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Maybe by the time The Exorcist was shot, Sal Mineo’s youthful looks had slid into middle-aged male bloat? Also his career had waned since the 1950s. That’s all I can suggest.
More evidence that The Exorcist is starting to age, I’m afraid… I always thought it was a compliment in the film. Jason Miller turns with a smirk.
More evidence that The Exorcist is starting to age, I’m afraid… I always thought it was a compliment in the film. Jason Miller turns with a smirk.
Kinderman and Karras had just had an argument, so I always took it as an insult (not a malicious insult, but a joking one, which is why Karras smiles).
Note: Karras is smiling as soon as the camera cuts to him…the work of Pazuzu or dodgy editing?
I think at that point Karras just found Kinderman to be an amusing sport despite what he said. Their conversation had many little insinuated jabs, so at that point (since Kinderman didn’t get what he wanted) Karras just smiles when all was said and done. Sal Mineo was also seen as a juvenile back when he did John Ford’s Cheyenne Autumn in 1964, so maybe that was Kinderman way of saying, “Yeah, run off, kid! You’re no boxer! You’re not standing your ground!” Just my way of looking at it.
After the argument – I always thought it was a friendly jab to help break the ice further.
Oh thats definitely true Captain Howdy. It was definitely a friendly jab, it wasn’t malicious. But what did it mean?
Yes, he was in fact murdered three years after The Exorcist. So I guess for a while, Kinderman’s joke didn’t age well until the next generation forgot who Sal Mineo was.
Anyway, I think its still a friendly, silly jab that actually honors Sal Mineo in the end.
I think Kinderman’s comment about Mineo was a compliment at the time and a, “Let me break through your stone-faced facade, so you will answer my questions.” I never took the remark as ill-willed toward Karras. The scene just doesn’t work that way for me.
I think Kinderman’s comment about Mineo was a compliment at the time and a, “Let me break through your stone-faced facade, so you will answer my questions.” I never took the remark as ill-willed toward Karras. The scene just doesn’t work that way for me.
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