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You’re right, the dialogue in the original does seem to lean more towards heresay.
I just wish Harlin would have had tried to follow that kernel of info a little bit more accurately.
‘This is what we heard… now, this is what happened!’ This would have made The Exorcist mythology flow a lot better for me.
And THIS very concept is what got me excited about the film in the first place. Back when I heard it was being made.
sorry folks i cannot get logged in at all so will have to chat as a guest There have been 3 versions of the film on dvd and by far the most faithful is the original release on region 1 in 1997 and features the original red Warner logo gold couloured dream sequence and original Karras morph.
Although there are few extras it features a full frame version with 5.1 sound and a widescreen version on the flip. Full frame was friedlins preferred framing.
This dvd is very hard to come by now and is the version originall y released in theatres with no colour de-saturation changes and the rough documentery lighting and feel as discussed at the beginning of the thread.
The 25 th anniversary edition is a far more immersive experience but is still missing an awful lot of bits and pieces , more behind the scenes footage exists and could have been included.It is nice to view the extra footage in TVYNS but i feel it is not the movie which scared the pants off me. I do not hate it either as any new version is worth seeing and we are lucky enough to be able to view any new footage at all.
It is subtitled a directors version but i feel it is more of a writers version being far more Blattys vision.
I do not like the captain howdy inserts they are very misguided in mu humble opinion.I was bummed out about ETB because the possessed wasn’t really the little boy as mentioned in the original(and played out in Heretic.)
I mean, what’s up with Hollywood’s obsession with twist endings anyway?
I always wished that they’d take the best elements from both films and made one movie from them.
From most of my readings on possession, Emily Rose is actually a more accurate portrait of real possession than The Exorcist.
I write this as I dodge all of the tomatoes that are being thrown at me!
I understand you weren’t saying it was better, Greg. I guess my point is, when reading your original post, it seemed strange to mention Jaws 2 in the same breath as Aliens and T2, that’s all. Because, no matter how loyal J2 was to the original masterpeice, it is leagues behind the kind of film other sequels have been. Yes, even despite being the first to set this standard.
I met her back in ’95 at The Darkness haunted house in St. Louis(a very fitting city wouldn’t you say?)I went with my best mate at the time and when we got there the place was empty! We were the only people there. So we thought, awesome, we’ll just ask her out for drinks! I guess we must have just got there too early because other people started to show up after awhile. Damn!
She was very nice and charming but she was all about her animal rescue thing.
I did get to meet her one on one and I thought I’d be all suave when I’d meet her… but it was HER!I went to shake her hand and all I could get out was: “Ms. Blair… it’s the best movie ever made!”
Smiling, she said,”Thanks Matt!”
She did sign our first editions of the Blatty novel. I couldn’t believe it. I was so happy!If anyone wants to know how she looks in person, SHE’S HOT! She’s very tiny though… like that matters!
It’s a great book.
Although it’s a bit over the top and greatly dramatized.Have you ever read Possesion & Exorcism by Traugott K. Oesterreich?
Did… did you actually type Jaws 2? Is that like a TEST to see if someone could spot the film you were bluffing about?
I didn’t like it at all. Thinking back… nope, not even a little bit entertained by it. My wife didn’t like it, either.
Nice effort. Poor film.
I have tried my damdest to not become a victim of the MySlave joke.
So far, so good.
Nice to see your respective pages, though! Interesting to meet the people behind the usernames here.
Greg, I agree, Jaws 2 did ‘follow suit’ as far as the original Jaws story went – but you can’t seriously lob it into the same basket as Aliens and T2. Those sequels were BETTER than their originals. Jaws 2 was not.
Hell, even Heretic followed The Exorcist storyline. Jaws 2 was the first successful sequel of this nature. But in no way was it better.
It’s fantastic yet very exahaustive!
The author at first seems very impartial to the material. But upon further reading, one can tell he just might be convinced himself.
For those not in the know, this was one of the books Blatty used in his research while he was writing The Exorcist.
My dad bought the reprint back in 1974 (it was originally published in 1921) during the Exorcist craze.
In the Exorcist novel Karras himself uses P&E for his own research on Reagan!
You should also check out these books:
The Exorcist (BFI Modern Classics) By Mark Kermode
The Story Behind The Exorcist By Peter Travers and Stephanie Reiff
They’re wonderful books for any fan of the original film.
