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Good find, Ratboy. I really need to watch the film again. It’s the only one in the The Exorcist series that I like. However, the Granny crawling on the ceiling should have been ditched, but that’s probably a little of Blatty’s old slapstick comedy writing coming out of him! 🙂
Rat, not sure I remember the tape and EIII: Legion being connected to the original. I do know for EVERY Exorcist follow-up film, they use either a visual or audio link … just as did they with the prequel like this one here.
Thanks, Cap. I’m surprised that Ishtar, Heaven’s Gate, and Water World didn’t make the list. I’m guessing they didn’t do a date adjusted cost analysis.
Cap, makes better sense for a non-techy that’s learning. You’re right on my misunderstanding of the “blog” terminology, I believe (see below).
I’m seeing this as a “drill down” in this order:
Website: http://www.captainhowdy.com
Page (or Link?): Discussion Forum
Blogs (Headings): Forum Index
Blog (Blog): FORUM MEMBERS MUST READ!!
Posting: What I’m doing now.Let me know if that’s even more correct. Maybe I will get this with your help!
Fr. Bowdern
Cap, I’m showing my absolute stupidity on how website blogs work in a public forum. However, I’m still a little lost on the Discussion Forum part. So, here’s what I “think” this means in a non-techy way:
1. Current postings (blog entries), including all links, photos, etc. under the subheadings within a posting in the Discussion Forum section will (after December 8th, 2008) become a separate link; i.e., “Old Posts” or “Whatever the Cap Names it.” This basically means the newly named “old Discussion Forum” will become a link for review or reference only. All postings as mentioned above will not be migrated into the “new Discussion Forum.”
2. A new (and thus empty on December 8, 2008) Discussion Forum will be added to this site utilizing the new software for blogging. This will actually become the “blog central” as we have now under the heading “Discussion Forums.” This new Discussion Forum will be clean slate in pristine condition.
Sorry to be this confused, but I think someone (better than I) can explain this in a “Website Blogs for Dummies” fashion. However, I’m not going to “bash” myself for not knowing because I’ve been successful at figuring how to post a link with a photo on this website and making my own animated avatar! 🙂
Welcome JohnnyAlucard2009!
I’m jealous that you were allowed to do your dissertation on this film! I would love to read it. Do you think you could post it here or perhaps include a link? I think everyone here would like to read your dissertation as well.
I agree about the recording and why the word “Merrin,” in a singing fashion, was never expounded on.
We knew who Merrin was from the beginning and that word is actually a clincher for the audience to make a connection about the fact that Regan is truly possessed. Regan never knew, by any measure, who Merrin is. It’s never mentioned in the novel, script, or screenplay.
In fact, the scene in which Rev. Tom, President of University, is discussing the exorcism with Bishop Michael, there is a brief mention that Merrin just returned from “a dig near Nineveh.” Therefore, with Merrin being northern Iraq on an archeological dig, Merrin would not be known to everyone in that particular Catholic parish. When the Bishop has to ask about an exorcist, we know Merrin is a humble man. Merrin is truly an unknown figure to Karras (and especially Regan).
I think this is a just major clue that Blatty reveals with great undertone to make us think or connect the dots for ourselves while Karras is in the blind spot. I see this as a way in which scenes have been written where the reader/viewer is aware that the killer is hidden behind the door with an ax as the victim enters the room. 🙂
The Exorcist II: The Heretic went through so many changes that John Boorman didn’t know whether to scratch his watch or wind his butt. Follow ups to the infamous original have all been miserable financial failures. The premise of The Exorcist II: The Heretic did piss a lot of folks off because it was a ripoff of the work that Friedkin and Blatty created. The four-year follow-up film was just plain stupid and had absolutely no relation to its original. It was just a money game much like all the Jaws follow up films.
I was fortunate enough to watch it on cable. Blair’s tap dancing and overacting was a dreadful centerpiece of that film. To put icing on the cake is the stupid blinking light hypnosis contraption made of tin foil and two light bulbs. Blair and Fletcher looked like they were ready for the electric chair with those cheap devices strapped to their heads. At one point, I was praying the locust swarm would eat the cast.
WB, and now Morgan Creek, have been cashing in on the first film since its debut … without luck. However, The Exorcist II: The Heretic is not a top ten flop in terms of financial losses:
These are!
Maybe I misinterpreted your comment:
“The sounds at the end of that second one sound like Humpback Whale song. The first one is a screensaver, not a video!”
They’re youtube videos do have whale sounds in one nor a screensaver in the other. Oh, well, I smoked a lot of reefer when I made those links … I could have put a link in there for Sesame Street for all I know! 🙂
Cap,
I do clearly remember your original post when I wrote my last response above. However, as this blog expanded, I had a little hope that there was some type of “migration system” that would help because I’ve seen it done before on others sites (and, no, I have no idea how since you’ve educated me here on the cons). I know you’ll explore the possibilities. I just keep thinking of how much folks have posted in their blogs with video, sound, and pictures, etc., and those are the pieces that would be important to incorporate into one new site.
Perhaps we could have a place “store” our stuff under one of the convenient subheadings? You can play judge and jury as to whether they are pulled. (For example, Jason’s “wire catch” in the scene with Regan floating above the bed.)
Thanks and keep it up!
Fr. Bowdern
demondan,
You might mean the pic in the middle on the bottom row located here. it’s an old, old edition if I can dig it up, I’ll scan some pics (when I ever get time!).
