L'Exorciste : Au commencement

Titre original : Exorcist: The Beginning

2004
12
1h 54min

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Avant que le père Merrin n'aide à sauver l'âme de Regan MacNeil, il rencontre pour la première fois le démon Pazuzu en Afrique de l'Est. C'est le récit de la première bataille du père Merrin... Tout lireAvant que le père Merrin n'aide à sauver l'âme de Regan MacNeil, il rencontre pour la première fois le démon Pazuzu en Afrique de l'Est. C'est le récit de la première bataille du père Merrin contre Pazuzu et de la redécouverte de sa foi.Avant que le père Merrin n'aide à sauver l'âme de Regan MacNeil, il rencontre pour la première fois le démon Pazuzu en Afrique de l'Est. C'est le récit de la première bataille du père Merrin contre Pazuzu et de la redécouverte de sa foi.

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Récompenses
- 6 nominations au total

Anecdotes
Morgan Creek Productions fired Paul Schrader after he had submitted a completed movie, saying that he had given them "footage without any of the bloody violence the backers had wanted". He had already made it clear in interviews that he was making more of a psychological drama than an all-out gore-fest. He was fired and Renny Harlin was hired to re-shoot the movie. Almost 90% of the movie was re-shot, re-casting several roles and adding and removing characters. Following the lackluster reception to Harlin's version, though, Schrader's version was finally released as Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005).

Gaffes
(at around 1h 19 mins) Father Gionetti gives Father Merrin a copy of the Rituale Romanum (Roman Ritual). (The administration of exorcism is in Title X of the Rituale Romanum.) The title of the book embossed on its leather cover is "Roman Ritual", in English. Later in the film (at around 1h 35 mins), Father Merrin asks Joseph to help him by reading passages of the book, and we are shown a couple of printed pages, the text of which is also in English. The Rituale Romanum would have been printed in Latin in 1949, when the film is set, because vulgar translations of liturgical texts were not authorized until the promulgation of the Sacrosanctum Concilium (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy) by Pope Paul VI on 4 December 1963, as part of the Second Vatican Council.

Citations
Sarah: [Possessed] He
[God]
Sarah: doesn't care about this whore. But you do... because you want to shove your rotten cock up her juicy ass!

Connexions
Edited into Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)

Bandes originales
Call to Prayers
Composed by Robert J. Walsh
Courtesy of FirstCom Music

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6/10

Horror movie, but nothing more

I watched Schrader's "Dominion" in the morning and Harlin's "Beginning" in the afternoon, hoping that watching them back to back would make a comparison easier than for most people who waited a year until the deleted version by Schrader was finally released. Renny Harlin used only a few minutes from the already existing footage, so "Beginning" really became a new movie. But unfortunately, the whole effort of re-shooting didn't make the movie better.

In Harlin's "remake", we get a smart young priest, straight from the Vatican (James D'Arcy) who has received all the information about the buried church in advance. In "Dominion", Gabriel Mann played an innocent priest who does not expect anything terrible, he just wants to start a school in the middle of Africa. The latter was the better screenplay idea in my opinion, because D'Arcy is such a cool "professional" that we don't really care about him, whereas Mann was a character the audience loves for his human feelings. Also there is more mystery in "Domionion" whereas "Beginning" once explained the whole background, and that was it - too easy.

"Beginning" has a lot more gory effects, swarms of ugly insects and its demon uses obscenities in same way Linda Blair did in the original "Exorcist" movie. This will probably entertain people who just want a horror movie and nothing else. Mind you, "Beginning" also has good photography, a few unforgettable moments like the battlefield at the beginning and good actors! But the release of the original version "Dominion" proved that the story has had more potential, Schrader worked more careful with the characters and their relationships and gave more food for thought. I voted 6/10 for "Beginning" and 8/10 for "Dominion".