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Exorcist: The Beginning
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Exorcist: The Beginning is a 2004 Religious Horror film. As hinted by the subtitle, it is a Prequel to the 1973 film The Exorcist.Cairo, Egypt, 1949. A young Father Lankester Merrin (Stellan Skarsgård) has left the Church and become an archeologist, haunted by his experiences in Nazi-occupied Europe during the Second World War. He is then approached by a mysterious collector who hires him to travel to Kenya and steal an ancient relic of a demon from a British archaeological dig... in an ancient church from a time and place where there shouldn't be any. Needless to say, once Merrin reaches his destination, strange events start happening.This chapter of The Exorcist remains as one of the most bizarre troubled productions in film history. Originally Paul Schrader was brought to direct a psychological horror movie in the vein of the original; he did his job and almost completed what was called Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist. However, as the movie was being marketed, Morgan Creek Productions decided it was not scary enough to fit expectations, so they tossed the unfinished film to a vault and brought an entirely new director, Renny Harlin, to direct an entirely new movie. This was the final result, a retooling named Exorcist: The Beginning that only shared Skarsgard as the main role and the outlines of its plot. Only after it failed at critics and box office they allowed Schrader to finish and release his film, edging the previous in success and giving birth to the strange event of two films in one. | |
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Hotter and Sexier: Compared to Dominion, Clara Bellar's doctor character was recast with former Bond Girl Izabella Scorupco and given a nude scene and Unresolved Sexual Tension with Merrin. Compared to The Exorcist (and all other entries in the series), the possessed is an attractive adult woman (Scorupco's Sarah, again), and she flashes her cleavage and mimics coitus while fighting Merrin. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: Only Merrin and Joseph survive the massacre between the locals and the British military. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: In Dominion, Merrin's encounter with the Nazis takes place in a Dutch village, and the woman that gives birth is the Turkana chief's wife. It is unclear if it's the same in The Beginning due to the exposition being cut. | |
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Religion of Evil | |
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Religion of Evil: The spot where Lucifer fell used to be a Pagan temple where humans were sacrificed back in ancient times. | |
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Ancient Evil: The Catholic Church believes Derati is the place where Lucifer fell. Even if Pazuzu isn't Lucifer, he is an ancient Mesopotamian demon, and the church was built to seal him 1500 years ago. | |
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The Devil: The church has a painting of Lucifer and he is believed to have fallen in Derati after the War in Heaven. | |
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Death by Materialism | |
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Death by Materialism: Some British soldiers attempt to loot the church, and pop up dead the next day. | |
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The Virus | |
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The Virus: Pazuzu's influence eventually drives everyone (and everything) mad and homicidal. | |
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Mutual Kill | |
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Mutual Kill: During the climax, Merrin's native guide manages to shoot an angry tribesman at exactly the same time the tribesman throws his spear. | |
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Papa Wolf | |
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Papa Wolf: Merrin becomes this for Joseph in the last act. | |
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Bloodier and Gorier: Blood and guts are deliberatedly ramped up in comparison to Dominion, starting with the very first scene set in the aftermath of a battle with almost no survivors on both sides. This is the bloodiest entry in the series by a long shot. | |
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Church Militant | |
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Church Militant: The Vatican has sent at least three expeditions headed by priests to the site, the last one consisting of Father Francis. The first one in the 6th century was outright army. | |
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Decapitation Presentation | |
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Decapitation Presentation: In a dream sequence, Sarah finds Joseph caressing James' severed head. Which then opens its eyes. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: When Merrin visits Bession in Nairobi, Father Gionetti gives him a copy of the Roman Ritual in case he has to exorcize somebody. Merrin says he won't need it... but of course he does, because this is an Exorcist sequel. | |
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Everybody's Dead, Dave | |
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Everybody's Dead, Dave: Merrin and Joseph come out of the Church to find the British and Turkana forces massacred. | |
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Surprisingly Happy Ending | |
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Surprisingly Happy Ending: Compared to Harlin's version, most of the people live through the film. | |
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Mythology Gag: In addition to all the call backs, the movie is set in 1949 - the same year the real exorcism that inspired Blatty to write the original book is claimed to have happened. | |
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog: There's a lot of characters and many of them end up having very little or practically no effect on the main plot, but unlike in Dominion, practically all of them end up getting killed in the most gruesome ways possible. | |
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Impending Doom P.O.V. | |
