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BREAKDOWN- SHAKEDOWN: The Exorcist · Cosmic Peach

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Speaker 2: time at the rodeo. Hello, and welcome back to the show.
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Speaker 2: I am still coming to you from the extra bedroom
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Speaker 2: at my sister's how and still enjoying the fucking October Fest,
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Speaker 2: and I am still very excited to be bringing you
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Speaker 2: another breakdown. And usually I would have a guest for
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Speaker 2: something like this, but the person that I asked to
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Speaker 2: do this breakdown with me is on a hiatus of sorts,
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Speaker 2: so it's just you and I, which, to be honest
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Speaker 2: with you, sometimes I prefer that anyways. So what movie
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Speaker 2: are we breaking down today? It is where my fucking notes,
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Speaker 2: the One the Only Exorcist nineteen seventy mother fucking three.
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Speaker 2: And as you can see, I am very festive right now.
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Speaker 2: I have on the mom ass fuck hoodie that I
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Speaker 2: got a couple halloweens ago and it is one of
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Speaker 2: my all time favorite things to wear. Don't mind my
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Speaker 2: hair by the way. I'm just letting it live its
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Speaker 2: best life today. Don't feel like fucking with it. Hope
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Speaker 2: you understand. Also, ignore all this Seinfeld shit in the background.
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Speaker 2: I didn't get to decorate the room. Okay, I'm just
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Speaker 2: living here now. If you are a horror movie fan
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Speaker 2: like I am, you will know this horror movie has
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Speaker 2: went down as one of the all time greatest horror
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Speaker 2: movies and there is a reason why. And I also
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Speaker 2: think there is a reason why it is such a
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Speaker 2: cultural icon. So I'm gonna walk through some of my
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Speaker 2: notes with you today and play some snippets from the movie,
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Speaker 2: and we're just gonna have a ball now. The Exorcist
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Speaker 2: is a nineteen seventy three American supernatural horror film directed
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Speaker 2: by William Friedkin, based on the novel by William Peter Bladdie.
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Speaker 2: What a last name, I'd change it anyways. It was
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Speaker 2: the first horror film to be nominated for the Academy
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Speaker 2: Award for Best Picture, and it was released on December
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Speaker 2: twenty sixth, nineteen seventy three, which actually was not the
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Speaker 2: date Freakin wanted, and he was actually pissed because he
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Speaker 2: wanted it to come out on Christmas. Day, But there
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Speaker 2: were so many delays while making this movie they couldn't
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Speaker 2: get it out on time, and it almost feels like
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Speaker 2: some kind of divine intervention. Jesus was like, not on
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Speaker 2: my fucking birthday, if that's even his birthday. You know,
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Speaker 2: all of the stuff about it being Nimrod's birthday, and they,
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Speaker 2: you know, corrupted Jesus's birthday by may it December twenty fifth,
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Speaker 2: but it really wasn't December twenty fifth all that, but
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Speaker 2: it was supposed to come out on Christmas Day, December
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Speaker 2: twenty fifth, nineteen seventy three, and that would have just
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Speaker 2: added more fuel to everyone's fire of this being such
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Speaker 2: a demonic and cursed movie. But it's most notably starring
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Speaker 2: Ellen Burston, Jason Miller, and Linda Blair. And you know what,
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Speaker 2: I never knew that makes perfect fucking sense. Now. All
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Speaker 2: the actors in this movie were almost faded to play
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Speaker 2: these roles because Jack Nicholson was actually considered for fucking
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Speaker 2: Father Karris, you know, Damien or Damon or what a demy. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it was supposed to be Jack fucking Nicholson, and apparently
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Speaker 2: he wanted the role, which would have made this a
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Speaker 2: completely different movie Let's be Real, but so Freedkin, the director,
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Speaker 2: gave Jason Miller, who ended up being Father Carris, a
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Speaker 2: copy of the novel to read, and it turned out
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Speaker 2: that Jason Miller had actually received a Catholic education and
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Speaker 2: studied to be a Jesuit priest for three years at
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Speaker 2: a Catholic university in America until experiencing a spiritual crisis,
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Speaker 2: just like fucking Father Caros, but this was in his
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Speaker 2: real life and when he read the novel, he told Friedkin,
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Speaker 2: Carris is me. So there was this screen test, right,
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Speaker 2: And during the test, Miller and Ellen Burston performed the
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Speaker 2: scene where Chris tells Father Caris that she suspects Reagan
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Speaker 2: might be possessed, and after viewing the footage the next morning,
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Speaker 2: Freakin realized that Jason Miller's dark, good looks, haunted eyes,
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Speaker 2: quiet intensity, and low compassionate voice were exactly what the
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Speaker 2: part needed and literally, because that's exactly how I would
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Speaker 2: describe him. He nailed the part of Father Karis. But
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Speaker 2: get this shit. So they also wanted Audrey Hepburn to
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Speaker 2: play Chris and she refused the role, and they wanted
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Speaker 2: Jamie Lee Curtis to play Reagan and fucking Jamie Lee's
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Speaker 2: mom was like, no, fuck you, which is interesting because
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Speaker 2: she went on to be one of the most iconic
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Speaker 2: horror stars ever in Halloween and shit like that prom Night.
