En la película El exorcista (1973), un demonio posee a Regan MacNeil. Ya en el inicio se observa cómo se encuentra una estatuilla inquietante en una excavación del norte de Iraq. Aunque no lo dice, se encuentran en las ruinas de Hatra, capital del imperio parto entre 247 a.C.-226 d.C. Patrimonio de la humanidad por la Unesco desde 1985, fue destruida por el Estado Islámico en el 2015.
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etiquetas: religión , historia , cine
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Well, there is some of the music from the original 1972-73 recording by my guest, Mike Oldfield, who has joined me here in the studio tonight for NEW SOUNDS program 900, and who will be back again tomorrow night from program number 901, when we'll be sampling a couple of his non-TUBULAR BELL recordings. But this original TUBULAR BELLS spawned, some 20 years-- almost 20 years later, exactly, Mike's new CD, TUBULAR BELLS 2, the sequel; and in between, of course, the album launched the Virgin record label and sold many millions of copies worldwide, especially after the opening moments of TUBULAR BELLS were used in the film THE EXORCIST. Now, Mike, do you know the story of how that got to be the music from THE EXORCIST? I mean, were you involved-- was that just something that just happened? You had no idea it was going to come about?
Yeah-- you see, this EXORCIST business-- when I talk to people in Europe, they don't really-- are not so much aware of that. In America, TUBULAR BELLS was seen as part and parcel of THE EXORCIST.
Exactly.
But in fact, it wasn't. All it meant to me was a ten-second phone call with Richard Branson ringing up and saying, "They're using TUBULAR BELLS in a film called THE EXORCIST." And I said, "Thank you!" [laughs]
[laughs]
And that was all it meant to me. In fact, I never saw THE EXORCIST until about four or five years ago. And I thought, it's about time I had a look at it. And I spent most of the entire film laughing my head off, especially when the girl's head started whizzing 'round.
Right.
And I heard TUBULAR BELLS playing throughout THE EXORCIST, but by that time, nearly every horror film had something on it which sounded like TUBULAR BELLS, and I'd already seen a few of them, so I was used to it. It's a bit confusing. I'm sure that THE EXORCIST brought TUBULAR BELLS 1 to a wider audience than it would have achieved otherwise, but--
In this country, yeah.
--yes, but in a way, I'd prefer it to have been used for a more intelligent film. You know, I don't like these demonic Satanic films. I think they're very cheap and stupid, really.