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Impending Doom P.O.V.: Jefferies is killed by an unseen force rushing to his face. | |
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Abnormal Limb Rotation Range | |
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Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: While possessed by Pazuzu, Sarah bends her spine backwards completely. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging when Merrin identifies the Pazuzu head as Sumerian and asks why anyone would expect it to be inside a 6th century Christian church in East Africa, to which Semelier declines to answer. Presumably, Pazuzu just likes this depiction of him the most.note This is in contrast to Dominion, where the Pazuzu head is absent and the full Pazuzu statue, while obviously intended to evoke the Sumerian version, is carved in an African-looking style. | |
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Catapult Nightmare: Sarah after dreaming of Joseph caressing James' severed head. | |
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Street Urchin: In Cairo, a boy pesters Merrin and Semelier to buy trinkets from him. | |
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Adapted Out | |
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Granville combines his character in Dominion with his Adapted Out second-in-command, who was the racist one. | |
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Ate His Gun | |
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Ate His Gun: After Granville witnesses supernatural activity in his tent in the form of finding himself preparing a crow for his butterfly collection instead of a regular insect specimen, his collection coming to life and then having butterfly crawling out of his mouth, he puts his gun into his mouth and pulls the trigger. | |
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Sequel Escalation | |
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Sequel Escalation: Compared to previous movies, this is set over several centuries and countries and has an onscreen dead count on the hundreds. The final exorcism also escalates from the one in the first film in several ways: The possessed is an adult instead of a child; the possessed is not bound, but free to move over a massive building that Pazuzu knows well; one of the priests conducting the exorcism is taken out early and easily by Pazuzu, leaving the other to face him mostly alone. | |
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Heinous Hyena: Hyenas are attracted to the digging site and grow restless as the movie goes on. | |
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Foregone Conclusion: Merrin will survive and become a Catholic priest again so he will face Pazuzu again 30 years later. | |
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Actionized Sequel | |
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Actionized Sequel: Exorcist the Beginning is an actionized prequel to the 1973 horror classic, as well as an actionized remake/reshoot to Schrader's Dominion, since it has a noticably faster pace, as well as an elaborate battle scene with a huge body count. | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him: Despite being main characters, Father Francis and Sarah are dispatched in such sudden and simple manners that would have been avoided or survived if they were in any other movie.note Francis is stabbed with a spear by Possessed!Sarah and left hanging to be found by Merrin; Sarah has a brain hemorrhage after hiting the cave's floor at the end of her exorcism. In fact, the counterparts of both in Dominion did survive the film. | |
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Hostage Situation | |
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Hostage Situation: Pazuzu kidnaps Joseph to lure Merrin into the caves under the church. | |
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Would Hurt a Child: Pazuzu kills James and a Turkana baby, both times in the most cruel ways imaginable. | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can: The church was built on top of the Pagan temple, then buried, to seal Pazuzu within. | |
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Mirroring Factions | |
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Mirroring Factions: Under Pazuzu's influence, the Turkana and the British go to war against each other and end massacring the people on their own side until no one is left alive. | |
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Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: All over the place. One of Pazuzu's pet taunts is an eviscerated but still alive crow. The second time it happens, he also makes a butterfly crawl out of Granville's mouth. Other favorites are blood and maggots appearing from nowhere. James is Eaten Alive by hyenas. Jefferies develops larger and nastier looking pustules on his face as the movie goes on, with one appearing to have something crawling inside at one point. He is then attacked by an unseen force; the next morning, Merrin finds parts of his teeth in a pool of blood in the bar, and his eviscerated body hanging in the church. Sarah has a particularly bloody period while in the shower... despite having lost her period for good in a Nazi camp. Sarah finds Joseph carrying his brother's severed head. Which then opens his eyes. But it's okay, it was just a dream! A Turkana woman gives birth to a dead fetus covered in maggots. The possessed tears its own tongue to mimic a snake. The Turkana shamans who try to sacrifice Joseph have their bones broken and sometimes ripped out of their bodies. | |
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Unresolved Sexual Tension | |
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Unresolved Sexual Tension: Between Merrin and Sarah. They obviously like each other but can't be together. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The movie opens with a Byzantine army massacred on the future site of the buried church, which is mirrored at the end by the Turkana and British garrison massacring each other in the same place. Merrin meets Semelier only at the beginning and the end of the movie. | |
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Corrupt Church | |
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Corrupt Church: The Catholic Church knows, or at leats suspects, the truth about the buried church and hides it from the public. Ultimately for good, but the trope is still present. | |
