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* EvilVersusEvil: The theme of "evil against evil" is prevalent, starting with Merrin's archeological trip to Northern Iraq where he finds a demon statue that the natives stated was an evil artifact to combat evil. This foreshadows Karras' "evil act" of [[spoiler: accepting Pazuzu into himself, to save Regan]].
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* EvilVersusEvil: The theme of "evil against evil" is prevalent, starting with Merrin's archeological trip to Northern Iraq where he finds a demon statue that the natives stated was an evil artifact to combat evil. This foreshadows Karras' "evil act" of [[spoiler: accepting Pazuzu into himself, to save Regan]].Regan: also, suicide's a mortal sin in the Catholic Church]].
** Karras acted on impulse, but it was exactly the right thing to do; he was not thinking [[http://bible.cc/john/15-13.htm John 15:13]], but that's why it worked.
** Karras acted on impulse, but it was exactly the right thing to do; he was not thinking [[http://bible.cc/john/15-13.htm John 15:13]], but that's why it worked.
* PetTheDog: Burke Dennings is a drunk and a vulgar, foul-mouthed, often hateful bastard, but he is very fond of Regan. He gives her a birthday party on the set, and when he films her cutting the cake he calls it a screen test. His love for her is what killed him; he knew only that she was sick and he must have gone upstairs to check on her.
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** This caused Sachiko [=MacLaine=] a bit of trouble, as numerous people had heard Blatty had based Chris on Shirley and assumed that Sachiko had been sick or possessed.
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* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: Bile-splattered. Throughout the scenes where Regan is fully possessed, she wears a pretty blue nightgown with ruffles and flowers. The subtext could be that Chris dressed her in this to communicate her love.
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* GoodWingsEvilWings: Inverted by Pazuzu. The wings on the stone idol he was released from (and most other depictions of him, we might add, most famously in the ''ShinMegamiTensei'' series) are actually birdlike.
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** Also, Pazuzu was not simply a name invented for the books/film. It's the name of an evil demigod/demon in ancient Mesopotamian mythology who ruled over [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking disease, pestilence, and the heat of the mid day sun]].
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** Also, (for a given value of true) Pazuzu was not simply a name invented for the books/film. It's the name of an evil demigod/demon in ancient Mesopotamian mythology who ruled over [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking disease, pestilence, and the heat of the mid day sun]].
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*** Parodied in ''HellBlazer'' where a demon says this of John Constantine's father. Constantine, not missing a beat, responds thusly: "Does he swallow?"
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* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: An altered version, "The Version You've Never Seen", containing several minutes of additional material (including a scene of Blair's character "spider-walking" down a staircase which Friedkin had [[DeletedScene deleted]] from the original cut due to technical problems, and which bore no resemblence to the spider walk in the book) and added CGI and subliminal imagery, was released to theaters in 2000.
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* ReCut: An extended director's cut of the original film, marketed as "The Version You've Never Seen" and containing several minutes of additional material (including a scene of Blair's character "spider-walking" down a staircase which Friedkin had [[DeletedScene deleted]] from the original cut due to technical problems, and which bore no resemblence to the spider walk in the book), was released to theaters in 2000.
** It is generally disregarded by fans and critics. As RogerEbert put it in his [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000922/REVIEWS/9220302/1023 review]], "'The version you've never seen.' No, and you don't need to, either."
** It is generally disregarded by fans and critics. As RogerEbert put it in his [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000922/REVIEWS/9220302/1023 review]], "'The version you've never seen.' No, and you don't need to, either."
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** The satires milked this for all it was worth. The ''SaturdayNightLive'' version speculated what would have happened if one of the priests was black and had to endure insults like "Your momma eats kitty litter!" and "Your momma sews socks that smell!"
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** The satires milked this for all it was worth. The ''SaturdayNightLive'' version speculated what would have happened if one of the priests was black (Specifically, RichardPryor) and had to endure insults like "Your momma eats kitty litter!" and "Your momma sews socks that smell!"
