In the trailer they show Johns point of view of his bedroom when the doors blew open, all the furniture, lamps etc were spinning around mid air. Two years later Poltergiest recreated the same scene. Have to wonder whether Speilberg had seen this cut shot.
Would you mind linking to the trailer? I've watched trailers for this movie on YouTube and can't remember such a scene in either of them.
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House. My room. Can't walk. My medal. My father. Father, don't!
Found it when I googled The Changeling 1980 Blu ray. I think, don't remember for sure, may be a Spanish trailer.
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Thanks. Now if they'd just get cracking and actually release TC on Bluray.
Didn't see anything in the preview that wasn't in the movie except for when John tells Claire he wants to talk about the house.
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House. My room. Can't walk. My medal. My father. Father, don't!
Other than the bedroom scene. There was an alternate, or should say, different version of part of the seance scene with the cone falling over onto the table.
shareThat's in the movie. The cone falls over just before the goblet goes flying.
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House. My room. Can't walk. My medal. My father. Father, don't!
You are right, hadn't seen it in about a year.
shareTranslocation often looks the same from one film to another because as a practical effect it can be shot in only a limited number of ways; otherwise you can see the strings. I always felt Spielberg's (Hooper's?) 'Bedroom Tornado' was an hommage to 'Wizard Of Oz', and was not influenced by 'The Changeling'. When I saw Russell fly off the Second Floor balcony I was reminded of Lee Remick's fateful plunge in 'The Omen'(1976); both landings are peculiarly precarious, and only about six feet wide (in the case of the Chessman House, one-quarter the width of the Central Hall's front inset- Sorry, I couldn't resist!).
shareThat's in the movie. The cone falls over just before the goblet goes flying.
I remember that in 1982, lots of articles about 'Poltergeist' were comparing that scene with the flying stuff scene from 'The Exorcist'.
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