Is the movie “Yes Man” a true story? Spoiler Discussion, Cast and Quotes【In-Depth】

The film “Yes Man” is the ultimate self-help non-fiction film about a man who turned his life around by continually saying “Yes”.

Summary of the film “Yes Man”

Cast of “Yes Man” movie

Carl Allen	Jim Carrey
Allison	Zooey Deschanel
Peeta	Bradley Cooper
Rooney	Danny Masterson
Terrence Bundley	Terence Stamp
Norman	Squirrel Darby
Nick	John Michael Higgins

Who is the actress of the heroine Allison?

The role of Alison, the heroine of “Yes Man,” is played by Los Angeles actress Zooey Deschanel.

The Yes Man” is a slightly eccentric, but very cute and charming character, and many people have become fans of Zooey’s work.

She is also a singer-songwriter and sings in this film as the vocalist of a band called “Munchausen Syndrome.

Is the movie “Yes Man” a true story?

“Yes Man” is a true story based on the real-life experiences of Danny Wallace, the youngest producer (22 years old at the time) ever hired by the BBC Broadcasting Corporation in the UK.

I want to live my life avoiding trouble and hassle as much as possible. We want to say “no” to all troublesome invitations. While many people think that way, Danny answered “yes” to every question and request he was asked for a period of seven months and actually transformed his life.

“Yes Man” movie synopsis (*spoiler alert)

Carl, the protagonist who has rejected everything

The main character, Carl Allen, is a middle-aged man who works for a Los Angeles bank. In the job of deciding whether to accept or reject loans, Carl rejects most of them. He answers “no.”

His hobby is watching DVDs alone, and even after work, he says “no” to invitations for drinks because they are too much trouble. He constantly turns down invitations from friends. He even turns down an invitation to a party from Norman, the bank manager, by just faking it.

Even when it comes to loans, which is his job, he says “no,” and he discards all the e-mails that come his way. He even turned down an invitation from an old lady, Tillie, who invited him to breakfast, refused all solicitations, and never accepted any flyers.

Then one day, Carl was told by an acquaintance, Nick, that his life had changed when he became a “yes man” and that he should enjoy his life. He was given a booklet about a dubious seminar that told him to enjoy his life.

Shrugging off your best friend’s engagement party

One day, Carl skips his engagement party with his best friend Peter and his fiancée Lucy, and ignores incoming calls. In fact, Carl is still in love with his beautiful ex-wife, Stephanie, whom he divorced three years ago, and he is not happy about his best friend’s engagement.

That night, while Carl is watching a DVD of “Saw” at home, Peter angrily steps in. Peter asks Carl, “Can you name my fiancée?” Carl can’t remember and can’t come up with a name.

Peter knows about Carl’s past and is sympathetic to his feelings, but he can’t hold back his anger and says, “You’re going to die a lonely death if you don’t. You’re going to die alone and lonely. You will die alone and lonely,” he says angrily.

That night, after refusing to socialize with others for so long, Carl has a dream that he will die alone and without his best friend.

Carl to attend the “yes” seminar.

Nick was also present at the “Yes” Seminar, a self-help seminar that looked suspiciously like a “yes” seminar. The representative, Terrence Bundley, appeared on stage, and as soon as the seminar started, Carl laughed at the sight of the many participants all yelling “Yes! Carl laughed at the sight of the many attendees who all started shouting “Yes!

Terrence took notice of Carl, who was attending for the first time, and came right up to him to lecture him about being a “yes man. He told him that if he said “yes” at any time when faced with a decision in the future, it would change his life, and that if he said anything else, disaster would befall him. Carl was half forced to make the “Jesus pledge.

After the seminar, a homeless man asks him to drive him to Elysian Park, but Nick leads him to say yes.

A “yes” will make you happy.

Carl was asked to give the homeless man a ride to Elysian Park, but when he asked to borrow his cell phone on the way, the battery ran out and when he parted ways with the homeless man, he was asked to lend him $2.