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Speaker 2: But so they were like, we want if we can't
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Speaker 2: have Jamie Lee, we want Denise Nickerson, who played Violet
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Speaker 2: Beauregard in Willy Wonka, and even her family was exactly
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Speaker 2: the same. They've read this shit and they were like,
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Speaker 2: abs fuckingutely not, it's gonna be a fuck no for us.
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Speaker 2: So it's like all these things that happened, all these
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Speaker 2: people that they considered, but it ended up being the
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Speaker 2: cast that we have, and it, in my opinion, couldn't
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Speaker 2: have been casted any better. So it's like it had
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Speaker 2: to be these people, even down to the director, because
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Speaker 2: the author of the novel ultimately decided who was going
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Speaker 2: to direct the film, and he had originally wanted Stanley
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Speaker 2: fucking Kubrick. Think of what The Exorcist would have been
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Speaker 2: with Jack Nicholson too, So it's gonna be like the
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Speaker 2: Shiny two point zero, but like with a POSSESSI girl.
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Speaker 2: Holy fucking shit, no pun intended. Jack Nicholson directed by
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Speaker 2: Stanley Kubrick, this would have been an entirely different movie.
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Speaker 2: I really wish I could watch this version of the Exorcist,
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Speaker 2: but you know it doesn't exist, and so did you know.
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Speaker 2: Many of the cast and crew members were injured and
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Speaker 2: some literally fucking died while trying to make this movie,
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Speaker 2: and all these super unusual accidents kept happening, which super
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Speaker 2: delayed shooting the movie and production took twice as long
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Speaker 2: as scheduled and cost about three times the initial budget.
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Speaker 2: And the many mishaps while filming led to a belief
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Speaker 2: that the film was cursed and the Exorcist is actually
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Speaker 2: just one of many cursed movies. But that's another episode
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Speaker 2: where we could go over some other cursed movies. But
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Speaker 2: so early on, shooting was delayed six weeks after bird
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Speaker 2: flew into a circuit breaker on the house sets and
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Speaker 2: it started a huge fire that destroyed literally all of
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Speaker 2: the houses except for one bedroom, and that was Reagan's room.
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Speaker 2: So this think about that, guys, This bird flies into
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Speaker 2: a circuit breaker, box sets, the whole fucking thing ablaze
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Speaker 2: except one room remains standing and that is Reagan's bedroom, unscathed. Okay,
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Speaker 2: so later on another set was severely damaged when a
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Speaker 2: fucking sprinkler system went haywire and just started shooting water everywhere.