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* MedicalHorror: Reagan in the operating room having all sorts of medical procedures done on her was the scariest part of ''The Exorcist'' for moviegoers at the time. No, it wasn't the cursing, the exorcism or anything else that caused them to actually ''leave the theaters and vomit'' - it was '''[[NauseaFuel this]]'''.
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* MedicalHorror: Reagan Regan in the operating room having all sorts of medical procedures done on her was the scariest part of ''The Exorcist'' for moviegoers at the time. No, it wasn't the cursing, the exorcism or anything else that caused them to actually ''leave the theaters and vomit'' - it was '''[[NauseaFuel this]]'''.
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* MedicalHorror: Reagan in the operating room having all sorts of medical procedures done on her was the scariest part of ''The Exorcist'' for moviegoers at the time. No, it wasn't the cursing, the exorcism or anything else that caused them to actually ''leave the theaters and vomit'' - it was '''[[NauseaFuel this]]'''.
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** FreudianExcuse: Which the characters surmise is the reasoon of her pick of the name "Captain '''How'''dy."
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* FreudianExcuse: A lot is made of the fact in both the book and the film that Reagan is entering puberty. Considering her actions...
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* WhatTheHellHero: Nurse Allerton gives one near the end of the film to Kinderman, which leads to a EurekaMoment for the cop.
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* ActorAllusion: Lee Richardson states that his favourite movie is TheFly.
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* ActorAllusion: Lee Richardson states that his favourite movie is TheFly.''TheFly''.
* AlphaBitch: Nurse Allerton, and isn't shy about it.
-->'''Kinderman:''' You're very nice.
-->'''Allerton:''' [[DeadpanSnarker I'm a bitch.]]
* AlphaBitch: Nurse Allerton, and isn't shy about it.
-->'''Kinderman:''' You're very nice.
-->'''Allerton:''' [[DeadpanSnarker I'm a bitch.]]
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* JumpSpace: [[spoiler: Poor Nurse Keating.]]
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* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the cast. Kinderman wins the Deadpan prize with his story about the carp swimming in his bathtub.
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Did you read the novel?
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** In this movie Kinderman and Karras were best friends. In first film (and novel), they barely knew each other.
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** In this movie Kinderman and Karras were best friends. In first film (and novel), film, they barely knew each other.other - however, in the novel, they had a friendship growing, and when it was cut short, Kinderman and Dyer became friends because of their mutual relationship with Karras.
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Based on a novel by William Peter Blatty, [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory and inspired by]] what was supposedly ([[http://www.examiner.com/history-in-baltimore/the-not-so-real-life-story-that-inspired-the-exorcist it's been disputed]]) [[ButItReallyHappened an actual documented exorcism]] from 1949, ''The Exorcist'' is the terrifying, shocking tale of an originally rather cute 12-year-old girl named Regan and the efforts of her mother, a famous ex-actress, her mom's secretary Sharon, and a pair of priests to save the poor girl's soul from the ravages of a powerful, malign entity called Pazuzu.
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Based on a novel by William Peter Blatty, [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory and inspired by]] what was supposedly ([[http://www.examiner.com/history-in-baltimore/the-not-so-real-life-story-that-inspired-the-exorcist it's been disputed]]) [[ButItReallyHappened an actual documented exorcism]] exorcism from 1949, ''The Exorcist'' is the terrifying, shocking tale of an originally rather cute 12-year-old girl named Regan and the efforts of her mother, a famous ex-actress, her mom's secretary Sharon, and a pair of priests to save the poor girl's soul from the ravages of a powerful, malign entity called Pazuzu.
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* DisappearedDad: Howard [=MacNeil=] is in Europe for the whole book.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: Chris [=MacNeil=] is based on William Peter Blatty's friend Shirley [=MacLaine=], and her marital situation on [=MacLaine=]'s then-husband having left for Europe determined to not live in his wife's shadow. What's weird, is that nobody even cares to try and contact him because of his daughter's worsening health to the risk of DEATH.
