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The Exorcist and the Middle Eastern Demon Script ! EP42 - THE EXORCIST AND THE MIDDLE EASTERN DEMON HEY EVERYONE - IT’S OCTOBER. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? THAT MEANS PUMPKIN FLAVORED EVERYTHING AND SWEATERS AND AND HOCUS POCUS AND LOTS OF CANDY AND ME USING WAY TOO MANY GHOST EMOJIS, BUT IT ALSO MEANS THAT IT’S TIME FOR SOME HALLOWEEN THEMED EPISODES. AND IF YOU LOVE HALLOWEEN JUST AS MUCH AS I DO, YOU MIGHT WANT TO LSITEN TO THE TWO BURST YOUR BUBBLE HALLOWEEN EPISODES FROM LAST YEAR: EP19 - DRACULA AND THE EUGENICS MOVEMENT AND EP20 - WHITE ZOMBIE AND ITS MANY - ISMS AND -PHOBIAS. SO, IN THE HALLOWEEN SPIRIT, LET’S TALK ABOUT PETER BLATTY’S 1971 BOOK AND 1973 FILM: THE EXORCIST. (IN UNISON:) MORGAN: WHAT AN EXCELLENT DAY FOR A PODCAST. CLIP: WHAT AN EXCELLENT DAY FOR AN EXORCISM. WAIT, WHAT? I’M MORGAN JAFFE AND THIS IS BURST YOUR BUBBLE TO UNDERSTAND THE EXORCIST, YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND WILLIAM PETER BLATTY, THE MAN WHO BOTH WROTE THE BOOK AND ADAPTED IT INTO THE FILM. AND TO UNDERSTAND BLATTY, YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT INFLUENCES IN HIS LIFE: HIS MOTHER AND HIS SURROGATE FATHERS - THE JESUITS.1 1 Dean, E. (2015, October 19). Think "The Exorcist" Was Just a Horror Movie? The Author Says You're Wrong. Retrieved October 3, 2018, from https:// www.washingtonian.com/2015/10/19/think-the-exorcist-was-just-a-horror-movie- author-william-peter-blatty-says-youre-wrong/ !1 ! BLATTY’S MOTHER WAS A CATHOLIC, LEBANESE IMMIGRANT. A TRUE MERGING OF CULTURES, SHE LOVINGLY CALLED HIM IL WAHEED, ARABIC FOR “THE ONE,” AND RAISED HIM CATHOLIC IN NEW YORK CITY.2 BLATTY’S FATHER LEFT HIM AND HIS MOTHER WHEN HE WAS SIX.3 SO HIS STAND IN FATHER OF SORTS, HIS MALE ROLE MODELS, WERE THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH HIS CATHOLIC MOTHER WOULD TAKE HIM TO, AND LATER AT THE SCHOOLS HE WOULD ATTEND, AT JESUIT RUN SCHOOLS ON FULL SCHOLARSHIPS: THE NOW CLOSED BROOKLYN PREPARATORY SCHOOL, WHERE HE WAS VALEDICTORIAN FOR THE GRADUATING CLASS OF 1946, AND GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WHERE HE GRADUATED IN 1950.4 WHILE AT GEORGETOWN, ONE AFTERNOON IN A THEOLOGY CLASS, BLATTY’S PROFESSOR WAS TELLING EVERYONE ABOUT A CASE OF DEMONIC POSSESSION THAT HAD BEEN HAPPENING IN NEARBY MARYLAND.5 IN AUGUST OF 1949, WASHINGTON NEWSPAPERS REPORTED THAT A BOY HAD BEEN POSSESSED BY A DEMON, SPEAKING IN LATIN - WHICH HE’D NEVER STUDIED - WITH 2 Dean, E. (2015, October 19). Think "The Exorcist" Was Just a Horror Movie? The Author Says You're Wrong. Retrieved October 3, 2018, from https:// www.washingtonian.com/2015/10/19/think-the-exorcist-was-just-a-horror-movie- author-william-peter-blatty-says-youre-wrong/ 3 Dean, E. (2015, October 19). Think "The Exorcist" Was Just a Horror Movie? The Author Says You're Wrong. Retrieved October 3, 2018, from https:// www.washingtonian.com/2015/10/19/think-the-exorcist-was-just-a-horror-movie- author-william-peter-blatty-says-youre-wrong/ 4 Vitello, P. (2017, January 13). William Peter Blatty, Author of 'The Exorcist,' Dies at 89. Retrieved October 3, 2018, from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/books/ william-peter-blatty-author-of-the-exorcist-dies-at-89.html 5 Dean, E. (2015, October 19). Think "The Exorcist" Was Just a Horror Movie? The Author Says You're Wrong. Retrieved October 3, 2018, from https:// www.washingtonian.com/2015/10/19/think-the-exorcist-was-just-a-horror-movie- author-william-peter-blatty-says-youre-wrong/ !2 ! STRANGE SYMBOLS AND LETTER APPEARING ON HIS BODY. IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE ONLY THING THAT CURED HIM WAS AN EXORCISM.6 7 THE STORY STUCK WITH BLATTY. AFTER COLLEGE HE WAS MANY THINGS: AN ELECTROLUX VACUUM CLEANER SALESMAN, A GUNTHER BEER TRUCK DRIVER, A SOLDIER IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE DIVISION, AND AN EDITOR FOR THE U.S. INFORMATION AGENCY. BUT HE MOVED TO HOLLYWOOD IN THE LATE 1950S, WORKING HIS WAY UP FROM A GHOSTWRITING GIG FOR DEAR ABBY TO A REWRITE MAN TO A SCREENWRITER - MOSTLY FOR COMEDIES. IT WASN’T UNTIL THE 1960S,UNEMPLOYED AND LOOKING FOR WORK, THAT BLATTY WOULD EVEN THINK ABOUT THE EXORCISM HE HAD LEARNED ABOUT IN HIS GEORGETOWN THEOLOGY CLASS ALL THOSE YEARS AGO. 8 ACCORDING TO BLATTY, “I REMEMBER THINKING, ‘BOY, IF SOMEBODY WOULD DIG INTO THIS AND AUTHENTICATE IT AND SHOW THAT IT’S THE REAL THING, WHAT A GIFT TO THE FAITH. IT STAYED IN MY MIND, AND I THOUGHT MAYBE I’D TRY TO WRITE A NONFICTION ACCOUNT.’”9 BLATTY CONTACTED THE JESUIT PRIEST WHO HAD PERFORMED THE 1949 EXORCISM, OFFERING TO GHOSTWRITE THE BOOK, BUT THE PRIEST SAID NO. HIS SUPERIORS DIDN’T WANT TO PUBLICIZE THE EVENT. THE FAMILY HAD REQUESTED TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS, SO INSTEAD BLATTY WROTE A FICTIONAL ACCOUNT OF THE STORY, USING HIS 6 Cull, N. (2000). The Exorcist. In D. W. Ellwood (Ed.), The Movies as History: Visions of the Twentieth Century (p. 198). Phoenix Mill: Sutton Pub. 7 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/features/dcmovies/ exorcism1949.htm 8 Dean, E. (2015, October 19). Think "The Exorcist" Was Just a Horror Movie? The Author Says You're Wrong. Retrieved October 3, 2018, from https:// www.washingtonian.com/2015/10/19/think-the-exorcist-was-just-a-horror-movie- author-william-peter-blatty-says-youre-wrong/ 9 Dean, E. (2015, October 19). Think "The Exorcist" Was Just a Horror Movie? The Author Says You're Wrong. Retrieved October 3, 2018, from https:// www.washingtonian.com/2015/10/19/think-the-exorcist-was-just-a-horror-movie- author-william-peter-blatty-says-youre-wrong/ !3 ! KNOWLEDGE FROM HIS CATHOLIC UPBRINGING AND, APPARENTLY, AN INTENSE AND WILD IMAGINATION.10 BLATTY PUBLISHED THE EXORCIST IN 1971 AND IT WAS A TREMENDOUS SUCCESS, WITH 13 MILLION COPIES SOLD IN THE UNITED STATES ALONE11. IN THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOR THE BOOK, BLATTY THANKS HIS ENGLISH PROFESSOR, BERNARD WAGNER, “FOR TEACHING ME TO WRITE” AND THE JESUITS “FOR TEACHING ME TO THINK.”12 THE RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE - BOTH ON BLATTY AND HIS WRITING - IS CLEAR. HE CALLED THE BOOK “AN APOSTOLIC WORK” - EVEN CLAIMING THAT IT WAS A BEST SELLER BECAUSE OF DIVINE INTERVENTION.13 AND HE WANTED IT TO BE A MOVIE, AS NICHOLAS CULL WRITES, “TO SCARE A NEW GENERATION OF AMERICANS BACK INTO CHURCH.”14 10 