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Speaker 2: And then the ten foot tall statue of Pazu Zu
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Speaker 2: was shipped to Hong Kong instead of Iraq. How the
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Speaker 2: fuck do you mix those two things up? And that
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Speaker 2: caused another two week delay, which actually, besides it being
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Speaker 2: a statue and whatever, I'm going to get into the
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Speaker 2: whole Pazuzu thing in a minute. But so a lot
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Speaker 2: of the cast members, if they didn't just straight out die,
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Speaker 2: were severely injured, and Ellen Burston and Linda Blair have
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Speaker 2: lasting consequences from severe back injuries. And so Ellen Burston's
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Speaker 2: occurred during the scene where the possessed Reagan throws Chris backwards,
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Speaker 2: and the take they used in the film actually was
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Speaker 2: the take that left her unable to film for two
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Speaker 2: straight weeks on crutches for the rest of this shoot
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Speaker 2: with a fractured tailbone, and it has caused her lifelong
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Speaker 2: chronic issues. And then Linda Blair some of you may
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Speaker 2: already know this, but she fractured her lower spine after
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Speaker 2: being too loosely strapped to the bed while it was
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Speaker 2: rocking up and down. Back and forth all crazy, and
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Speaker 2: the take where she fractures her spine is actually the
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Speaker 2: take that is used in the Finnish film. So Linda
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Speaker 2: Blair then developed scoliosis with long term health effects as
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Speaker 2: well as a lifelong aversion to cold from all her
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Speaker 2: time in the refrigerated bedroom set wearing only a nightgown
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Speaker 2: and long underwear, so they practically gave her hypothermia. They
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Speaker 2: fractured her spine. She's got lifelong issues for this. She
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Speaker 2: was type cast because nobody wanted her anymore after she
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Speaker 2: made this movie, because she's Reagan right, She's a crazy,
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Speaker 2: possessed girl, and a lot of people thought that she
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Speaker 2: was evil in real life, like Linda Blair was possessed
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Speaker 2: by the devil in real life. So imagine growing up
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Speaker 2: with that stigma attached to you. So I'm gonna go
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Speaker 2: ahead and say that this movie, while it is a
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Speaker 2: cultural staple and one of the greatest, if not the greatest,
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Speaker 2: horror movies of all time, it really fucked up a
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Speaker 2: lot of the cast and crew for life, literally for life.
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Speaker 2: And just to name a few more, a carpenter cut
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Speaker 2: his thumb off and a lighting technician lost a toe
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Speaker 2: in two completely separate incidents, and other people connected with
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Speaker 2: the film or their family members straight up died. So
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Speaker 2: the dude who plays Burke Dennings a week after completing
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Speaker 2: his scenes dead fucking dead, you know, Burked Innings, the
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Speaker 2: one who gets pushed out of Reagan's bedroom falls down
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Speaker 2: the stairs, twisting his head completely all the way around
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Speaker 2: in the movie. That same guy in real life, just
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Speaker 2: after he finished his scenes fucking died in real life.
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Speaker 2: And the old Italian mom, you know why you do
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Speaker 2: this to me? Demi also died like her character before
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Speaker 2: the film was even finished. Coincidence maybe, but that's pretty
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Speaker 2: fucking wild. And so deaths among the crew or those
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Speaker 2: close to them included the night watch man, the operator
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Speaker 2: of the refrigeration system for Reagan's room, and an assistant
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Speaker 2: cameraman's newborn baby, all dead while filming this movie, and
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Speaker 2: Linda Blair's grandfather died during the first week of production,
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Speaker 2: and fucking father Marin had to return to Sweden after
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Speaker 2: his first day shooting because his brother fucking died, which
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Speaker 2: also delayed shooting the movie because all this stuff kept
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Speaker 2: coming up. And then fucking one of father Kris Jason
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Speaker 2: Miller's sons nearly died when a motorcycle ran him off
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Speaker 2: the road and tried to fucking run him over. Okay,
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Speaker 2: And it's just the amount of like weird shit and
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Speaker 2: deaths and accidents and severe injuries. It's almost I mean, sure,
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Speaker 2: shit happens during X amount of money or a year
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Speaker 2: however long it takes you to get everything shot and finished.
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Speaker 2: But this degree, I don't think so that is pretty significant.
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Speaker 2: And dude, one of the craziest things about this movie
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Speaker 2: is a few years after the film's release, Paul Bateson,
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Speaker 2: the technician in the angiograph scene, was convicted of murdering
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Speaker 2: a journalist named Addison Vrol. But get this shit, it
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Speaker 2: doesn't stop there. And this is why I'm doing the
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Speaker 2: Program to Kill series, because in nineteen seventy nine, Paul
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Speaker 2: Bateson was convicted of the murder of Addison Verel, the
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Speaker 2: journalist or whatever, and sentenced to a minimum of twenty
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Speaker 2: years in prison. But in two thousand and three he
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Speaker 2: was released on parole after serving just five years of
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Speaker 2: his twenty year sentence. And that's really interesting considering the
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Speaker 2: fact that prior to this bitch fuck contents trial, police
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Speaker 2: and prosecutors implicated him in a series of unsolved slayings
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Speaker 2: of gay men in Manhattan, known as the bag Murders, killings,
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Speaker 2: which he had reportedly boasted about while in jail. So
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Speaker 2: what the fuck happened with that? Fucking nothing? This guy
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Speaker 2: literally murders a journalist after his little role in the Exorcist.
