Bruce Almighty

Bruce Almighty ( Original title: Bruce Almighty ) is a comedy film directed by Tom Shadyac from the year 2003 with Jim Carrey in the lead role.

Action

Bruce Nolan is a discontented TV reporter at a local TV station in Buffalo and reported for Channel 7 Eyewitness News from everyday events on the ground. Since the former anchorman of the main news program retires, Bruce expects that he will succeed him. However, shortly before a one-off live coverage he learns that his colleague Evan Baxter gets the job done. He freaks out during transmission and is then terminated.

After a number of other low blows he makes God responsible for ensuring that his life is not going the way he imagines. The Judeo / Christian God enters with him actually in contact by sending him a number on his pager and sends him to an address where you can offer him a job, namely the person of God. He will then transfer all abilities from God makes during this holiday. For Bruce, there are only two rules: he must not tell anyone that he is God, and he can not influence the free will of the people.

Bruce uses his newfound powers from itself by transforming his old car into a new Saleen S7 sports car and moves for a romantic evening with his girlfriend Grace the moon closer to Earth. In order to professionally have more success, he humiliates his rival Evan on camera leaves the corpse of Jimmy Hoffa and find a meteorite strike during an ongoing reportage. Since he is always the only one with a camera on the spot with his sensational reports and can report exclusively, they call him soon Mr. Exclusive.

But slowly grows Bruce his divinity over his head. Because it answers all prayers reach him yes, winning thousands of people simultaneously in the lottery, which leads to low profit rates and angry protests. The meteor strike led to power outages and the changing moon to flooding. Finally, it also leaves even his girlfriend.

Ultimately sets at Bruce a refining process that ends with the fact that he as a normal man his job and his girlfriend gets back and reconciled with himself and his life.

Background

  • In the film, Bruce catches the moon with a lasso to attract him closer to what a reference to the movie Is not life beautiful? is, in the drawing with the inscription " George lassos The Moon" occurs. Also known as Bruce to influence his dog to operate the remote control is switched on just this film and shown the scene in which the protagonist asks if he should get the moon with a lasso from the sky.
  • The image next to the head of Bruce after he was attacked, shows newscaster Walter Cronkite. According to audio commentary from director the image is to symbolize the " false god ", the Bruce follows. Later in the film Bruce leaning on his party to a golden calf, which is supposed to represent the pinnacle of his egocentric self-indulgence.
  • The e- mail service that Bruce uses to process the prayers, carries the name "Yahweh ", which on one hand is a reminder of Yahoo, on the other hand, the biblical name of God in the English language ( German spelling Yahweh ).
  • In the film, a prayer of Grace is briefly visible: you can read on the screen "please guide our president's decisions" ( Please guide the decisions of our president ). At the time George W. Bush was President of the United States.
  • Singer Tony Bennett has a guest appearance, in which he plays himself and the title "If I ruled the world" sings in the film.
  • The film was banned in Egypt because he was " undermining Islamic and other religious values ​​" and because it would " damage the Almighty, if you dare to impersonate him by an actor ". Later the film in Egypt and Malaysia over 18 years has been released.
  • "Hi- yo Silver", the Jim Carrey frequently used exclamation (see Ace Ventura ), refers to the well-known in the U.S. television series The Lone Ranger - Silver is the horse of the hero.
  • In the film, a homeless person is repeatedly shown does not speak, but communicates with signs. At the end, the audience learns that the homeless man was all the time the disguised God.

Criticism

" Default original, at the same time giving highly moral comedy that reclaims the subject neither draft nor convincing humor. Even the main character succeeds on the familiar Grimacing little addition. "

" Jim Carrey and Jennifer Aniston play in, Bruce Almighty ' a normal couple. No flyer, but ordinary people with ordinary problems that are solved with God's help. A delicious comedy fun that offers a lot of puns in the English version. "

Awards

  • Jim Carrey won a 2003 Teen Choice Award. Jennifer Aniston and the duo Jim Carrey and Morgan Freeman were nominated in another category.
  • Jim Carrey and Jennifer Aniston have been nominated for the 2004 MTV Movie Award.
  • Morgan Freeman won the 2004 Image Award and was nominated for a Black Reel Award and in the comedy category of the BET Awards.

Continuation

Published in 2007 a ​​sequel titled Evan Almighty, in which the figure of Evan Baxter (played by Steve Carell ) takes over the lead role.

2003 in film Screenplay Steve Koren Film score Dean Semler Catherine Bell (actress) Nora Dunn Buffalo, New York Catharsis Lone Ranger (disambiguation) Teen Choice Awards NAACP Image Award Black Reel Awards Metacritic Patch Adams (Film) Dragonfly (2002 film)
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