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hey there…
no worries fatherbowdern…I love your posts on here…Im amazed at the information you bring here. And I love the word snarky too….its so rare that one gets to use it.

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geez…now ya made me blush!

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“Um, I see a period at the end of Friedkin’s sentence.”

That was a little snarky, dont you think?

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thanks for posting this clip. After reading the various posts about it, I was curious but didnt have the means to play it backwards. Very cool clip

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I disagree that it was CGIed for two reasons. 1, i have read somewhere about the scene (back when the film was first shot ) getting kinda bloody-it may have been in Kermode’s book- so that leads me to belive that they DID shoot two versions. Not only that but Freidken himslef mentions finding an alternate take in the unused footage that he had forgotten about. Also, if you watch it very closely, the double has the blood in her mouth the whole trip down the stairs…you can see in the look in her face that its a challenge keeping it in her mouth all the way to the bottom of the steps…to me her expression from the top to the bottom of the stairs is one of someone with a mouthful of fake blood. Just my two cents…

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yeah I had the same problem-just figured it was isolated to my computer. It is frustrating because the titles of each segment sound intriguing

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Thanks for posting this- I cant wait to watch these (atfer the thunderstorm that just arrived passes)

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The above post is why (though it may be blasphemy to say this) I wish that HBO or Showtime would produce a 4 or 6 hour mini-series based more closely on the book. HBO in particular would probably put together a top notch production. Hell, get Freidkin to direct it…he aint busy

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i agree…or adleast Sharon telling Chris that. I also wish the scenes when Sharon comes into the room and later Chris (during the excorcism) where Regan verbally attacks them. I also have a soft spot for the part where Karras is laying Merrins hands on his chest after trying to revive him, and Regan spits bile on Merrin’s face and says “The last rights”

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this is one of the most interesting posts in a while. Makes me wish a sort of “alternate universe” novel would be written based on this premise.

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I always thought that it wasnt so much the skin ripping off, but her legs swelling, (much like her neck earlier in the movie) and the skin splitting. I know you see something come off her leg, but i figured it was just the wire used to perform the effect.

Of course thats just my interpretation.

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What a fascinating topic, as I too had never noticed the missing eyebrows. I suppose its one of those things that once you see it you can’t UNSEE it…like the scene of her writhing in bed after Karras sprinkles the tap water on her. Now that Ive notced that her ears and the back of her neck are a warm healthy shae of pink, not only can i not notice it, it bugs me more everytime I watch it. It takes me right out of the scene and makes the make up look like grease paint. Its the one thing I cant beleive they didnt fix in TVYNS. Ive even tried to rationalize in my own head why her ears would be a different color (too much time on my hands) so that it will not bother me so much…alas, i can think of know reason.

Dont get me wrong though….still my favorite movie and still a masterpiece that can never be repeated.

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first off, kudos to father lamont. This topic actually made me register to leave comments, partly because I think hes right, that it deserves discussion as much as any exorcist movie, and partly because I felt guilty hat I enjoy reading the forums, but never participate…and I hate to see them sort of “die out”
That said, There isnt much about Exorcist II that i liked. I did buy it on DVD and have watched it several times TRYING to find something to appreciate about it. The one thing I really liked was when Sharon brought Father Lamont back to the house the first time. To me, that house has a more terrifying “haunted house” aspect to it then any other setting in a horror movie. The house was as much a charactor as anyone else…and I found myself wishing that had been a jumping off point for a sequel…not a haunted house movie per se, but I think that when something terrible happens in a home, there is something risidual that never goes away.

Also, it bugs me that LInda Blair was so adamnent that she would not wear any possesion make up in the film. To me that crippled it from the start and should have been a warning sign that they would have to go another direction.
Not to say I wanted her reposessed, as that would contradict the first movie…but hell, how cool would it have been to have her film scenes in the make up that were in the book but not in the first movie? You could have Sharon being interviewed by Lamont as they tour the house, and as she tells him the thing she saw, we flash back to those scenes. There were certainly plenty of possesion events that they were’nt able to put in the first movie.

Just my 2 cents.

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