[Sofia]

I have added more background to the novel about this and I think I haven't shared it on the forum, so I am now. 🙂 In 2008, I used footage from the movie, The Cursed Medallion, to make this video about Regan's resentment towards Dennings.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjZyEmKjdFM

It worked really well! Joanna Cassidy, Nicoletta Elmi (I'm a huge fan of her) & Richard Johnson really seem to be playing Chris, Regan and Burke. Joanna is another one of my idols and I wish she had played Chris. (Of course Shirley will alway be Chris of the novel but I visualize Joanna as being Chris too) and needless to say I wish Sachi had played her daughter. Well, I can always clone her face to Nicoletta's body. 😀

 

 

Ok, so this is how Chapter 1 of the novel would start – with them arriving at the airport in Georgetown…. and well, check out the rest. :oD 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Sofia]

I also made this one – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VvCxZTko9A  “Chris loses Regan in the airport.” This is funny. 😉

 

 

 

[Sofia]

And Regan's first behavioral changes –

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIFItrrTW3Y&feature=related

Burke is spending the night in Chris' house so Regan locks herself in her room and tells Mom she won't open the door 'til he leaves. She then throws a jar to the floor on purpose. 

[Pazuzus Petals]

Does Regan resent Burke in the story?  I hadn't sensed that.

[fraroc]

The one thing I didnt like about the novel is that it made you question wether or wether not she was really possessed, the way Sof and Epic make it sound like a sweet,beautiful little girl had killed Burke because of mental insanity/”Devil Possession.” I prefer the movie a bit more because it made it sound so clear that it was The Devil that killed Burke, not Regan.

[Sofia]

 Fraroc, that's another reason why I love the novel more, it's more subtle. I love the mystery of whether or not she was possessed, you can use your imagination in a way that the movie doesn't let you.

Pazuzu Petals, yes, she does. The novel makes it a lot more clear.

[fraroc]

strangley, what you call “subtle” I call “too vauge”

[epicwin123]

I thought the vids were great Sof! Thoses movie clips were perfect!

And I do prefer how the book kind of says “Regan killed Burke” but also says “the devil killed him”

[Sofia]

Wait, did you mean too vague? In what way is The Exorcist novel too vague?? I can tell from your Exorcist Sims that you really like horror stories to be too explicit and in-your-face, vulgar, and it's precisely what I don't like. I love subtlety and feeling of dread and eerie atmosphere, like The Innocents movie, for example. 😉

 

And, thanks Molly, you always give great feedback! 😀

[fraroc]

Somehow I'm reminscing on an old Cervates quote “Facts are the Enemy of the truth” in the whole thing of Burke's death…

[Pazuzus Petals]

So the scene in the movie in Regan's bedroom where Regan is matchmaking and encouraging her mother to bring Dennings around is only because she's already planning to kill him?

[fraroc]

Pazuzus Petals said:

So the scene in the movie in Regan's bedroom where Regan is matchmaking and encouraging her mother to bring Dennings around is only because she's already planning to kill him?

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Hell no. In fact, in the movie, Regan actually liked Burke only AS A FRIEND. She just feared the idea that Chris and Burke might get together. But like I said, the movie makes it very clear that while Rags was drugged up on Thorazine, the Demon may have left her body but still inhabited the room. And when Mr Dennings came upstairs, Pazuzu may have either thrown him out the window, or had psychologically attacked him and made Burke commit suicide.

 

And also, the novel muddies the idea that Karras gave his life to save Regan. WPB made it sound like a suicide while those who watched the movie know that Damien had forced Pazuzu to enter his body and possess him, Karras then jumped out the window in order to attempt to destroy the demon.

[Pazuzus Petals]

I dunno.  I kind of like my idea.  Regan's already had her spirit invaded and the spirit is plotting, influencing her to ask her mother to bring Dennings around.

 

I think Captain Howdy is around as early as Sharon's trip to the park.  I think Captain Howdy might have had something to do with the man with the horse, using something little girls universally love to seduce and gain access to Regan.  My reading, then, would mean there is no point in the movie from her first appearance where Regan is not under the spell of the demon; it just becomes gradually less subtle. 

 

I realize this is debatable, but that's half the fun.  This one movie has so many things worth talking about.

[epicwin123]

Even with the movie, Father K's death is kind of like a suicide, because right before he jumps he is “normal” (I use this losely) but the demon is still inside him.

[fraroc]

But however its sad to say that even though Regan was saved, the demon did not die. In fact if you saw The Exorcist III, you'd find out that Pazuzu was so infurated that he had implanted the spirit of a horrible serial killer into the body of a good man. But however, Karras died his final death when Kinderman shot him several times in order to make sure Karras' soul reaches Heaven.

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