Redford was Death, not the Devil.
When Satan told Thomas that he was, in fact, under the bed, was I the only person who’s first reaction was, “I knew it!”
Viggo had the right amount of creepiness and malevolence in The Prophecy. He would not have been nearly as effective had he been used more.
“Oh my God!”
“God is love. I don’t love you.”
Positively brilliant. I just ordered that movie on DVD from Amazon. I can’t wait until I get it.
He nailed so much of his initial scene with Virginia Madsen, but this was the best:
“Humans… and how I love you talking monkeys for this… know more about war and treachery of the spirit than any angel.”
I bet none of you have seen the low-budget comic book adaptation G-Men From Hell, which starred Vegas lounge lizard Robert Goulet as Satan. He was a very typical depiction with red skin, horns, and jet-black hair with a pointy goatee, elegant in a suit, of course. The lowbrow/“trash” artist Coop often draws the Devil that way, except greasier-looking, and usually surrounded by plenty of voluptuous red-skinned, horned, horny succubi.
Tim Curry as “The Darkness” in the otherwise-deplorable Legend was pretty awesome, though.
Perhaps in the novel. In the miniseries, Flagg definitely seemed closer to the Big Kahuna himself. Especially in the exchange:
Flagg: “Pleased to meet you, Lloyd. Hope you guess my name!”
Lloyd: “Huh?”
Flagg: “Oh, nothing. Just a classical reference.”
While he wasn’t Satan, I LOVED Hinton Battle’s satanic song/dance demon on the Buffy musical (“Once More With Feeling”). He should have gotten an Emmy.
I admit, I’m very partial to Elizabeth Hurley’s portrayal in the remake of ‘Bedazzled’. Especially [spoiler]that shot in the denouement with God and she playing chess and watching the two love interests walk off together. Then, when God is distracted, she tries to move the pieces out of turn and he spats her hand. The laugh she puts on is just brilliant.
Frankly, if there HAS to be a God/Devil thing I’d prefer that it’s all just fun and games to keep the infinite occupied than a war between good and evil.[/spoiler]
And no one has tossed out Daniel von Bargen who portrayed Satan in ‘O Brother Where Art Thou?’
‘You can’t do this! It ain’t the law!’
‘The LAW? The law is a human institution.’
I like the way CS Lewis portrayed him in Perelandra. Very creepy, and also different from the other portrayals I’ve seen.
When he’s trying to tempt the woman, he is the gentleman that he’s commonly portrayed as.
But… when she’s not around, he acts like a mentally retarded person. He does obscene things with his body and is just disgusting and stupid in general. The reason, according to the narrator, is that since being intelligent and classy is a good thing, Satan avoids both unless it serves as a means to an end, like impressing the woman so he can tempt her.
I love the Master Thespian (Jon Jovitz), but I have to second rjung’s vote for Ned Flanders.
Flipstrip and BrotherCadfael
Great Minds Think Alike
When I clicked on this thread, the first thing I did was do a page search for “Julie”. Yes her role as Ms Devlin in that “Twilight Zone” episode (“Of Late I Think OF Cliffordville”) was teriffic!! She played it with a nice mixture of sinister sinfullness and smoldering sexuality.
Oh, my…nobody’s mentioned Bill Cosby’s turn as Satan in Disney’s 1981 crapfest, The Devil and Max Devlin? In one scene, he’s in some sort of evil witch doctor outfit screaming at Elliott Gould! Horrible. Absolutely horrible. Almost as bad as Leonard, Part Six and Ghost Dad. Seriously.