Daily Dialogue — June 20, 2015

“Parting your soup is not a miracle, Bruce. It’s a magic trick. A single mom who’s working two jobs and still finds time to take her kid to soccer practice, that’s a miracle. A teenager who says “no” to drugs and “yes” to an education, that’s a miracle. People want me to do everything for them. But what they don’t realize is they have the power. You want to see a miracle, son? Be the miracle.”

— Bruce Almighty (2003), screenplay by Steve Koren & Mark O’Keefe and Steve Oedekerk, story by Steve Koren & Mark O’Keefe

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Wisdom.

Today: Among the many religious and Biblical allusions in the film are the following: — When exiting God’s “office”, Bruce walks right over the puddle that drenched his leg on the way in. — At the diner, while parting his tomato soup a la the Red Sea, the background music is the theme from The Ten Commandments (1956). — His prayer e-mail service is called “Yahweh.com”, a reference to God’s Biblical name. — At the party celebrating the anchor position, Bruce turns water into wine and poses next to a statue of a golden calf. — When Bruce is about to get his job back, he tells Jack that he (Bruce) needed some time to reassess his goals and find his true self. Jack astonished asks him, “You did that in a day?” Then Bruce says, “Imagine what I would do in seven!”. Obviously, that is the reference to Genesis.

Dialogue On Dialogue: We’d expect God to have some pretty good wisdom. Nails it in this scene.