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Harvey (Theatre)
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Harvey | |
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A classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning 1944 play by Mary Chase which has been adapted to the screen several times, including a 1950 film starring Jimmy Stewart and a 1996 Made-for-TV Movie starring Harry Anderson. Jim Parsons has starred in it on stage as well.Harvey himself is a giant rabbit who is also a Pooka and who is Invisible to Normals. (To those who can see him, he is white.) He is quite friendly. He may or may not have superpowers...Of course, since Harvey is invisible and usually unobtrusive, his existence is frequently doubted.His best friend is Elwood P. Dowd, who is the local useless eccentric who is living off his inheritance. He spends his days in bars, drinking and introducing people to Harvey. He wants everyone to meet Harvey, including the local socialites whom his sister wants to impress so her daughter can get married. His attempts to get everyone to meet Harvey tend to disturb the socialites, though.After one garden party too many is wrecked this way, his sister calls an insane asylum so that she can cure Elwood of seeing and recognizing Harvey. This is made difficult because Elwood is a nice man who charms most of the hospital staff and who doesn't understand that there might be a problem. It also doesn't help that she herself also isn't quite sure whether Harvey is real or not — she just wants Harvey gone.The questions: Does Harvey exist? Can Elwood be cured of believing in him? And is it worth it?While the 1950 version is the most popular, five other film or TV versions have been made and a sixth was abandoned in 2009/2010. | |
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Freudian Couch | |
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Freudian Couch: Dr. Chumley ends up on his own couch. | |
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Hospital Hottie | |
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Hospital Hottie: Miss Kelly. | |
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Shipper on Deck | |
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Shipper on Deck: Elwood is so completely on board the Dr. Sanderson/Ms. Kelly train that he even believes they're together when he's first meeting them while they insist they're just coworkers. Once Wilson and Myrtle Mae are seen together, he's endorsing their pairing, too. | |
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Visible Invisibility | |
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Visible Invisibility: Harvey is present only through his action on the environment, such as opening doors. | |
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Humans Are Bastards | |
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The cab driver disagrees based on his experience driving patients before and after their treatment. See Humans Are Bastards. | |
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Took a Level in Kindness | |
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Took a Level in Kindness: Spelled out in the scene between Elwood and Dr. Chumley. Also Veta throughout the play, as she learns to stop fussing about her social status and being "respectable" and try to make people happy. | |
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Wide-Eyed Idealist | |
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Wide-Eyed Idealist: Mr. Dowd. | |
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Ask a Stupid Question... | |
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Ask a Stupid Question... | |
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Half-Empty Two-Shot | |
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Half Empty Two Shot: Used frequently to keep Harvey in-frame. | |
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Guardian Angel | |
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Guardian Angel: Harvey, if you believe him to be a bona fide spirit, appears to function as one of these to Elwood. Every time others are conspiring against him, however good-heartedly, a series of contrived coincidences occur to just let Elwood wander around as free as a daisy, such as Judge Gaffney's assistant immediately incapacitating himself when sent out to bring Elwood in or Dr. Sanderson completely misunderstanding Veta and committing her instead of her brother. | |
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Hesitation Equals Dishonesty | |
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Hesitation Equals Dishonesty: Dr. Sanderson quizzes Elwood on his extended family in the hopes of getting him to admit that Harvey was based on and named after one of them as a sort of coping mechanism; Elwood noticeably hesitates before he replies each time. But Harvey turns out to be real anyway. It could also be interpreted as simply being bemused at the sudden and (to him) inexplicable change of topic. | |
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Not-So-Imaginary Friend | |
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Not-So-Imaginary Friend: Harvey. | |
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Uncle Pennybags | |
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Uncle Pennybags: Elwood is kind to all people including the poor and he constantly invites strangers to his home for dinner. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Sanity Slippage: Veta progressively becomes more unbalanced as the story goes on, as if she's losing contact with reality and cannot make up her mind if Harvey is real or not. She gets better at the end, in that she can accept Harvey so long as Elwood stays as nice as he always is. | |
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Repeating So the Audience Can Hear | |
| Harvey (Theatre) / int_67b9dd47 | comment |
Repeating So the Audience Can Hear: In his first scene at his local pub, Elwood repeats what Harvey says so we can follow their conversation more easily. | |
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Deuteragonist | |
| Harvey (Theatre) / int_7a4013f3 | comment |
Deuteragonist: Elwood is the central character, but Veta gets the next most focus and is the one who ultimately changes for the better, as Elwood already starts the show with no desire to change a life he deems perfect. | |