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Speaker 2: Fucking is suspected for a series of unsoft slayings of
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Speaker 2: fucking gay men in Manhattan, these fucking bag murders, and
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Speaker 2: he only serves five years. They never put him on
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Speaker 2: trial for the bag murders. Nothing literally walks, which is
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Speaker 2: again why I'm doing program to kill. But even the
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Speaker 2: director freaking believed there was some kind of supernatural interference
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Speaker 2: in this movie. And now here's a quote from him. Quote,
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Speaker 2: I'm not a convert to the occult, but after all
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Speaker 2: I've seen on this film, I definitely believe in demonic possession.
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Speaker 2: We were plagued by strange and sinister things from the
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Speaker 2: very beginning in quote. Another cast member said, quote felt
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Speaker 2: I was playing around with something I shouldn't have been
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Speaker 2: playing around with in quote. And they even called a
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Speaker 2: legit priest in who blessed all the cast and crew
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Speaker 2: because so much fucked up shit was happening while trying
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Speaker 2: to make this movie. But let's talk about the people
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Speaker 2: who watched the motherfucker on the big screen for the
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Speaker 2: first time. This is a whole other issue because a
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Speaker 2: lot of the viewers were said to have suffered adverse
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Speaker 2: physical reactions, including fainting or vomiting, fucking blow and popcorn
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Speaker 2: chunks everywhere while trying to watch this And in nineteen
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Speaker 2: seventy five, the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease published
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Speaker 2: a paper by a psychiatrist documenting four cases of what
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Speaker 2: is called cinematic neurosis that was triggered by the film.
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Speaker 2: So what the actual fuck right? They're watching this movie
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Speaker 2: and not only are they having a visceral reaction, they're
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Speaker 2: getting triggered and they are developing something called cinematic neurosis. WHOA, okay,
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Speaker 2: And y'all think I stretch and grab for straws or
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Speaker 2: whatever it is you say when I do these movie breakdowns,
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Speaker 2: I don't fucking think so. And get this shit if
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Speaker 2: you don't think that they do things in movies on purpose.
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Speaker 2: In twenty ten, the Library of Congress selected this film
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Speaker 2: for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as
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Speaker 2: being quote culturally, historically and esthetically significant end quote. You
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Speaker 2: fucking think about that, Like they're not proud of this shit.
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Speaker 2: They're not. It's like you can't sit here and tell
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Speaker 2: me that they don't. Just absolutely love what they have
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Speaker 2: accomplished with this shit. Now, let's get to the fucking plot, right,
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Speaker 2: So we open up in northern Iraq with fucking Lancaster Marin, right,
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Speaker 2: and he's supposed to be on an archaeological dig in
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Speaker 2: the ancient ruins of Hatra, something I never looked into before,
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Speaker 2: but since we're breaking this down, seems only right to
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Speaker 2: do so. So. Heetra was an ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia,
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Speaker 2: located in present day eastern Ninevah. It is considered to
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Speaker 2: be the richest archaeological site from the Parthian Empire known
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Speaker 2: to date. And it's fucking anciently old, like pre flood
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Speaker 2: ancient ancient anciently old. And it seems to be like
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Speaker 2: this hot spot of sorts where a bunch of shit converged,
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Speaker 2: like where ley lines meet up kind of place, because
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Speaker 2: we see that all the small g lower case gods
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Speaker 2: make an appearance here. The city had temples to Nergal,
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Speaker 2: which is an Assyrian, Babylonian and Akkadian god. But we
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Speaker 2: also have Hermes, which was a Greek god. There's another
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Speaker 2: statue to an Aramean god. There's one to Shamaiah, which
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Speaker 2: is an Arabian god. Then there's a Shamash statue, which
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Speaker 2: is a Mesopotamian sun god. And other deities mentioned in
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Speaker 2: the hatred Aramaic inscriptions were, of course Ball and the
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Speaker 2: female deity known as asher Ball, which was the assimilation
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Speaker 2: of two different deities, the Assyrian god Asher and the
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Speaker 2: Babylonian god Ball. So in this area in real life,
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Speaker 2: we've got straight up ball worship. We've got statues of
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Speaker 2: these Annunaki type beings. It's all there. It's a fucking buffet.
