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I wouldn’t say that he’s bad-mouthing the film, but rather the circumstances leading up to it. There’s a bit more to this story than there appears.
RE: Morning and Kinderman.
Both Scott and Williamson were indeed on set together, as the image suggestsd.
Best to you on your book, Mike.
And SC has a very good point about the dream sequence in Schrader’s film.
Del Toro claims that the greatest inspiration on his filmic work was Blatty’s THE NINTH CONFIGURATION, which Blatty takes great pride in.
I heard Blatty’s EVP recodings. Very interesting stuff. I made one a few years back and haven’t been able to explain it away.
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I could have the chance to direct it, and approach the material from a completely unique direction that made it a companion to the original with a flavor all its own, while being as socially relevant to today’s climate as Friedkin’s film was to the world of 1973/4.
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Cold day in Hell.
I would argue against Friedkin and Blatty offering “straightforward” dream sequences. Both are wonderfully surreal, with multiple layers. The former paints a stark and disturbing fever dream plagued by guilt, loss and abandonment, intercut with fleeting, disconnected images; the latter turns a metaphor into a metaphor.
De Toro produced THE ORPHANAGE, which is a Spanish-speaking film that has yet to be released in the US. However, Blatty, being a member of the Academy, received a screener for Oscar purposes. Apparently, the film contains a direct hommage to NINTH CONFIGURATION, specifically how ORPHANAGE ends. i won’t spoil it for you, but it’s pretty clear where the inspiration came from.
