@@tomace4898One willing to accept what he saw with his own eyes (a miracle). Like the tax collector who went out of his way to see Jesus up on a tree, and did NOT refuse his hand when reached.
Without a doubt Steve Martin's finest performance. He made so many bombs and then you see this. Genius. The movie is one of the finest I've seen from that era and doesn't get near the recognition it deserves. And why the HELL do you never see it on TV?
@@Mojo32 Biblical preachers dont really have faith. They dont believe in god. Not cognitively. If they did they wouldn't be able to speak about God like he wasn't in the room. Think about it pretend a celeb walks into the room and a person at a table next to the celeb goes on about how well he knows the celeb and what the celeb thinks and says about us and life ...right in front of that celebrity ...as if he wasn't there ...like he didnt even see him. That is a biblical preacher talking about God. They can't prossibly believe what they say. They can't even spot the real deal ...which is less than most con artists quite frankly.
Dig a little deeper. Think back to to the scene when Steve Martin was jogging and they had that interaction. The seed was planted then. The kid healed himself with Steve Martin's prodding.
We dont know what healed him....we know that he was healed. We know above all that hope is better than hopelessness and kindness is better than cruelty. We know that he was healed that is all.
This film had the same sensibility and liveliness that Good Morning Vietnam yielded a few years before and Steve Martin was right up there with Robin Williams in this regard. His supporting actors dovetailed in flawlessly. Those were good years for filmed drama in many genres and it seems they are gone. Maybe the modern audience creates the difficulty. Maybe it is the marketeers who try to convince the audience as to what they should watch.
If u change the mind, the body follows. He was never physically crippled, they say it at the beggining of the movie, but his mind was , so his body followed.
He was only mad because he thought the brother and sister were conning the con man. He later accepts this miracle and leaves the con behind, while going to embrace the real thing...just as it starts raining.
@@StepUpMedia039BS. He was really mad at God, don't you remember his monologue alone at the tend with the crucifix? His beef is esentially "Where were you when I needed you the most, abandoned by my mother? So you can intervene, just not for me?"
I played this yesterday for someone who realized too late or nearly too late that their gift was given, powered and amplified by the MH. Who are you, brother? The only difference between me and you is the difference in strength of faith in the MH. Develop that. Your faith doesn't have to be in the same religion. It just has to match in volume to match my potency.
The one scene where the preacher's true character finalky emerges: doing everything possible to lay the blame for the (what he expects) failed "healing" on anyone BUT the kid. You know "it failed because of your lack of faith" BS...
