Viggo Mortensen's Devil Vs Robert De Niro's Devil - The Prophecy (1995) Discussion

[–] Xcalat3 17 years ago

de niro

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[–] KiLL-TIMMAHYYYY 17 years ago

He's SO EVIL " I CAN FILL YOUR MOUTH WITH YOUR DEAD MOTHER'S FECES....OR WE CAN TALK ? " Viggo had COOL DEMONS TOO like the creatures in PHANTASM,Viggo ate Gabriel's heart while saying " I LOVE YOU MORE THAN JESUS" Wtf did deniro have ? long fingernails ?

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[–] s2nur 17 years ago

Viggo without a doubt, all those lines were over the top.... I could watch his scenes over and over and they always give me chills... His exchange with walken was awesome.... "Lucifer, sulking in your basement over your breakup with the boss" amazing...

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[–] Fantacist 17 years ago

I love what Satan says when he is crouched down behind Thomas, something to the extent of "Little Tommy Dagget, always afraid of me being under his bed.......I WAS!". So playful and childlike, added to the fact that Viggo is a master of the less is more style of acting. He just has such an enormous amount of quiet intensity.

"Your war is arrogance. That's evil. That's mine."

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[–] Boutros_Boutros_Sirhan_Sirhan 16 years ago

Same level, easily two of the absolute best depictions of The Devil on film (The Passion of the Christ, The Exorcist, and End of Days being right there as well).

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[–] ERothenbach 16 years ago

VIGGO! Damn he was hot! (No pun intended)
"I have a bad feeling about this"

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[–] eri0001 16 years ago

I have to go with Viggo. He's both understated and intense, which not everyone can pull off, and I daresay De Niro has never done anything - that I can remember - that could be called understated. I'm not knocking his acting, he's very good, it's just he and Viggo have different styles and I prefer Viggo's.

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[–] hsmith11 15 years ago

Viggo, without any doubt.

Oh, for what it's worth, I think Al Pacino--in "The Devil's Advocate"--did a better job than Robert De Niro, which takes nothing away from De Niro's performance. For example, that scene in the cafe, De Niro is slowing cracking then slowly peeling the shell off of that boiled egg, casually sprinkles salt on it and--all of this going on while he's talking with Mickey Roarke's character--then almost savagely bites the egg.

Even though I still don't know what it means, biting that egg the way he does is definitely symbolic of something, and it still scares me each time I watch "Angel Heart".

I guess one of the ways this can be summarized is that all three of these guys gave fantastic and unforgettable performances; I'd love to see all three of them in the same movie as different interpretations of Satan!

I'm living proof that a mind is a terrible thing.

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[–] Horror-yo 11 years ago

loooool. hhahahahaha, what a stupid fkn thread !! Who the hell is going to vote for Viggo ? hahaha !....ehhhh boy...

"Harry !!...your hands are freezing !"

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[–] MsLadybird99 11 years ago

On sheer scariness:
Viggo was creepy and intimidating, plus he brought weird snarly companions with him.
Deniro's satan was dapper and he brought a lawyer.

These were vastly different movies though. Satan in The Prophecy wasn't trying to blend in and fool people, like Louis Cypher.

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