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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?
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Justy, please do this for me and all else interested, making it available for download. 🙂
Big fan of the musicians involved. All o’ ’em (in this order: Angelo Badlamenti, Dog Fashion Disco, Trevor Rabin).
The film’s score is very subtle, but quite fitting and organic. Maybe it’s not the greatest by the parties involved, but it’s a good match to the material, even if it was “cobbled together” at the last minute.
Frankly, it’s crucial to the film. I’d originally preferred an anti-score (ie. the Friedkin film, where it’s just vignettes of disonance and the avant garde), but recognizing this prequel film wasn’t fashioned to be the Friedkin film but a very different film whose story-narrative and characters exist in an older time and far off land, I can’t think of a more perfect end result. It’s simple and elegant, if you ask me (or even if you don’t). 🙂
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Nope. But… in time? 🙂 Note: This isn’t the only Disney/MM/Exorcist spoof image. There’s a great one posted here recently. Check it out.
But thank you for thinking it could be “for real”. I’m flattered. 😛
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Hatter, I’d still appreciate that VERY, VERY much. To have it in any form would be quite nifty.
Thanks… way in advance. 😉
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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? 😛
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Hatty, Justy, anybody with the tech skillz…
I was wondering… what are the chances you might be able to — in your own time — rip the music-audio (and if the actor’s spoken lines can’t be removed, then maybe the can stay, like samples) from DOMINION and assemble the MP3s for us to download here or elsewhere? I think it’d be really cool, such a project; surely simpler than the Fan Edit of the film itself, anyway. 🙂
Thanks (way) in advance! 🙂
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Ps. I have “bonus” tracks that Sam Schrader sent me — Dog Fashion Disco stuff — outtakes, plus Satan’s March. We could add ’em to the bunch.
By the way, OBSESSION (directed by Brian De Palma, written by Schrader) is AMAZING as well!
Cool, Greg. Yeah, Hardcore is great. Did you know that all the intro-Grand Rapids footage consists of a bunch of Grand Rapids unknowns and extras — including Schrader family and friends — (aside from Scott)? Schrader shot it all, and much later divulged just what kind of film it would be about! :p Source: SCHRADER ON SCHRADER (great book! With a great however-to-be-updated chapter on then-titled EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING).
But yeah, Greg, you need to see all of those films. Buy them at any cost. Literally. You won’t be sorry! 🙂 Worth every penny. Bla bla bla. 😛
Blue Collar is extremely under-rated. Great, great story, performances. Tragic, brutal, and true-to-life. You won’t look at Richard Pryor the same.
Amazing what Schrader’s accomplished creatively, filmswise, in his career. A brave and thoughtful filmmaker. Never the same movie twice, no matter what he has to do with it creatively (writing and/or directing).
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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. 🙂
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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. 🙂
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I adore this film as much as DOMINION or even, yes, THE EXORCIST. At least in terms of entertainment value. All are endlessly re-watchable, anytime of the year. Brilliant cinema.
Amazing film. Nattassia (spelling butchered!) Kinski. Annette O’Toole. Stunning and stunning.
Speaking of stunning, the music.
And, oh yes, it’s the BEST WEREWOLF MOVIE EVER MADE (and it doesn’t even feature ’em — werewolves!).
Thoughts? Yes, I’ll wait for those stones and baseball bats. 😐
M.I.K.E.
Ps.Paul Schrader’s Harcore, American Gigolo, Affliction, Patty Hearst, The Comfort of Strangers, Mishima, Auto Focus, and Blue Collar are all excellent as well. What a body of work…!
I like the hair regeneration, but prefer the original version. Excellent work, though, it just is more distracting than the original version, which is more dream-like and supernatural — “Paul Schrader” if you will. It’s surreal and demonstrates that things are returning to normal, the demon has been exorcised, etc.
Your new version, no offense, makes me think the character has died, and that’s his soul “going up to Heaven.”
A great compromise, though, would be to have Cheche not disappearing, but remaining there on the ground. Freezing the shot of of him there on the ground would make it appear like it was Paul Schrader’s doing, in fact. Schrader uses still shots in a number of his films. 🙂
So, waiting till Cheche’s hair regenerates, then: we freeze the frame of him lying on the ground, still. Then, after a few moments of letting the audience catch it’s breath, we cut to the very next scene the official version of Dominion features.
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