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The Omen

Who Won the Movie?

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Gregory Peck is a stated choice; Harvey Spencer Stephens receives tentative agreement after Satan/evil suggestions. No clear final consensus.

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  • Satan or the overwhelming force of evil is floated before Gregory Peck is chosen.
  • Harvey Spencer Stephens, the child playing Damien, is proposed as the scariest child actor; the reply tentatively agrees, then believers in evil are floated.
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The Omen

Apex Mountain

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Gregory Peck is rejected; Lee Remick remains uncertain despite the film’s success.

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  • Gregory Peck is rejected; Lee Remick remains uncertain despite the film’s success.
  • Rosemary’s Baby is preferred for the Antichrist, and The Shining for creepy tricycle-riding children.
  • Rottweilers and jackals are considered; the film transcribed as Hand That Rocks the Crater is preferred for evil nannies.
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The Omen

What’s Aged the Worst?

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Gregory Peck’s original impact casting is harder to appreciate today; Tom Hanks is offered as an analogy.

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  • Gregory Peck’s original impact casting is harder to appreciate today; Tom Hanks is offered as an analogy.
  • Peck’s Happy Birthday singing sounds unnatural.
  • Physical reference letters are easy to fake.
  • Lack of child seatbelts and the mother’s fall effects look dated; Remick reportedly refused the railing stunt after Ellen Burstyn’s injury.
  • The mark of the beast reportedly confused original audiences.
  • The novelization explains Brennan and Spiletto’s involvement with Satanists; the film leaves the 666 thigh mark insufficiently explained.
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The Omen

Half-Assed Internet Research

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Gregory Peck’s Atticus Finch persona lends seriousness to the horror premise.

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  • Gregory Peck’s Atticus Finch persona lends seriousness to the horror premise.
  • Richard Donner’s run is traced from The Omen through Superman and the Lethal Weapon films.
  • The cinematographer is corrected from the mistaken Don Gilbert to Gilbert Taylor.
  • The film is reported to have won Jerry Goldsmith his only Oscar, for original score.
  • A $2.8 million budget and $61 million gross are reported; the small-budget success is compared with Blumhouse.
  • The baboons reportedly attacked after the alpha baboon was put in the car, following failed attempts using food and a baby baboon.
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Jaws

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An extraordinarily troubled shoot shaped the finished film

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  • Spielberg reportedly paid for the Ben Gardner head reshoot in a swimming pool
  • Powdered milk and a tarp simulated murky water
  • Spielberg reportedly tried to leave for Lucky Lady before Universal blocked him
  • The shallow ocean floor at Martha’s Vineyard supported mechanical-shark retrieval
  • The crew continuously dried, repainted and repaired the shark
  • Weather, intruding boats and equipment problems repeatedly delayed shooting
  • The Orca sank with actors aboard on one occasion
  • The shoot reportedly expanded from roughly fifty days to 155
  • Spielberg reportedly left before the final shot to avoid a crew prank
  • Camera movement compensated for the horizon’s rocking
  • Shaw’s drinking, tax-related trips and hostility toward Dreyfuss are recounted
  • The mechanical shark was nicknamed Bruce after Spielberg’s lawyer
  • MythBusters reportedly challenged the exploding scuba-tank ending
  • Real shark footage used a smaller cage to alter apparent scale
  • Unexpected cage-attack footage prompted Hooper’s survival in the rewrite
  • Lee Fierro reportedly struck Scheider repeatedly because she could not fake the slap
  • Benchley reportedly objected to the ending and was removed from the set
  • A discarded Quint introduction had him mocking Moby Dick in a theater
  • Gregory Peck reportedly refused use of that film
  • Adding the head scare reduced the later shark reveal’s surprise
  • The Indianapolis speech’s authorship is unresolved among Sackler, Milius, Shaw and Gottlieb contributions
  • Shaw reportedly failed an intoxicated monologue take and returned to deliver it successfully the next day
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The Omen

1976

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The Omen

1976 film

Bill Simmons · Chris Ryan

Aired October 31, 2023

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