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Speaking of the Pacific Coast, has anyone ever discussed the fact that Tommy Wiseau from ‘The Room’ looks like a possessed Regan with his unusual facial features? LOL
Good evening, been hoping to post my latest YouTube channel video on ‘The Room.’ I think that shall be funny because it’s practically a horror film. xD
This is an old thread, and I actually responded to this three years ago and I hear I am once again, LOL. When I read this thread's title this time however, I thought someone was talking about sex, haha.
An original, production script of The Exorcist. It's interesting to see the differences from the page to screen. It's in a red cover/jacket with the traditional brass pins to keep it together. It's obviously gone through a lot, but I'm trying to keep it safe and make it last. I love the fact that an Oscar winning script is sitting near me or at least one that led to an Oscar.
It has been a long time, Father Bowdern! It's good to see that Captain Howdy is still around. By the way, are some of the folks that I recall still here like Mad Hatter and his Dominion cut, Rat Boy (a Jaws fan as well), and is Benjamin, the Blatty essayist, still around?
WOW, I haven’t been on this site in a LONNNNNG time. It looks really good. I like the new design. Very snazzy.
As for the re-release, I was very happy to see it with some friends. The sound was phenomenal! I felt I like I was being assaulted by the soundtrack. It kept me uneasy throughout the entire film, which was a definite plus!
I’m so glad I’ve finally been able to see one of my all-time favorite films on the silver screen. 😀
quote: Greg, I think you are a saint here on earth and nothing evil can touch you or your possessions (pun intended!).
Why thank you, sir. It’s good to know that people don’t get too obsessed with dark and evil things after getting into The Exorcist. Let’s not forget Blatty’s themes of great good in his work. Of course, this doesn’t really explain in anyway disappearing or ripped books. 😛
Hi Hatter,
Did you see my analysis of your additions to the climax of Dominion in the ‘Three years later’ thread on this same Sequels page? Maybe you’d appreciate the feedback from another editor. 😀
Yeah, I’d say watch the original version first (some say watch the DVD without the new blue tinting additions) and then the expanded TVYNS. I like both versions and are obviously quite psychologically scary.
My Exorcist book has remained in pretty safe condition on my dresser. Nothing or anything around it hasn’t had anything happen to it in a bad way. The same thing with my two Exorcist DVDs. They’re just fine, so does someone know something that I don’t? 😛
There is a lot of subjectivity that plays into what scares you. The same thing goes for comedy except that might be a little more broad for most people. I think for me the scariest part of The Exorcist was this idea of a young person getting violently sick and the mother, despite all her attempts, is powerless to stop it.
Die Hard 2 is still Harlin’s best film. It really is. Harlin’s talents is always limited to his screenplay, and most often he is given subpar material for him to blow out of proportion. So DH2 worked because the concept was real enough and the big action was actually motivated. I’m not being cynical or anything, LOL.
By the way, those new light effects at the end really worked well, Hatter. It occurred to me now that I looked at this how effective that light worked. I know that Vittorio Storaro and Paul Schrader talked about the cleanliness and purity of white coming in, but the idea of sunlight itself does still preserve that original idea. It does eliminate one editing question I did realize when seeing this cut instead– why would the demon dissolve away and then reappear off screen as Cheche? I understand the idea of dissolves and disappearing (nothing wrong with that in editing), but this seemed more effective in that it preserved the idea and made the believability stronger by using a realistic idea of sunlight blinding us. Cool stuff, Hatter! I approve. 🙂 😀
You know it’s funny that you mention this point about Burke’s voice. Jack MacGowran had a fairly small part in David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago. If anyone here has seen the film he is the guy who politically disagrees with Zhivago during the sequences taking place in WWI and he says about Zhivago, “God rot good men.” His voice in that film sounds very ordinary in comparison to Burke’s voice which does sound similar to Mercedes in raspy timbre. Maybe because MacGowran was sick, but Friedkin and co. were really lucky that they had completed everything with MacGowran while they were still working on the film.
