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“where as something in The Shinging probably gives them the pee-doodles just thinking about it. :)”
The Grady sisters give me nightmares. I can't even look at them, I have to lower my eyes whenever they appear on screen! It's so unsettling! I love Kubrick's The Shining, it is a work of art imo.Â
Did Blatty intentionally influence Burstyn (directly and via Friedkin) to mimic MacLaine?”
I think I read something about this on Shirley's book, Dance While You Can! I'm going to read that Chapter again and let you know!
I wasn't trying to be hard on Ellen but she isn't Shirley MacLaine. The role of Chris was written especially for Shirley, I wish she had played her so much.
LOl, Father! The Sims program can be explicit if you download non-barbie skins!
I haven't read that sentence before! Needs to be pondered very deeply!
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“Perhaps you can do a Sims with Shirley in the doctor's office using that line or just add the voiceover in that actual scene …”Â
That's a good idea, thank you!!
ugotugotugotwhatiwant said:
I’m not so sure. I reread much of the novel recently, and Chris’s potty mouth seemed about the same as in the film. The idea that Regan picked up the language from Burke is Chris’s thought, ironically overlooking her own use of profanities. The reader, I think, is expected to pick up on this parental filtering. In fact, there are scenes in the novel where her language is worse than in the film, such as the scene where she confronts Sharon and the Engstroms about the crucifix. In the film, when they deny putting it in Regan’s room, Chris is just mute and stupefied. In the novel, she loses it (“That f***ing cross didn’t walk up there!”).
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 Oh, please, don’t even compare Chris of the novel to Chris of the film. As you probably know, she was based on a young Shirley MacLaine, and in the novel she’s a 32 year old, playful, goofy, charming, vibrant, sensitive young woman who doesn’t shout at telephone operators like a crazy person. Chris’ potty mouth certainly doesn’t seem about the same as in the film in Chapter 1 of the novel, and , yes, it is suggested that Regan picked up the bad language from Burke. Remember that Burke came over to Chris’ house all the time, there’s a scene in the first chapter in which Burke shouts ‘f*ck, cunting mind!’ and Chris tells him to hold it down because Regan’s in the basement and could hear him.
“In the film, when they deny putting it in Regan’s room, Chris is just mute and stupefied. In the novel, she loses it (“That f***ing cross didn’t walk up there!”).”
 Come on… at that point we can understand why she’d act like that. The thing is that Ellen’s portrayal of Chris starts off being agressive/ temperamental and remains like that throughout the movie. We don’t really get a chance to see more of her kind side like we can in the novel. They’re just similar in the sense that they’re both strong women.
In the novel it's suggested that Regan picked up the bad language from Burke.
Shirley as Chris of the novel didn't shout at the telephone operator like that. Ellen Burstyn portrays her with such a temperamental, agressive nature.
I think those stills are from the documentary, 'Movies that Shook the World'.
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In the novel, that scene ends with Regan going downstairs to the basement and she remains there until time for bed. We don't know what she's doing there, probably playing with the ouija board. That's what I always thought and it's how I ended the scene in Sims 2.
I really don't know why the sneaker was deleted along with Chris' dialogue, 'I've been on this f*cking line for twenty minutes!' but either way the cut from that scene to the next comes to quickly.
“look at that chest on Chris! Wowza!”
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Oh my gosh, Fatherb! LOL! I should have dressed her in different clothes.
Father Bowdern said:
Sof, good information about the novel. Again, Blatty's thoughtful use of prose in making us guess or either direct each reader in to different directions about just what's happening. It's the process that Blatty makes so interesting.
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I love how Blatty shows us the characters feelings instead of telling us. Do you know what I mean?
“Interesting … your thoughts? Did Regan truly feel this way? Did the demon use Regan's beliefs as the catalyst for the murder?”
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Yes I believe so! Regan of the novel seems to feel resentment towards Dennings, Blatty shows us that in the tuck into bed passage when she sullenly states that Chris is going to marry him. She's neither smiling nor giggling there like Linda is in the movie.
I don't how to answer to “Was Regan even conscious during the murder” she was heavily sedated, so, hmm… we could ask that to bastasch8647 on imdb. He writes such interesting & intellectual texts of The Exorcist! You'd love to read them!
