A bad Arnie movie is on TV. End of Days.

Someone just said: “Satan’s greatest trick was convincing man that he didn’t exist.”

Apparently it’s a line appearing in Bless the Child (“the devil’s greatest trick was convincing man that he didn’t exist”) and The Usual Suspects (“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing man that he didn’t exist.”)

There’s another line: Satan says,* * Let me tell you something about Him. He is the biggest underachiever of all time. He just has a good publicist, that’s all.

And: Something good happens, “It’s his will.” Something bad happens, “He moves in mysterious ways.”

In the press notes for /End of Days/, actor Gabriel Byrne describes his approach to playing Lucifer as follows: “I did not want to exaggerate any stereotypes. I wanted to go with the idea that this presence is always among us and in man’s shape.”