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Speaker 2: And so in the movie, during the archaeological dig Lancaster,
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Speaker 2: Marin finds a tiny little stone talisman right of this
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Speaker 2: winged being and then he sees it later on in
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Speaker 2: a giant version, okay, of the same being that appears
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Speaker 2: with two dogs fighting, you know the scene, and it's
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Speaker 2: all very ominous and shit, and they say that it's
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Speaker 2: supposed to be this certain entity Pazuzu, right, but this
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Speaker 2: is made up for the movie and what it's based
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Speaker 2: on is a very real entity. I'm not going to
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Speaker 2: say the name, but it is z O z oh Okay,
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Speaker 2: But looking into the history of this site, it would
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Speaker 2: make more sense that it would have been one of
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Speaker 2: these Babylonian Cannonite demons like fucking Ball than this made
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Speaker 2: up Pazuzu character. Because I don't know about y'all, but
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Speaker 2: I am a die hard Ghost Adventures fan. And there
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Speaker 2: was this one guy in Oklahoma, no less, right around
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Speaker 2: the corner from my fucking neighborhood, right in Oklahoma City,
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Speaker 2: who claims that he was messing around with the Wuigi board,
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Speaker 2: got himself possessed, got his house possessed, got his wife possessed.
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Speaker 2: Fucking the demon was trying to fucking, you know, molest
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Speaker 2: on both of them, and all kinds of shit. And
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Speaker 2: the demon that kept coming through on the Wigi board
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Speaker 2: was z O z O. And they still have this
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Speaker 2: dude from Ghost Adventures on all the time as like
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Speaker 2: a consultant of sorts for the Dark Occult and Wigi boards.
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Speaker 2: So it's like the realist shit, right, And this demon
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Speaker 2: that comes through on the Wigi board in real life.
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Speaker 2: I know because I watched the fucking episode and then
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Speaker 2: I did some research on it after Ghost Adventures. This
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Speaker 2: is the really shit. This is supposedly the demon that
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Speaker 2: got inside of Reagan. So fuck you know, this is
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Speaker 2: why maybe the movie was cursed, because they're getting real
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Speaker 2: close to some serious truth here. Now let's cut in
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Speaker 2: to where we start getting introduced to the rest of
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Speaker 2: the cast. We are in, of course, Washington, d C. Georgetown.
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Speaker 2: Nice cozy home for a demon in Washington, DC, don't
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Speaker 2: you think with all of the obelisks and reflection pools
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Speaker 2: and pillars and shit, fucking home sweet home for a demon.
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Speaker 2: And actually this movie came out right in the fucking
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Speaker 2: middle of Watergate. So again, a lot of weird coincidences
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Speaker 2: and just odd shit that has went on around this movie.
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Speaker 2: But now get this shit. Okay. Some scenes in this movie,
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Speaker 2: particularly those with sexual content, were toned down for the
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Speaker 2: film adaptation since an actress of approximately Linda Blair's age
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Speaker 2: was expected to be cast. And in the book, though,
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Speaker 2: the fucking scene where Reagan masturbates with the crucifix was
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Speaker 2: way more prolonged, just so you know, and way more
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Speaker 2: fucking explicit and fucking in the book, Reagan is going
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Speaker 2: to fucking town on that pussy, like seriously injuring herself
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Speaker 2: yet attaining orgasm. It literally says that in the book
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Speaker 2: that she's all fucking squirting and shit and fucking all
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Speaker 2: devil possessed pussy all up in there, and they had
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Speaker 2: to take all that shit out because it was completely
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Speaker 2: inappropriate to have Linda Blair act that out at such
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Speaker 2: a young age. But the film also excludes the possessed
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Speaker 2: Reagan's constant fucking diarrhea. Okay, and it said in the
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Speaker 2: book that it gave her room a very strong, foul odor,
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Speaker 2: smelt like fucking dead fish puss mixed with shit and
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Speaker 2: fucking dead corpse ass all up in her room. So
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Speaker 2: I actually think, yeah, I get it, Linda Blairs young,
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Speaker 2: let's not traumatizer, let's not do to make her do
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Speaker 2: too much. But the constant diarrhea, that is actually pretty hilarious.
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Speaker 2: I mean, why not if you're gonna have her masturbate
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Speaker 2: with a crucifix, which they did have her do, And
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Speaker 2: then she puked pea soup everywhere, and she took a
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Speaker 2: huge piss in the living room. You telling me they
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Speaker 2: had to draw the line a diarrhea really that's where
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Speaker 2: the line was. I think pissing, puking, and masturbating with
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Speaker 2: a bloody crucifix tops diarrhea. All right, if I'm just
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Speaker 2: being honest, I really I'm you know, having a hard
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Speaker 2: time understanding how to justify that one. We're gonna have
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Speaker 2: you masturbate with this crucifix, Linda, but don't even think
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Speaker 2: about having diarrhea on camera. That's fucking disgusting. But anyways,
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Speaker 2: I guess. Also before they settled on Linda Blair, the
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Speaker 2: director was asking her if she knew anything about the movie,
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Speaker 2: and she said she read the book and said, quote,
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Speaker 2: it's about a girl who gets possessed by the devil
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Speaker 2: and does a whole bunch of bad things end quote,
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Speaker 2: And so Freedkin was like, what kinds of bad things?