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Weird Historical War | |
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Weird Historical War: Merrin lost his faith during World War II. And while there is no direct equivalent to the British-Turkana conflict, it can be seen as a precedent to the Mau Mau Uprising of 1952-1960. | |
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The Smurfette Principle | |
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The Smurfette Principle: Sarah is the only real female character in the film. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_5d753b19 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_61356a74 | type |
Almost Dead Guy | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_61356a74 | comment |
Almost Dead Guy: One of the Byzantine priests in the beginning finds the other in the battlefield. Believing him dead, he makes the sign of the cross and tries to take the Pazuzu head from him before the "dead" guy grabs him. Sarah can only trade a few words with Merrin before she dies from her injuries. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_61356a74 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_68068108 | type |
Evil Laugh | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_68068108 | comment |
Evil Laugh: Pazuzu laughs when he first comfronts Merrin. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_68068108 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_686cac9f | type |
Flies Equals Evil | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_686cac9f | comment |
Flies Equals Evil: Flies are present in places with higher density of demonic activity. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_686cac9f | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_697b5232 | type |
Those Wacky Nazis | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_697b5232 | comment |
Those Wacky Nazis: They tormented Merrin during the war and caused him to leave the Church. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_697b5232 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_6b2b3b59 | type |
The Reveal | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_6b2b3b59 | comment |
The Reveal: Sarah is the late Bession's wife and she's the one actually possessed by Pazuzu. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_6b2b3b59 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_6b7e3069 | type |
Birth-Death Juxtaposition | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_6b7e3069 | comment |
Birth-Death Juxtaposition: Merrin finds and opens an ancient tomb inside the church at the same time as a Turkana woman gives birth to a child. The child is born dead. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_6b7e3069 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_6c51e9e1 | type |
Fisher King | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_6c51e9e1 | comment |
Fisher King: Evil version. As Pazuzu's influence grows outside the Church, the people, animals, and eventually the weather itself (in the form of a night sandstorm) become more dangerous. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_6c51e9e1 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_6ce4c7b0 | type |
Ascended to Carnivorism | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_6ce4c7b0 | comment |
Ascended to Carnivorism: Due to Pazuzu's influence, some cows feed on hyena carcasses after the massacre at the end. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_6ce4c7b0 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_6d332aea | type |
Driven to Suicide | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_6d332aea | comment |
Driven to Suicide: Bession slits his own throat after being driven mad by the demon. Granville shoots himself in the head after seeing his butterfly collection come to life. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_6d332aea | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_6e91fa0b | type |
Symbology Research Failure | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_6e91fa0b | comment |
Symbology Research Failure: Lampshade Hanging when Merrin identifies the Pazuzu head as Sumerian and asks why anyone would expect it to be inside a 6th century Christian church in East Africa, to which Semelier declines to answer. Presumably, Pazuzu just likes this depiction of him the most.note This is in contrast to Dominion, where the Pazuzu head is absent and the full Pazuzu statue, while obviously intended to evoke the Sumerian version, is carved in an African-looking style. See Christianity is Catholic for out of universe examples. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_6e91fa0b | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_6ee10e0 | type |
My Greatest Failure | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_6ee10e0 | comment |
My Greatest Failure: Merrin's failure to protect the villagers from the Nazis during the war, which made him lose his faith. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_6ee10e0 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_707193f6 | type |
Aloof Big Brother | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_707193f6 | comment |
Aloof Big Brother: James to Joseph. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_707193f6 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_716c0b1b | type |
And the Adventure Continues | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_716c0b1b | comment |
And the Adventure Continues: The movie ends with Merrin using the Father moniker again before heading into the Vatican. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_716c0b1b | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_7464705c | type |
Arc Words | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: "God is not here today, priest." Said by a SS commander during the war to Merrin, and repeated by Pazuzu to taunt him. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_7464705c | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_768ae1c9 | type |
Les Collaborateurs | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_768ae1c9 | comment |
Les Collaborateurs: Emekwi comes across as this due to his overjoyous embracing of Christianism and western culture in contrast to the other locals. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_768ae1c9 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_7a82c3d2 | type |
