Mephistopheles
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Film and novel are umbilically linked, however, by the basic gambit—a “motiveless” crime committed by strangers and therefore difficult to solve—as well as by a riff on the Faust legend, with Bruno as Mephistopheles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Parker was Presley’s manager for most of his career, and Hanks portrays him as part small-time grifter, part full-blown Mephistopheles.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
He is playing Mephistopheles, the women are interpreting the child-devouring Lamia of Greek myth, and I’m watching day 13 of an unlikely and wildly ambitious film shoot.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2018
Slipak, who had won fame in France for his renditions of the aria of Mephistopheles from the opera “Faust,” adopted the nom-de-guerre Meph.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2016
Like their patron Mephistopheles, however, they do not care for carrion, nor do they destroy furniture or stuffs.
From West African studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
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