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Post by Popeye Doyle on May 13, 2021 19:48:49 GMT
The final result remains one of cinema’s best directed horror films. If Kubrick took the job, probably get something excellent while obviously different. I suspect he may have axed the scenes in Iraq or have a set built in England.
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Post by Mulder and Scully on May 13, 2021 20:29:43 GMT
Thank god he didn't direct it.
The end result would have been a painfully dull, self-indulgent, pretentious crap.
Friedkin was the best choice.
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Post by hi224 on May 13, 2021 20:43:05 GMT
Thank god he didn't direct it. The end result would have been a painfully dull, self-indulgent, pretentious crap. Friedkin was the best choice. explain your rationale?.
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Post by James on May 13, 2021 21:00:14 GMT
Not a bad choice although I don't know if the way he would've directed the possession scenes would be as disturbing.
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Post by hi224 on May 13, 2021 21:31:10 GMT
Not a bad choice although I don't know if the way he would've directed the possession scenes would be as disturbing. My biggest concern would be Kubrick's flawed inability to create an accessibility. He's my favorite filmmaker but had a tendency to keep you at arms length at points. |
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Post by Fox in the Snow on May 13, 2021 21:39:05 GMT
Thank god he didn't direct it. The end result would have been a painfully dull, self-indulgent, pretentious crap. Friedkin was the best choice. explain your rationale?. Good luck with that
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Post by politicidal on May 13, 2021 23:21:22 GMT
Perhaps it would have been more surreal. Like the third act of the Shining when the Overlook is going mad.
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Post by bravomailer on May 13, 2021 23:30:02 GMT
Maybe Kubrick would've worked in Joe Turkel and a Georgetown bar.  |
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Post by Hurdy Gurdy Man on May 14, 2021 1:24:34 GMT
Father Merrin would have yelled, "What's your major malfunction, numbnuts?" at Pazuzu and then it would have replied, "Me so horny, me love you long time."
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Post by Popeye Doyle on May 14, 2021 2:13:46 GMT
Father Merrin would have yelled, "What's your major malfunction, numbnuts?" at Pazuzu and then it would have replied, "Me so horny, me love you long time." You goddamn communist heathen! You will sound off you love the Virgin Mary, don’t ya! |
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Post by ck100 on May 14, 2021 2:20:11 GMT
Regan would do the famous "Kubrick stare".
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Post by Prime etc. on May 14, 2021 2:21:53 GMT
Did William Peter Blatty say something about it?
I doubt Kubrick would have tolerated Blatty's involvement and vice versa.
Why is it now, like decades later, all these Kubrick tales are coming out.
Were they kept in a vault until now?
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Post by Popeye Doyle on May 14, 2021 3:06:29 GMT
Did William Peter Blatty say something about it? I doubt Kubrick would have tolerated Blatty's involvement and vice versa. Why is it now, like decades later, all these Kubrick tales are coming out. Were they kept in a vault until now? In the documentary Leap of Faith, Friedkin mentions it was turned down by Kubrick, Arthur Penn, and Mike Nichols. |
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Post by Captain Spencer on May 14, 2021 16:58:33 GMT
This is fun. The Exorcist dir. Gene Kelley  
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Post by Captain Spencer on May 14, 2021 17:07:23 GMT
Did William Peter Blatty say something about it? I doubt Kubrick would have tolerated Blatty's involvement and vice versa. Why is it now, like decades later, all these Kubrick tales are coming out. Were they kept in a vault until now? In the documentary Leap of Faith, Friedkin mentions it was turned down by Kubrick, Arthur Penn, and Mike Nichols. I remember this was mentioned in the 1998 book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. I think it said that Peter Bogdanovich also rejected it.
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Post by vegalyra on May 14, 2021 17:17:51 GMT
Might have been an interesting take on the material. Wonder if he would have done the angiography scene?
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2021 23:17:48 GMT
"That was me, that is Pazuzu, and my three spawns. There I was in the Hell Peasoup Bar getting ready to perform a bit of the old in out in out with a crucifix."
"The power of Christ compells you!"
"Your mother sucks golfballs through gardenhoses!"
*Karrus jumps out a window with Pazuzu's spirit*
"I was exorcized, all right.'
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Post by bravomailer on May 15, 2021 5:13:26 GMT
"Now you listen to me, Pazuzu...."  "Hello, Merrin."  |
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Post by Captain Spencer on May 15, 2021 13:54:19 GMT
I like you, Lankester. I always liked you. You were always the best of them. Best goddamned exorcist from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine.  |
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Post by petrolino on May 16, 2021 0:45:02 GMT
I'm glad he did as William Friedkin was the ideal director for this project. Plus, we got to see Stanley Kubrick tackle horror with 'The Shining' (1980).
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