Brooke Shields & Richard Chamberlain to Star in Premiere of THE EXORCIST- Page 8

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/12/12 at 7:13pm

I will add this after looking at the clips on BWW ... I think the sound designer was definitely coming closest to creating a genuinely creepy and unsettling mood. I liked what I heard.

[Alec3]

Posted: 7/12/12 at 7:53pm

Agree.. You feel nothing for this child.. But it's not about her, script wise.
funny, I went back to you tube to watch the trailer for the film.
And in seconds, you felt for the child because she was scared and horrified.. This
Child isn't... And Ellen Burstein.. Empathetic , scared..
Saying the same line... But with modulation !
Not just anger scream-acting.... Even Chamberlain was stiff.
What u didn't like about the devils voice was the layered voice track .
He wasn't a singular
Sinister presence , but processed sounding .
I could go in and on, but my finger hurts!

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 7/12/12 at 8:02pm

The problem the critics are having has nothing to do with having a 20 something year old playing a child, in fact that is barely mentioned. She is actually the one who the critics seemed to like in the show, so i guess that put's that to bed. If you feel or don't feel for her it's not because of her age it appears it's because of the script.

It was always going to be stripped down, putting some of the stuff on stage that they did in the film would just come across as campy, no matter who well it's done. The problem with this one appears to be the constant addressing the audience and the over analysing every moment by the characters.

Stripping it down and making it a story about good and evil and where evil lurks is a wonderful idea, but the story has to build organically rather than actors telling you what to feel.

Hopefully they can fix the problems and loosen the piece up a bit and just let it tell the story, otherwise i would suspect it will be put to rest out of town.

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/12/12 at 8:08pm

I wonder if Pielmeier can let the verbiage go.

His device for Agnes of God was the psychiatrist character talking to us (the audience) after the fact, and relaying the entire story as a flashback. She was able to "overanalyze" because that was her job as a court-appointed psychiatrist.


EDIT: in the Times review, it sounded like they felt much of it is there to give Chamberlain a bigger role.

Updated On: 7/12/12 at 08:08 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/12/12 at 10:22pm

A few years before The Excorcist movie came out and I saw it onscreen in a real live movie theater, I got my first 10-speed bike with handle breaks. It felt so different from my first bike, a fixed gear banana seat Bobby Brady kind of thing. I loved how you could pedal the 10-speed backwards. I loved the sensation and I loved the sound. Whirrrrr whirrrrr whirrrrr. This thread reminds me of that.

I have missed IflitIfloat acutely every day since she died. We really need her expert color-coding skills at times like these. Since we don't have that, I think we should go with one of Dina Martina's more endearing catchphrases: "OFF THE CHARTS!!!"

[ljay889]

Posted: 7/13/12 at 2:58am

Poor Brooke Shields. She can't catch a break with shows in LA.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 7/17/12 at 7:34pm

Here's a segment of a doc on the making of the movie that shows how some of the effects/prosthetics were done. Which ones do you think could work on stage?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyFSZRvaDL8

[Idiot]

Posted: 7/26/12 at 5:43pm

Seeing this tonight. Will most certainly have to report back.

[Idiot]

Posted: 7/27/12 at 2:30am

Oh no. The power of Christ does not compel this show. At all.

The wrong choices are myriad. The script is dreadful. The direction worse. There's not a relationship visible between any two characters on that stage. It made me realize why the film works so well. The relationships are real.

The soliloquies are embarrassing. Really embarrassing.

Kudos to the sound design -- but that even became comical / pretentious at the end.

Don't worry NY -- your fair city will not be needing an Exorcism anytime soon.