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Speaker 2: And Linda said something like she pushes a man out
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Speaker 2: of her bedroom window and she hits her mom in
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Speaker 2: the face, and get this shit fucking freakin is like,
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Speaker 2: do you know what masturbation is? Have you ever done it? Like?
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Speaker 2: Think about that? That's so fucking weird he's asking her.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it's all for the sake of
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Speaker 2: the movie and whatever, But he's like, all too curious
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Speaker 2: as to whether this twelve year old girl knows what
28:25
Speaker 2: masturbation is and if she's ever done it. I guess
28:29
Speaker 2: that was part of the fucking criteria she had to
28:33
Speaker 2: pass in order to be a part of the movie.
28:36
Speaker 2: But anyways, the voice for the possessed Reagan, that was
28:43
Speaker 2: not Linda Blair. That was Mercedes McCambridge. And I'm pretty
28:51
Speaker 2: sure I've said this before, but she literally said to
28:55
Speaker 2: prepare for the role, she ate raw eggs, drank with
29:00
Speaker 2: and chain smoked siggi's to make Pazuzu's voice sound as
29:05
Speaker 2: intimidating as possible. So get this, They legit mixed bees, dogs, hamsters,
29:18
Speaker 2: and pigs into the demon voice, which is fucking genius
29:25
Speaker 2: because I have never watched another possession movie where I
29:30
Speaker 2: felt like the possessed person was selling it to me.
29:33
Speaker 2: I have never ever watched a possession movie where the
29:39
Speaker 2: fucking possessed person was in their own voice selling me
29:44
Speaker 2: their possession. Like The Exorcist set the bar for what
29:49
Speaker 2: a possessed person should sound like. And it is because
29:52
Speaker 2: they mixed bees, swarm, hive, mind, dogs, hamsters, and pigs
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Speaker 2: sounds into the demon's voice. That is exactly how I
30:03
Speaker 2: always imagined a possessed person would sound. Don't get me wrong,
30:07
Speaker 2: Emily Rose was pretty fucking scary, and there was a
30:10
Speaker 2: lot of fucking moments where you know, I don't know
30:14
Speaker 2: if you ever watched Dexter, but damn deb was full
30:18
Speaker 2: on fucking possessed. Okay, like full blown. But now let's
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Speaker 2: get to my favorite subject, subliminal messaging. Does the Exorcist
30:33
Speaker 2: contain any subliminal messaging? One hundred so? A nineteen ninety
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Speaker 2: one article examined the claim with stills to prove it
30:46
Speaker 2: of several uses of subliminal flashing, as they called it,
30:51
Speaker 2: and Freedkin, the director, literally told the people doing the interviews, quote,
30:58
Speaker 2: I saw subme liminal cuts in a number of films
31:02
Speaker 2: before I ever put them in The Exorcist, and I
31:06
Speaker 2: thought it was a very effective storytelling device. D quote,
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Speaker 2: storytelling device. That's an interesting word to use. And going
31:22
Speaker 2: back and rewatching the movie, as you know, I was
31:26
Speaker 2: preparing for this breakdown, I saw so many things that
31:30
Speaker 2: I had never noticed before. Now listen here, if you're
31:34
Speaker 2: gonna do this, if you're gonna go back and watch
31:36
Speaker 2: this and try to look for these things, you have
31:40
Speaker 2: to watch the extended director's cut, the kind the one
31:45
Speaker 2: that they have. If you go on Amazon Prime actually
31:48
Speaker 2: to try to watch it, you'll see that there's two versions.
