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Devil's Advocate, What was he?
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07/25/05 07:16 AM
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scarfacelondon
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My friend and me were arguing what was Pacino in Devil's Advocate?
My friends explanation:
"He wasn't the Devil, he was the guardian angel who wanted Kevin (Keanu Reeves) to do the right thing and quit the little girl case. Pacino (guardian angel) wanted to show him that if he chooses the wrong path , bad things will happen to him".
My explanation: He was the Devil because in the end he said "Insanity is my favourite sin", if he was the guardian angel he wouldn't have said that.
What do you think, who is right? or if you have different explanation, you are welcome to explain.
"Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you".
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Re: Devil's Advocate, What was he?
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07/25/05 08:23 AM
07/25/05 08:23 AM
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afsaneh77
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Originally posted by scarfacelondon: He was the Devil because in the end he said "Insanity is my favourite sin", if he was the guardian angel he wouldn't have said that.
He was the Devil all right but what he said was: "Vanity is definitely my favorite sin". He gets everyone's best when they do things in vain. Even after Kevin supposedly saw everything and didn't represent that child molester, he talked him into doing a TV report on how he is a great person for doing so, which still falls in the category of vain.
"Fire cannot kill a dragon." -Daenerys Targaryen, Game of Thrones
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Re: Devil's Advocate, What was he?
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07/25/05 02:47 PM
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dontomasso
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He was the Devil and there are all kinds of great clues in that movie. One is that he always wears cuban style boot heels (to hide his cloven hoofs) and he also does a thing with his tongue like a serpent. When Keneau Reeves' wife says "the only thing worse than having no father was having mine," he says "I can relate, believe me." Also his name, John Milton is the same name as the poet who wrote Paradise Lost.
As an aside, in the final scenes, Christabella, the half sister is preparing for Keneau to have sex with her so they can give birth to the Antichrist. During her preparations she takes a dagger and hides it. I have always thought the plan was to Kil Reeves once he had performed his "service."
"Io sono stanco, sono imbigliato, and I wan't everyone here to know, there ain't gonna be no trouble from me..Don Corleone..Cicc' a port!"
"I stood in the courtroom like a fool."
"I am Constanza: Lord of the idiots."
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Re: Devil's Advocate, What was he?
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07/26/05 01:11 PM
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Don Cardi
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As Don T said, there are many clues and indications that he is The Devil. But my favorite part is when He and Reeves are on the train, and the spanish guy pulls a knife out on him, and he whispers in the guy's ear in spanish, decribing exactly what his wife is doing in the bedroom and describes the spanish guy's own bedroom to him. He's the devil, no doubt. Good scene. Don Cardi
Don Cardi Five - ten years from now, they're gonna wish there was American Cosa Nostra. Five - ten years from now, they're gonna miss John Gotti.
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Re: Devil's Advocate, What was he?
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07/27/05 10:24 PM
07/27/05 10:24 PM
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Tony Love
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Originally posted by Don Cardi: But my favorite part is when He and Reeves are on the train, and the spanish guy pulls a knife out on him, and he whispers in the guy's ear in spanish, decribing exactly what his wife is doing in the bedroom and describes the spanish guy's own bedroom to him. I agree with DC. I love the scene. Such a way to intimidate and help your fellow man at the same time. The dialogue at the end "taste, but don't swallow" was classic along with the scene where Milton's dabbing his finger in the holy water at the cathedrol (causing the water to steam).
"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so"-Gore Vidal "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth"-John Fitzgerald Kennedy "The reason the mainstream is thought of as a stream is because of its shallowness"-George Carlin
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