Shortly after that, his car ran out of gas on a deserted road up the hill, but Carl was unable to call for help and had to walk to a gas station.

However, while refueling his polyethylene tank at the gas station, he meets a pretty female motorcyclist named Allison. Carl asks Allison to give him a ride on her scooter up the hill to his car, and on the way back, she kisses him out of the conversation and gives him a Polaroid two-shot photo that they took on the road together.

When you say “no,” bad things happen.

The next morning (Saturday), Carl looks at the two-shot photo and reflects on last night’s events, and feels a palpable sense of acceptance of the teaching that “yes” brings happiness.

Shortly thereafter, he receives a phone call from Norman, the branch manager, telling him to work on his day off, but he says “yes” without hesitation. After he comes to work, Carl, who had always said “no” at work, begins to agree to the loan request, and Norman offers Carl a promotion for willingly accepting to work on his day off.

Carl is convinced that if he says yes, his luck will continue to improve, and he declares that he will continue to say yes to his best friend, Peter. Peter asks Carl to “keep the store on Carl’s tab from now on,” to which Carl agrees.

Carl also helps his elderly neighbor, Tillie, install shelves in her room. Tilly makes a flirtatious gesture at him in return, but he refuses and leaves.

But soon after, his clothes get caught in a closed door, tearing off a button, and he falls down the stairs. Carl returns to Tilly and accepts her invitation, remembering Terrence’s words, “If you say no, bad things will happen to you.

In bed, Carl faints in agony from Tilly’s unimaginable technique. After this, he makes a mental note to always say “yes” to any option, no matter what the situation.

Reunion with Alison

From then on, Carl is a different person, saying yes to everything and taking on challenges. He accepts everything from mail-order beds, religious solicitations, cookie sales, and soup kitchens for the homeless to learning to play the guitar, speak Korean, and fly a small Cessna. When the branch manager, Norman, invites him to a cosplay party, Carl responds with a resounding “yes.

He also graciously accepts a flyer from a flyer distributor and decides to show up at a small local concert. The avant-garde band called “Munchausen Syndrome” begins to play, and after a while, the vocalist, a woman, appears and he recognizes her as Alison, whom he had met at a gas station earlier.

Karl meets Alison again by chance. The next morning, he hears about a “jogging photo class” (a group of people who run around taking pictures while taking pictures early in the morning) hosted by Alison, and promises to attend.

Jogging and Photo Class

However, that evening, unable to refuse his friend Rooney’s invitation for a drink, Carl decided to attend the jogging/photo class with a hangover. Carl appeared in Rooney’s car just before the start of the class, blasting off in Rooney’s car and getting out of the car with empty Red Bull cans all over the place. After continuing to jog at high tension, Carl collapses halfway through.

Alison comes to Carl, who has calmed down a bit after drinking some water. You’re strange,” she says. You’re so unpredictable,” she says to him. I like to stay fresh. I want to enjoy life.” Carl agrees, and Alison begins to talk about her ex-boyfriend. She thinks he was the one, but he was content to live a one-patterned life and suddenly dumped her one day.

Progress with Allison

Later, after a number of events, Carl meets Faranoush, an Iranian woman he met on “Iranian Bride Introductions.com,” and they have a blind date. Peter attends as a witness, but Karl is taken aback by Peter’s constant talk about how he met Alison.

Peter’s fiancée, Lucy, appears and tells him about her problems in finding a bridal shower organizer. Peter turns the conversation over to Carl, who accepts the job. Lucy, who has never been good at socializing with Carl, is surprised that he accepts the job.

Later, she and Alison attend Norman’s cosplay party, and on the way home, Alison lets Carl drive her scooter. Then Carl has an idea and heads for the Hollywood Bowl outdoor music hall late at night.

Carl and Alison sneak into the Hollywood Bowl by climbing the gate and go on stage. Alison says, “I’ve never let anyone drive me before,” to which Carl replies, “I’ve never kissed anyone at the Hollywood Bowl before. Carl and Alison kiss.