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* OneWomanWail: There's a recurring one on the soundtrack.'Regan's Theme'.
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** YMMV on the Jaywalking front - the heat of the sun in Mesopotamia almost certainly killed people. Heat stroke is still a real danger today if you don't take the right precautions.
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* ConsumateLiar: "He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us.
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* MindScrew: Pazuzu seems to be a fan of this trope.
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* AffectionateParody: ''{{Repossessed}}'', starring Leslie Nielsen and Linda Blair AdamWesting.
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* AffectionateParody: ''{{Repossessed}}'', ''Film/{{Repossessed}}'', starring Leslie Nielsen and Linda Blair AdamWesting.
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** Of course, [[spoiler: given that Karras is visibly disturbed at Regan's voice changing to his dead mother, and the prospect of her eternal torment in Hell, Merrin may be lying.]]
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* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: Sharon]].
* EnforcedMethodActing: John Boorman filmed the scene on Regan's balcony, which is NOT a set, '''[[WhatTheHellHero knowing full well he had no way of catching her if she fell]]'''. Her screams of fear are real.
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* InformedAbility: Regan's artistic talent, especially her laughably bad drawing of Father Lamont.Lamont.
* [[KillItWithFire Kill Her With Fire]]: The fates of [[spoiler: the possessed girl in the opening sequence]] and [[spoiler: Sharon]].
* [[KillItWithFire Kill Her With Fire]]: The fates of [[spoiler: the possessed girl in the opening sequence]] and [[spoiler: Sharon]].
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* TitleDrop: Kokumo says to Father Lamont 'You're a '''Heretic'''.'
* WhatAnIdiot: Most of the characters.
* WhatAnIdiot: Most of the characters.
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* DidNotDoTheResearch: The whole friggin' movie, but especially... "Her heart is fibrillating!" and they ''don't'' immediately initiate emergency treatment?
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* UncannyValley: Invoked with the animatronic grinning pianists at Grand Central during the DreamSequence in Times Square for NightmareFuel.
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* CanonDiscontinuity: Despite its name, the third movie completely ignores the second. It was probably for the better...
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* CanonDiscontinuity: Despite its name, the third movie "III" in the title, the film completely ignores the second.second entry. It was probably for the better...
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** It's the original Exorcist, Fr. Merrin. The Vatican is investigating his life and writings for heresy because of his theory that goodness attracts evil, and because he believed the devil was real, something Church authorities are trying to play down.
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** It's the original Exorcist, Fr. Merrin. The Vatican is investigating his life and writings for heresy because of his theory that goodness attracts evil, and because he believed the devil was real, something Church authorities are trying to play down. There is also a movement to have Merrin declared a saint, and Fr. Lamont is trying to prove Merrin's exorcisms were valid.
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** This worked nicely in ''Exorcist II'' where you see young Fr. Merrin investigating Kokumo's healing abilities and later exorcising Pazuzu out of him.
* DidNotDoTheResearch: The whole friggin' movie, but especially... "Her heart is fibrillating!" and they ''don't'' immediately initiate emergency treatment?
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* LeftItIn: When Regan first spits pea-soup vomit over Fr. Karras, the mechanism they had rigged up malfunctioned. The gunk was supposed to hit him in the chest. Instead, he got it right in the face. Jason Miller's disgust and anger are real, and perfect.
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* SheIsAllGrownUp: My, how little Regan has grown. Most of the movie has her in some form of revealing clothing. And then there's the tap dancing scene.
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* SheIsAllGrownUp: My, how little Regan has grown. Most of the movie has her in some form of revealing clothing. And then there's the [[{{Gainaxing}} tap dancing scene.scene]].
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There is a Lutheran exorcism tradition.Se the wikipedia article on the film.
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