Bedazzled

After all, the devil isn't in the business of creating "heaven" -- the devil is, well, hellish.

When the writers first began updating the original screenplay they decided to offer their hero what most Americans wish for. They then set about illustrating how easily dreams can become nightmares if they are pursued with insufficient thought.

"We spend our lives wishing for those things, which we think will make us happy, successful, and attractive to other people," Ramis says. "And they really don't. I wanted to say that you don't get there by wishing."

"(Elliot) thinks that if he was rich and powerful, or tall and athletic, or brilliant, then women would go for him. And Elliot discovers, as we do in life, that the things we wish for are not necessarily the things that will make us happy."

As for the gender change of the Devil -- it was Ramis' wife's idea.

While Liz Hurley changes costumes through the film, Brendan Fraser and Frances O'Connor change personas, O'Connor plays a Latina spitfire, a bimbo, a journo and a sophisticate. Elliot's colleagues also appear as different characters in his alternative 'realities', an idea inspired by The Wizard of Oz.

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