Bruce Almighty

Bruce Almighty (2003)

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Corrected entry: God tells Bruce he can't mess with free will. However, he does when he makes Evan say lots of crazy stuff on TV.

MikeH

Correction: He doesn't change Evan's mind such to make him want to say the gargled messages, he's merely controlling Evan's mouth as opposed to changing his thoughts. His will remains unchanged. On the other hand, forcing Grace to love him would be different than simply forcing her to utter the phrase "I love you" without her meaning it.

Except that Bruce is making Evan say gibberish against his own free will.

Free will is based in the mind. Bruce is only controlling Evan's body.

LorgSkyegon

I think it could be argued either way. Bruce was controlling Evan physically (in addition to the gibberish he makes his voice higher), but Evan may still have had the free will to not open his mouth. We don't see the extent of Bruce's power though. Could he have forced Evan say something against his will? (i.e. something he would never say or believe). Since we don't see that, the correction seems more valid than the mistake.

Bishop73

Corrected entry: When all the cars move out of the way for Bruce's car the traffic lights are blinking very quickly.

Correction: This is part of the parting of the traffic. The lights change to green all the way down for Bruce's Saleen while the cars are turned to the side of the road. Bruce made them change for him.

They don't change to green though. They continue to flash amber the entire time, never once turning green. What's more, the speeding up is ONLY when the cars move, and when Bruce speeds off, going back to normal in between. It's a mistake.

DragoTime

The lights are flashing yellow as in God cautioning Bruce about using his powers for selfish reasons. Much like earlier in the film when Bruce asks for a sign.

Yeah...no.

DragoTime

Corrected entry: In the scene where Bruce transforms his beat-up car, two boys are seen skateboarding in that direction. They are seen staring in awe at the car before the car actually changes. (00:45:10)

Correction: The first time you see the boys, Bruce is already in his car. He changed the car right as he got in the car (notice the interior). That's why when they asked if it was his car, he said sarcastically "It gets me from A to B." The car was already a Saleen.

Nope. When the boys roll up, we are still seeing an exterior shot of the car, with the car unchanged, and the boys amazed.

DragoTime

Factual error: At the very end of the film Bruce is reporting on a drive for blood donors, and Grace leads him over to the booth to give blood himself - he is even wearing a tourniquet. However, he is supporting himself on a walking stick - he is not fully recovered from the injuries he received when he was run over, which happened when he was hit by a moving car - injuries which left him clinically dead. There is absolutely no way that a person who has suffered life threatening injuries and has undergone the (inevitably) intensive drug therapies and surgical procedures involved while under treatment in hospital in the fairly recent past would be allowed to give blood. There is no way that the Red Cross (or the US equivalent) would want to encourage people who have recently been hospitalised to try to give blood. Not only would that be the height of irresponsibility, they would be wasting precious resources and staff time turning away people who would not be allowed to give blood.

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Trivia: In Egypt, the film was banned by the state-run censorship body because it felt the comedy mocks God's sacredness.

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Question: In the film they find Jimmy Hoffa's body, but who is he? I've never heard of him.

Answer: Hoffa was the powerful and controversial leader of the Teamsters Union from 1957 to 1971. Often alleged to have ties to organized crime, Hoffa was convicted of fraud and jury tampering in 1964 and served four years in prison before his sentence was commuted by President Nixon. In 1975, while trying to regain power in the union, Hoffa disappeared from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He was widely assumed to have been killed by the Mafia. His body was never found, and in 1983 he was declared legally dead. Many movies joke of this, because to this day, his body has not been recovered.

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