Dean, E. (2015, October 19). Think "The Exorcist" Was Just a Horror Movie? The Author Says You're Wrong. Retrieved October 3, 2018, from https:// www.washingtonian.com/2015/10/19/think-the-exorcist-was-just-a-horror-movie- author-william-peter-blatty-says-youre-wrong/ 11 Haldane, J. (2017, March). Evil to Good to God: The Philosophical Intent of William Blatty. Commonweal, 144(5). Retrieved October 3, 2018, from https:// www.commonwealmagazine.org/evil-good-god/ 12 Dean, E. (2015, October 19). Think "The Exorcist" Was Just a Horror Movie? The Author Says You're Wrong. Retrieved October 3, 2018, from https:// www.washingtonian.com/2015/10/19/think-the-exorcist-was-just-a-horror-movie- author-william-peter-blatty-says-youre-wrong/ 13 Cull, N. (2000). The Exorcist. In D. W. Ellwood (Ed.), The Movies as History: Visions of the Twentieth Century (p. 198). Phoenix Mill: Sutton Pub. 14 Cull, N. (2000). The Exorcist. In D. W. Ellwood (Ed.), The Movies as History: Visions of the Twentieth Century (p. 198). Phoenix Mill: Sutton Pub. !4 ! AS BLATTY TOLD A REPORTER DECADES LATER, HE WANTED PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THE POINT OF THE EXORCIST - BOTH THE BOOK AND THE FILM: “THAT GOD EXISTS AND THE UNIVERSE ITSELF WILL HAVE A HAPPY ENDING.”15 THE EXORCIST OPENED THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS, 1973. LINES WOULD GO FOR BLOCKS AND BLOCKS. IT’S SAID THAT PEOPLE WOULD VOMIT DURING THE SCREENING, THAT VIEWERS WOULD FAINT, AND THAT MOVIE THEATRES HAD SMELLING SALTS ON HAND TO REVIVE THEM.16 IN ONE SAN FRANCISCO THEATRE, A VIEWER CHARGED THE SCREEN, TRYING TO KILL THE DEMON.17 IN BOSTON A VIEWER WAS CARRIED OUT OF THE THEATRE AS SHE MURMURED, “IT COST ME FOUR DOLLARS BUT I ONLY LASTED TWENTY MINUTES.”18 BY MARCH OF 1974, THE FILM HAD SOLD OVER 6 MILLION TICKETS IN THE UNITED STATES, LET ALONE WORLDWIDE.19 IT WAS A PHENOMENON - A TERRIFYING PHENOMENON. NOW I DON’T KNOW IF YOU’VE EVER WATCHED THE EXORCIST - TRUTH BE TOLD THE FIRST TIME I DID WAS SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS EPISODE - AND I DIDN’T WANT TO. I THOUGHT I’D BE TOO SCARED. YOU SEE HER HEAD TURN AROUND 360 DEGREES. SHE PROJECTILE VOMITS GREEN PUKE ALL OVER A PRIEST - AND LET’S BE REAL: I COULD NOT EAT AVOCADOS FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS AFTER. IT’S VISUALLY DISGUSTING AND 15 Vitello, P. (2017, January 13). William Peter Blatty, Author of 'The Exorcist,' Dies at 89. Retrieved October 3, 2018, from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/books/ william-peter-blatty-author-of-the-exorcist-dies-at-89.html 16 Dean, E. (2015, October 19). Think "The Exorcist" Was Just a Horror Movie? The Author Says You're Wrong. Retrieved October 3, 2018, from https:// www.washingtonian.com/2015/10/19/think-the-exorcist-was-just-a-horror-movie- author-william-peter-blatty-says-youre-wrong/ 17 Cull, N. (2000). The Exorcist. In D. W. Ellwood (Ed.), The Movies as History: Visions of the Twentieth Century (p. 196). Phoenix Mill: Sutton Pub. 18 Cull, N. (2000). The Exorcist. In D. W. Ellwood (Ed.), The Movies as History: Visions of the Twentieth Century (p. 196). Phoenix Mill: Sutton Pub. 19 Cull, N.
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