“Yes” leads to promotion 0

Then one day, Wesley Parker, vice president of the bank, comes to see Carl, who has been on a loan binge. Norman is worried that Carl, who has continued to approve loans at random, has come to the attention of the executive and that he might be held responsible.

However, the reason for Wesley’s visit was not to blame. Carl had approved nearly 20 times the number of loans than the average loan officer, and although most of them were small transactions, all were grateful and the repayment rate was over 98%. As a result, the company was profitable.

When asked to become an executive, Carl’s answer was, of course, “yes.

A life that works with “yes

Carl visits a bridal specialty store with Peter’s fiancée, Lucy, to prepare for the bridal shower. However, Sumi, the sales clerk, is in a bad mood because of her marital problems. Lucy suggests that they go to another store after seeing Sumi’s reaction to the poor response, but Carl solves the problem by talking to Sumi in Korean and getting to know her.

Carl also tries to hold back a man who tries to commit suicide by jumping from his room shortly afterwards. When he sees that the man has a guitar in his room and that he is a music lover, Carl takes the guitar and manages to stall the suicide by playing along.

Carl is now able to show what he has mastered in “Yes,” and everything is smooth sailing.

Travel to Lincoln

One day, Carl and Allison decide to go on a trip with no destination in mind. Meeting at the airport that day, they decided to catch the next flight out and set off for Lincoln, Nebraska.

After enjoying the phone museum, a shooting range, a meat packing plant, and an American football game, they suddenly get caught in a rainstorm and take shelter in a barn. There, Alison confides in Carl that she wants to move in with him. Carl, who is divorced, hesitates for a moment, but says yes.

However, two FBI men surround them at the airport as they try to get tickets for their return trip to Los Angeles. They take Carl to a separate room, where he learns that the lessons he had been learning at random and his impromptu trip to Lincoln are suspicious and that he is suspected of being a terrorist.

Carl desperately tries to explain that it was the “Jesus Movement,” but Alison, who is listening next to him, recalls what had happened and is outraged, wondering if even his earnest confession was part of the “Jesus Movement. Alison is also informed by the FBI that he is divorced, and she leaves Carl in anger, not knowing what to believe in him anymore.

The crackdown is resolved when her best friend, Peter, comes over and explains the situation to her, but when she tells Peter about Alison, he replies, “This happened because you kept saying yes without thinking.

Thoughts on Allison

Alison then begins to distance herself from Carl. When he calls, Alison does not pick up the phone, and when he tries to attend a live performance of “Munchausen Syndrome,” in which Alison is a vocalist, Carl is ignored.

Then his ex-wife, Stephanie, who has had a fight with her boyfriend, Ted, cries to him. Stephanie asks Carl to stay over, but he refuses, saying “no.” Perhaps because of his “no,” Carl is not able to stay over.

When Carl leaves Stephanie’s room, the elevator he is in stops and he manages to escape, but a black cat crosses in front of him and hits a car. The alarm of the vehicle that hit him goes off, and Carl’s own car is towed for a parking violation.

Realizing that this is the curse of answering “no,” Carl gets into the car of Terrence, a representative of the Yes Seminar, in order to somehow have the curse lifted. However, Terrence, startled by Carl’s sudden appearance, swerves the car wrong and causes an accident, and both are taken to the hospital.

The next morning, Carl wakes up in a hospital bed. He asks Terrence, who was in the hospital in the next bed, to lift the curse, but Terrence says, “There is no such thing. He says that it is not simply a matter of saying “yes” to everything, but that in time, the goal is for people to be able to say “yes” naturally.

Finally understanding the essence of the “yes movement,” Carl leaves the hospital in his hospital clothes to confess to Alison. When he arrives at the meeting place for the early morning “jogging/photo class” that Alison is hosting, he tells her that he cannot live with her right away, but he wants to be with her.

Carl is unsure of himself, that he met Alison because of “yes,” and he is straight forward about his feelings for her. When Alison replies, “I won’t say yes, but a good ‘maybe,'” he says, “A ‘maybe’ is fine,” and kisses her.