31:52
Speaker 2: There's the Exorcist, the regular one that was I guess,
31:56
Speaker 2: the subdued version, and then you can also watch the
32:02
Speaker 2: director's cut or the extended cut that has all the
32:05
Speaker 2: subliminal flashes in there and some of the more. You know,
32:10
Speaker 2: when they play it on TV, they always take out
32:13
Speaker 2: the part where Reagan walks backwards down the stairs. They
32:17
Speaker 2: always take out. I mean, there are certain things that
32:20
Speaker 2: you just notice over time that they take out in
32:23
Speaker 2: the subdued version of the Exorcist. But so Friedkin said
32:31
Speaker 2: that the subliminal editing in The Exorcist was done for
32:35
Speaker 2: dramatic effect, to create, achieve and sustain a kind of
32:40
Speaker 2: dream like state. Now what does that sound like? A
32:44
Speaker 2: fucking dream like state? It's almost David Lynchy kind of
32:49
Speaker 2: in the way that he's trying to get people to
32:53
Speaker 2: disassociate while watching the movie, which he does an absolutely
32:57
Speaker 2: fantastic job of. And and I think I've said this before,
33:02
Speaker 2: but when I went to go visit my boyfriend, I
33:05
Speaker 2: had never watched David Lynch except for Doune, and he
33:10
Speaker 2: had me high as a fucking kite. Watch Mullholland Drive
33:16
Speaker 2: and you want to talk about being in a disassociated state,
33:19
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure I saw the face of God while
33:21
Speaker 2: watching that movie, and I thought we were supposed to
33:24
Speaker 2: be having a good time. But you know, I guess
33:26
Speaker 2: that's what I get for dating a fellow film enthusiast
33:33
Speaker 2: and conspiracy theorist. But anyways, let's walk through the movie
33:37
Speaker 2: a little bit. I'm not even gonna go scene by
33:39
Speaker 2: seeing breaking down all the plot and all the stuff
33:42
Speaker 2: in the background and shit like that, because let's be real,
33:44
Speaker 2: if you've watched it at all, you know that there
33:48
Speaker 2: is a million subliminal messages in there, and there's a
33:51
Speaker 2: million little hints and clues that there is something more
33:54
Speaker 2: to this movie than what meets the eye, apart from
33:58
Speaker 2: just the fucking deaths on set and fucking injuries and
34:04
Speaker 2: all that shit. So there is a scene where they're
34:10
Speaker 2: doing the party scene and there's a lot of background
34:16
Speaker 2: stuff going on. I feel like, for the time, this
34:20
Speaker 2: was actually a woke movie for the time, because the
34:24
Speaker 2: things that they're talking about the movie that Chris is
34:27
Speaker 2: making in the movie is really woke in kind of
34:32
Speaker 2: like women's rights and feminism and all this stuff. And
34:37
Speaker 2: then we get to like the party scene and Burke
34:40
Speaker 2: Dennings is talking to the other priest guy, who, by
34:46
Speaker 2: the way, I'm ninety eight percent sure is gay. He's
34:50
Speaker 2: a gay priest. Shocking, but so he's talking to him
34:56
Speaker 2: and he's talking about the Gemini and Mercury space program
35:03
Speaker 2: And then in the same scene, the director in the
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Speaker 2: movie is drunk as a skunk and he keeps making
35:14
Speaker 2: all these Nazi references about globals and you know, accusing
35:19
Speaker 2: the housekeeper being a Nazi. And so within the same
35:23
Speaker 2: scene we have someone talking about the Gemini and Mercury
35:27
Speaker 2: space programs to a gay guy, and then in the
35:31
Speaker 2: same scene have the director making Nazi references accusing the
35:39
Speaker 2: housekeeper being a Nazi. And for the time, there are
35:44
Speaker 2: certain things that they included in the movie that are
35:47
Speaker 2: woke as fuck, like, oh, we gotta exhaust all of
35:50
Speaker 2: the medical scenarios before we jump to psychological or spiritual issues,
35:57
Speaker 2: which is exactly what they have pushed on everyone to
36:01
Speaker 2: this day, that that people can't have a spiritual issue.
36:05
Speaker 2: Everyone is suffering from some kind of physical ailment. They
36:08
Speaker 2: need to be on big Pharma, they need to have
36:11
Speaker 2: test run and so I think that it's very significant
36:17
Speaker 2: that they included all that kind of stuff within the movie.
36:20
Speaker 2: And what is even more significant to me is the
36:25
Speaker 2: brand new Exorcist that came out in twenty twenty three,
36:30
Speaker 2: so just last year is called The Exorcist Believer is
36:35
Speaker 2: even more woke in a million ways than one and
36:42
Speaker 2: it's definitely pushing an agenda. And it's just funny to
36:48
Speaker 2: me because there's been so many Exorcists that have come
36:52
Speaker 2: out since the original one, in so many possession movies.
