The Devil's Advocate

Yesterday I watched again The Devil's Advocate, one of my all times favourite films. The movie has an interesting plot and develops pretty well over it's first 2 hours, but it's the last 10 minutes what turn it into a masterpiece.

Al Pacino's anti religious speech left me speechless the first time I watched this film, you're before a Hollywood production and suddenly you stumble upon one of the fiercest and most intelligent attacks on religion that you can imagine!

I've found the discourse here:

John Milton: I want you to be yourself. Y'know, boy, guilt is like a bag of ing bricks. All you gotta do is set it down.....Who are you carrying all those bricks for anyway? God? Is that it? God? Well, I'll tell ya, lemme give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He's a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts! He gives this extraordinary gift and then--what does he do? I swear--for his own amusement--his own private cosmic gag reel--he sets the rules in opposition. It's the goof of all time! Look. But don't touch! Touch. But don't taste! Taste. Don't swallow! [laughs] And while you're jumping from one foot to the next, he's laughing his sick ing ass off!! He's a tight ass, he's a sadist, he's an absentee landlord!! Worship that never!

Kevin: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven, is that it?

Milton: Why not? I'm here on the ground with my nose in it since the whole thing began! [screaming] I've nurtured every sensation Man has been inspired to have! I cared about what he wanted and I never judged him. Why? Because I never rejected him. In spite of all his imperfections, I'm a fan of man!! [Calms] I'm a humanist. Maybe the last humanist. Who, in their right mind, Kevin, could possibly deny the 20th century was entirely mine? All of it, Kevin, all of it! Mine! I'm peaking here! It's my time now. It's our time.

wow... can you picture yourself in Keanu Reeve's (Kevin) shoes? Al Pacino (John Milton) spitting such words of wisdom while a nude Scandinavian Goddess (yes, I've got sort of an obsession with this "Valkiria") tries to push you into bed?

The whole performance by Al Pacino is superb, I can't think of any way to improve the way he plays the polyglot, ultra smart, party minded, sleepless, handsome devil "business leader".

By the way, Hocico used this speech as a sampler, and the result was excellent..