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Don’t forget to add the full Fear of God documentary!
Especially that.
I think Sofia means out-takes as in simply unreleased scenes, like the TNC out-take I uploaded to YouTube. Everyone utilizes different terminology, I guess.
Edit: beat me to the punch!
I have printed out the current list-in-progress, and will track down as many as I can. This should make for a very insightful next few months.
This is good. The emergence of creativity from admirers of Blatty’s work is the greatest compliment he could receive, I think. It is a testament to the effect his words have on all of us.
An idea struck me while I was attempting to fall asleep last night. I’ll ponder on it a bit more today.
All right, I’ve updated these pages as much as I think is humanely possible. Time for a break now, methinks.
http://www.theninthconfiguration.com/blatty/correspondences/
http://legion.theninthconfiguration.com/film/inconsistencies/
The more I read about Amfortas’ character the more I relate to him. Why on earth was he excluded from the film?!
Imagine if it had been a three hour two-part television miniseries. Everything could have been incorporated; all the theological musings, the humor, Amfortas, the observation of Karras’ body after the fall, excavating Karras’ (Fain’s) body… There are so many promotional shots of Kinderman in graveyards and whatnot that are such a tease to the senses.
This is interesting, being a fan of The Smiths and Morrissey:
http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~moz/lyrics/theworld/rubberri.htm
Bizarrely, the second sample is from 1971 LP “Breakthrough: An Amazing Experiment In Electronic Communication With The Dead”. This LP was recorded by Latvian psychologist Konstantin Raudive, and is claimed to be voices of the dead recorded in laboratory conditions.
Hmm.. now it’s all making sense. “The dead have their own transmitting stations” > scene in Legion: “Come in, Earth!” “The living are deaf.”
According to wikipedia:
Originally, Blatty wanted this film to follow events from the first Exorcist film, but not be a direct sequel. He wanted the film to have the same title as the book (Legion). During production the film was referred to as Exorcist: Legion (without the numerals). Morgan Creek changed the name to Exorcist III: Legion as well as write and shoot a new scene where an exorcism takes place in the mental ward. The original trailers refer to the film as The Exorcist 1990 (with the logo being the word “The” with “Exorcist” beneath it in a wider font and “1990” beneath it in the same narrow font as “The” making the image of a crucifix. Eventually the subtitle “Legion” dropped completely and the film was released as The Exorcist III.
I wonder where we’d be able to track down the trailers that depicted this?
Similar to what Mick Garris does for Stephen King, but not as laughable.
Incidentally, and this is entirely off-topic, I have been wanting to sit down and write something professionally for years now, but could never conceive of an idea — that I thought — would be wholly relevant, or something that I could go back to and be fond of. After re-reading Blatty’s work, I’d really like to expand upon it all, but from a completely original standpoint. Perhaps even singling out one element, or one minor element that he touches upon, and derive from that a brand-new storyline. I do not wish for it to be a “sequel” or piece of fan fiction by any means. Just something that is clearly inspired by where Blatty is coming from, but, likewise, somehow unique.
Let’s pick at each other’s brains and attempt to strike some inspirational chords in my system.
granville, can you confirm the Jung connections with the characters, as well as the Lazlo reference? Once they are confirmed I’ll add them to the Correspondences & Themes page.
I just updated these two pages as well, if you scroll to the bottom and hit refresh. Each night I read about 20 more pages of Legion with a pad next to me, and write down anything that needs to be archived on the site:
http://www.theninthconfiguration.com/blatty/correspondences/
http://legion.theninthconfiguration.com/film/inconsistencies/
