Talk:Bruce Almighty

555 Phone Fiasco

Michigan? I haven't seen the movie (I detest Jim Carrey), but the news articles that discussed the 555 phone fiasco said that the producers had said that they used the phone number they used because the exchange doesn't exist in Buffalo, New York, where the movie takes place. -- Zoe

You're correct. Hmm ... I wonder how I came up with Michigan? Anyway, fixed. --Eloquence

On a similar note, the last paragraph claims that the movie is controversial because of the phone number thing. Surely in a movie where God is a middle-aged black man who gives his powers to a mortal human, ignoring all theological questions these ideas raise, surely with all this -- isn't there something more controversial than the phone number being a real number? Tuf-Kat

I haven't read about any controversy from religious watchdogs. -- Zoe

Is it really a moonshine rendezvous or actually a moonlight rendezvous?

Removal

Hi. I removed a part of the article that seemed rather... wrong. If you disagree with this, you're welcome to discuss the changes here.

"The universe in Bruce Almighty seems to be entirely centered around planet Earth, as is vividly illustrated by a scene where Bruce adds a few stars to the sky and removes some others -- not suns, but merely decorations for his moonlight rendezvous."

The problem is that given Bruce's calibre for the most of the movie, the setting is effectively not Earth-centric or heliocentric but Bruce-centric. He is completely within his rights to remove indascendent spheres of nuclear fire in sizes that boggle the imagination, and add some new ones. The other adjustments in the scene, such as rubbing out the cloud cover, further drive the point home. It's about what Bruce can do, not how the universe revolves around Earth.

The existence of God is taken for granted in the entire movie, even before God contacts the protagonist and removes all doubt.

All of two people have their beliefs shown with any depth. Both believe in God and so both think that He exists. In addition, Bruce meets God very soon after the movie starts, and Grace has very few lines about Him. So... neither of them having a crisis of faith during this time is somehow odd?

Okay, so there are a lot of praying people as well . Not exactly a suitable sample of the entire population, though.

Supernatural events, on the other hand, appear to leave little impression on the population of Bruce's world.

What? There are very few things in the film that would convince onlookers that they're witnessing definite supernatural phenomena. Rule one of the whole endeavour is that Bruce has to maintain his cover. The few events that do qualify are met with considerable surprise, alarm and disbelief (the butt-monkey's cute, isn't it?) which certainly seems accurate enough. -- Kizor 15:17, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

They're all wrong!

I got the power!