At which point maybe she’d trade her Prius in for a Dodge and join.
I assumed this character would become an antagonist, some smug, big-city librul who’d show up to get taught a lesson, or find Jesus and learn one.
In one of the first scenes, a cancer-surviving blogger played by Trisha LaFache (I wouldn’t even know where to start trying to explain this character) drives around in her Prius, dictating blog posts into her phone (which is definitely a realistic thing for a person to do).
#Gsm aladdin v2 1.40 setup movie#
In a movie that’s otherwise full of the kind of predictable pandering we’re used to (Christian rock rules! The ACLU guy hates Marines!), there are at least three scenes that felt like Prius product placement. But in a surprising twist, the Toyota Prius gets even more screen time. In some ways, the sequel still does, and God’s Not Dead 2 includes a Duck Dynasty shout-out during the jury selection scene, as I noted in my review. They had a promotional partnership with the Duck Dynasty guys, your prototypical, pick-up-drivin’ good ol’ boys. The God’s Not Dead films used to fit easily into this tradition. (He also broke a shin trying to leg out a triple in softball, but that’s neither here nor there.) There’s a long tradition of “faith-based” filmmakers pandering to the American South, to “the heartland,” to “flyover states,” to anyone Republican politicians like to refer to as “the real America.” Heaven is for Real is a typical example, featuring many ( many) shots of the protagonist driving his beat-up pick-up truck through sun-drenched fields of amber wheat. UPDATE Thursday PM: Turns out, initial comment from Toyota was mistaken, and there was indeed a product placement deal with God’s Not Dead 2.
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