This is one of my final exam questions for my English class, and I'm at a bit of a loss. Knowing my luck, I'll probably get the other essay option, but for this one, I have to cast Satan, Adam, and Eve.
If you haven't read it before (I hadn't, other than to skim pieces of it):
Satan: Charismatic, strong, arrogant, eloquent
Adam: Authoritative, hard-working, self-sacrificing
Eve: Submissive (yet simultaneously rebellious and envious), curious, sensual
Who would you pick?
Casting Paradise Lost
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Casting Paradise Lost
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
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um....
kate, sawyer, and jack?
(with both jack and sawyer being interchangable
in the roles of adam and duh debil)
kate, sawyer, and jack?
(with both jack and sawyer being interchangable
in the roles of adam and duh debil)
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
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Ha! (Though I think Ben Linus would make an excellent devil)lucimay wrote:um....
kate, sawyer, and jack?
(with both jack and sawyer being interchangable
in the roles of adam and duh debil)
'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
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Wow Spooky, I thought the very same thing about the Lost characters and scrolled down to Lucimay!........ What the hell would Lurch make of that!!! 
Others? The Devil would be at any time a good role for Jack N, or Pacino, but for PL I might look at someone like Viggo Mortensen.
Adam would be Ed Harris for me, but perhaps he's a bit old now, tho' if age (or mortality) were no limit I'd probably go Gregory Peck or Burt Lancaster. Of todays generation I'd think, Christian Bale would do a job or Karl Urban perhaps, more box officey would be Nicholas Cage.
Eve? Kristen Stewart might be good.
Others? The Devil would be at any time a good role for Jack N, or Pacino, but for PL I might look at someone like Viggo Mortensen.
Adam would be Ed Harris for me, but perhaps he's a bit old now, tho' if age (or mortality) were no limit I'd probably go Gregory Peck or Burt Lancaster. Of todays generation I'd think, Christian Bale would do a job or Karl Urban perhaps, more box officey would be Nicholas Cage.
Eve? Kristen Stewart might be good.
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Viggo Mortensen was my original pick for Satan. He was great in the role in The Prophecy. But I think I like Sawyer for the part. Having seen Jack in other movies, I think I'll pass. 
Kate's not a bad choice, but I kind of want someone more voluptuous and earthy... which makes me think of Christina Hendricks.
Adam is the tough one. Brad Pitt?
Kate's not a bad choice, but I kind of want someone more voluptuous and earthy... which makes me think of Christina Hendricks. Adam is the tough one. Brad Pitt?
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Satan's an easy choice for me, Tom Cruise would absolutely kill the part (in a good way) 
Eve's hard, but in a good way... there are many actresses that I think could pull the part off; having just watched Changeling, I'm thinking Angelina Jolie.
Adam is harder. For an easy win, go with Tom Hanks, but I feel like I'm just picking favorites if I go for a third big name, so I'll leave that one open.
Eve's hard, but in a good way... there are many actresses that I think could pull the part off; having just watched Changeling, I'm thinking Angelina Jolie.
Adam is harder. For an easy win, go with Tom Hanks, but I feel like I'm just picking favorites if I go for a third big name, so I'll leave that one open.
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I've recently been watching Lie to Me (TV) and you might like to consider Tim Roth as Satan.
"Winston, if you were my husband I'd give you poison" ................ "Madam, if you were my wife I would drink it!"
"Terrorism is war by the poor, and war is terrorism by the rich"
"A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well."
"The opposite of pro-life isn't pro-death. Y'know?"
"What if the Hokey Cokey really is what its all about?"
"Terrorism is war by the poor, and war is terrorism by the rich"
"A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well."
"The opposite of pro-life isn't pro-death. Y'know?"
"What if the Hokey Cokey really is what its all about?"
