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Good luck with your new job, Cap, and thanks for this website you run. I look forward to all that lie in store for us.
Incidentally, can we tack on “standard/Region 1 DVD” to this special edition lobbying campaign? I really can’t see myself getting a brand new disc player for years; got too many DVDs now and am satisfied with everything, and most importantly I trust there are many others feeling the same. Just a suggestion. Thanks! 🙂
Cheers!
M.I.K.E.
Good luck with your new job, Cap, and thanks for this website you run. I look forward to all that lie in store for us.
Incidentally, can we tack on “standard/Region 1 DVD” to this special edition lobbying campaign? I really can’t see myself getting a brand new disc player for years; got too many DVDs now and am satisfied with everything, and most importantly I trust there are many others feeling the same. Just a suggestion. Thanks! 🙂
Cheers!
M.I.K.E.
Cap, I have one, as well — what I call original-to-prequel parallel imagery; and not one so obvious as what can be found in every 30 seconds of EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING. As a former student in Art History (minoring in it at University), in particular monuments and mosaics of the Byzantine era, I’m compelled to push this one on you all… 🙂
In the Iraq opening, there’s a short part (5:43 in TVYNS) where Merrin stares off into the distance at what is an archway in a piece of domed architechture; it echoes a certain lost church. I can’t help but think, given the prequel(s) (whichever of the two one prefers), this scene now serves as… retroactive, reverse-forshadowing. With Blatty and Friedkin’s endorsement’s of Dominion, anyway, this archway can now be said to have given this 1973 Iraq-based elderly Father Lankester Merrin pause as he is reminded of that time way back when, in British East Africa, when he first encountered The Devil Himself, while on a dig of a lost Byzantine Church, where such similar archways were abundant, as well as domed ceilings. I present to you the evidence (I’d offered this up before at BloodyNews.com, or at a previous incarnation of CaptainHowdy.com). Anyway, please include this, as well, unless there’s a big objection after people finish reading this speculative post of mine…! 🙂
… DRAT! Unfortunately, I can’t screen capture this for you. My new Mac won’t allow such; one reason why I miss my PC (RIP). But the image — the best single frame, showing not just the archway and dome architecture, but also Merrin’s staring at it after walking up, having noticed it, can be found in THE VERSION YOU’VE NEVER SEEN (TVYNS) at 5:43.
This “archictecture” thing, in my mind, is a fine example at just how much Paul Schrader’s film, Dominion, does in fact tie in with the original film. Heck, so does Harlin’s ‘Beginning’, since they used the exact same Church sets.
Thanks for going to the trouble! 🙂
M.I.K.E.
Ps. Ben, your parallel… I’m a believer! Good one!
Incidentally, after discovering this website, FILM AS ART, I’d had the urge to revisit EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING.
What a travesty, inane, and brutal. Even THE HERETIC I’d watch and never feel I was going through with a prison or death sentence. I really once thought E:TB was bad, but now having been scientifically time-tested, it actually gets WORSE. GOOD NIGHT, it is relentless!!! Boy, what an ordeal.
Just chiming in.
M.I.K.E.
Captain Howdy Says:
06-16-2006 10:42 pm
“Look for details on the main page soon!”Cap, what’s the latest on that? 🙂
M.I.K.E.
Justy, you prefer the novel over the film? 😛
I can see how both book and film are wonderful (each get better and better), but the book being better or preferred? Please explain yourself, my good man. I AM intrigued. 🙂
M.I.K.E.
Ps. Justy, our signed copies of the E:TB novel, THOSE may be worth something! 😉
Good point, but then tell me this — which in your mind is the better of the two:
The 1973 Friedkin film or the 1971 Blatty novel? TRICKY, huh! :p The novel? 😉
In the case the original ‘Exorcist’, for me, it’s a tie… Just as with Dominion here.
Like Piziks says above, to paraphrase, “I can’t pick a favorite”.
M.I.K.E.
He’s right, Pagan.
And if I may offer also just this once… Considering how different the versions are in terms of special features and the specific cuts featured, and how relatively affordable and easy-to-find these DVDs are, being FANS of the series the temptation and curiosity happen to be too great to avoid getting all. Hence, we are fans of the series; “fanatics”, if you like.
Heck, I still have a copy of The Heretic. D’oh — AND The Beginning! Terrible as they are, they’re worth revisiting once in a blue moon, meanwhile collecting dust on the DVD shelf (That makes TWO THINGS it’s good for!). And being too lazy to sell ’em or later rent ’em… and who besides me and other fans would actually have it handy to loan out…? Yeah, I gotta own and keep ’em all. I know, truly bizarre and unthinkable. Yeah, I am sick. But life is nice otherwise, and there are worse, worse addictions out there, so… yeah. Do the math. I just had to. 😮
That said, stalking the anyone responsible for these films is a whole different breed of fan, thank you very much! 😛 I just enjoy the movies and novels, where the eyes, ears and brain have much to be digest and enjoy. And even with The Heretic and The Beginning, where one just has to know where to look. 😉 Yes, SICK. 😀
Cheers an’ respectf’ly,
M.I.K.E.
Ghetto, the 25th version was ENHANCED? I thought it matched this 1997 one to the T (aside from the “old school” WB logo intro), only with special features. 😮
Thanks, Ben.
Incidentally, anybody have or read this…? Ullyses and the Cyclops, a childrens book by Mr. Blatty. Here’s all I know:
http://www.serendipitybooks.com/firsts.html
“166. (Blatty, William P.). ULYSSES AND THE CYCLOPS: A Tale from Homer’s Odyssey by James J. Cullen with William P. Blatty. (Los Angeles): Micro Classics, (1956). First edition of this children’s story by the author of Rosemary’s Baby. Pictorial boards. Illustrated by Kay Vallejo. Scarce. Fine. 150.00”
I’m genuinely intrigued by this. Who knew Mr. Blatty wrote kids books?! Let alone Rosemary’s… Hey, waitasecond! 😛
M.I.K.E.
