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. Based on Andrew Neiderman's 1990 novel of the same name, it is about a gifted young Florida lawyer (Reeves) invited to New York City to work for a major firm. As his wife (Theron) becomes haunted by frightening visions, the lawyer slowly begins to realize the owner of the firm (Pacino) is not what he appears to be, and is in fact the Devil.
The Devil character's name is a direct homage to John Milton, who wrote Paradise Lost,[6] quoted by Lomax with the line "Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n".[7] Despite this, the thrust of Milton's epic was to rebuke the devil.[8] As a rebel against God, complaining of being perpetually "underestimated", the Milton character, like Paradise Lost's Satan, is "Heav'n running from Heav'n" with a "sense of injur'd merit".[9]
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Milton tempting Lomax is possibly also inspired by the Biblical Temptation of Christ.[6] Aside from Milton, other character names have been commented on: Author Kelly J. Wyman matches Mary Ann, the virginal figure who falls victim to Milton, to the Virgin Mary, and adds the literal translation of Christabella is "Beautiful Christ",[21] and that the title refers to the Catholic Church's Devil's advocates and lawyers as advocates;[22] Eric C. Brown finds Barzoon's name and character to be reminiscent of the demon prince Beelzebub.[7] Scholars Miguel A. De La Torre and Albert Hernndez observe the vision of Satan as CEO, wearing expensive clothing and engaging in business, had appeared in popular culture before, including the 1942 novel The Screwtape Letters.[23]
After the completion of the New York shoot in March 1997, production moved to Florida in July 1997.[42] In Jacksonville, Florida, the interior of the Mrs. Howard's business in Riverside and Avondale was used for New York scenes. Its co-owner Jim Howard remodeled the store and appeared as an extra.[42] The Gainesville church scenes were shot at an actual Gainesville church, after Hackford persuaded the pastor and his members to participate, and that his story was about combating Satan.[30]
At the end of the film, John Milton morphs into Lucifer as a fallen angel. The crew created the effect by combining life masks depicting Reeves, Pacino in 1997 and Pacino as he appeared in the 1972 film The Godfather.[44] The Godfather make-up artist Dick Smith supplied the life mask he made in the 1970s to Devil's Advocate artist Rick Baker, Smith's former protg.[45] Additionally, Baker created images for demonic faces seen on real actresses and actors, with hands also appearing to move underneath Tamara Tunie's skin, a digital creation with the contributions of Richard Greenberg and Stephanie Powell.[30]
During early stages of photography, Warner aspired to a release in August 1997.[27] The film eventually had its release on October 17, 1997,[26] on the same day as another horror film, I Know What You Did Last Summer.[49] To promote the release, Warner's website included the warning on hell's gate from Dante's Inferno Canto III ("Abandon every hope, ye who enter here"), with credits presented as circles of hell.[9] The television advertising and poster were upfront as to Milton being Satan, though this is not explicitly revealed in the film itself until its later acts.[50]
On its opening weekend in October 1997, The Devil's Advocate earned $12.2 million, finishing second in the U.S. box office to I Know What You Did Last Summer, which made $16.1 million.[54] The Devil's Advocate was largely competing against thriller films aimed at youth in the Halloween season.[54] By December 6, 1997, it grossed $56.1 million.[55] It ended its run on February 12, 1998, with a gross of $61 million in North America and $92 million elsewhere.[56]
In 2014, Yahoo! named The Devil's Advocate as "Pacino's Most Underrated Film", claiming "Pacino's hammy devil never got his due" but "there's something to be said for an actor who can pull off this level of theatrics".[70] In his 2015 Movie Guide, Leonard Maltin gave it three stars, finding Reeves credible and Pacino "delicious".[71] Scott Mendelson wrote in Forbes in 2015 that "I love this trashy, vulgar, unapologetically puritan melodrama more than I care to admit".[49] In 2016, The Huffington Post reported on an online debate over the possible symbolism in the costume design, as Lomax appears in suits that are light in the beginning, becoming increasingly darker as his morality slips away. The counterpoint is that this merely reflects his increasing social status.[72]
The film was the subject of legal action in Hart v. Warner Bros., Inc. in 1997. The claim was that the sculpture featuring human forms in John Milton's apartment closely resembled the Ex nihilo sculpture by Frederick Hart on the facade of the Episcopal National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and that a scene involving the sculpture infringed Hart's rights under copyright law in the United States.[73] Hart and the National Cathedral jointly initiated the action, with an argument similar to architect Lebbeus Woods's successful lawsuit over imagery in the film 12 Monkeys.[55] Defenses available to Warner were that the effect was designed without knowledge of Ex nihilo, or fair use.[55]
Milton (Al Pacino) is the devil. That is a secret reserved for the second hour of the film, although the title hints it, the posters and TV commercials reveal it, and by the time it arrives Lomax is the only character who hasn't suspected. Charming, persuasive, with a wise little cackle, Milton sends a recruiter to Florida, where Lomax is an undefeated master of picking juries that do not convict. He wants the young man to join his team, and tempts him not on a mountain top but on a rooftop.
