Seems to me that he was real enough to manipulate the physical world around us, towards the end of the movie.

@Ellison Havelock said:

Seems to me that he was real enough to manipulate the physical world around us, towards the end of the movie.

He could stop time, so he would never be too late, contrary to the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland with his pocket watch, muttering: "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!".

@wonder2wonder said:

@Ellison Havelock said:

Seems to me that he was real enough to manipulate the physical world around us, towards the end of the movie.

He could stop time, so he would never be too late, contrary to the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland with his pocket watch, muttering: "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!".

I don't understand your response at all. It doesn't seem to correlate to anything I said, or to anything the OP asked. Had you meant to respond to somebody else?

@Ellison Havelock said:

@wonder2wonder said:

@Ellison Havelock said:

Seems to me that he was real enough to manipulate the physical world around us, towards the end of the movie.

He could stop time, so he would never be too late, contrary to the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland with his pocket watch, muttering: "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!".

I don't understand your response at all. It doesn't seem to correlate to anything I said, or to anything the OP asked. Had you meant to respond to somebody else?

I was referring to what you said about Harvey's powers to manipulate...

Elwood with Dr. Chumley:

Elwood: "These things always work out just the way Harvey says they will. He's very, very versatile. Did I tell you he could stop clocks?"

Dr. Chumley: "To what purpose?"

Elwood: "Well, you've heard the expression, 'His face would stop a clock'. Well, Harvey can look at your clock...and stop it. And you can go anywhere you like with anyone you like... and stay as long as you like. And when you get back, not one minute will have ticked by."

Dr. Chumley: "You mean that he..."

Elwood: "You see..."

Dr. Chumley: "He can..."

Elwood: "You see science has overcome time and space. Well, Harvey has overcome not only time and space, but any objections."

Elwood was an engaging storyteller. He was so good that he could convince (almost) anyone that what he was telling was true. Perhaps that was because he wholeheartedly believed it himself.

Did his enthralling story hypnotize his listeners and us viewers also, so that all of us started seeing Harvey?

Would you believe him if he had said that Harvey was related to the Easter Bunny and a good friend of Santa Claus?

I love this movie, like an earlier one of James Stewart, "It's a Wonderful Life (1946)", it tickles your fantasy and you can enjoy it anyway you like, each time again and again.

Harvey changed the thesaurus entry for Pooka. Nobody else can do that, so of course he is real!