All Love Is Unrequited | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_7a82c3d2 | comment |
All Love Is Unrequited: Sarah ignores Jefferies' advances and is obviously more interested in Merrin, who obliges, but is reluctant to begin a relationship due to his recent commitment to the Church. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_7a82c3d2 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_7b8b88f2 | type |
Raising the Steaks | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_7b8b88f2 | comment |
Raising the Steaks: Pazuzu animates the butterflies in Major Granville's collection, driving him to suicide. | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_7b8b88f2 | featureApplicability |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_7b8b88f2 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_7e577db | type |
Slashed Throat | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_7e577db | comment |
Slashed Throat: When Merrin goes to question Bession about the archeological site, he finds him bleeding from a chest wound. After a cryptic conversation, Bession then kills himself by slicing his throat open with a shard of glass. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_7e577db | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_7eebe99c | type |
The Alcoholic | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_7eebe99c | comment |
The Alcoholic: Jefferies is almost always seen drinking, reaching to drink, or appearing to be drunk. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_7eebe99c | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_84fa1d7d | type |
Disposable Woman | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_84fa1d7d | comment |
Disposable Woman: Near the end of the film, Sarah is brought back from her exorcism and she's the only character left besides Merrin and Joseph. In any other film she would probably adopt Joseph and form a family with Merrin, but we can't have that because this is a prequel to The Exorcist and Merrin must become a priest again. Therefore she's suddenly revealed to have a fatal head wound from her fall on the cave floor and dies in Merrin's arms instead. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_84fa1d7d | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_853b7948 | type |
Ambiguously Evil | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_853b7948 | comment |
Ambiguously Evil: It is just as possible that all questionable behavior of the characters is a result of Pazuzu's influence, or that Pazuzu only amplifies tendencies that are already inside them. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_853b7948 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_89b8822f | type |
Go Mad from the Revelation | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_89b8822f | comment |
Go Mad from the Revelation: Bession, the original head archaeologist, was institutionalized after becoming the first man to enter the church in 1500 years. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_89b8822f | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_8c4bafff | type |
Holy Burns Evil | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_8c4bafff | comment |
Holy Burns Evil: Merrin burns Pazuzu with holy water. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_8c4bafff | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_8ed5c6e4 | type |
Asshole Victim | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: Even if all evil activity at the site comes from Pazuzu, some examples still come across as this. Major Granville is openly racist toward the Turkana. Jefferies' interest in Sarah is as obvious as rape-y. James is a bit of a jerk to his younger brother. Not that he deserves what happens to him because of that. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_8ed5c6e4 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_8fd7af48 | type |
Sir Swears-a-Lot | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_8fd7af48 | comment |
Sir Swears-a-Lot: As expected, Pazuzu insults and throws lewd comments to Merrin. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_8fd7af48 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_90507020 | type |
TheForties | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_90507020 | comment |
The '40s: Set three decades before the original, which was set at the time it came out in The '70s. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_90507020 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_906365a2 | type |
Demonic Possession | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_906365a2 | comment |
Demonic Possession: Sarah at the end. It wouldn't be a part of the franchise without one, would it? | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_906365a2 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_91672d3e | type |
Children Are Innocent | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_91672d3e | comment |
Children Are Innocent: Pazuzu uses the young Joseph to lure, taunt, and hurt the people he wants to hurt the most. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_91672d3e | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_95c2a9dd | type |
Outliving One's Offspring | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_95c2a9dd | comment |
Outliving One's Offspring: Emekwi loses one son to hyenas and is willing to let the other be sacrificed to end the curse. He tearily tells him he is sorry. One of the Turkana women gives birth to a dead child full of maggots. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_95c2a9dd | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_96d2fffb | type |
Air-Vent Passageway | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_96d2fffb | comment |
Airvent Passageway: The passage leading to the final cave underground is exactly big enough to let Merrin crawl through it. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_96d2fffb | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Pazuzu, just like in all other movies in the series. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_970c790a | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_a32334b4 | type |
Canon Discontinuity | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_a32334b4 | comment |
