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Mocata as Aleister Crowley

posted 12 years ago by offramp_tavanipupu
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Mocata is certainly based on Aleister Crowley; he quotes Crowley in the front room scene. "Magick is causing change by the exercise of the will...."
Charles Grey is perfect as he looks a bit like Crowley. Grey was gay and Crowley was bi-sexual.

I can't figure out the name Mocata that Wheatley thought up. There was a Crowley-like character in the brilliant Devil's Rain called Corbus. Corbus sounds a bit like Corvus and Corvus means crow, standing for Crowley.
But I can't see a similar relationship between Mocata and Crowley or any of his alternative names.

[–] ElectricWarlock 10 years ago

I misheard the film all along. I thought they were saying "Marcato" the whole time and that it was somehow connected to Rosemary's Baby. It wasn't until I visited Wikipedia after the movie that I learned they were actually saying Mocata. Many people have compared Adrian Marcato from Rosemary's Baby to Aleister Crowley so it's highly interesting that I would confuse the names Marcato and Mocata together and then stumble on this thread.

Burn, witch! Burn, witch! Burn! Burn! Burn!

[–] franklinlj 10 years ago

The Mocata char is also based on an acquaintance of Wheatley's called Montague Summers, may be the name is meant to reflect that.

Summers seemed to waver between the Dark and the Light (as he saw it). The movie seems to show the dark version. Look him up.

[–] PussyCrusher_Principal 8 years ago

Is this a thing now, abbreviating "character" as "char"?

I missed that meeting

[–] Wuchak (8857) 3 years ago

It's Charles GRAY, not Grey.