AS /Movie Chris Evangelist noticed, The "omen" was part of the late 60s-70s of the last century of horror films with Christian themes. The trend began in the literature; One place to attach the point of impact is Ray Russell's novel in 1962 "Case Against Satan". Then it spread to the film, especially since novels like Ira Levin "Rosemary's Baby" and "Exorcist" by William Peter Blue got up movies. (Insidary, you can see how these films have prompted Satan's panic since the 1980s, but that's a topic for another time.)

The "omen", what it was no Based on a book, he was a follower of the trend. Directed by Richard Doner, the film Starswoli Gregory Peck as diplomat Robert Thorn. After his son is seemingly stillborn, Robert adopts an orphan, teaching him to his wife Catherine (Lee Remik), as his biological son, Damian. As Damian grows (Harvey Spencer Stevens), weird things happen around him. His nanny dies with suicide, he is being kicked out on a preserved terrain, and the priest named Brennan (Patrick Trutton) is trying to convince Thorn that his son is evil. It is gradually revealed that Damian is an antichrist, born through a wicked cult and is housed by thorns to grow near power; Damian's birth story was told first -hand almost 50 years later The senseless movie about retraining, "The First Omen".

In the end, thorns are dead, and Damjan is adopted by the Ambassador's Old College: The President of the United States. The film ends with Damian smiling at the camera, his restless eyes hides more evil.

The similarities between Selim and Damjan are obvious. (Can you say "Ave Homunculi"?) They even look alike; They are short and wear suits for boys. Also, Selim is the son of the devil. (Father may resemble the Christian God, but he is the root of all evil in Amestris and lives in the kingdom under the central city, causing the common conflict of hell and underground.) He is put in masking as a child of a political powerful family or a place perfect to perform his influence; This time, the stepfather of the evil child is in a plot.

Another difference is that while Damjan in the original "omen" Whether Only the intelligence of a human child, Selim wears a mask. He pretends to behave like a child, but about people who know his true identity, he speaks as an centuries -old creature. He is fully aware of what he is doing and, unlike Damian, who unconsciously Causes evil, Selim consciously kills people when they endanger his father's plans.

But there is The deeper reason that the arakawa makes a character that is a pride has a child's body. In "Fullmetal Alchemist", pride is a child's quality to be cultivated.