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‘DEMONS FIVE’, 5000+ words. Excellent! I’ll get on it.
Thanks! Now then, as a participant I intend to take this project with the utmost seriousness, and therefore would appreciate some kind of guarentee that my piece will make the cut — barring, of course, that I should waste everyone’s time and turn in a) nothing, b) something unfinished, not grammar/spell-checked, or, something resembling “not the assignment”.
So, given that I intend to give this 200%, what kind of guarentee might you offer me and my colleagues involved here? I appreciate your offer to pay us, but just as importantly, well, can we have your word on this?
I’m sorry, I’ve been burned before, and it’s never fun, please understand. Thanks, Ben. 🙂
Respectfully,
M.I.K.E.
Ben,
In case you haven’t read my e-mail I just sent you…
What’s the page count you’re looking for for submissions? I believe I can certainly make this deadline! And, if I may, I’ll be writing on either ‘Elsewhere’ or ‘Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing’; haven’t decided which.
Thanks!
M.I.K.E.
Ben, I offer my encouragement for you and all involved on this project there on the main page (as a comment). But I would also like to request coverage of Blatty’s Elsewhere short story, in case it’s in fact a different beast than Neverwhere.
Thank you, good luck, and God bless.
M.I.K.E.
Valid points, all. Thank you.
And now my new thoughts…
The Exorcist series IS a saga; that is, the Friedkin, Blatty and Schrader entries. Despite the studio-sanctioned flaws and peculularities of the GOOD sequel and GOOD prequel, this trilogy (in my opinion) still tells a satisfying saga of good versus evil, what Blatty and Friedkin wanted all along (to show evil. And good.)
Unofficially the saga is really just the Friedkin original and Schrader prequel; a duo of films. They compliment one another more than even Legion does the 1973 film. Legion is the wildcard; it can be included, but isn’t missed too much; Dominion has more heart, even without Jason Miller or another “original” back in a role. Heart = care for the characters.
I guess no sequel is needed, and the fewer the better. But it’s too late; we have sequels. And all in all, the cream rises to the top, the drek drops to the bottom (with Legion left somewhere in between, in limbo).
Incidentally, it seems to me that Saw’s the Jigsaw studied at the same Career Killer school as Legion’s Gemini. The two are masters of… evil. Fine performances from Tobin Bell and Brad Dourif. Too bad Dourif couldn’t return for another two Exorcist sequels.
So ends my ramblings musings and opinions *. Feel free to comment. 🙂
M.I.K.E.
* Future edits are not out of the question. I typed this quite hastily, And the 24 hours has gone on for two many days; that is, this whole week has been one long day… without sleep!
Maybe the quality’s bad, but the way the bad effects of Dominion SERVE that story, this fan cut could also be SERVED with such scenes of exposition. Follow? 🙂
So, all in all, the fan cut would tell a better story, the goal of any film.
M.I.K.E.
Thank you for sharing those, Hatter. 🙂
Interestingly, they’ve prevented pirating of The Heretic DVD (as well as the “prequels” DVD), and so perhaps we should credit them for a public service (keeping THe Heretic and The Beginning from spreading any further!). 😛
M.I.K.E.
Hatter,
Please do try to include the “expanded ending”; I mean, if I/we can forgive bad computer effects elsewhere in the film, then given the story-value such a scene has for an Exorcist prequel film, it’s a keeper. I’m not particularly in love with the scene on its own and with the bad greenscrene effect, but I believe it would ADD to this fan cut of yours. I really do. 🙂
Incidentally, so would each of the 6 deleted scenes found on the DVD, so PLEASE see what you can do.
The more “new footage”, the better. The more, the merrier!
M.I.K.E.
Hatter, fantastic work on those first 6 minutes! I anxiously await the final product.
And I thank you for wanting to include the walk-to-Vatican scene from E:TB. I think it’s entirely appropriate. Thank you.
Incidentally, wouldn’t it be neat (cool) if Morgan Creek got a hold of a copy of your work here and decided to put out a similar “proper” cut of their own (hopefullly with Schrader’s involvement)? That may never happen, so I’m thankful you’re doing what you can here, Hat.
I have every confidence in you and this undertaking of yours.
M.I.K.E.
A still or several frames exist in the original then-still-titled EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING trailer found on copies of the Aussie version of the Harlin film’s DVD.
M.I.K.E.
Blatty’s version is great, though it deviates and frequently eliminates passages and/or wording, basically reinterpreting parts of the book; small parts, but, well, I guess he has that right. My idea of an audio book is having the complete, unchanged text being read.
Who else feels somewhat cheated by Blatty’s revision (for the audio book) of his famed novel?
M.I.K.E.
Ah, but you refer to the original Exorcist remake — the “intellectual one” where Mickey Mouse portrays Merrin.
The pic I provided, however, is for the film Disney “REALLY” wanted to make. Mickey Mouse returns for this one, only this time as the Captain Howdy visage.
They’ll be talking about these two films for years in film schools.
Sounds a lot like that PREQUELS debacle, no? 😛
M.I.K.E.
It does indeed look good. The only thing that made me wonder — bear in mind, I’ve not seen the Schrader version is months now — was: are his leg and arm that return to being deformed the correct ones?
Just looking out. 🙂
M.I.K.E.
Speaking of disappearing Dominion characters… 🙂
Hatter,
Regarding the schoolhouse murder sequence, given your great editing work HERE with this post-exorcism, I think it would be cool, nice of you, and quite easy to copy the image of the killed Jomo (the murderer of the kids) against the wall and paste it where in the same location during the same scene where he inexplicably VANISHES. Take a look — he vanishes. It hurts the scene. 😐 But maybe you can fix this. 😛 Please. 🙂
M.I.K.E.