Canon Discontinuity: Zig-Zagged. The movie largely ignores Merrin's backstory as shown in Exorcist II: The Heretic, but doesn't contest it outright, as it is set before it. In all likelihood, both movies took the idea of Merrin carrying an exorcism in East Africa from the original book and did their own take on it. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_a32334b4 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_a6b14ee1 | type |
Hollywood Tactics | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_a6b14ee1 | comment |
Hollywood Tactics: Under Pazuzu's influence, the Turkana walk to and then charge the British trenches without even attempting cover. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_a6b14ee1 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_a8a5e4ed | type |
Christianity Is Catholic | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_a8a5e4ed | comment |
See Christianity is Catholic for out of universe examples. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_a8a5e4ed | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_aa30e350 | type |
Sole Survivor | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_aa30e350 | comment |
Sole Survivor: The older priest is the only survivor of the massacre 1500 years ago in the prologue; Merrin and Joseph are the only survivors of the new massacre at the end of the movie. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_aa30e350 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_abcb9af1 | type |
Eaten Alive | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_abcb9af1 | comment |
Eaten Alive: James is eaten alive by hyenas. A Turkana baby is "born" dead and covered in maggots. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_abcb9af1 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_acf33d00 | type |
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_acf33d00 | comment |
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Pazuzu's eventual end goal (or at least one of them) is to lure Merrin into his lair for a showdown. In the process, he unwittingly gives Merrin the resolve, faith, and tools to defeat him (the Roman Ritual, holy water, and stole taken into the church by Father Francis, and Joseph as an exorcism assistant). | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_acf33d00 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_b4fddee | type |
McGuffin | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_b4fddee | comment |
McGuffin: The Pazuzu head, which Merrin is hired to steal from the buried church. We never find who was hiring him through Semelier or how did they know that the head would be inside the church. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_b4fddee | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_b901ef97 | type |
Forgotten Fallen Friend | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_b901ef97 | comment |
Forgotten Fallen Friend: Sarah resumes flirting with Merrin almost as soon as she is told that Bession died. We later learn that he was her husband. And the time they were separated was just three weeks. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_b901ef97 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_babc974 | type |
Sadistic Choice | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_babc974 | comment |
Sadistic Choice: Flashbacks show that Merrin lost his faith after he was forced by Nazis to pick ten people from a crowd to be shot, lest they all be killed. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_babc974 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_bbd8d3f4 | type |
Adventurer Archaeologist | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_bbd8d3f4 | comment |
Adventurer Archaeologist: Merrin becomes an archaeologist for hire after leaving the Church. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_bbd8d3f4 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_c04b1231 | type |
Jump Scare | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_c04b1231 | comment |
Jump Scare: Constant ones, usually involving angle or lightning changes. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_c04b1231 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_c3c18143 | type |
Hope Spot | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_c3c18143 | comment |
Hope Spot: Sarah seems to recover from possession twice. The first time it's Pazuzu luring Merrin into false security, the second she starts bleeding from her skull and dies in Merrin's arms. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_c3c18143 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_c66cb5a9 | type |
Human Sacrifice | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_c66cb5a9 | comment |
Human Sacrifice: Before the church was built, the site was a temple where humans were sacrificed to Pazuzu. The Turkana attempt to revive the tradition by sacrificing Joseph, but Pazuzu has other ideas. | |
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Exorcist: The Beginning / int_c66cb5a9 | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_ca81eae7 | type |
Hollywood Darkness | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_ca81eae7 | comment |
Hollywood Darkness: Merrin's single gas lamp is enough to light the whole interior of the church and the caverns beneath it. | |
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We ARE Struggling Together | |
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We ARE Struggling Together: Under Pazuzu's influence, the warriors on both sides at the end start killing their own comrades until no one is left. | |
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Enlightened Antagonist | |
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Enlightened Antagonist: The imagery of Pazuzu's final form definitely intends to evoke this trope, along with some oriental overtones to give it exotic flavour. After taking over Cheche's body, the normally rageful demon takes ascetic, even Buddhic attributes, turning into an only moderately creepy bald man dressed in a simple white loincloth and seated in a levitating meditation posture. | |
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No Periods, Period | |
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No Periods, Period: Sarah lost her period during her stay in a Nazi concentration camp during the war. Naturally, she's freaked when she seems to "recover" it. | |
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"Eureka!" Moment | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_d129e13e | comment |
