I've always enjoyed these types of movies, for entertainment purposes. It seems all of such films depend on the Catholic Church
to get the demon. Although I have seen the role of exorcist in one film who was a Jewish rabbi.
The Jesuit priest recalls sitting at a restaurant sipping wine and mulling the costly airline ticket he had purchased a day earlier. He also worried about the deal he had just closed with the Society of St. Paul to purchase the rights to the life story of the Rev. Gabriele Amorth—the late Pauline priest known as “the James Bond of exorcists.”
Amorth said 98% of the people who came to him needed a psychiatrist, not an exorcist, a detail Crowe’s Amorth clarifies in the film. When a cardinal asks him about the remaining 2%, he says: “Ah, the other 2%—this is something that has confounded all of science and all of medicine for a very long time.” He adds after a dramatic pause: “I call it evil.”
In “The Pope’s Exorcist,” set in 1987, Crowe’s Amorth heads to Spain with his apprentice, a younger priest, tasked with investigating a young boy’s possession. There he uncovers a “centuries-old conspiracy” that the Vatican has tried to cover up in a plot that appears to channel The Da Vinci Code, Indiana Jones and numerous buddy-cop movies.
“The kind of Christianity we had in America during the mid-20th century, emphasizing ethics over the supernatural, was an anomaly,” Laycock said. “Most of Christian history has emphasized the supernatural and spiritual warfare. This is Christianity returning to its supernatural roots.”
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to get the demon. Although I have seen the role of exorcist in one film who was a Jewish rabbi.
The Jesuit priest recalls sitting at a restaurant sipping wine and mulling the costly airline ticket he had purchased a day earlier. He also worried about the deal he had just closed with the Society of St. Paul to purchase the rights to the life story of the Rev. Gabriele Amorth—the late Pauline priest known as “the James Bond of exorcists.”
Amorth said 98% of the people who came to him needed a psychiatrist, not an exorcist, a detail Crowe’s Amorth clarifies in the film. When a cardinal asks him about the remaining 2%, he says: “Ah, the other 2%—this is something that has confounded all of science and all of medicine for a very long time.” He adds after a dramatic pause: “I call it evil.”
In “The Pope’s Exorcist,” set in 1987, Crowe’s Amorth heads to Spain with his apprentice, a younger priest, tasked with investigating a young boy’s possession. There he uncovers a “centuries-old conspiracy” that the Vatican has tried to cover up in a plot that appears to channel The Da Vinci Code, Indiana Jones and numerous buddy-cop movies.
“The kind of Christianity we had in America during the mid-20th century, emphasizing ethics over the supernatural, was an anomaly,” Laycock said. “Most of Christian history has emphasized the supernatural and spiritual warfare. This is Christianity returning to its supernatural roots.”
The real priest who inspired ’The Pope’s Exorcist’—and the Jesuit who brought it to market
In "The Pope's Exorcist," the story of Fr. Gabriele Amorth, known as "the James Bond of exorcists," is told with Russell Crowe as the main figure. It appears in theatres Friday, April 14.
