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Found the script of the Exorcist for those who are interested in reading it and here’s the link:
Regan said he would die up there, the prediction was wrong, too bad.I wonder if any subliminals is in the Ninth configuration? I have the movie, the only thing that I notice are William Peter Blatty’s trademark of filming the assortment of statues and faces on posters. Go figure.
When you read it with the bone white description, it’s more visual. Especially when you know the cross is going to be very bloody. So picturing that visual in the book, you get a better image in your mind when reading that passage. In the EW article, some of the crosses were made out of rubber by Marcel Vercoutere so that Linda Blair wouldn’t hurt herself or others around her. Marcel owns the actual cross that was used in the movie.
When you read it with the bone white description, it’s more visual. Especially when you know the cross is going to be very bloody. So picturing that visual in the book, you get a better image in your mind when reading that passage. In the EW article, some of the crosses were made out of rubber by Marcel Vercoutere so that Linda Blair wouldn’t hurt herself or others around her. Marcel owns the actual cross that was used in the movie.
Ryan, do you have the other issues with Dick Smith? If you don’t I will try and scan it then. I also have the Video watchdog issue that covered all 3 Exorcist movies. Great article and many pics in that one.
If you get the magazine, it’s different from the website article, so Regan’s face is not included in the website article.
Maybe Regan killed Burke Dennings when he was downstairs in the livingroom. Then she takes him upstairs and throws him out the window. The reason I suggest this is whenever she was possessed, she came downstairs. For example, during the party, she was sleeping then she comes downstairs to pee on the carpet and the spider-walk scene, she comes downstairs and when she gets the cross from the little table, she probably went downstairs to grab it, so that she can masterbate with it. Just a thought.
I would change it a bit and have Joe Morton as Kinderman, change the ethnicity of the character. Why not? He’s well liked and I can picture him questioning Chris and when he meets up Fr.Karras. Just a twist in casting.
This is my version on how Burke Dennings is killed. I have him upstairs, watching over Regan as she sleeps. He takes a drink from a flask. He turns towards the window, suddenly they open, he looks outside for a second, glancing at the stairs below. He closes the window, suddenly the room becomes cold and he can see his breathing in the cold air. Burke approaches the bed and stares at Regan who is not moving and he lowers the blanket and notices her body, he suddenly begins to touch her ankles and moves towards her legs. The window opens again. He stops touching Regan and is about to approach the window, but is suddenly grabbed from the back of his hair. We hear growlings and Regan’s face is pale white with demon eyes and she smacks Burke Dennings across the chest that flings him across the room. Then we hear a loud bellowing voice, “The piglet’s mine.” As Burke Dennings is crawling towards the door to escape. He is grabbed by his ankle and thrown to the bed. Regan approaches him and grabs his head, twisting it completely around. We hear the crunching sound of a neck being broken. Regan picks up his lifeless body over her shoulders and moves towards the window. She throws him out the window like a rag doll towards the steep stairs below. Regan watches as Burke falls full force down the stairs. Regan returns to the bed and suddenly collapses on the bed. Thats how I picture what happened to Burke Dennings.
I found a another site about the exorcist, if you type THE EXORCIST REVISITED in your search box, it should take you to the link. Cool articles about the house and other related stuff.
Thanks Granville for your insights, I enjoyed reading your post. When I thought of this scene, it was just one of many ideas of what might have happened. I wanted to avoid that Burke was into Regan sexually. I was just thinking of this as if they were doing a remake. Since we all want to see a different exorcist movie and not just the same old thing that we seen many times. It’s just to change certain things, make it different. I don’t know if you remembered the CARRIE remake, they changed many things in the remake. Carrie survives in the remake. I like to see a different kind of Exorcist movie, all the characters would still be there, new scenes would be added, characters’ motives might be different in the remake. After watching the Exorcist so many times, I want to see something different. The scene with Burke touching Regan is due to his drinking, plus this is 2007, where we hear this kind of stuff in the news about child molestation. The Exorcist remake if made now, will be completely different, not just a rehash of the original. I’m aware of that molestation angle from the youtube videos. I didn’t agree about those opinions either. It’s just many angles that could take place in the remake. We can even have a new scene, Kinderman does see Regan, why not, she was fully possessed until after the masterbation scene. She is questioned by him, he looks around the bedroom. Maybe he discovers the flask under the drawer and notices it’s crushed by someone with small hands. I dunno? Kinderman was trying to solve the murder, just like Columbo would’ve done. In the novel, we read how Kinderman’s mind is working on solving Burke’s death.
Whatever happened to Karl, my favorite bowling partner to Goebells? I know he was in another horror movie, SUSPERIA, but that was in the 80’s.
It’s no longer there, the studio was temporary. but if you go to Queens, NY, there’s a tv/motion picture museum (don’t know the exact name) that displays certain movie props. For example the demon Regan prop that you see Dick Smith talking in front of in the Fear of God special was there. When I saw it ,the Regan prop was actually small with the hair being a blondish brown color. It was cool, also a fake wolf’s head was displayed there that was used in the Albert Finney movie, WOLFEN. I saw this a few years back, so I don’t know if the props were loaners, but it was cool to see them in person. Didn’t have a camera, so no pics to share. I have one of the demon Regan that was used at a haunted house for Halloween. The head revolves 360 non- stop, a dummy of a priest lays in front of her, very cool. I will scan and post it on the board.
ANYBODY EVER SEE THE PICTURE FROM LEGION WITH HARRY CAREY HOLDING HIS DISMEMBERED HEAD IN HIS LAP? IT WAS NEVER SHOWN IN THE MOVIE. THEY USED THE PICTURE FOR THE COVER OF FANGORIA.
IT’S THE LITTLE BOY FROM 3 MEN AND A BABY. REMEMBER? JUST KIDDING. I ALSO FOUND A NEW IMAGE ON THE NEW VERSION OF THE EXORCIST MOVIE THAT I NEVER NOTICED BEFORE, MAYBE CAUSE I WAS WATCHING IT ON A BIG SCREEN AND NOTICED IT THIS TIME. IT’S THE SCENE WHEN CHRIS ENTERS REGAN’S ROOM AND THE WINDOWS ARE OPENED, AS SHE LEAVES THE ROOM, A FULL IMAGE OF THE STATUE PAZUZU IS RIGHT BY THE DOOR. THE IMAGE IS THERE FOR A FEW SECONDS AND IT FADES AWAY SLOWLY. ANYBODY SPOT THAT TOO OR DID EVERYBODY ALREADY KNEW ABOUT IT. LITTLE TREASURES ARE FOUND DURING EACH VIEWING OF THIS FILM.
