RATINGS: IMDB ― 6.0/10, Rotten Tomatoes ― 49%, ME ― 65%
Elliot's Cellmate: She's the devil that one.
Elliot Richards: What?
Elliot's Cellmate: I said she's the devil... that lady cop.
Elliot Richards: Oh... yea. I guess.
Elliot's Cellmate So what are you in for brother?
Elliot Richards: Eternity
Elliot's Cellmate: Oooo... that's a long time. You must have done some really bad shit.
Elliot Richards: Yea. I sold my soul.
Elliot's Cellmate: Hope you got something good for it.
Elliot Richards: As a matter of fact, I got nothing for it.
Elliot's Cellmate: Well that's a really bad deal if you ask me.
Elliot Richards: Well I'm not asking you.
Elliot's Cellmate: Doesn't really matter, though. Can't sell your soul anyway.
Elliot Richards: Oh, really? Why do you say that?
Elliot's Cellmate: Because it doesn't really belong to you in the first place. No way, no how.
Elliot Richards: So who does it belong to?
Elliot's Cellmate: It belongs to God. That universal spirit that animates and binds all things in existence. The Devil's gonna try to confuse you, that's her game. But in the end, you're gonna see clear to who and what you are, and what you're here to do. Now, you gonna make some mistakes along the way, everybody does. But if you just open up your heart, and open up your mind, you'll get it.
Elliot Richards: ...Who are you?
Elliot's Cellmate: [smiles] Just a friend, brother. Just a really good friend.
Gabriel Casseus as Elliot's Cellmate and Brendan Fraser as Elliot Richards
Trivia (From IMDB):
According to producer Trevor Albert, the schoolgirl outfit that the Devil wore was actually owned by Elizabeth Hurley.
There is a deleted scene that can be seen on the DVD, which shows Elliot using one of his wishes to become a rock star, playing in a metal band and using a British accent. It was cut out because of images of drug use (Elliot takes a bong hit on stage and Alison tries to kill herself by swallowing pills), foul language (Elliot says a certain four-letter word a number of times), and sexual content (Elliot and Alison start to have sex right in the back room). It can be accessed on the DVD by going to the second Special Features page, highlighting the top choice, and clicking right. A devil on Elizabeth Hurley's shoulder should light up.
The mathematics homework that the Devil removes from the classroom blackboard was effectively to prove Fermat's Last Theorem - a legendary problem from 1630 that was often the subject of stories about people selling their souls to solve it. The problem was eventually solved in 1995 by Andrew Wiles and colleagues (with computer, not satanic, assistance).
In longer versions of the film, Elliot was so pathetic that preview audiences squirmed. It was decided that a little went a long way so it was trimmed down.
The Devil's dogs in the beach scene are named Dudley and Peter, a reference to the writers and stars of the original Bedazzled (1967), Dudley Moore and Peter Cook.
Elizabeth Hurley wears a total of 19 different outfits as the Devil.
When the emotionally sensitive Elliot is playing guitar for Allison, the guitar playing we hear is actually that of Harold Ramis.
The Devil mentions that on November 16, she'll have been doing her job for 6,000 years. This is a reference to Archbishop James Ussher, who in the seventeenth century calculated that the birth of the world was on Sunday, 23 October 4004 BC. According to his calculations, Adam and Eve were thrown out of Paradise on Monday, 10 November.
The math homework that The Devil erases from the blackboard when she is the schoolteacher is Fermat's Last Theorem - Solve for n>2, x^n + y^n = z^n. It was an extremely difficult mathematical problem that was only proved conclusively in the early 1990s, after four hundred years of it stumping the most brilliant mathematical minds in the world. In fact, the theorem states that this equation does not have any solutions. Fermat originally described it in a margin too small to contain his alleged proof. Andrew Wiles did prove it using elliptic curves, a fairly modern mathematical technique.
The glasses worn by the devil when she and Elliot are on the bus are similar to those worn by Peter Cook when he played the devil in the original version of Bedazzled (1967).
The devil's club, DV8, is the same building used in Fight Club as Lou's Diner. Bedazzled is set in San Francisco, where as it is never specified in the movie where Fight Club is set.
In the basketball game, the name on the opposing team's jerseys is Shirts.
The Devil (Elizabeth Hurley) gives Elliot (Brendan Fraser) a business card with the name the Devil on it to prove that she is in fact the Devil. It is just like Oh, God! (1977), when God (George Burns) gives Jerry Landers (John Denver) a business card with God written on it to prove he is God.
The black sports car that Elizabeth Hurley (the Devil) drives in the beginning of the film is a Lamborghini Diablo.
An additional scene shot involved the rich and powerful Elliot giving Allison a diamond ring as a gift. Allison remarks that it is lovely and tosses it away. Elliot later tosses the ring into a fountain in disappointment and servants dive in to retrieve it. This seemed like overkill so it was left out.
The business card joke was also used in the original version of Bedazzled (1967), where the writing on the card was never seen.
While the Devil and Elliot are walking through the parking lot just after meeting, you can see the devil dressed in snakeskin holding a bitten red apple representing Adam and Eve.
The mix of real-time and greatly sped-up shots of things such as clouds, traffic, and people in subway stations at the beginning and end of the film was previously used in the non-narrative film Baraka (1992).
Remake of the original 1967 film with the same title, in which the Devil was male.
From IMDB and Google.
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