You are on target by using “Subliminal Imagery” even though we know we can see them on screen. Other than that, did it get the hype? You bet, we’re still talking about it aren’t we? □īottom line Captain: Don’t change it. That is unless someone is willing to look at the old 70mm film frame by frame. Unless we can ask one of the editors (there were six minimum) or Friedkin who tenaciously watched his film being cut, we won’t know. Friedkin used the term and probably combined the terms of both “flashes” and real “subliminal” images into the same term. So, my point … “subliminal” in the eyes of many individuals for this film is exactly what the Captain is saying. Friedkin was brilliant at directing his sound engineers to work with common sounds that makes individual uneasy e.g., the sound of a dentist’s drill on a tooth, pigs being slaughtered, hornets being angered, etc. I read and heard many times that Friedkin did put “other” real “subliminal” images in the film e.g., skulls, people lying in caskets, bloody car accident death scenes, and the list goes on. After all, it’s a psychological / horror / dramatic film. When I first saw the film at age 13, and many time after that, I would agree that the “flashes” that Friedkin used were of course intentional. Psychological term (adjective) for Subliminal: Existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness being or employing stimuli insufficiently intense to produce a discrete sensation but often being or designed to be intense enough to influence the mental processes or the behavior of the individual: a subliminal stimulus subliminal advertising.
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