“Yes Man” Movie Quotes and Sayings

“Yes Man” Movie Quotes (1)

Live your life! You won’t regret it.

Nick’s Quote

A line from my friend Nick, who encourages us to say “yes” to life. These words, coming from a man who seems to really enjoy his life, will touch the hearts of many people.

“Yes Man” Movie Quotes (2)

I’m just telling you, you don’t change your life, you’re gonna end up alonely guy.

Peter’s Quote

Peter is a truly good friend to Carl. His ability to say what needs to be said, while still being considerate, has become a proverbial saying for Carl and a catalyst for him to change.

“Yes Man” Movie Quotes (3)

You can’t audit life.

Terrence’s Quote

Words from Terrence, head of the “Yes Seminar.” Although the seminar is dubious, Terrence’s words still have connotations. This line implicitly admonishes us to be proactive in everything we do, and that a path will open up for us.

“Yes Man” Movie Quotes (4)

You’re dead. You say no to life, and therefore you’re not living.

Terrence’s Quote

If you deny your life and how you live it, it is as good as dead. It is always up to you to decide how to make your life enjoyable.

“Yes Man” Movie Quotes (5)

Every pretty girl deserves to go to a ball.

Carle’s Quote

A quote from Karl, who got drunk and turned into a playboy. It is a quote that he said to his partner, the man he kissed, but it also seems to be a good pick-up line for women.

“Yes Man” Movie Quotes (6)

I like to keep it fresh. I like to live it up.

Carle’s Quote

I can say this line because Carl is starting to enjoy life. Maybe by continuing to try fresh and new things, we can truly enjoy life.

“Yes Man” Movie Quotes (7)

The world’s a playground. You know that when you’re a kid, but somewhere along the way, everyone forgets it.

Alison’s Quote

This is a quote full of Alison’s charm, who always enjoys living in the moment. It also overlaps with Nick’s words of wisdom, but many people may lose sight of what they really want to do in the process of growing up and working.

“Yes Man” Movie Quotes (8)

I don’t know. I think I love you.

Alison’s Quote

This is the moment when Allison first firmly expresses her affection for Carl. It is a charming confession, typical of her very honest and innocent nature.

“Yes Man” Movie Quotes (9)

Definitely. I love you like I can’t believe it. It’s kind of ridiculous.

Carle’s Quote

The scene where Alison tells him of her love for him and he responds. It is a very nice line, expressing his feelings for Alison in Carl’s own straightforward emotion and words.

“Yes Man” Movie Quotes (10)

Then you’re saying yes, not because you have to, not because a covenant tells you to, but because you know in your heart that you want to.

Terrence’s Quote

Words that remind Carl that the goal is not simply to keep forcing himself to say “yes,” but to be able to say “yes” naturally, to get out of his confining environment, and to be honest with himself.

“Yes Man” Movie Quotes (11)

The old Carl didn’t think he was enough for anybody. I thought if I said yes to things and got involved with people sooner or later, they’d find out I’m not enough. I didn’t think I had anything to share, but now I know that what I have to share is pretty huge. And I wanna share it with you.

Carle’s Quote

This is a dialogue in which Carl truly conveys his true feelings to Alison, who had been keeping her at a distance. It is a scene in which Carl honestly tells her about the “yes movement” that she is angry about, but how he met Alison because of it, and how he has changed from his past lack of confidence, along with the feelings he has for her.

Movie “Yes Man” Rating and Comments

It is a comedy film with a content that is easy to understand and has many funny points for anyone to see.

Jim Carrey’s play is stable and funny, making everyone cringe, and the heroine, Alison, is an honest and charming woman who lives her own way, and I personally quite liked her character.

The film is also based on a true story, so there are many scenes and dialogues that teach us a lesson and make us realize that because life is a series of choices, how positively and proactively we can change the choices in front of us now will change the rest of our lives.

Although there are no deep psychological descriptions or profound developments, I think this is one of those film works that many people can watch and find simply interesting and instructive.

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