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Jun 28, 2020 · Kevin realizes that his winning streak was only an outcome of the Devil trying to stroke his ego and setting the stage for his final act. This realization makes Kevin question his own morals again and instead of falling for the Devil’s trap, he shoots himself.
The newest attorney at the world's most powerful law firm has never lost a case. But he's about to lose his soul. Speak of the devil. Devil begins and wins. John Milton: A woman's shoulders are the front lines of her mystique, and her neck, if she's alive, has all the mystery of a border town.
The Devil's Advocate (marketed as Devil's Advocate) is a 1997 American supernatural horror film directed by Taylor Hackford, written by Jonathan Lemkin and Tony Gilroy, and starring Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, and Charlize Theron.
Oct 17, 2022 · The newest attorney at the world's most powerful law firm has never lost a case. But he's about to lose his soul.
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It’s pretty rare these days to set up a fantastical story that ends, “it was all a dream – and then I woke up”. Horror legal thriller The Devil’s Advocate takes a sideways run at it by having the story take place in a daydream. Halfway through a court case Kevin Lomax twigs his client is guilty of child abuse. Overwhelmed, he excuses himself from c...
At the end of the film, Kevin’s wife Mary Ann (Charlize Theron) kills herself with shards from a broken mirror. Seeing demons in mirrored surfaces destroys her sanity. But actually, Mary Ann sees the world as it really is through these weird reflections, whereas Kevin sees what he wants to. Mary Ann’s broken mirror has a greater significance, thoug...
Kevin Lomax belongs to that class of cinema character with a dad in the closet. Like Luke Skywalker, the father he eventually meets is a force of evil. However, Lomax is his father’s son long before he learns the truth about Milton (Al Pacino): 1. Lomax can second-guess jurors the same way Milton can manipulate people. 2. His winning streak is too ...
In the film, New York represents both big city temptations and hell on Earth. As Lomax’s mother Alice (Judith Ivey) warns Lomax via the book of Revelation: This foreshadows the entire plot. Satan himself now has an office in Babylon (New York). And, as per 17th-century epic poem Paradise Lost – by poet John Milton, no less– it’s the backdrop to the...
Is it easier to be bad? This is Milton’s sales pitch (just let the guilt go, he says). Either way, the film repeatedly asks Lomax to choose whether to act in self-interest or for more noble ends. Initially, the choice is whether or not to represent a paedophile. Lomax not only jumps at the chance, he actually bullies the young girl accusing his cli...
Someone playing devil’s advocate takes an opposing, unpopular view for argument’s sake. Here, it’s Milton (and as he’s Satan, it makes for a dizzying pun). In the film’s final scenes Milton makes an impassioned speech about the benefits of being bad. He calls God a prankster for giving humans desires, but commandments which criminalise them. But wh...
The film ends with a twist about Lomax’s dad: it’s Milton, baby. Milton himself drops a huge hint on Kevin when he quotes the scripture he used to seduce Alice: Unfortunately Lomax doesn’t yet recognise the significance of the words. During his big sell on brand Satan in the finale, Milton reveals he’s also Larry, the journalist who followed Lomax ...
The Omen, Rosemary’s Baby(son of Satan)Al Pacino’s famous speech – as the devil – in the Devil’s Advocate (1997). Al Pacino plays John Milton aka the devil. In this scene he tries to convince Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves) to join his side. I added the the rhetorical figures of speech in this transcript in brackets.
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Mar 16, 2024 · The book lets Milton win outright, resulting in a total downer for Kevin, who has lost his wife, his life of luxury, and now his soul if he wants to keep from being murdered in prison. Everyone's mileage will vary, of course, but for me, I have to say that I prefer the film to the novel.