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White Bunny | |
| Harvey (Theatre) / int_7a5bc682 | comment |
White Bunny: Harvey. If you can see him, that is. | |
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Armor-Piercing Question | |
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Armor-Piercing Question: Attempted by Sanderson, but perhaps one of the only times where it completely fails. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Well, at least if you're a perfectly normal human being. | |
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Critical Psychoanalysis Failure | |
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Critical Psychoanalysis Failure: Here you can see how the boundaries between patient and therapist gradually merge. Poor, poor thing. The movie’s ending seems to suggest that the therapist went insane with a nonexistent Harvey, and if you believe that Harvey is Real After All, Elwood ends with the real Harvey... or... something. | |
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Seemingly Profound Fool | |
| Harvey (Theatre) / int_8145958b | comment |
Seemingly Profound Fool: Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey describes this as essentially his job. He goes to a bar, people sit down and tell him their worries, and he introduces them to Harvey. By the time they're done talking, the people walk away feeling better and never talk to him again. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Veta can be quite hysterical on account of Harvey and all the drama that occurs because of him. Chumley also can be pretty hammy in the last act on account of both being both terrified of Harvey and becoming determined to have the rabbit for himself. | |
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Adaptational Nice Guy | |
| Harvey (Theatre) / int_82a64c4b | comment |
Adaptational Nice Guy: Chumley still wants to get Harvey to himself in the movie, but he doesn't offer to lock up Veta nor does he make the conscious decision to get Elwood out of the picture to take the pooka away from Elwood, instead just going along with the plan. As a byproduct of this, he gets a straightforward happy ending where Elwood lets Harvey go with him until he's lived out his dream at which point he returns. | |
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The Fair Folk | |
| Harvey (Theatre) / int_859ec5d8 | comment |
The Fair Folk: Harvey is a pooka, a type of Celtic fairy/spirit that take the form of various animals. | |
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Hair-Raising Hare | |
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Hair-Raising Hare: Harvey, to Dr. Chumley. | |
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Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal | |
| Harvey (Theatre) / int_92b9e234 | comment |
Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: It's common for Elwood's portrait to depict Harvey wearing a red bowtie. The film also gives him a belt. | |
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The Tape Knew You Would Say That | |
| Harvey (Theatre) / int_9350a0b9 | comment |
The Tape Knew You Would Say That: The movie shows an example with a book. Justified if you want to believe Harvey is real: | |
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Basement-Dweller | |
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Basement-Dweller: Subverted. Early on, Myrtle Mae complains that Elwood is this, as he lives with his sister and won't move out or get a job. Veta at once reminds her that, since Elwood got the entire family fortune, they're the ones living with him. | |
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Dumb Is Good | |
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Dumb Is Good: Discussed by Elwood. | |
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Secondary Character Title | |
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Secondary Character Title: Harvey. | |
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Character as Himself | |
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Character as Himself: Harvey. At the very end of the credits, Harvey opens a door and the words at the bottom of the screen say "Harvey as Himself." | |
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Video Credits | |
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Video Credits: In the closing credits all major characters are shown along with the actor's names. | |
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My Card | |
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My Card: Anyone, anyone, Elwood meets, he gives them his card, telling them which number to call him at. | |
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Trademark Favorite Food | |
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Trademark Favorite Food: Wilson really wants a dang egg and onion sandwich! | |
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Face–Heel Turn | |
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Face–Heel Turn: Dr. Chumley is just doing his job at first, but when he realizes the potential benefits of having Harvey, he then decides to get the rabbit for himself, even if he has to "cure" Harvey or lock up Veta. Nobody else is aware of this though, and he ultimately doesn't get to treat Elwood, which he ultimately accepts, with his amoral stint seemingly over. | |
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Catchphrase | |
| Harvey (Theatre) / int_b01abe4f | comment |
Catchphrase: Elwood is always introducing himself: He's also delighted to meet new people, even if they aren't as nice as he is (or even nice to him). | |
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A Simple Plan | |
| Harvey (Theatre) / int_b0e81c37 | comment |
A Simple Plan: Early on it's established Elwood sees a 6 foot rabbit no one else can see and his sister and niece decide to send him to the insane asylum. Given Elwood's behaviour and accepting demeanor you'd think nothing could go wrong with that strategy... and you'd be mistaken. Minor subversion is that there's an indication that Harvey himself might have something to do with things not quite going to plan. The rabbit's 6'3" in the play. In a 1990 audio introduction to the video release Jimmy Stewart points out that he was too tall to look up to a 6'3" bunny the way he needed to, so he always imagined Harvey as being 6'8". However, the dialogue remained unchanged, and few of the film's viewers seemed to spot the discrepancy. | |
