While the story is an adaptation of the book by Bernard Malamud, the plot has been changed for movie to be more "uplifting". Several characters and symbols are heavily influenced by the writings of Homer and Greek mythology: - the line, "Have you ever read Homer?" Roy Hobbs = Odysseus. He is trying to "find his way" (home). Max Mercy = Vulcan, God of Fire and Forging. He can "make or break you", and is always seen in red or brown clothing. Pop Fisher = Zeus, King of the Gods. His uniform is #1, and both the oak tree and lightning bolt à la the Wonderboy bat, are his symbols. The Judge = Hades, God of the Underworld. He is always in the dark, a.k.a. death, and the dead are "judged" in the underworld. Memo Paris = Kalypso, a sea nymph who had an affair with Odysseus and held or distracted him from returning home. Kalypso means "I will conceal" in Greek. Gus Sands = the Cyclops. Gus has the one strange eye. Iris Gaines = Penelope, wife of Odysseus. Roy's true love, from whom he was separated for sixteen years, while she raised their son. - Hubris = when Roy states his goal is for people to say, "there goes Roy Hobbs, the best there ever was in this game", this is what the Greeks considered to be hubris, and for that, a person would often suffer turmoil.
Constantine - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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The group of demons in the room near the pool is first shown while Angela is firing her gun. The exact same shot is shown when Constantine enters the room, but the shot has been flipped horizontally. There is no significance to this, but is done so that it doesn't look like the same shot a second time around.
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When the possessed girl crawls on the ceiling early in the movie she says, "Papatayin natin sila!" This is a Tagalog (Filipino) phrase meaning "We'll kill them all!"
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If you slowly play the part where Lucifer is walking through the broken glass, almost right after breaking it, some of the shards appear to almost form a crown on his head.
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Rachel Weisz went to the morgue as a part of the research into her character.
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Constantine's line in which he says that he doesn't want Angela to be another ghost following him around is a reference to the comics, where he is haunted by the ghosts of friends who have died because of him.
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When Lucifer comes to collect Constantine, his watch stops. The time it stops at is 5:17. Presuming it is the afternoon, in 24-hour time this number is 17:17. The number 17 is widely recognized as the angels' number.
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The character of John Constantine was originally created by Alan Moore, during his run on DC Comics' "Swamp Thing". However, following his negative experience with From Hell (2001) and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), Moore decided to reject all money and credit from Hollywood on any adaptations of his work. Thus, he gave all the money he would've gotten to the artist who drew the character with him, and rejected his own "created by" credit from the film.
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In the lower right-hand corner of Isabel's toe tag, there's the number 616. While some people interpret the Mark of the Beast to be 666, others interpret it to be 616, hence its appearance on the toe tag. In the Book of the Revelation, the Number of the Beast is "six hundred, threescore, and six." (666)
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The original script had the opening in Istanbul, Turkey, but had to be changed to the present location because of budget constraints.
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A life-size replica of Rachel Weisz was made and used as the corpse of Angela Dodson's twin sister Isabel, who committed suicide.
Constantine - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Constantine - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Constantine - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Constantine - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Constantine - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Constantine - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Constantine - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Constantine - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Constantine - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Constantine - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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