[Steve Dunlap]

It's in the works, darlin'. 🙂

I want to redo the voices though.  I think I can do better.  (I'm a little shot right now from having sang a double shift last Saturday…imagine singing for 13 sets…each set being 45 minutes long.) 🙂

[Steve Dunlap]

Sofia said:

Wow… and do you think you could send me that bed shaking animation in a file so I can put it on the sims downloads folder??

If only I understood iClone…

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That probably goes into stuff I still don't understand about iClone animation.

I could send character animations as a file….but I don't know about prop animations as a file.

[Steve Dunlap]

An interesting conundrum you bring up, Fr. Bowden.

On the one hand, since it is in Rags' handwriting, one could assume that it was Regan, managing to get a message out while Pazzuzu was asleep.  (Apparently even demons have to rest.)

Or, Pazzuzu was using his wiles to draw out Merrin.

[Steve Dunlap]

I'm not sure, hammer.

I would think, if anything, if it was a deliberate error during filmmaking, it was probably just to show the audience (many of whom probably did not even own a reel-to-reel recorder back then) that Karras was indeed recording. 🙂

[Steve Dunlap]

Oh, yes, I can make the bed shake with iClone. :)  It's just a matter of keyframing, and timing. 🙂

[Steve Dunlap]

On some models, yes, it was necessary to push record and play together.  But in the movie (which for that particular animation, I was influenced by), Karras only pushed the “record” button.  So that's what I went with. 🙂

[Steve Dunlap]

Sofia said:

“My proudest moments in this video were animating the tape recorder (another one of the props I had to build for the video)”

Absolutely! I couldn't believe when I saw that tape recorder! I yelled, ''how did he do it??!'' 🙂

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LOL!   Thanks. 🙂
 

That's one thing I love about iClone.  Sometimes, ya' just gotta build props.  There is a way to make the props into what are called “iProps” where they can actually perform animations on command, but I have to figure it out….so in the meantime, I just do it the old fashioned way…I keyframe it. 🙂

[Steve Dunlap]

pacific707 said:

I've always thought that the deepest scene for me in the film was during the time between the attempts at exorcsicm when Karras was visited by apparitions of his dead mother in Regan's bed.  It wasn't necessarily his dead mother appearing before him, it was the fact that you could hear Regan gasping for breath, as if she were just on the “other” side, very close to being herself until she utters “Why, Dimmy?”  Karras couldn't give her any medication, as he told Merrin, “She'll go into a coma.”  That scene has always tugged at my heartstrings and I've always felt that Regan was right there, so close yet under such intense possession that there just wasn't any way to reach her and pull her through her awful experience.

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Nicely put. 🙂

[Steve Dunlap]

Thank you, hammer.

 

I plan to do the spiderwalk scene, but unlike my previous effort, I will probably forgo dialogue on that scene, and just cut to the chase….but ya' never know. 🙂

[Steve Dunlap]

First, my most sincere condolences on your loss, hammer.  Losing a parent is one of the hardest things to endure.   As a kid, and even as an adult, somehow we always have some sense of invincibility and immortality when it comes to our mothers and fathers…and when the time comes to pass, it hits us harder than we can possibly imagine.  Having lost my mom some time back, I hope that you find your peace soon.

 

Thank you for the kind words, hammer. :) 

LOL!  I don't know that I did a better job than Linda.  Although I took as much direction as I could from the novel, I did do a couple of minor embellishments, but nothing too far from the path. :)  It was fun doing the voice acting….but I confess, I could not quite cop Jason Miller's New York accent for Fr. Karras, so I just went with my natural speaking voice.   As for the demon, I naturally lowered my voice, and made it gravelly…but I still don't think I did justice to the superb job as performed by Mercedes McCambridge. 🙂

My proudest moments in this video were animating the tape recorder (another one of the props I had to build for the video), and having Karras make the holy cross pattern when sprinkling Regan/the demon with holy water.

[Steve Dunlap]

LOL!!! Indeed, my friend. 🙂

[Steve Dunlap]

Most kind, Ken, thank you. 🙂

BTW, is that you “ChevKen” on YouTube?  If so, I dig your taste in music, my friend. 🙂

[Steve Dunlap]

As a fanfic writer myself, I know that sometimes you can look at your own work, and go “wow….how do I top that?”

It seemed that with “The Exorcist” he pulled out all the stops in that story….and he may have felt the same way as I stated above.

But, only Mr. Blatty knows for sure. 🙂

[Steve Dunlap]

Father Bowdern said:

That’s good thinking about why Regan suppressed the memories. In that case, Steve, you've represented a form of what Freud termed, infantile amnesia (although accelerated given Regan’s age). There are many other theories about cognitive stages yet I tend to disbelieve much of what Freud surmised, despite being the “father of psychiatry.”

Sofia, is there any mention in the novel that closes the gap on the subject? The film tries to wrap it up in a nice little bundle with Chris’s statement about Regan not remembering any of it. Again, if we forget about the sequels, it does keep some questions going.

Also, my favorite scene in the film is the one with Chris and Lt. Kinderman at the dining room table. The acting is superior; Friedkin’s direction is incredible; and Blatty’s script is an elegant exchange of lines with a nonchalant one-two punch of shocking news. The scene’s pacing along with a sense of suffocation from the cameras closing in on Chris and Lt. Kinderman are a true cinematic treat.

Father Bowdern

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Thank you, Father Bowdern. 🙂

I've always found that children are much more resilient than people give them credit for.  I think, because of their young age, they're able (whether consciously or subconsciously) to forget/repress a lot of things that could ordinarilly scar them for life.   I'm not saying all children can, but some absolutely can….so it kinda makes sense for the purposes of fiction that Regan could.   Besides, as I recall, I don't think Mr. Blatty was interested in doing a direct sequel regarding Regan and Chris, so that little “she doesn't remember any of it” is a nice way to cinch off that possibility…although I have had some ideas going in my head for a few days now that  might inspire me to do a direct fan-fic sequel…and hopefully something that does the original justice…not a travesty like The Heretic. 🙂

[Steve Dunlap]

Actually, I think you put it better than I did, Sofia. 🙂

 

As I understand it, things can be so horrific for someone though, that part of the mind's natural defense is to supress that memory.  However, the memory is still there…just buried deep down.   Usually, the things that might bring that memory back to the surface are dreams (in which the dreamer will likely simply ask: “Why am I having these dreams?”) or witnessing a similar event which might bring such memories back, unbidden.

 

I'm no psychologist or psychiatrist, but these are my understandings….and assumptions. 🙂

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