36:55
Speaker 2: But if we're going to stick with just the Exorcist,
36:57
Speaker 2: there was like The Exorcist, the haird the Extors. Is
37:01
Speaker 2: this the one that came out last year? Though, is
37:06
Speaker 2: the first time since the Heretic that we see a
37:09
Speaker 2: reappearance by Linda Blair and Ellen Burston. They're both in
37:13
Speaker 2: the one that came out last year. Linda Blair does
37:17
Speaker 2: a very small cameo appearance, like less than seven seconds
37:21
Speaker 2: at the end of the movie, but she's still in
37:23
Speaker 2: there and actually the mom she's in it quite a bit.
37:30
Speaker 2: And I couldn't believe she was still fucking alive, but
37:33
Speaker 2: she's in it, and they're pushing this whole woke agenda,
37:36
Speaker 2: like you don't need Jesus to cast out demons, you
37:40
Speaker 2: don't need this, you don't need that. It's the first
37:43
Speaker 2: one spoiler alert. I have to get this off my chest.
37:48
Speaker 2: There's like all these fucking twists because like it's two
37:52
Speaker 2: girls being possessed instead of one, and in most possession movies,
37:57
Speaker 2: the motherfuckers don't actually die. They kind of get, you know,
38:04
Speaker 2: either saved or the demon jumps into another person and
38:08
Speaker 2: they're saved or they're spared, sacrificed whatever, so that, uh,
38:16
Speaker 2: they get the demon out, but not in this one.
38:19
Speaker 2: This one, a little girl literally gets taken to hell.
38:23
Speaker 2: It's like one of the scariest things. I had a
38:25
Speaker 2: horrible nightmare after I watched that movie. And there's a
38:29
Speaker 2: scene where they get this priest to come in and
38:32
Speaker 2: he lays hands on both of the girls and he's
38:34
Speaker 2: praying over him, and it's this very powerful moment and
38:37
Speaker 2: you're like, oh my god, he's gonna save him. No,
38:40
Speaker 2: he don't. Fucking gets his next twisted and snapped dead
38:44
Speaker 2: fucking drops down to the floor and Like I said,
38:48
Speaker 2: one of the little girls literally gets dies and gets
38:51
Speaker 2: taken to Hell, and there's all this voodoo whodoo, Haitian
38:56
Speaker 2: witchcraft and all this stuff, and they make it out
39:00
Speaker 2: to be like the Haitian voodoo stuff is what saves them.
39:05
Speaker 2: And there's like a racial thing going on in the movie,
39:09
Speaker 2: and there is. It's just loaded with just odd shit,
39:16
Speaker 2: just odd shit. But if you take into consideration that
39:20
Speaker 2: the first Exorcist, even though it doesn't look like it
39:22
Speaker 2: to us now in nineteen seventy three, was a woke movie,
39:26
Speaker 2: it would make sense that the twenty twenty three version
39:29
Speaker 2: would be a woke movie as well. Anyways, there's just
39:33
Speaker 2: so much stuff compacted in both of these movies. Is
39:36
Speaker 2: it cursed? I think so. I mean, obviously you can
39:40
Speaker 2: come up with your own conclusions as far as that's concerned,
39:44
Speaker 2: But go back and rewatch it kind of look for
39:50
Speaker 2: the telltale signs and you know, come up with your
39:54
Speaker 2: own conclusions. But that is my analysis of the Exorcist.
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Speaker 2: Hopefully next time I come to you, I'm in a
40:03
Speaker 2: different location. But thank you so much everyone for being
40:10
Speaker 2: a part of this little breakdown with me, and I
40:15
Speaker 2: will catch you on the next one.
40:19
Speaker 3: The Exorcist is a film dealing with the supernatural. Parental
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Speaker 3: discretion is advised. The number one box office movie of
40:27
Speaker 3: its kind, a classic tale of innocent lives suddenly transformed.
40:33
Speaker 3: A mother and daughter on the brink of tragedy, and
40:36
Speaker 3: only one man can possibly say them telling you that
40:39
Speaker 3: that thing upstairs isn't my daughter. Now, I want you
40:42
Speaker 3: to tell me that you know for a fact that
40:44
Speaker 3: there's nothing wrong with my daughter except.
40:46
Speaker 2: In her mind.
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Speaker 3: Watch the Academy Award winning suspense classic The Exorcist. Next