Posted on 01/24/2024 10:58:59 AM PST by Red Badger
I do not like IAWL. It’s a depressing movie based on personal tragedies, thoughts of suicide, thievery, drunkenness and more.
No wonder the movie was a flop when released.
I absolutely love this movie, it is timeless in that these are struggles we have as humans.We have dreams, disappointments and blessings we would never realize if it weren’t for the disappointments.
I’ve never seen it but intend to someday.
It reflects reak life.
It’s a good movie.
It taught me, as a child, how banks work.
It reflects reak life.
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I agree. It reaks (sp).
lol
Capra is ‘goat’ in Italian.
It is said the Jimmy Stewart was essentially suicidal with depression before and during the making of the movie. Having to keep up appearances (in an era when being depressed was considered un-masculine at best) made it worse. Those who know said he had considerable PTSD from WW2 and ‘survivor’s guilt’ as well; some of the scenes are not really acted as much genuinely felt.
It's for these reasons I don't listen to country music. LOL
But once per year or so of watching IAWL is enough to remind of how good we have it today. Especially from the perspective of the pharmacist. He's a reminder that there was a generation that went through two world wars and the great depression. It's hard for us to feel too down on our luck with the relatively little we have to go through (as a generation, I'm sure there are individual cases that differ).
“”””I do not like IAWL. It’s a depressing movie based on personal tragedies, thoughts of suicide, thievery, drunkenness and more.””””
In 1945 pulled from flight status for PTSD, in 1946 filming a comedy.
“After completing his final tour at the end of February 1945, Stewart was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the French Croix de Guerre for his combat valor. But Stewart was scarred. Instead of celebrating, he had a breakdown. He was bedridden with PTSD.”
“He came back looking like hell. There’s a before-and-after photo in the book that shows him in 1942 looking all youthful, and then in 1944 looking like hell.”
“But if you watch that performance by Stewart, there was a lot of rage in it and it’s an on-the-edge performance because that’s what those guys were feeling “
“At this point, he had just started to eat again. He always had a high metabolism and always had trouble digesting food, and during the war it got worse and worse. He himself said that the only thing he subsisted on was peanut butter and ice cream. He just hadn’t been able keep food down. Now he’s starting to gain weight. But he’s still having nightmares and the shakes and the sweats. He’s got some hearing loss now, from the sound of the bombers on those seven-, eight-hour missions. So now you have an actor who, it’s not easy for him to hear his cues.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-jimmy-stewart-book-mov-1202-20161201-column.html
...same could be said of politics.
"Inspired by the classic American film, It's a Wonderful Life, It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play is performed as a 1940s live radio broadcast in front of a studio audience. Five actors perform the dozens of characters in the radio play as well as produce the sound effects."--Www.joelandry.com
It’s A Wonderful Life is simply the greatest movie ever made.
I developed a crush on Donna Reed after watching that movie. Bedford Falls was modeled on the upstate NY town Seneca Falls and I had relatives who lived there during the time period this movie was made.
Blackrock = Mr. Potter
This movie is being lived out today. Everyone has to rent due to a selfish Mr Potter having control of banking due to a hero being erased from this world.
My in-laws are from Elmira. My wife loved the reference to that in the movie. It was her favorite movie.
OMG, people can find anything to bitch about, even a terrific movie like “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
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