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Black-ish Director Kenya Barris To Remake “It’s a Wonderful Life” For Modern Audiences
pirates&princesses ^ | 1-21-24 | Kambrea Pratt

Posted on 01/21/2024 6:49:29 AM PST by dynachrome

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To: Fuzz

In what way????


121 posted on 01/21/2024 8:43:43 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: dynachrome

Opening shot of shoplifting christmas items at a closing walgreens. Then getting a loan at the cash advance store. It’s a Biden Life.


122 posted on 01/21/2024 8:44:26 AM PST by Waverunner
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To: katana

It’s definitely social propaganda driven nonsense.
Disney is a perfect example of ruining a company for propaganda.
What are the odds that every single white majority country, and only them, are being invaded by low IQ non whites?
It is the deliberate destruction of white societies.
Globalism can only take root when everywhere is near equally crappy.


123 posted on 01/21/2024 8:45:25 AM PST by EEGator
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To: dynachrome

Maybe someone should remake all their great classics...oh wait..


124 posted on 01/21/2024 8:45:49 AM PST by riri (What’re y’all talking bout? I just got a new set of Michelins for the house!)
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To: mewzilla

Why is that?


125 posted on 01/21/2024 8:46:24 AM PST by EEGator
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To: rdcbn1

I’m liking Richard Pryor or maybe Samuel L Jackson for George Bailey.


Richard Pryor has been dead for almost 20 years. But maybe with CGI tech....??

Samuel L. Jackson would certainly be a unique choice. But he’s a bit old at this point and every 3rd word out of his mouth would be a MF@King profanity. So there goes the G rating....


126 posted on 01/21/2024 8:47:43 AM PST by rbg81
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To: Fuzz

The responses on this thread are disgusting.

************

Ain’t life grand? Diversity abounds!


127 posted on 01/21/2024 8:49:36 AM PST by deport
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To: EEGator

There’s been a marked change in movies and projects in the last few years for sure. Nearly every movie and entertainment product out there HAS to have someone black (or other PoC) as a major lead, commercials HAVE to feature interracial couples/partners, and homosexuality and transgenderism HAS to be part of whatever it is.

I’m pretty sure that a remake of “It’s a Wonderful Life” won’t be something I’d want to see because I’m sure the villain(s) in it will be white - something for the modern audience the producers think will like.


128 posted on 01/21/2024 8:49:49 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Fuzz
The responses on this thread are disgusting.

I've done my part. That's all I can do.

129 posted on 01/21/2024 8:51:17 AM PST by BipolarBob (My investment choice for 2024 is pre-ban menthol cigarettes. )
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To: Fuzz

i dislike them too

However it is understandable to have people frustrated over having their culture taken from them.

I would home that the response is more than grumbling


130 posted on 01/21/2024 8:51:43 AM PST by Chickensoup
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To: justme4now

“Movies, favorite old TV shows being redone using minorities, pi$$e$ me off!”

If you lack ownership of the copyright for those original movies or TV shows and there is no violation of your copyright protections, what is the cause for your dissatisfaction when a movie or TV show undergoes a remake?


131 posted on 01/21/2024 8:55:37 AM PST by Round Earther
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To: dynachrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Wonderful_Life

On May 26, 1947, the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a memo stating, “With regard to the picture It’s a Wonderful Life, [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a ‘scrooge-type’ so that he would be the most hated man in the picture. This, according to these sources, is a common trick used by Communists. [In] addition, [redacted] stated that, in his opinion, this picture deliberately maligned the upper class, attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters.”[62] Film historian Andrew Sarris observed as “curious” that “the censors never noticed that the villainous Mr. Potter gets away with robbery without being caught or punished in any way”.[63]


132 posted on 01/21/2024 8:56:16 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: dynachrome

I think it will be a great remake. George Bailey the local crack dealer shoots up a grade school and while he is on the lam, he utters the words, “Everything would have been better if I had not been born”. Then Clarence Jamal Washington appears and shows him what life would have been like if he had not been born. George sees that everything would have been better and shoots himself.


133 posted on 01/21/2024 8:57:00 AM PST by wbslws
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To: dynachrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Wonderful_Life

It’s a Wonderful Life “is a terrifying, asphyxiating story about growing up and relinquishing your dreams, of seeing your father driven to the grave before his time, of living among bitter, small-minded people. It is a story of being trapped, of compromising, of watching others move ahead and away, of becoming so filled with rage that you verbally abuse your children, their teacher, and your oppressively perfect wife.”[71]


134 posted on 01/21/2024 8:58:05 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Nekman

Instead of snow white it may become snow black.

Enjoy your three score and ten as best you can
and be thankful you have the opportunity.


135 posted on 01/21/2024 8:58:57 AM PST by deport
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To: Chickensoup
I would home that the response is more than grumbling

If we're not grumbling about too many black commercials/actors, we're grumbling about grammar. What does that sentence even mean? Life is getting me down. Don't get me started on peoples driving skills either.

136 posted on 01/21/2024 8:59:15 AM PST by BipolarBob (My investment choice for 2024 is pre-ban menthol cigarettes. )
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To: dynachrome

Oh this will be worth the price if admission. (Eye Roll)

I did enjoy Blackish the first couple of season but once it went all in on the BLM nonsense and wanted to be preachy I was done.

2 incredibly successful black parents , and 4 kids with far more “privilege” then I (or most kids) ever had growing up, whining about how “racist” the world is, nope.


137 posted on 01/21/2024 9:01:11 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Gaffer

And, I’m supposed to find some ugly chick attractive.

They somehow find a chick with a 44 inch waist and no boobs.
How is that even possible?

Stranger Things had a fat kid with a lisp, and The Last of Us had a girl that looked like the sister of the banjo player in Deliverance…

Back in the day, at least the black chicks were Halle Berry and Stacy Dash.


138 posted on 01/21/2024 9:07:07 AM PST by EEGator
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To: rdcbn1

Can’t say what I am thinking.


I can. I think that an all black remake of It’s a Wonderful Life could be absolutely hysterical.

Imagine the possibilities.


I can too.

It will be titled, “It’s A Thug Life”, starring Lizzo in the Donna Reed role and Snoop Dog as George Bailey.
Bedford Falls will be re-named, “Compton Falls”....


139 posted on 01/21/2024 9:09:42 AM PST by AFret. (.)
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To: dynachrome

When will we get an original idea out of these plagarists?


140 posted on 01/21/2024 9:12:31 AM PST by CTyank
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