{"id":2604,"date":"2005-09-12T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/09\/newsbites-exorcism-hell-violence\/"},"modified":"2005-09-12T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-12T12:54:00","slug":"newsbites-exorcism-hell-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/09\/newsbites-exorcism-hell-violence.html","title":{"rendered":"Newsbites: Exorcism! Hell! Violence!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Time for another batch.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i> says the writers of The Exorcism of Emily Rose<\/a><\/i> employed a \u201cyin and yang\u201d approach:<\/p>\n

With \u201cExorcism,\u201d they found a way to pay respect to their diametrically opposed viewpoints. Told through flashback, the movie\u2019s plot implies that the title character either succumbed to demonic invasion or a worldly medical condition. The film, perhaps in deference to the writers\u2019 competing philosophies, never answers the question: What happened to Emily Rose?<\/p>\n

For Derrickson, the answer haunted him even in his sleep. He says he was spooked when he woke up at exactly 3 a.m. \u2014 a recurring motif in the film that suggests a satanic visit \u2014 several times during production.<\/p>\n

But Boardman offers a logical explanation. \u201c(It\u2019s an) example that the power of suggestion was working on him on some level,\u201d he quips.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

2. Reuters\/VNU<\/a> profiles Bosnian director Danis Tanovic, whose film Hell (L\u2019Enfer)<\/a><\/i> premiered at the Toronto festival last week and will come to the Vancouver festival<\/a> next month:<\/p>\n

The origin of Tanovic\u2019s drama goes back to the late Polish film maker Krzysztof Kieslowski, whose trilogy \u201cThree Colors,\u201d examined liberty, equality, and fraternity, the values of the French revolution.<\/p>\n

Kieslowski was associated with the \u201ccinema of moral anxiety.\u201d He announced a new trilogy based on Dante\u2019s epic poems: \u201cHeaven,\u201d \u201cHell\u201d and \u201cPurgatory,\u201d before he died in 1996.<\/p>\n

When the idea of completing Kieslowski\u2019s project was first introduced to Tanovic several years ago, he did not feel an instant attraction.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the idea was first introduced to me, I married, I became a father, and the subject appeared different to me. I discovered new centers of interest,\u201d Tanovic, who now lives in Paris, told Reuters.<\/p>\n

The screenplay was written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz, a long-time collaborator of Kieslowski, whom Tanovic admired as a student.<\/p>\n

\u201cHeaven\u201d was filmed by another director and Tanovic says he wants no part of the last film in the trilogy, \u201cPurgatory,\u201d which deals with journalists in a war zone. He said he does not want to make any more war films.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BTW, that \u201cother director\u201d who made Heaven<\/a><\/i> (2002; my review<\/a>) is Tom Tykwer, a German whose most famous film over here would probably be Run Lola Run<\/a><\/i> (1998; my article<\/a>; my 1999 top ten list<\/a>).<\/p>\n

3. Reuters<\/a> profiles David Cronenberg\u2019s A History of Violence<\/a><\/i>, and it occurs to me that we are seeing quite a few films on our love affair with guns these days, including Andrew Niccol\u2019s Lord of War<\/a><\/i> and Thomas Vinterberg\u2019s Dear Wendy<\/a><\/i>. I sense a theme piece \u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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