{"id":14888,"date":"2023-01-15T16:10:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T22:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/?p=14888"},"modified":"2023-01-15T16:10:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T22:10:41","slug":"magrittes-empire-of-light-and-friedkins-the-exorcist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/archives\/14888","title":{"rendered":"Magritte’s Empire of Light, and Friedkin’s The Exorcist"},"content":{"rendered":"

(See A Small List of Great Artists<\/a> :\u00a0REN\u00c9 MAGRITTE (Belgian, 1898-1967)<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n

(See Magritte\u2019s\u00a0Dominion of Light<\/em>\u00a0(or\u00a0Empire of Light)<\/em><\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI saw [this painting] in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, it’s called Empire of Light<\/em> by Ren\u00e9 Magritte. I had that in mind..and I chose the house [in the Exorcist] to match the Magritte painting\u2026 the streetlamp\u2026the shaft of light.\u201d \u2013 William Friedkin, director of The Exorcist (1973), interviewed in A Decade Under the Influence<\/em> (2003), a documentary about American Cinema in the 70\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ren\u00e9\u00a0Magritte, The Dominion of Light<\/em> <\/a>(1950), Museum of Modern Art<\/a>, New York City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Friedkin removed the daytime sky completely from his cinematic version of Magritte’s composition, choosing instead for the light source to project from the high window, within which the demon lies in waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"The Exorcist (1973), directed by William Friedkin, based on the 1971 novel by William Peter Blatty. A still from this iconic scene in the film was used for the movie poster, promotion, and video releases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(See Magritte\u2019s\u00a0Dominion of Light<\/em>\u00a0(or\u00a0Empire of Light)<\/em><\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n

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(See A Small List of Great Artists :\u00a0REN\u00c9 MAGRITTE (Belgian, 1898-1967)) (See Magritte\u2019s\u00a0Dominion of Light\u00a0(or\u00a0Empire of Light)) \u201cI saw [this painting] in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, it’s called Empire of Light by Ren\u00e9 Magritte. I had that in mind..and I chose the house [in the Exorcist] to match the Magritte painting\u2026 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[85],"tags":[340,339,338,341,342],"class_list":["post-14888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brush-with-peril","tag-dominion-of-light","tag-empire-of-light","tag-rene-magritte","tag-the-exorcist","tag-william-friedkin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t