The novel is true to Blatty’s original screenplay (or vice versa, actually). The fact that Friedkin threw away that script and used passages from the book as a basis for the screenplay was a major stroke of brilliance. I always think of the story as Blatty’s, but this film really belongs to Friedkin who waded through the original story to put out something that grabbed the audience and didn’t let them go until the final frame. Why this didn’t win Best Picture, over The Sting (and how many of us go back to watch “The Sting”?), I will never understand.