Re: Fan Cut Regrets

Sounds like you know what you’re doing and what works, Hatter. I admire how you’ve tried each of these and other things but saw that they just didn’t fit with everything else. Trial and error, in this case, is a very good thing. 🙂 By the way, I think the reason #3 really failss is: Pazuzu , a devil or demon, wearing formal attire and posing in a picture, he’s not in his supernatural, spiritual element. Plus, Friedkin and Blatty’s creation — “Captain Howdy” — to look as he does, but appearing in that wedding picture as you’d attempted, he’s neither handsome nor are his clothes or skin red in color, and his pitchfork is missing. In short, if you give Pazuzu aka. Captain Howdy a nice suit, its makes him appear the old, tired, cartooned cliche of the red-sporting, pitchforked “devil [who] made me do it.” Pazuzu, whether the Devil Himself or just a demon doing the devil’s bidding, if we are to accept him as REAL within the reality and confines of Blatty’s story — to which Dominion is a prelude to, and is accordinly set in the same universe/reality, years earlier — he doesn’t MAKE anybody do anything. He pokes and prods humanity into fear and despair to fall into temptations of seeking bad or good things independent of God’s will or opinion.

Thus, Pazuzu should be depicted as the real deal — Satan Himself, or “up there” (DOWN there?), and not a cartoon fantasy character. Certainly not in this realistic portrayal of good versus evil. In real life, that’s up for friendly debate, though, I suppose. 🙂

M.I.K.E.