When I was in my twenties, I tried to face my fear. It's just a movie. If I watch it, maybe I can put it in a different box. I can note the special effects. I can laugh at how ridiculous it is. I didn't make it through the whole thing that time either.
Imagine my surprise when I clicked on The Daily Puppy, and saw a link for The Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation. Couldn't be, could it? 'Tis.
As thoroughly messed up as it was for my father to take me to that movie, I have to wonder who thought it was a great idea for their child to act in it? What was up with Linda Blair's parents? And who in Hollywood thought it was okay to put a little girl in that situation? To be the face of The Excorcist for the rest of her life? No way around it, being that girl, had to have wounded her.
And what about the audience? Give the people what they want, right? Who cares who it might harm in the process.
Todd and I have made a conscious choice to avoid scary movies. We don't watch scary TV shows. We don't find bloody crime scenes entertaining. We don't find violence and victimhood entertaining. There is no place for that kind of energy in our home. We don't invite it into our lives.
Watching the video above helped me. I love that she is working with rescued animals. I hope she has a good life.
Peace be with you, Linda Blair.
Love.
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you know, i often wonder about child actors in violent or sexually charged films. how does one make that choice? perhaps when they are doing it, it is segmented enought that they need not understand the whole story. i'd like to think so.
I've worked with a lot of child actors - as a coach - and I tell you, segmented or no, it's unfortunate. They grow up much too fast.
Inappropriate stuff.
God bless Linda Blair.
And with you also.
I did not see the movie when it came out. I have chosen not to see it since. Evidence of the Devil is all around us, I don't need to see it with a sick story line.
I choose the good guy, the dressed in white, the peaceful journey.
Unfortunately, I saw this when I was 19, well some of it; the part I didn't see because I had my face buried in my coat because I was scared and too scared to move. That movie should be banned forever. I may be mistaken, but I think she was 18 when she did that movie; so her parents could only do so much. However, she looks good to be in her 50's. It's nice to see her without her head spinning around and spitting out green pea soup.
Peaceseeker
Whoa. Six years old....
I was 16 or 17 when it came out, and the specter of evil personified was a bit hard for me to take. Can't imagine how it would have affected my head at 6.
It's one of my guilty pleasures, though, to enjoy a silly suspense film once in a while. Gory slasher, no; B-movie suspense thrillers, yes.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
love.
GOOD point. I often wonder that about kids in such movies. And I HATE "scary killer child" movies! I can't help but feel like the real devil, or Evil, or whatever it is, uses these tools to get into our energy and minds. Because WHY, is right. *shudder*
I also saw this movie when I was about that age, maybe seven or eight...Kory points out that he STILL has never seen it. The idea that any adult thought it was no problem... or didn;t think about it at all! Could you even IMAGINE letting your kids? LAMO. No.
Jeez.
:)
I looked it up on Wikipedia and she was 14 when the movie came out, so even younger as it was being made.
I still have not been able to watch that movie in entirety. Ugh!
I know this sounds strange, but my experience with Catholic Schools in the 1950's, was somewhat like the movie for me.
Thriving on fear and brutality- that's what I expeienced in Catholic School-all the lies we were told and the beatings from the nuns. That was many many years ago.
Unfortunately I understood the movie and I have to admit, liked it. I saw some of the fear I had experienced (without the special effects, thank you)
Good for Linda Blair and what she has done with her life.
And God bless her for her work with animals.
Love,
Suzy
Boy, dads can sometimes be oblivious, can't we? He just wasn't thinking, as often happens with our gender. But the first thought that came to me when reading this was how much more depraved most horror movies seem to be now than when the Exorcist was made. They leave little to the imagination.
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