"Eureka!" Moment: Merrin realizes that the real possessed has been Sarah the whole time after finding Pazuzu's silhouette drawn on her wall and a photo of her wedding to Bession. | |
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Naked Nutter | |
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Naked Nutter: During the backstory, Monsieur Bession went Mad From The Revelation after spending a little too much time at the Turkana dig and had to be carted off to an asylum in Nairobi. When Merrin finally goes to see him in the latter half of the film, he's stripped down to his underwear - revealing that he's also scratched a swastika in his chest. Then he slices his throat before Merrin's stunned eyes. | |
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Hollywood Atheist | |
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Hollywood Atheist: Merrin leaves the Church and implicitly stops believing after Nazis force him to choose ten people from a crowd to be executed, lest they all be killed. He regains his faith when he fights Pazuzu. | |
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Religious Horror | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_da53340 | comment |
Religious Horror: The genre of the movie. | |
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Red Herring | |
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Red Herring: Joseph seems possessed by Pazuzu, but Sarah is the one who really is. | |
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Cat Scare | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_dda12cb3 | comment |
Cat Scare: The characters are surprised several times by crows. | |
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Fantastic Catholicism | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_de416844 | comment |
Fantastic Catholicism: The Catholic Church deals in exorcisms, demon-hunting, curse investigations... | |
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History Repeats | |
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History Repeats: Under Pazuzu's influence, an army goes crazy and its members kill each other until nobody is left. 1500 years later, the same happens again. | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: In retrospect, Sarah to Joseph, when she stops James taunting him and the Turkana shamans from sacrificing him by summoning hyenas and breaking their bones respectively. Subverted because she's possessed so it's actually Pazuzu doing it in order to use Joseph as a lure against Merrin. | |
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Composite Character | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_e4965307 | comment |
Composite Character: In Dominion, it is not clear if the demon is Pazuzu or someone else, while in Beginning a lot of references are added to establish that it is indeed Pazuzu, as in the 1973 movie. Pazuzu may also be Lucifer if Father Francis is correct, though this is in line with the rest of the other movies in the franchise flip-flopping on whether Pazuzu is a devil or the Devil. Jefferies takes over from Merrin as head archaeologist of the site, and also plays the role of the soldiers who try to rob the church and are killed for it (somewhat). Granville combines his character in Dominion with his Adapted Out second-in-command, who was the racist one. | |
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Family Theme Naming | |
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Family Theme Naming: Brothers James and Joseph. | |
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Levitating Lotus Position | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_e807c3ec | comment |
Levitating Lotus Position: Pazuzu's final form floats in sukhasana position while Merrin confronts him. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Just a Dream: Sarah finding Joseph caressing his brother's decapitated head is just a nightmare of hers. | |
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The Grotesque | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_eaf83237 | comment |
The Grotesque: Cheche is creepily malformed. | |
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Cain and Abel | |
| Exorcist: The Beginning / int_eba6a077 | comment |
Cain and Abel: Played with brothers James and Joseph, the only two Christian children in Derati. The older James seems mean-spirited in comparison to the younger, innocent Joseph, until he is eaten by hyenas while Joseph watches. Double Subverted when it's revealed that the possessed is not Joseph, but Sarah, and therefore she's the one who summoned the hyenas. Pazuzu did it, in any case. | |
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Evil-Detecting Baby | |
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Evil-Detecting Baby: Merrin realizes that the exorcism has been unsuccessful when he sees that Joseph is still afraid of Sarah. | |
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War Is Hell | |
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War Is Hell: War is never presented gloriously, but as a backdrop for evil and leading to pointless slaughter in the end. | |
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Mind over Matter | |
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Mind over Matter: Pazuzu uses psychokinesis to ransack the clinic and break the bones of the shamans who attempt to sacrifice Joseph. | |
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Creepy Child | |
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Creepy Child: Joseph, who seems to attract bad luck everywhere he is present. Subverted since the one actually possessed is Sarah, the doctor. Merrin often daydreams about a little girl he met during the war, which is used by Pazuzu to taunt him. | |
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Creepy Crows | |
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Creepy Crows: Crows like to fly into and out of the cursed church, and are obviously attracted to the carnage. | |
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The Darkness Gazes Back | |
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The Darkness Gazes Back: In one scene, Merrin is stopped on his tracks by the reflection of several hyenas eyes peering out from the darkness. | |
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