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Maybe it's because I was born in the '60s but I f****** love this movie. This movie slapped.

#late night with the devil #Jack delroy #lilly d'abo #rhys auteri #Christopher Kirby

I dont have any thoughts on gus really besides inlove him. Me and a friend pf mine are obsessed. Hes everything to us. Do you have any thoughts or theories?

i just wrote a bit about Gus here ! it's not my best work but it is a little bit more on him ! i loved him first watch and i still love that guy a ton !

i think gus is meant to be someone the viewer is meant to live through at times. his exasperation for how things are going is something i think we can all relate to, but it is his emotional connection with everyone that keeps him there. i think it's what makes him so human to me. the decision to think your love and care will save you. that it is returned the way that you give it out.

but if anything he's just seen as this little set piece and nothing more. not really as a whole person. someone just to entertain, to be used as a punchline, to be one of the people that suffers for the views because he can just slap on a smile afterwards after he is told to! he's like the little angel on jack's shoulder (ironically dressed as the devil). he is who attempts to find any jack delroy inside this empty husk of a man filled with guilt and sin

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Men & Glory: The Revered and The Reviled

God told me I was forgiven and then he split me open

Late Night With The Devil places a lot of emphasis on worship. Be that a religion, a lover, wealth or power. But it feels an awful lot like at the end of this worship always lies another man. An all-seeing powerful one that you feel less than around, one that you can comfort yourself (or fear) in knowing they are what is leading your life for you.

Before I had even finished the film, and I saw Gus beginning to split himself open to rid himself of the worms that lived inside of him, those that were a constant paranoia he thought he only had to worry about externally, unaware that his fear was so deep inside of him that it become the perfect home for it, I noticed he wore a cross.

Not that a cross is anything out of the ordinary to see on someone. But he wore it underneath his clothes, near his chest, dear to him. A succor. It's especially ironic since he was dressed as the devil earlier in the film. But he took it off surprisingly soon (I thought he was going to wear it the entire night since it was a Halloween special!).

I'm not sure where I'm headed with this specifically but him wearing a devil costume despite being the only character we see show devotion to a religion is making me want to dig a little deeper. Something about how much he is willing to do for the network. For Jack. Going against belief for the sake of others. Did he believe he was being punished for that? For caring for Jack?

Gus is awfully selfless in every action that he seems to take. I don't think anything he did in the film came from self-interest. He was concerned for his own safety, of course, but him constantly saying the crew and him spoke gave indication he was a solace for them, someone to go to when things got hard. He was worried for everyone!

I think he has been with Jack for so many years and has seen the man go through so much that he thought Jack seemed to act in a feverish way. But what seemed to really get me is that he told Jack he was not a bad man. Jack, you're a good man. You know better than this. You are not yourself. I know you.

But of course, he is always dismissed in his concerns. Almost in an emasculating way. He's just the sidekick to Jack, the comedic relief, the one who doesn't quite get the jokes that Jack says. Less than. On screen that is. You would think they know Gus is just playing the part but the way he is condescended seems to show otherwise, like they cannot differentiate between him on camera and off. The lines have blurred. Gus you need to learn to just take it. You don't have control around here. None of us do.

It's like being punished for stepping out of line. For committing the sin of putting himself first before the God they worship and that God is the network. This all knowing presence that rewards you for how much blood you are able to feed into it. You must dedicate yourself to it. It demands it. You and I might worship different things, Gus, but we both know that they're both bigger than you and I.

You have made the mistake of viewing Jack as the one that had any charge. As much as you plead for him to return to that old friend of yours, he is long gone. If he was split open, the worms you fear so much would fall right out of him the same as you. He is nothing but a man. You have given him the glory that is reserved only for kings. And as Jack's last name implies (Delroy = Of The King), he is not a king but rather belonging to one. He is a hunting dog taking orders. And you the prey. And the worms will return you back to the dirt. You will become one with them. But even then, that is not enough. The worms that eat you do not die and their fire is not quenched.