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The character of Merrin reappears in the sequel Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), in extended flashbacks detailing an exorcism he performed in Africa following the Second World War. He is portrayed in both films by Max von Sydow. The studio wanted Marlon Brando for the role of Father Merrin, [2] but director William Friedkin immediately vetoed ...
An elderly Jesuit priest named Father Lankester Merrin is leading an archaeological dig in northern Iraq and is studying ancient relics. After discovering a small statue of the demon Pazuzu (an actual ancient Assyrian demon), a series of omens alerts him to a pending confrontation with a powerful evil, which, unknown to the reader at this point, he has battled before in an exorcism in Africa.
Father Gionetti, warden of the asylum, speculates that Bession was not possessed but rather "touched" by a demon, which drove him mad and eventually to suicide. Merrin is very skeptical, but before he returns to the dig site, Father Gionetti gives him the volume of Roman rituals to use in exorcism, although Merrin claims he will never use them.
In The Exorcist, church officials described Father Merrin (Max Von Sydow) as the only person with enough real-world experience to oversee the life-or-death stakes of exorcisms.And now, five ...
Released in its original form after Exorcist: The Beginning was no received by fans, Dominion tells a similar story of Father Merrin's early experiences with exorcism. Stellan Skarsgård, Clara ...
"The Exorcist: Believer" is a kind ... which will equip her to step into the Father Merrin role — to the extent that anyone in the movie steps into it, which is not very much. This movie lacks a ...
Pazuzu first appeared in William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist in 1971. [1] The novel is about a 12-year-old girl, Regan MacNeil, possessed by a demon.The demon is later revealed to be Pazuzu; though never explicitly stated to be the demon, two references were made about his statue, which was uncovered in the prologue by Father Lankester Merrin in northern Iraq.
Crowe is playing an actor playing an exorcist, and the way "The Exorcism" is structured what he needs to be is the therapeutic Father Merrin of his own soul. But the darker the movie gets, the ...