The Pope’s Exorcist
Summary
The horror movieThe Pope ’s Exorcistis establish on the true level of the Chief Exorcist of the Diocese of Rome , though it make some big changes to Father Amorth ’s genuine claims . Starring Russell Crowe as Father Amorth , who is purported to have enter in over 100,000 exorcisms over 30 years , The Pope ’s Exorcistjumps mightily into the action , with the non-Christian priest using all the skill at his disposal to help free a 10 - year - old boy distinguish Henry of an ancient fiend . As he struggles to make unnecessary the boy from the forces of dark , he also uncovers a Vatican confederacy with existence - ending consequence .
Drawing from the real Father Gabriele Amorth ’s two memoirsAn Exorcist Tells His StoryandAn Exorcist : More Stories , The Pope ’s Exorcisttakes some creative shore leave with its central figure as well as the circumstances around his exorcisms . While its first number is prime in some semblance of reality , the third act decides to go to a very fantastic topographic point , pose to disgrace anything seen in other genre motion picture likeThe exorciser . Thecharacters inThe Pope ’s Exorcistare alike to their real - life counterparts in name only , and any resemblance to real fig like Father Amorth or The Pope or factual events is almost coincidental .
12Father Amorth Wasn’t An Exorcist Until He Was 61
Father Amorth lived a full life before he became Chief Exorcist of the Diocese of Rome in 1986 at the eld of 61 , and stay in the position for another thirty years until his death in 2016 . He ’d fought in WWII , examine news media in Rome , and did n’t have anything to do with handling possessions until he was much older , though grant to his book of account , he did feel a calling to answer God at an early age . Crowe ’s Father Amorth , by contrast , is an establish exorciser who has been save innocent souls from possession for years by the time the Pope pass out to him .
zip around Rome on his Lambretta , with his Ferrari - ruby socks , penchant for pop music , and full beard , Crowe ’s Father Amorth does n’t accept much resemblance to the substantial person . Being physically imposing certainly assist the actor to impart Amorth ’s robust vitality against the pernicious forces of shadow , but Father Amorth could have been depicted as an older humankind . Still , Crowe ’s on-key history detail from the exorciser ’s lifedoes aid capture his essence .
11Father Amorth Never Shot A Pig During An Exorcism
At the beginning ofThe Pope ’s Exorcist , Father Amorth travels to Tropea , Italy , a small Greenwich Village with a terrified priest who is n’t skilled enough to face a possess local . Father Amorth does n’t believe the Isle of Man is truly possessed after spending some time with him , but nevertheless challenges the hellish entity inside his body to possess a pig he ’s brought with him . Pretending that it has in fact figure the creature , the pig is then shot , and the man get hold of comfort in believing that God has save him .
While a clever ruse , there ’s no grounds to intimate that the veridical Father Amorth ever shot a sloven during an exorcism , either because it actually turn back a devil or because he wanted a victim to believe so . He did , however , believe that many afflictions were psychological , not supernatural , in nature , and the hog scene helps convey the non-Christian priest ’s position , as well as his empathy . Even if it is a dupe , it foreshadows events later in the movie that turn out to be very real .
10Father Amorth’s Exorcisms Didn’t Include Literal Demons
The Pope ’s Exorcistis first and foremost a megahit and draw very slackly from Father Amorth ’s life . In his first book , Amorth famously say that out of 100 cases , only two might really involve possessed and necessitate his intervention . While Amorth did see things"that have confounded all of science and all of medicine"during the 100,000 exorcism he purportedly perform , they did n’t involve poltergeists , spirit , or the sorting of daimon shown in Crowe ’s exorcist movie .
The dispossession genre has needed to up the ante ever since the originalThe Exorcistmovie , with more jump panic attack , disgusting visuals , and demonic manifestation to stick relevant as revulsion taste ’s change . Watching Crowe ’s Father Amorth wage war against actual demons and other phantasmagoria is certainly harbour , but was never rooted in the real Father Amorth ’s exorcisms . He did claim to have seen someone levitate , however , and there ’s spate of that inThe Pope ’s Exorcist , highlighting the fact that , like so much that ’s inexplicable and ephemeral , exorcisms are a praxis receptive to interpretation .
9The Plot Of The Pope’s Exorcist Is An Original Story
ThoughThe Pope ’s Exorcistis base on thousands of Father Amorth ’s accounts of possession , screenwriter Michael Petroni cherry red - picked while from his leger rather than accommodate one particular exorcism . The entire plot of the movie , in which Crowe ’s Amorth travel to Spain to hold open a 10 - year - sometime boy possessed by Asmodeus , as well as the Vatican cabal , is all fictional . Father Amorth did , at one point , importune that tincture of the Old Nick had been seen in the Vatican in the early ' eighty , but that was simply the comportment of enticement and hell , rather than anything resemble something fromThe Da Vinci Code .
The major demon inThe Pope ’s Exorcistis Asmodeus , who require to use Crowe ’s dead body to raise hundreds of fallen angels to intrude on the Vatican in a world - ending apocalypse . Father Amorth never faced such an incredible adversary but felt his oeuvre was pregnant enough that the personal battle between the possess and their demon infiltrator was just as significant . In that mode , Crowe ’s over - the - top struggle of good versus immorality is representative of the battle for chastity and ethical motive going on inside every conflicted follower of a higher top executive .
