[HarleyD]

I'd be interested in whatever you find out. I generally go right to the source myself. I guess in this case, since the source was a friend of his, a devote Catholic, and on a Catholic website it never occurred to me it may be bias.

I haven't seen the movie so its difficult for me to comment on. However, the scripture paints Satan (as well as all angelic beings) as masculine. (And he laid hold of ... Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;" Rev 20:2)

No fat little cherubs can I find. :O)

I'm not sure why Mel felt a need to change this. But people always seems to have a desire to want to tinker with the scriptures.

[Cronos]

I'm not sure why Mel felt a need to change this. But people always seems to have a desire to want to tinker with the scriptures.
Again, the devil and other angels can't be classified by us mortal men (and women ;-P) as male/female. I think in the movie, though he uses an actress, the figure is not quite male or female, something weird -- I think that's what Mel wanted to potray -- the devil as being something familiar, yet so differnt, so alien that it gives you the shivers, a travesty of reality to wit.

[opus86]

RE: Satan in The Passion

IMO Mel made Satan more creepy by introducing the element of androgyny. Though a woman played Satan I didn't find him overtly feminine, just weird in an ungodly sort of way. To me, it worked well.