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hammer horror said:
Thanks Sofia…. do you know when this scene should have come in the movie?
According to the order of events in the novel, it’s supposed to follow the scene when Regan takes a cookie from a jar and runs off with it.
Oh, Ju, thanks for writing the dialogues!
Hi, carlamae, welcome. 🙂 Did you really watch The Exorcist with binoculars on your head? Lollol omg..
hammer horror said:
Are there other scenes that could be included? As far as I know we have: Washington, spiderwalk 2, Kinderman-Chris, Chris-Regan (read above) …
There’s also the ‘funny noises/missing dress’ scene. The stills prove that it was filmed. In the novel, Regan is standing in the middle of her bedroom silently staring up at the ceiling:
“What are ya doin?” Chris asked her, hunting for the dress. It was a pale- blue cotton. She had bought it the week before, and remembered hanging it in the closet.
“Funny noises,” said Regan. “it has stopped now.”
“I know. We’ve got friends.”
Regan looked at her. “Huh?”
“Squirrels, honey. Squirrels in the attic.” Her daughter was squeamish and terrified of rats. Even mice upset her.
The hunt for the dress proved fruitless.
“See, Mom, it’s not there.”
“Yes, I see. Maybe Willie picked it up with the cleaning.”
“It’s gone, Mom!”
“Yeah, well, put on the navy. It’s pretty.”
It’s in Chris’ bedroom, Ceru. 🙂 She let Regan sleep in her bedroom that night. In the novel, she returns Rags to her own room after investigating the attic.
Ju, what is the extended dialogue between Chris and Kinderman?
Sure, Ananta!
Here’s the excerpt of that scene:
Back to the study. The script. Chris read. Halfway through, she saw Regan coming toward her.
“Hi, honey. What’s wrong?”
“There’s these real funny noises, Mom.”
“In your room?”
“It’s like knocking. I can’t go to sleep.”
Where the hell are those traps!
“Honey, sleep in my bedroom and I’ll see what it is.”
Chris led her to the bedroom and tucked her in.
“Can I watch TV for a while ’til I sleep?”
“Where’s your book?”
“I can’t find it. Can I watch?”
“Sure; okay.” Chris tuned in a channel on the bedroom portable. “Loud enough?”
“Yes, Mom.”
“Try to sleep.”
Chris turned out the light and went down the hall. She climbed the narrow, carpeted stairs that led to the attic…”
I actually thought of you right away, Sofia. Something tells me you’re going to be super-impressed with the features on this Blu-ray.
Aww, caps, thanks!! xx. Do you think that the remaining cut scenes will be released, at last??
Trip to Washington,
Funny Noises,
Original sequence before the ‘attic scene’I just made a new clone of Sachi as being Regan, sitting on the chair. That’s my favorite unpublished image!
” can you give insight as to why Father Karras had to take the rap for being the murderer of Burke Dennings
“Readers of the novel fail to pick up on the subtle hints that the killer and desecrator might be Karras. He is a candidate for somnambulism produced by an ‘unconscious rebellion’ against the Church; for not only is he filled with compulsions of guilt but he was refused in his request for a transfer to New York so that he might be close to his mother,who died alone.’ So, he could have expressed his anger by killing Dennings, while in a state of complete somnambulism.
“Her perspectives are often unique, very succinct, plus I enjoy her take on different angles of the novel. (Smooch, Sof!)”
Awww FB, you are a pro, too!
Smooch back at you xxxxWOW! Wow! FB, I don’t have that article! I’ve read bits of that interview on Peter Travers book, but can you please, pleeeeeease scan it for me??
Thank you so much!!Was Elvira’s funeral simulated? How could Karl have kept it a secret from his wife?
He was a religious man, FB. His bedroom was never described in the novel but it was described in the first draft screenplay: it had all these religious statues and a Sacred Heart painting on the wall. In the novel, we find out that he’s religious while the exorcism is being perfomed; he blessed himself and said,’God in Heaven’.
“I agreed on Friedkin’s decisions to leave out certain elements that were in the book: the entire Elvira subplot, the actual exorcism lasting for days..”
I love the Elvira subplot. As Blatty says, it was intended to illustrate Merrin’s belief that out of evil comes good; for Kinderman’s investigation on Dennings’s murder results in Elvira ,heroin addict, at last being hospitalized and on the road to cure.
The exorcism lasted for two days. It actually began on a Friday the 13th! and it ended on Mother’s day.
