This Is Really Going To Tick Off The Devil.

[kid_mash]

I REALLY want to see the dance off between the devil and gods chosen ballerina. I bet he crunks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g46Ntg38cc

[K-DoG7p7]

thats some of the worst ACTING I have ever seen in a trailer..

EDIT: man I suck these days

[mgs]

what the???!? :confused:

her dancing pisses off the devil? huh?

[thehod]

He's was probably already a little pissed off because he had to give Johnny his shiny fiddle made of gold.

[Alan2099]

Ballerina vs the devil. man, I want top like that so much, but it just looks like it's going to disapoint me so badly.

[PatrickG]

Production value, acting and dialogue looks awful.

But I really like the CONCEPT of the parents of a dying child being confronted with the devil.

My take would be pretty radically different from what we see here though.

In my vision of this story, the parents (I think I'd make it a single parent to keep the focus tight), in their grief, blame the devil. Satan appears, essentially, to say, "I didn't do this. Do you think I delight in torment? It's God who created this world full of torment." Cue the parent meeting with Satan and striking up a peculiar relationship with him as the child degrades.

This widower with a dying child has a beer with Satan, refuses to compromise or denounce God even though it tears him apart knowing he could save his daughter, but the two form a strange kind of kinship fueled by their debates.

I think THAT would be charismatic.

"He created noise where there was silence, breathed life into the earth, stole your rib and told you that rejoining with the flesh you'd lost was sinful unless it was under His terms. But He didn't erase the urge. He presented you with wisdom and told you not to take it. Now He isn't killing your daughter, your own frail flesh is. But He made that flesh frail and He isn't saving her. He gives you this image of how things ought to be but then won't deliver and tells you to deal with it. I don't claim to be an expert in fairness but I don't think He is either."

"But you humans...? They say He created you a little above the angels. You've created law, conditional law. You've imagined rights, unconditional rights. You have art and enterprise which exceeds your means. You created Drama. You know what the big rule of drama is? You see a gun in act one, it goes off by act five. There is action and consequence and everything has meaning and Love? Hoo boy. Love can conquer all. You get that. You invented fairness and supplied meaning where he supplied none. He just litters the world with guns and tells you not to shoot them. Drama never even occurred to Him. I think it's why He created you. He didn't even get any of that until He became one of you. You taught that to him. Omnipotence makes Him a poor judge of consequence. The crucifixion was just him learning mercy and meaning and he could only do it from inside the prison of your flesh."

"But he spared his son. Conquered death. Offered all flesh forgiveness rather than allow himself to be damned with you. He couldn't bear to stay dead. But your little girl? You think she'll rise in three days? You think she'll go to Heaven? I've heard her whispering she hates God for all the pain He's brought the both of you. And I know from firsthand experience that my old boss doesn't brook that kind of insubordination and He doesn't consider pain or illness or personal defect an excuse, even if He's the maker of everything defective and imperfect. God's son rose in three days but your daughter is staying in the ground. Tell me how much you love God now."

See. THAT is the seed of where I would go with it. And I would reject making it purely a Job story and I would also reject making it about the parent fighting the Devil.

[PatrickG]

Incdentally? My devil would be played by Ian McShane and my father-type would be played by Tony Shaloub or Paul Giamotti.

[Shisho]

That looks horrible. And hysterical. And sad.

And it makes me think of watching Joaqin Cortes live, and he had this great bit when he plays the devil in an Armani suit throwing around these golden knives, and suddenly I want to see that hot ass gypsy man stomp all over that annoying little ballerina with steel reinforced flamenco shoes.

Joaquin Cortes (http://www.flamenco-world.com/magazine/cortes/cortes.htm)

The devil is ticked off because you suck. Satan ftw.