Exorcist: The Beginning Review (2004)
Yesterday was one of those rainy Sundays where not wanted to leave, I got the video store and met with the expected version, not released in commercial theaters, from ‘The Exorcist, The Beginning’ directed by Paul Schrader, and had problems with producer, who decided to reshoot the film with Renny Harlin at the front and which was finally opened in theaters, being one of the most frightening monsters of recent years.
Schrader has always been known for being a great writer, his scripts are the magnificent ‘Yakuza’ Sydney Pollack or ‘Raging Bull’ by Martin Scorsese, to name just two examples. And almost always scripted the films she directs, but this time has not been the case that has left work to William Peter Blatty and William Wisher Jr., reserving only the tasks of management, in my opinion, a mistake because Schrader not such a good director and screenwriter.
The changes in the Harlin version are substantial, in fact there are very few scenes together and the deal is nearly different, except for a couple of players. Stellan Skarsgard plays Father Merrin in his early days as a priest, how a fateful made during the Second World War makes you lose faith, and how years later in South Africa will have to question this faith when confronted with forces malignant. To say that this great actor is like a little lost on paper, in both versions, although if I had to choose, I would say is better in the Harlin version, which is already worrying.
The film focuses mainly on the characters. The horrifying story, although present, is neglected in favor of a psychological plot that runs through each and every one of which abound in the film. Seeing this, he fully understands why the producer did not want to debut this version is a slow film that takes time to explain all the motivations of the characters, unlike the Harlin version, which was a feast of visual effects very bad indeed, which did not explain anything and focused only on the terror, if they had.
However, despite how good the script is structured, the film fails because of the direction of Schrader, who is unable to maintain the quality of the script to transfer it to images, resulting in a cold and impersonal realization far from their best jobs. Fails to create the necessary climate for the kind of story is being told, let alone convey the inner struggle of characters lost to the breaking of their beliefs.
So, and because the director, it feels, at times, to find ourselves in a typical television movie at 4 pm, and that obviously adds nothing new to the wonderful film by William Friedkin, and who in 1973 terrorized half the world.
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