Sympathy for the Devil

To end this blog, I wanna pull out an example of a more contemporary date. In the comedy film Tropic Thunder (Stiller), the shooting of a Vi...

I wanna come back to the actual song Sympathy for the Devil which is the focus and starting point for this blog. Hunter S. Thompson's s...

To find an example of the Devil being portrayed in what we will recognize as traditional on film, that is red-skinned and horned, we can tur...

I've been talking some about how the Devil is portrayed in books, now I wanna talk a little about the devil on film. It's not very c...

In regards to Satan's battle against God, which I talked about in the last entry, one of the most influential depictions comes from John...

A very famous portrayal of Satan, we can find in Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy (1308-1321). This canonical classic describes Dant...

It suddenly hit me that the Devil in Sympathy for the Devil isn't particularly scary or fearsome. He's partaken in wars and been ke...

There is no reference to Jack the Ripper in Sympathy for the Devil , but there could just as well have been, for I'm sure many of the re...

I would like to continue this theme of Sympathy for the Devil in popular culture, and found another example in famous cartoonist Alan Moore...

Sympathy for the Devil has led a life of its own, almost since it's very conception - indeed since the recording of the song, which was...

In the lyrics to Sympathy for the Devil, we encounter a devil who is very much a physical being, as opposed to a metaphorical or abstract ev...

In 1972 the author Truman Capote was send on the 'Exile on Main st.' tour with The Rolling Stones throughout America by the music ma...