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Hi Ben,
Sorry to be so late in responding. Yes! Although I should probably although I think the Australian to U.S. postage will wipe out the $30US charge! 🙂
Fr. Bowdern
No, dsea, I think there are undeniably significant differences between between the sound of a fart and young girl slamming a crucifix into her crotch while swearing, “Let Jesus fuck you!”
I do however believe that X is probably onto something with the breath as the source of the foul smell.
We just need Sofia to clarify … she’s the expert on the novel. The scene really isn’t clear, but we know it indeed gagged Chris when it came at her.
The scene is the one in which Karras has taken the recording he made at the McNeil household of Regan speaking backward after he “sprankle” holy water on her (the demon). Karras then closely listens and studies the difference voices while he is in the language lab at Georgetown U. This is the scene in which he is asking for a professor’s assistance in determining what language it is. The professor states, “It English alright.” Karras responds, “What do you mean it’s English?” The professor turns the tape recorder back on and plays the tape in reverse order and right after he says, “It’s English in reverse. Listen.”
I think I like the “lawn fertilizer sprinkler.” Perhaps we should all get together and create a child’s version of a water sprayer for kids to play around in the front lawn. 🙂
Well, it could have been a SBD fart … you know, Silent-But-Deadly Fart. But, I have a feeling it was more closely related to the smell of skunk shit. 😉
I think howdythere is pointing out how different the scenes for which that each particular scene is so far apart, yet it uses the same shot. There’s really a lighting issue and it doesn’t match when you watch it. I just never noticed it before, so I think it’s cool catch. Perhaps in the HD release, they will do a pan-and-zoom or add another piece of footage in its place or edit it out.
Which leads me to my intention. I am posting a “Bloopers, Whoops, and What???” new post on here. It seems like we’re all kind of mixing it up on several different posts and I think it would be fun to put them altogether; e.g., Justin’s find on the wires during the levitation is the best one found so far unlike my silver spoon reflection … if I have time, I’ll at least collect my own and put them in the “Bloopers …” post.
Yeah. The diary of the real case lists farting and the other things you mention. I’m pretty sure that the sound of fart in The Exorcist would have evoked so much laughter that the scene would be implausible (and that’s not what the two Bill’s were looking for). Can you imagine the scene if you HEAR a fart! 😉
Hey howdy, I did post that trailer in an entry on here (I have no idea where). It was the original theatrical trailer and, quite frankly from what I can remember, Linda’s voice with the sound effects added, did not go over well when audiences heard it in the theater. Friedkin was just brilliant in being dissatisfied with Blair’s voice with the stupid “echoing” sound that the sound guys added. It sucked and he put Mercedes voice in place of Blair’s.
BTW, I read an article years ago where Mercedes said that Friedkin was full of crap about the, “McCambridge came into my mind’s eye …,” when he was talking about “his unique abilities of thinking about her.” In fact, she said Friedkin’s contact with her came only AFTER Executive Producer, Noel Marshall, her friend, suggested it. Friedkin is such a egotist and car salesman 🙂
That sounds more legit Ghetto. I agree that Blatty probably wrote something like that into his novel. After all, he mentions that what Karras is thinking about when he smells Regan’s bedroom. The demon “read his mind” and said something like, “smells like sauerkraut doesn’t it?”
Here’s another one that “gets” me every time I see it. Lt. Kinderman asks for an autograph from Chris. She replied, “Where’s a pen?” while looking directly at the canister of full of pens! (At least Burstyn was observant of her surroundings despite the set decorator’s boo boo!)
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dsea, how many films have we all scene over the years where a fart is the main scene stealer filled with laughter? They would have taken any seriousness out of that scene by that sound alone no matter how they finagled it. 😉
