Ep 103
Ep 103 The Omen
It’s time to plaster the walls with pages from The Bible and check each other for numerical birthmarks as we watch 1976’s Antichrist caper “The Omen”. A film in which someone drops a church spire o…
Director
Richard Donner
1 film covered on the show
The hosts on Richard Donner
Adam presents Richard Donner as the opposite of the difficult William Friedkin. He notes a shoot detail from a Donner film, that the falling bowl of goldfish was sardines painted orange.
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Adam says Donner thought Jack Palance's daughter was so good that he kept her character, which had been due to be cut.
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Adam But the weird thing is is that it's also because of like with The Exorcist where we went through what a fucking nutcase William Friedkin was.
Ep 103 The OmenAdam This is actually quite the reverse in that Richard Donner was actually, I mean, yeah, there's I mean the baboon thing is. Shaky at best.
Ep 103 The OmenAdam Bastards. But there is there is a lot of. Weirdly enough though, and this is something that I think is very much again, maybe a testament to it, I don't know, but like the director Richard Donner. Um, for example, when the bowl of goldfish drops. That was sardines painted orange.
Ep 103 The OmenAdam Well. I don't know, the way she's playing it, you know, might up end your thing about it being a series of coincidences, but apparently Richard Donner just thought she was so fucking good. Because. At one point they were going to cut the character.
Ep 103 The OmenAdam Yeah, because I think like Richard Donner had just done a TV show. That Jack Palance was in and he said, I'm I'm filming in England, and it was like, oh, my daughter lives in England, you want to give her a job. And.
Ep 103 The Omen
