The Exorcist

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1. He may have based the Chris MacNeil character on her.
2. Eventually cast herself as a nurse.
3. Blair confirmed this but said in 2021 she had not fully understood it. While she found it "odd" that she was doing the t
4. He later directed the sequel, Exorcist II: The Heretic, after not only turning the original down but advised the studio
5. In 1991 Rydell said "that was never going to happen."
6. "The medical space is made spectacular and horrific in The Exorcist not through the presentation of Regan's behavior or
7. Vercoutere died in 2013, two years before Miles' story was reported.
8. Burstyn said Friedkin never apologized to her for the incident, but they remain on good terms. He said in 2018 that she
9. In that 2018 tweet discussing this, Friedkin referred to Smith as "the film's editor", although the other three were cre
10. "It worked very well in the novel as a sort of nostalgic and upbeat ending, but I didn't like it in the film, so I cut i
11. Friedkin and Blatty had argued about this scene throughout production. For Blatty the scene explains "why you've been su
12. Film scholar Kendall R. Phillips writes that that shot gives the film a subtly apocalyptic mood. "The sun appears first
13. In the soundtrack liner notes for 1977's Sorcerer, Friedkin said that if he had heard the music of Tangerine Dream earli
14. Initially the only theater in the Los Angeles area that could be found for a second exhibitor was a small arthouse theat
15. In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, journalist and film historian Peter Biskind wrote that Warner Bros. executives were happy
16. Based on 2009 average ticket prices.
17. This inflation-adjusted amount assumes constant 1973 dollars
18. Another positive review, after a fashion, came from the still-unidentified Zodiac Killer. In one of his last letters to
19. According to Blatty, the Kansas City police brought tear gas in case of a riot. Reportedly a Chicago crowd broke into th
20. Some theaters were said to have provided "Exorcist barf bags". While there are no contemporary reports of providing such
21. Friedkin speculated that it was easier to empathize with Regan in that scene, compared to what she suffers while possess
22. McDannell notes that, during the two Masses Karras says in the film, he mixes old and new elements of the liturgy, which
23. Chambers notes that this often discouraged depictions of medical procedures, leading to the effect of the angiography sc
24. Kennedy as well had compared the film to Going My Way, although derisively.
25. Blatty said in 1998 that despite the respect he had for Graham, "that was one of the most foolish statements I've ever h
26. Those rankings are based on numbers unadjusted for inflation. In 2019, Forbes writer Travis Bean recalculated the revenu
27. Blatty and Friedkin were entitled to 39 and 10 percent of the film's net profit respectively. Blatty alleged that when h
28. The owners of the Georgetown house whose exteriors had been used as the MacNeils' refused permission to reuse it as well
29. Blatty wrote a satirical novel about the experience called Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing.
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