Second, the CGI was a hot mess. I may give it a pass since it was the 1997, but the CGI made me laugh at times where I wasn't supposed to laugh. The snapchat filter warp looked so goofy that I couldn't concentrate. This was a problem in the climax; the CGI look me out of the scene which was a shame because if it was executed better, it would've been great.
I just watched The Devil's Advocate and I couldn't help myself but dig into the details. I'm from Asia and I don't know much about Christianity and stuff. I read some stuff about the devil and the antichrist and how he'll be born. What got my attention was -
Keanu Reeves, when he's arguing with his Mom in the hospital where Mary Ann (Charlize Theron) killed herself, tells her that he's 30 years old. This might not seem like that major of a detail but think about it. The devil (Al Pacino) waited patiently to meet his son. He waited for 30 years. Not more. Not less.
Pacino plays John Milton (an obvious homage), and we realize pretty quickly that he is the devil. He recruits a young lawyer from Florida, Kevin Lomax (Kenau Reeves) who brings his pretty young wife Mary Ann (Charlize Theron) with him to New York City. Lomax is a good guy who gets caught up in doing anything necessary to win a case. Milton seems to be a mentor, but the audience knows (thanks to the title of the film) that his true intentions are much more evil.
Often deceptively simple -- and isn't that appropriate -- The Devil's Advocate is one of my favorite films from 1997, and would rank at least in my top 50 for the decade. It's yet another film that I think is best approached blindly. If you haven't seen it yet, I suggest that you stop reading, watch the film, then get back to me. You just have to trust me that it's worth your time. If you ignore my advice, beware of major spoilers below. Since I'll assume that everyone still reading has already seen the film, I'll approach the rest of my review a bit differently.
If read literally, a huge chunk of The Devil's Advocate is really just a lawyer film. Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves -- and despite the conventional wisdom on the Internet, I love his acting) is a devil's advocate in the sense that, as a defense attorney, he mostly argues stances that he doesn't hold himself. Unlike typical devil's advocate arguments, his are ethically weighty, since if his points are taken, he wins cases for defendents who are usually guilty.
But "Devil's advocate" is meant more literally. "Advocate" is, as you know, also a term for an attorney. From the beginning, The Devil's Advocate is really a horror film, but a profoundly subtle one. Although it's not how we usually think of evil, Lomax is doing the same by releasing the guilty--often persons guilty of very serious crimes. For instance, we later learn from Weaver that the child molester who Lomax freed via argument was discovered with a child's body in the trunk of his car. And if you release the guilty when you know they're guilty and they go on to commit further crimes, aren't you partly responsible?
Lomax isn't just fighting for the guilty because he believes that even the guilty deserve the best defense possible, or because he's a wanton, anarchic hedonist, or because he has some other alternative ethics. He's fighting because he's the Devil's advocate and more.
The Devil's Advocate (marketed as Devil's Advocate) is a 1997 American supernatural horror movie directed by Taylor Hackford, written by Jonathan Lemkin and Tony Gilroy. It starred Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, and Charlize Theron. It is based on Andrew Neiderman's novel of the same name.
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