[granville1]

Nice work, as always 🙂

[granville1]

Gracias, merci, danke schoen 🙂

[granville1]

Hello back, young feller – glad to see ya.

[granville1]

Sof, I'm sorry to hear that. Not being in the slightest knowledgable about how account authentication works, I can't suggest any solutions 🙁

I guess we'll have to stick to Everything Exorcist for news and communication….

[granville1]

I wouldn't think living in Portugal would be a problem, but I don't know. Imdb gets plenty of posters from Britain, so I'd presume it's available to all countries that have cables and internet connections. Maybe it IS some weird cell phone issue, but that makes no sense to me – a phone number is a phone number. Best of luck getting into the site – you'd be a hugely valued contributor.

[granville1]

Sorry your account doesn't work 🙁

Maybe there is a way you can contact the administrators? I really don't know how imdb's “internal stuff” works.

I don't know why the imdb board is busier than this one. Occasionally when I'm on imdb I will strongly recommend captainhowdy.com/Everything Exorcist, but for some reason unknown to me, there hasn't been much response. Maybe people don't want to “join up” on here, but I can't fathom any rational reason for this…

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He must've read the wrong book! lol, there's more about Merrin in the novel.

 

Yeah

 

The famous shot of him under the streetlamp happens in the novel too!

 

Yes, “his head bent patiently in the rain” or similar wording…

 

The head spinning in the novel was probably a vision that Chris and Karras had.

 

That's how I view it. I've bent backward at imdb trying to get this across. Some people think that “demonic” means “omnipotent”, e.g., contra Blatty, a full head spin would not kill the body of the demon's host because “who knows what a demon can do??” I maintain that we know what this particular demon can do, because the author has set limits on its power.  The argument from “authorial authority” has mostly fallen on deaf ears…

[granville1]

“You must have missed that!”

 

Yes, I did. Unfortunately, my reading is getting sloppier as time passes, for reasons known and unknown. Sorry I missed it, it was a crucial clue.

[granville1]

My insistence that it's Karl at the window “for sure” was based on forgetting a point of information that you just now supplied, i.e.:

 

Kinderman tells Chris in his second visit that he thought he saw Regan at the window, not Karl

 

That piece of crucial information does seem to imply that Kinderman thought he saw a smaller person than Karl at the window. Good catch. So now I am inclined to agree with you that both Karl and Regan are “lithe”, but that it was most likely that Regan's silhouette was seen, not Karl's 🙂

[granville1]

“Would Kinderman really mistake a child for a grown, thickly muscled man? “

In the movie, it's clearly Regan.

 

But in the novel, no mention is made of the size of the silhouette. Mention is only made of its motion, which is quick and lithe. In the novel, Blatty merely notes that Kinderman catches a glimpse of the silhouette. Blatty does not impute an interpretation to Kinderman, i.e., him thinking, “That must be Regan”. In fact, Chris has refused to let Kinderman see Regan because she is sedated and bed-ridden. So if Kinderman put an interpretation on the silhouette's identity, presumably his first thought would be of someone other than Regan.

[granville1]

I think it has to be Karl, since Karl is the only character whom Blatty himself consistently describes as “quick and lithe”:

 

“a quick, lithe figure” …

per your citation.

 

The novel: Karl enters:

 

“Catting in lithe through a door off the pantry.”

(Bantam paperback, 1974, 35th printing, p. 16)

 

And I do think that Karl would instinctively want to watch the cop from upstairs, to make sure he was really leaving and not sticking around to entrap Karl. Karl is acting suspiciously because he does have something to hide from Kinderman 🙂

[granville1]

Very strongly agreed 🙂

[granville1]

Cappy, your idea of a two parter is far more appealing to me than the proposed schedule plan.

I also have a trepidation about who will play our beloved Damien. Miller created the perfect Karras and I don't know if modern producers/casting agents can be trusted. Hopefully it will be someone relatively unknown, and not some hunk picked up from a soap opera 😉

[granville1]

It's a wonderful tale, but can a ten episode “stretch” really maintain the necessary shock and suspense?

Also, I hope they have actors whose skills equal those of the original film cast.

[granville1]

Gee, Sofia, I am so flattered 🙂

 

But I bow to your knowledge of The Exorcist – you know that book by heart, plus you're a great scholar of the material, including the film.

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