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Oh Damien…. We’re really in it now….
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2 of them
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i really like fan fiction of The Exorcist that's just doing menial tasks at Georgetown U or being at parties with shitty people because that's most of the original book it adapted. but watch out.
i know people hate unhorroring horror (sometimes it's unwarranted with small aus with fun horror, but sometimes it's warranted because it ignores core themes that are commentary on something) but to make an Exorcist prequel or even an Exorcist "missing scene" you either need to feature writing a study, bunking at a shitty dorm, doctor appointments, long talks at a restaurant with a weirdo cop or weirdo priest, girlhood trauma or divorce. oh and he still dies at the end
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The burnished rays of the setting sun flamed glory at the clouds of the western sky and shattered in rippling, crimsom dapples on the darkening waters of the river.
-The Exorcist
tired of seeing the same opinions on the exorcist book to movie adaptation and tried to google translate through other opinions just to see the same opinions
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ouh god the exorcist.... he never even met her
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Father Karras: Detective Kinderman, I–
Detective Kinderman:
Mary Jo being a catholic mystic and Cutshaw being an ex-catholic (I think??) implies that Chris MacNeil saw that she was gonna have a party with Catholic priests Fr. Joe Dyer and co. and decided she needed to invite any catholic she knew. Any one.
media literacy has finally gone UP
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okay. um. this might sound like a really fucked up form of religion to think about for yourself. but sometimes i think this way but for the good things. like god isn't real but he does allow things to always work out in the end for me personally.
and not to give william peter blatty too much credit, but i also think a lot about this one quote at the end of the exorcist when father dyer say to chris "but if all of the evil in the world makes you think that there might be a devil, Chris, how do you account for all the good?" every time i read that book that quote hits me really hard for some reason and i think it has to do with this idea of religion and god mentioned above. and i know blatty wrote the exorcist to try to convert people to catholicism so i do hate that his propaganda seems to be working on me. um. that's all the religion talk i will be saying tonight or ever. goodbye
#i think its funny that people are in agreement that the epilogue had a better argument than the whole child torture#and blatty did too once! originally damien was supposed to believe after he saw how much chris cared about her daughter! but then he#scrapped the whole thing. forever mad about it.#the exorcist by william peter blatty
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idk what i was expecting reading the exorcist (saw the movie only once ages ago, dont remember much), but i thought like maybe that they tuned up the grotesque for the movie. but umm. i am here in 2024 to say, after reading part 2 chapter 6. what the fuck, man. seriously. oh my god :I
ok wait I originally thought Regan was mimicking Burke (tearing pages from the book) because she would do it more obviously (cursing the way he does and even imitating his voice) later on, but guys what do you think of this theory I saw someone post while googling Burke from the book
like i know Burke is portrayed to be shitty and laughed off for his blunt horribleness (I still kind of dislike the lack of reaction people have around him), but I dont suspect him of being in the cult
i'd say out of all the theories on the exorcist, the one that claims sharon, willie, and karl were sacrificing regan as a part of a satanic church is the most incorrect one. they did nothing but take care of regan, and karl was deliberately built to be a red herring for one of the other crimes. it spent more time dwelling on that and his daughter than anything else. also pazuzu kept attacking them
Not to mention, the author has the subtlety of a brick portraying bad people or people he deems as bad.
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Father Karras: Detective Kinderman, I–
Detective Kinderman:
Happy halloween month I'm once again thinking that if Damien Karras (from the original The Exorcist book) had been helping anyone else, say Carrie or any girl who was accused of witchcraft by religious conservative people, everyone wouldve been fine but noooo. The troubled pscychic teen actually was being influenced by demons and shouldn't be treated like a real mentally ill girl with powers. And everyone was right to tell him she was possessed by evil.
Science, logic and empathy was NOT the answer!
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Kinderman trying to relate to Karras: So you’re closeted, right?
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Also immediately after that bit, Karras was thinking about homosexual love facilitated by possession… WHICH COULD MEAN NOTHING
#Honestly a lot of same sex attraction used possession as a scapegoat… the nuns of Loudun… Sister Benedetta Carlini… and those are#just the Catholic ‘scary stories’ that were misunderstood moments of history idk about everyone else#The nuns had sex with eachother because ‘the devil made them’ do it and sister benedetta said it was a male angel possessing her#which then became a demon#the loudun movie adaptation skip the same sex orgies but benedetta movie at least has her lover#And both were already in on the fact it wasn’t possession even though it would’ve probably been showed more if it had been#Thank goodness they didn’t turn this into the conjuring#The exorcist by William Peter Blatty