O Brother, Where Art Thou?, if you want to get creative.
Witches Of Eastwick!
Your link goes back to the beginning of thread; possibly you wanted this link to imdb listing for Highway 61. That does look interesting; into my Netflix queue it goes.
ETA: Apparently it’s being remade in the US, integrating the mythic Crossroads in Mississippi. (Think I’d rather rewatch Walter Hill’s Crossroads.)
Er, who was the Devil in that?
Actually, the fact that it was regarded as a sequel to the horrid OMEGA CODE, rather than a superior remake, screwed it. Tho events 10 days prior to release did not help.
Another movie Satan- Thomas Jay Ryan in BOOK OF LIFE.
Check out The Evil starring Victor Buono, the erstwhile King Tut as Satan. Not a terrible movie on some levels.
Certainly a Satan-eque or Mephistophelean role- Richard Burton of HAMMERSMITH IS OUT.
Yeah, in the movie, there’s really no explanation of the character. Totally mysterious, with no rationale for her being there or doing what she did. And she essentially never speaks.
Several TZ episodes, actually; usually but not always involving Faustian bargains.
I once saw part of a movie, late at night, while flipping channels on TV.
I could have sworn it starred a young Jose Ferrer, but I don’t see anything on Ferrer’s imdb listing that looks familiar.
The hero had recently died, and was sitting at the entrance to Hell, telling his sins to the Devil. Most of the movie was flashbacks to his tales of women he had seduced.
At the end of the movie, the Devil looks down his nose and says, in a very posh, aristocratic accent, “I’m afraid we don’t allow your kind in here. You’re going to have to try the other place.” It turned out, the hero’s women had not been ruined, after all.
Anyone know this film?
My favorite of which had Ron Glass as the Devil, and Sherman Helmsley as the Faust.
I think I found it! The 1943 version of Heaven Can Wait, starring Don Ameche, not Jose Ferrer. Laird Cregar as the Devil.
Could you explain why you think she’s Lucifer? I thought she was a fallen Guardian Angel?
Sorry.I meant to say from the book I had the impression she was a fallen angel
The IMDB list 599 roles credited as Satan/The Devil/Lucifer, et al, since Georges Méliès first played the role in Le Diable au convent (1899).
He doesn’t appear in the film, but a meeting with him at the crossroads is described by Tommy Johnson.
Sure, there are a few things in the book that led me to that conclusion, though I admit none of them are ironclad.
Early in the book, she asks Corso whether he believes in the devil. Then she gives him a book titled The Devil in Love. We later find out that she’s in love with Corso, so I took the question and the book as her veiled attempt to let him know who she was and what her motivation was for protecting him. Later, when Corso asks her who she is, she actually says that she’s the devil in love. He thinks she’s teasing him, of course, but I read it as one of those “I can tell you truth only because you won’t believe me” moments.
Also, when discussing the fallen angels on earth, she says of Lucifer that “He clings desperately to a routine he despises, but which at least allows him to hide his grief. To hide his failure … He misses Heaven.” That seems to be pretty intimate knowledge about Lucifer’s feelings that he alone would know.
She also says that the fallen angels “hope that their leader will one day take them home.” She describes one in particular as “the most optimistic person I know,” because he’s still hoping to get back into heaven. The implicit suggestion is that she’s not hoping to get back into heaven, which seems to separate her from the other fallen angels.
Finally, when Corso figures out who she is, he speaks to her as if she’s Lucifer and she doesn’t deny it. For example, he asks her if she’s going to make him an offer and have him sign a pact, and says he thought she was all-powerful and wealthy. In response, she basically just says that those are myths. So she doesn’t deny the identity, just the myths associated with the identity.
There are certainly arguments against it, such as the fact that she speaks of Lucifer in the third person, but my take was that she was the devil, not just one of the fallen. I don’t know if Perez-Reverte has ever discussed it publicly one way or another.
Well if any of that was in the film I may have drawn the same conclusion, but as it wasn’t I didn’t.
Actually, Tommy’s description matches the mirrorshade-wearing prison guard on their tail - the one who, after being told that the governer had pardoned our heroes, replied that “those are *man’s * laws” and proceeds with hanging them. The one who was banished by an Act of God (and the Tennessee Valley Authority).
I’m pretty sure that one some level, the character was supposed to be, if not the Devil himself, then at least something otherworldly .