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I tried to authenticate my account using my cell phone number but it won't work. Could it be because I live in Portugal?
I'll try to contact the administrators, thanks.
 I’ve read some of your texts on imdb about this.
BTW, why is it that The Exorcist imdb message board is so much more crowded than this discussion forum?
When I try to authenticate my account on there it doesn't work.
Thanks for the interview!
“In the movie version, Father Merrin plays a much larger role than he does in the book, even coming down to the movie poster with Merrin under the streetlamp. How did this come about?
I don’t agree with you. It just seems so because so much of Karras is missing. “
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He must’ve read the wrong book! lol, there’s more about Merrin in the novel.
The famous shot of him under the streetlamp happens in the novel too!
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The head spinning in the novel was probably a vision that Chris and Karras had.
“My insistence that it's Karl at the window “for sure” was based on forgetting a point of information that you just now supplied, i.e.: “
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Uh-uh. I pointed out on my first post that Kinderman questioned Chris about having seen Regan at the window. You must have missed that!
Well, anyways, I agree with practically everything you write about The Exorcist and love to read your texts. It was just this particular subject that I couldn't agree with you.
“EDIT: (We know it's Karl because Karl is the only character that Blatty consistently describes as “lithe”: he introduces Karl as “catting in lithe through a door off the pantry” … and the silhouette Kinderman sees is also “lithe”.) “
I'm not understanding you, granville. You know that Regan is described as being lithe as well. Just because Karl was described as “catting in lithe through a door off the pantry” in that first introduction of him you assume he's the lithe figure at the window? It's the only time that Blatty mentioned the word “lithe” to describe something that Karl was doing anyway! Regan is also quick and lithe!
Seriously I find it hard to believe your insistence that it is Karl at the window for sure. Clearly Blatty's intention was to leave the reader in doubt about it. You can believe whatever you want just don't expect me to agree with you on this.
“Blatty does not impute an interpretation to Kinderman, i.e., him thinking, “That must be Regan”
Yes he does. Kinderman tells Chris in his second visit that he thought he saw Regan at the window, not Karl. Also, a lithe figure, to me means that it's a physical description of the person's body. In the 40th anniversary edition of the novel the phrasing of that excerpt changed a bit and it actually sounds as if Kinderman sees something unhuman at the window. You can interpret it in any way you want, that's why the figure in the movie is Regan, Friedkin interpreted it like that. The idea of it being Karl never crossed my mind so I'm sorry to say that it isn't fair of you to state that for a fact. Perhaps we should ask Blatty about it? :)Â
That's true, Blatty also described him as being lithe.. hmm..
Still, it makes more sense to me that it is Regan at the window rather than Karl. Would Kinderman really mistake a child for a grown, thickly muscled man?Â
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I always thought that lithe meant thin so I never for second believed it was Karl at the window. I guess this is open for interpretation then. You just can’t be sure either whether or not it is Karl. 😉 After all, Regan is lithe too.Â
Yeah, Emily Yetter is about 22 years old.. Wish they could cast someone like this little girl to play Regan-Â
Her name is Molly Harmon and she was in the movie The Woman in Black.
The actress dubbing Ellen Burstyn sounds like Louise Fletcher! But when do we hear Friedkin's dubbing?? I didn't catch it.
Well, yes, I’d love it if Friedkin and Blatty could work together again but I'd also love to see someone else's vision of the novel besides their own. I don't know… Friedkin’s directing style is usually to cut scenes to scenes so quickly and my wish is to see extended scenes about normal Regan. That's probably not going to happen anyway no matter who is cast to direct.
