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Ending: Devil Appears in Bonfire and Starts to Walk Out of It
Greek?
Inept Dreck
Even as a Kids' Movie, This is Junk
Very Uneven
TV Show with Medical Students from Sometime in the 1980s (Mid- to Late- ?)
Sitcom Set in Medical School?
Solid Lead Performance, But...
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I doubt that Blatty ever had a Greek Orthodox priest in mind as a protagonist. As was said, Blatty was a believing Catholic with strong ties to Georgetown and the Jesuits. I grew up Catholic on the East Coast - Catholic grade school, high school and college. Most - not all - of the last names I encountered were Irish, Italian, Polish and German. Not too many French, Spanish or Portuguese, though those countries were traditionally Catholic too. And sure there are outliers - converts, etc. Scottish, English, African Catholics in smaller numbers, not to mention most of Latin America. Given that, it just seemed unusual to me that Blatty chose to highlight somebody from such a homogenous, non-Catholic religious tradition. As a Greek Catholic, Karras would have been an outlier to some degree and maybe that appealed to Blatty. I don't think the average non-Catholic would have even clocked anything unusual about it. I don't think I did myself until years after I first saw it. Yes, I'm sure there are at least a few Catholics from every nation on Earth. I just wondered if Blatty ever remarked on his somewhat unusual choice.
Well, sure he could have been part of the 1%. I guess I was wondering if Blatty had ever commented on it. Who knows, maybe he had a friend or a professor who was.
A very pretty girl, but she can't act to save her life. It's so bad that it's basically anti-acting.
Whaaa...? Uh, no. I did go to high school with Paul McCrane though.
I took a look and a I don't think so. I think that setting would have stuck in my mind, though that was warmer. That actually seems like a good premise for a show, med school in the Caribbean. I just have this one impression of the new students standing around and informally introducing themselves and when the nurse does, somebody makes that snide remark to, I believe, another student, not to the nurse directly. I almost want to say that it was on videotape not film, but I don't trust my memory enough for that. As weird as it sounds, I almost picture them in some pretty stark setting, like a garage or something, standing up, maybe waiting to be shown around on the first day. If I remembered one person in it, it would be a cinch, but I don't. That line is really all I have.
Took a look, but, no, they were definitely medical students, not nursing students. Thanks though.
I'm not sure what the real story is, but I've heard Getty's family has angrily denied that he was complicit in his original kidnapping. The young guy being killed after helping him escape was also completely left out of the movie version and the two diverge pretty dramatically when it comes to the ear. One has a doctor hired by the kidnappers doing it and the other makes it Getty's idea and a young boy doing it. What the hell? Isn't that much of the real story known for sure by now? Speaking of fluff, the incessant shadow puppets in this version felt like torture.
I"ve always liked her, but a couple of the women that play the father's and the grandfather's squeezes are utter smoke shows.
It's well done, but the pacing is somewhat uneven. It can go from compelling to plodding even within the same episode. Clearly, money was spent and Donald Sutherland is superb, but 10 parts for this story is an awful lot. If it would have been tightened to eight, it might have been better. That said, there are many important details that weren't included in the movie.
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