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No, granny, Blatty didn’t mention that possibility. Regan took the book upstairs with her on the day she had an EEG performed (arteriogram in the movie) and Willie found it under her bed while they were away in the Barringer clinic. Supposedly Regan read the book prior to the onset of her “illness”.
In the novel, Burke was reading the witchcraft book while he was in Regan’s bedroom. He had a habit of shredding his scripts, and when Chris reads the book she sees that a narrow strip had been surgically shaved from along its edge, in the manner of Dennings. That’s when she realizes he went up there. If Regan had dragged him to her room, he wouldn’t have had the time to read the book. The reason he went up there was because he heard noises and moans coming from it – according to the novel.
“where she violently shoves his face into her private area which is bloodied”
Her private area wasn’t bloodied at that time. It was only weeks later when she stabbed/masturbated herself with the crucifix.
Oh that is a transcript, not the original script. 🙁
“later, I was able to look at the book and read it. I wonder if they sell it on Ebay?”
I bought all of my Exorcist books on Ebay. There are so many there for sale. 🙂
What you mean by the exorcist mini-series script? Blatty’s book ‘From novel to Film’ includes the first draft screenplay that if filmed the movie would have a running time of 4 hours. Is that what you were referring to?“In saying that, Blatty is a far more interesting author than Levin…”
To me, Blatty is the best writer in the world, along with Frank De Felitta. :o)
Hi Benocles_Czar, I still see similarities between the movie, Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist novel, particularly the witchcraft book that has chapters about Black Mass rituals.
A funny connection is that RB’s novel was published in 1967, the movie was released in 1968 and Blatty started writing The Exorcist in 1969 lol.Cappy this was what Justy said:
Ju:i have to do it when i get time to rip and convert it and then upload the big file cap has to give me site info to upload to😉
Hi cappy, Justy has received the DVD and now it’s up to him or caps to upload it on the site. I don’t know. 🙂
“Did Blatty know who the boy was?”
Oh yes he knew. He mentioned it in the book, From Novel To Film:
“It is also a fact that I have read the diary; that I have long known the name of the boy and where he lives…”Blatty wrote about another case that I really think inspired The Exorcist: A true account of a 23 day exorcism in Earling, Iowa in 1928. The book was published in 1935 with the name ‘Begone Satan’ written by Rev Carl Vogl. The victim, a forty year old woman ‘spoke in and understood languages she had no prior knowledge of. She displayed supernatural strength, used horrible, foul language, etc.
Theresa Wegerer, one of the witnesses: “I can truthfully say, that the facts mentioned in Begone Satan are correct. Some of the scenes were even more frightful than described in the booklet… I will never forget the horrible scenes, vile, filthy, and dirty, as long as I live.
Blatty: “It was stated that the victim, would repeatedly and forcefully fly up from her bed as if hurled like a dart, head first, at a point above the bedroom door, where she would hang suspended by her forehead.”Oh, granny, I thought you knew about these cases. :o)
“I’ve been reading about the story that the Exorcist is based on.”
There were other cases of paranormal events that Blatty researched. He mentioned a few in the book, Exorcist From Novel to Film:
Aldous Huxley’s Devils of Loudun (1952) People say that Blatty got a lot of his material for The Exorcist from Huxley’s book, including the blaspheming, lewdness and sexual proffering;
The Three Faces of Eve, a true case authored by psychiatrists Corbett H.Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley. (1957) Apparently the woman suffered from multiple personality disorder. Her illness then disappeared in response to treatment based upon a certain diagnosis of the problem, that depended on the interaction within equations of concepts like “mindâ€, “personality†and “hysteriaâ€;
(The psychiatrist of The Exorcist novel talks about the same 🙂 )Another case involved a 15-year-old girl. She manifested three distinct personalities, one of them a chatty and eloquent old man who spoke high German, a dialect completely unknown to the girl. She demonstrated telepathic abilities and accelerated intelligence, all of which phenomena were witnessed by the psychiatrist Carl Jung, who found in them no possibility of fraud. (really similar to Regan of the novel)