8Father Amorth’s 100,000 Exorcisms Weren’t All Real Exorcisms
Much fanfare has been made out of how many exorcisms Father Amorth is said to have conducted over the thirty - left years that he was in service to the Vatican . InThe Pope ’s Exorcist , his acquirement is spoken about in hushed whisper , and even though certain member of the clergy do n’t approve of his methods , he ’s given a great deal of respect . In his Book , and as the 2017 documentaryThe Devil and Father Amorthshows , not all of his exorcisms happened in the path most mass imagine .
An exorcism could be a single petition , so if Father Amorth reiterate it 100 times , he ’s do 100 dispossession . This explains how he could have set out to the incredible telephone number that ’s attached to his name after becoming the Pope ’s exorciser at 61 . Not every case was as grueling as the ones depicted in the film , though according to the literal Father Amorth , one man necessitated visits for sixteen long time of his life before he die .
7Father Amorth Wasn’t A Badass Demon-Hunting Superhero
In the very curtain raising ofThe Pope ’s Exorcist , Father Amorth travel to a modest Italian settlement to exorcize a devil from a own man , eventually transferring it into a sloven brought along for the ritual . Once the daemon ( whom Father Amorth name as Satan ) is sent into the pig , he pip it with a scattergun . This scene establishes Crowe ’s Father Amorth as more of a demon - hunting badass than the veridical priest , an merger of Van Helsing with Dirty Harry .
6Father Amorth Never Traveled To An Exorcism By Vespa
As playfulness as it is to watch Russell Crowe zip around on a Vespa listening to " She Sells Sanctuary " by The Cult , the genuine Father Amorth did n’t use a Vespa to get to his exorcisms . He for sure did n’t use one to get all the means from Italy to Spain with nothing but a small satchel of tincture and relics . Father Amorth may have used something sporty in his journalism years long before becoming a priest , but the moving picture express the non-Christian priest ride up nonchalantly on a Vespa but to show how freaky he is .
InThe Pope ’s Exorcisttimeline the Popeis a conservative pontiff , and though he divvy up a friendly relationship with Father Amorth , the film adjudicate its good to show how much of an foreigner the non-Christian priest is . His method might be unconventional and irregular , but as the picture expose , the Pope and the rest of his clergy have go bad to keep the demon Asmodeus at bay . To ensure his defeat a maverick like Father Amorth is require , and a Vespa conveys this very well in a visual medium .
5The Spanish Inquisition Was Not The Work Of Demons
Towards the end ofThe Pope ’s Exorcist , Father Amorth uncovers a truth that shatters the very understructure of the Catholic Church ; the demon Asmodeus once possess the exorciser Alonso de Ojega and through him , win over Queen Isabella II to start the Spanish Inquisition . This exculpates the Catholic Church and blame the atrociousness committed in 1478 on demonic possession . Not only is this shocking to Father Amorth , but it ’s also surprising for fans and history buffs to hear .
The Spanish Inquisition was not the work of daimon , but of paranoid Catholic milkweed butterfly concerned that the Jewish population in Spain would eventually outnumber the Christian universe . Inquisitors were named to describe misbeliever or anyone considered to hold imitation spiritual beliefs ( such as witchcraft ) by the Catholic Church , for which they were burned at the steak . Father Amorth suspected that Satan had infiltrated the Vatican at some point , but this could have been translate as a metaphor considering he wanted the Vatican Police investigated for sex crimes .
4Father Amorth Never Found Out What Happened To Rosaria
During a subdued moment , Father Amorth talks about one particular showcase that touched him ask a girl named Rosaria , who he suspected was mentally ill but could n’t find a way to help before she jump to her death . This was most in all likelihood based on the substantial Father Amorth ’s investigation of 15 - yr - onetime Emanuela Orlandi , the daughter of a prominent Vatican employee , who was abducted on June 22 , 1983 on her way to music class . While his investigation was informal and not approve by the Vatican , it prompted looking into the hierarchy of the Vatican Police at the fourth dimension , which was suspected of perhaps being part of a coverup .
To this day , Italians have had Emanuela sighting , but neither Father Amorth nor local self-assurance ever find out what hap to her . Netflix’sVatican Girlexplores the casing in further detail , include current hint and attempt to get to the trueness . While Rosaria might be fictitious , her inclusion body inThe Pope ’s Exorcistshines a minuscule more light on what happened to the real woman she exalt .
3Father Amorth Never Fought Asmodeus
In the absence of the Devil , The Pope ’s Exorcistuses a likewise project entity from Judeo - Moslem caption . Henry ’s demon inThe Pope ’s Exorcistis Asmodeus , and he prove to be quite a malevolent bearing , moving from Henry to Amy and at last into Father Amorth himself . When in possession of his victim he resorts to shockingly unsanctified verbiage , but his actual power lies in the things he ’s able to make his victim do , and what he ’s able-bodied to make the surrounding humans comprehend , like a surreal hallucination .
In all of his Hagiographa , the real Father Amorth never mentioned a ogre by the name of Asmodeus , nor did he ever discuss one that could move from one person to another at will . Most of Father Amorth ’s recorded case were shockingly mundane , and while they did admit victims using dissimilar names for the the Tempter they believed was inhabit them , this Prince of Hell never appeared . As he appeared inSupernatural , he is but a fun use of Hollywood magic .
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