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Maybe you are right Captain… maybe it would become too obvious… I think the original Exorcist works so well because it is so far away from every horror clichés… no thunders, many horror scenes are in the sunlight and not in the dark…
I agree with most you have already written. Maybe the only way to make an interesting remake would be to add another perspective… The Exorcist never shows the horror from Regan’s point of view (actually the novel doesn’t do it either)… But I really think it would be even more terryfying to see the poor Regan hearing the noises for the first time and so on…
I don’t know if you have already wrote about it, but here there is a very funny link where you can order your exorcist bed…
http://www.scarefactory.com/catalog/furniture1.htmquote lunuso:”Hmmm then she probably didn’t go to L.A or a hotel because people would see that there was something very wrong with Regan and it would get around.”
Yes, this could be possible. But I think in a real life Chris woul have brought Regan somewhere else… I don’t know, in the countryside or a farm with horses since Regan liked them so much… Just to help her recovery… There is no way she would stay in the house of horror for so long with the risk that Regan could remember something and be totally scared…
I really would like to know what Blatty thinks about the “six weeks issue”…
Today I read again the epilogue. Without any doubt Regan and Chris staied in Washington for six weeks and I suppose mostly in the house since Dyer went to visit them very often. if they were living somewhere else Blatty would have specified it. Probably Regan went to the hospital for one or two weeks and then she kept living one month in the house of horror, sleeping with her mother…
Mmmmmmh… Excuse but this part is more unbelievable than the spinning head…You make everything just too simple… you forget Regan has killed one man there, and two others have died… many strange phenomena have happened… I think Chris, in a real life, would have moved somewhere else in order to protect her daughter from memories…
I mean… people couldn’t sleep for months looking at this movie and you tell me it would be normal to sleep there???mmmh… no, I don’t agree… what happened in that house was simply too horrible…
it doesn’t work, with or without carpenter… no wait… if the carpenter was a super sexy carpenter maybe I could unterstand why Chris wanted to stay… ahhahhhhhhahhaahbesides… couldn’t she attend the funerals while living in a luxus hotel?
And I really don’t think the funeral were after six week!She doesn’t explicit says it but she clearly admits she believes in the Devil existence… It is a pity I don’t have the English version of the book… I prefer not to try an English translation that differs from the original text. But just look at it…
Could you please write if it is possible the piece where Blatty entertains the thought that Regan may have suffered from mental illness at the end?
But what you say is totally irrelevant for what I am trying to say. It doesn’t really matter if Regan was really possessed and if Chris believes in God or the Devil… The fact is: 3 people have died there and many horrible things have happened in that room… So enough to wish moving away as soon as possible instead living there for 6 weeks…
Or do you mean they were all crazy and they only imagined everything?lunuso: “When did I ever imply this? What I meant was that right until the end, readers can be doubtful. It was Blatty’s intention to lead the reader toward a suspension of disbelief. That’s why he never stated Regan was really possessed”
Mmmmh, I read the book again just last week and I don’t get at all at this intentional suspension of disbelief, sorry…
mmmmhhh, And where is written that Regan went only that day in her room? You suppose it is like this, but it is not written in the book…
Besides Chris knows Regan can’t remember anything… isn’t it inappropriate to let her go in the room with the risk she could remember the horror?
mmmmh… You just answered not with your own words but with other people thoughts… this is totally uninteresting… For sure Blatty put both possible interpretations in the book especially in the middle of the story… I never denied this… but maybe I understood you wrongly before because you were talking about the end, that’s why I asked you where Blatty was clearly doing it… (you said: At the end of the book, Blatty still entertains the thought that Regan may have suffered from mental illness and Karras from a mental breakdown). Or do you mean Kindermann’s speculations at the end?
Because this is something else…Does a carpenter need six weeks to repair a window? He needs one day!
Maybe the Italian translation of the book is wrong, but it says: it was now six weeks since the death of the two priests.
So it is not my fault…
Concerning the carpenter: you are talking about something that it doesn’t belong to the book or the film. It was written on the first draft of a screenplay… But this at least would clarify that Blatty’s didn’t want Regan living in her room.quote lunuso: “I think that atheists wouldn’t be afraid to continue to live there.”
I don’t agree… horror is horror, it doesn’t matter weather you believe or not in God or the Devil… Chris was terrified while looking at her daughter spinning her head and so on… so I don’t think she couldn’t be scared and horrified only because she was not a believer. I am a atheist too, but I probably wouldn’t have stepped foot in that house…But it doesn’t really matter if Chris imagined the spinning head… she was terrified and not only by it… I made only an example…
You can’t say that Chris was only hanging around saying: “I am not scared at all, I am an atheist! I don’t believe my daughter is possessed!” Indeed she really believed Regan was possessed, at least at the end.Never believe an atheist… LOL