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My Beloved Smother | |
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My Beloved Smother: We are told Elwood had a close relationship with his mother and they lived together until she died. | |
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The Film of the Play | |
| Harvey (Theatre) / int_b9b5af3e | comment |
The Film of the Play: The original Broadway production of the play ran for almost five years and was directed by Antoinette Perry, the namesake of the Tony Awards. Former Vaudeville star Frank Faynote One-time husband of Barbara Stanwyck, reputedly the inspiration for Norman Maine, and a notorious supporter of Fascism originated the role of Elwood P. Dowd, but Jimmy Stewart was one of the replacements as Dowd later in the Broadway run. Also reprising their Broadway roles in the 1950 film were Josephine Hull as Veta (who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar) and Jesse White as Wilson. And there have been many other made-for-TV adaptations over the years, including one with Stewart as Dowd once again. Plans for a modern-day remake have fallen into Development Hell, with Netflix announcing in late 2018 that they were going to take a shot at remaking it. | |
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Urban Fantasy | |
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Urban Fantasy: If you think Harvey is real, then this is a story where pookas that can make happy places real can be found leaning on lampposts. | |
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Nice Guy | |
| Harvey (Theatre) / int_c5249b29 | comment |
Nice Guy: Elwood is pretty much the nicest, friendliest guy in the world. | |
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We Want Our Jerk Back! | |
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We Want Our Jerk Back!: Veta wants her brother as he is, even if she had to tolerate Harvey. | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: If you don’t count some things like the Ghost Butler or The Tape Knew You Would Say That, all the things that happens in the movie can be explained by mundane means and by believing Elwood is crazy, as Veta show us here, but the thought that Harvey is a real supernatural pooka makes it more… logical? | |
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Spooky Painting | |
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Spooky Painting: Played for Laughs in this case. Somehow, the painter who did Elwood's portrait also saw Harvey and included him in the picture, too. It's used as a joke when Veta gives Dr. Chumley a lecture about paintings showing the reality of life, her being unaware Harvey's painting is standing where her mother's painting was. It could be a self-portrait, the movie never mentioned if Elwood could in fact paint, he may be very good and painted himself and Harvey. After all the movie outright admitted Elwood has a lot of free time on his hands. | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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Cloud Cuckoolander: Elwood, much to Veta and Myrtle Mae's dismay. Even if Harvey is real, it doesn't change the fact that Elwood's demeanor is odd. | |
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For Happiness | |
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For Happiness: Elwood makes friends with everyone he can, and believes in being pleasant to all; he wins over a lot of people by being sweet to them, most everyone by the end of the movie is happier. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The reason Harvey stayed with Elwood instead of the Asylum Director at the end. It seems to be implied that he was turned off by the Director's fetish wish. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: Myrtle Mae becomes romantically attached to Wilson, a rather Jerkass caretaker at the asylum, who uses necessary force when dealing with patients, and who appalls her mother because of this. | |
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No Antagonist | |
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No Antagonist: The conflict is people's misguided attempts to "cure" Elwood. Since Elwood is such a nice guy to everyone he meets, not once does he object. | |
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Insane Equals Violent | |
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Insane Equals Violent: The Sanitarium staff certainly seems to think so. They are absolutely terrified when they realize that they may have let a 'psycho' (the unfailingly pleasant Dowd) walk out, and automatically presume that he Dr. Chumley's continued absence meant that Dowd got violent and left him in a ditch somewhere. The cab driver disagrees based on his experience driving patients before and after their treatment. See Humans Are Bastards. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Mr. Wilson is absolutely terrible towards his would be patients, barely hiding his desire to beat up Elwood which he comes close to trying several times and being apparently being extremely inappropriate whilst handling Veta. Myrtle Mae is quite the whiney brat, and unlike her mother who actually does love Elwood despite the suffering he's inadvertently caused her, Myrtle Mae is so embarrassed by him that she wishes he'd die. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Elwood offering his "Card" to people who simply ignore it. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: Elwood does this several times throughout the story. Most notably: | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Department of Redundancy Department: "...And Uncle Elwood is my Uncle." | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: The pooka (or púca, to use the more formal spelling) is indeed a mischievous Shapeshifter in Celtic mythology, often taking the form of a rabbit. Mary Chase grew up well-versed in Irish folklore by her parents. | |
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