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Occupy Bedford Falls! Why "It's A Wonderful Life" Is The WORST Christmas Movie Ever.
Boston Herald ^ | December 21, 2011 | Michael Graham

Posted on 12/21/2011 5:13:07 AM PST by suspects

This Christmas marks the 65th anniversary of “It’s A Wonderful Life,” one of the most beloved holiday movies ever made. And one of the very worst.

I know, I know. Admitting you aren’t charmed by the story of George Bailey and Zuzu’s petals is like admitting you spend your spare time kicking puppies, but sorry.

The fact is, “It’s A Wonderful Life” is a movie that only an Occupod could love. The story is sweet, but the message is truly awful.

Consider George Bailey. In your mind, you see him after a lifetime of poverty, grief and bad luck, running through Bedford Falls shouting “Merry Christmas you old Building and Loan,” just happy to have a family he loves.

Well I agree that having a loving family can help us all get through crises. (Remember the stewardess in the disaster-film spoof “Airplane?” “At least I had a husband . . . ”)

But the name of the film is “Wonderful Life,” not, “Well, Things Could Be Worse.” And in George Bailey’s case, things are truly tragic.

Smart, ambitious George gets stuck at the modest Building and Loan back in Hickville when his brother marries into a cushy corporate gig and his father dies. After years of dreaming of going off to college, traveling the world and becoming a top engineer or architect, his life is spent scraping by, and helping others do the same.

Somehow the movie — like the Occupiers of today — tries to turn that into a virtue. Despite his wife and kids, George turns down $20,000 a year so he won’t have to work for that “evil banker,” Mr. Potter.

Occupy Bedford Falls!

Then disaster strikes. His addled Uncle Billy accidentally drops the daily deposit into Potter’s lap and guess who happens to show up that day...

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Philosophy; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: christmas; holiday; liberals; occupy
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To: netmilsmom

Lol! Im sure youre right. Thanks.


41 posted on 12/21/2011 6:17:56 AM PST by InvisibleChurch ( go in peace , serve the Lord)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Merry Christmas, my FRiend!


42 posted on 12/21/2011 6:22:13 AM PST by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice)
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To: optiguy

It’s Uncle Billy’s fault!


43 posted on 12/21/2011 6:25:32 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Mich Patriot

>>I’ve raised criticism of this movie for its “hate the rich and powerful”<<

Potter was an evil man. Plain and simple. It had nothing to do with being rich.


44 posted on 12/21/2011 6:30:58 AM PST by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice)
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To: suspects
“It’s A Wonderful Life” is a movie that only an Occupod could love.

Perhaps.

However, the difference is that OWSies do not understand the concept of "community". They don't wish to contribute to a community, rather they expect to be provided for by the community.

So OWSies, being the leaches of society, would naturally cheer for a George Bailey. But there is no way that they could BE a George Bailey.

And if there ever was an "Its a Wonderful Life 2" and George Bailey became wealthy from his head for business, he would still be George Bailey.

45 posted on 12/21/2011 6:31:03 AM PST by kidd
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To: suspects
The part of "It's a Wonderful Life" that I liked least was that George's wife became a librarian in the alternative dystopia of Pottersville. Why was it such a terrible fate for her to be walking in the footsteps of Eratosthenes of Cyrene and Zenodotus of Ephesus?
46 posted on 12/21/2011 6:32:02 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: suspects

Like you could get a fair review out of a Boston paper? I think the editor was desperate for page filler material and some young puke came up with this.


47 posted on 12/21/2011 6:34:13 AM PST by Boomer One
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To: circlecity; suspects
This dude is exhibit “A” on how the worldly think - life is about what you can take rather than what you give.

Kinda like the Occupy crowd?

48 posted on 12/21/2011 6:37:28 AM PST by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: suspects

This piece is not worth buttwipe.


49 posted on 12/21/2011 6:38:34 AM PST by jimt (Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.)
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To: Fiji Hill

The point is not that she is a librarian but that she never married because George was not there to marry. She had to take a job to support herself. Talk about missing the point.


50 posted on 12/21/2011 6:41:02 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
Amen and bravo!

The only thing I can add is another key message which I got out of the film:

True success is not measured by how much stuff you accumulate and how many people you can boss around, but whether or not the world is a better place for you having lived in it.

By that measure, George Bailey is a rousing success and Potter is a dismal failure.

Merry CHRISTmas to you too!

51 posted on 12/21/2011 6:42:05 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: suspects

How responsible was George to trust his idiot Uncle billy with 8 big ones?


52 posted on 12/21/2011 6:45:55 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati)
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To: suspects

Once or twice fine but I’d no more watch it again than I’d re watch “The Wizard of Oz” or the one with the boy who wanted a b.b. gun for Christmas.

Bah humbug!


53 posted on 12/21/2011 6:46:28 AM PST by Graybeard58 (No Obama, No Romney, No Paul, No Huntsman. We can do better than that!)
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To: suspects

This movie bacame a Christmas classic because it’s owner failed to renew its copyright. As a result, TV stations could show it without paying a royalty - so it always got stuck in somewhere on the air every Christmas.


54 posted on 12/21/2011 6:47:41 AM PST by frithguild (Restricting access to capital - Liberalism: The sharpest tool of big business.)
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To: Graybeard58

“No man is a failure who has friends.” - Clarence


55 posted on 12/21/2011 6:47:55 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: suspects
Author Michael Graham - you ignorant slut!
56 posted on 12/21/2011 6:49:44 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: netmilsmom

: )


57 posted on 12/21/2011 6:59:52 AM PST by InvisibleChurch ( go in peace , serve the Lord)
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To: WashingtonSource
The point is not that she is a librarian but that she never married because George was not there to marry. She had to take a job to support herself.

Be that as it may, that scene still draws boos from the library community. Had I been in charge, rather than giving her a prestigious profession, I would have made her a New Deal bureaucrat.

58 posted on 12/21/2011 7:01:20 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: LibLieSlayer

Michael Graham is allegedly a conservative. He has been an author of several books (”Redneck Nation: How the South Really Won the War”; “That’s No Angry Mob, That’s My Mom: Team Obama’s Assault on Tea-Party, Talk-Radio Americans”) and has been on radio stations like WMAL in Washington D.C. (got thrown off after CAIR complained).

I can’t take his raspy, fast talking voice. He has been at
WTKK (-FM) Boston for several years. Recently when the controversial Jay Severin was fired by WTKK— then hired
by WXKS (AM) for the 3-7 pm slot, WTKK suddenly decided that maybe putting Graham in the same slot would make
sense. (That is, they would rather have a political talk
host opposite their former employee Severin and WRKO’s
Howie Carr, himself also a Herald columnist, instead of
the lukewarm host they’d put in the afternoon drive slot.)

Graham got divorced from his wife Jennifer (”the Warden”); for a time,
her website had a family picture—with Michael airbrushed out. He’s since been re-married.

From Wikipedia:
>>In July 2005, Graham used Islam and terrorism as the basis for a multi-day discussion on his WMAL talk radio show. A number of Graham’s comments prompted over one hundred complaints to the station and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued action alerts to its subscribers encouraging them to contact WMAL to urge that “Graham be reprimanded for his anti-Islam statements”, ultimately prompting WMAL to suspend him. After 28 days, WMAL elected to terminate Graham stating that he violated station policy and disregarded “management direction” to redress the situation. The situation prompted angry editorials [columns?] from Graham as well as appearances on nationally televised news programs to discuss the firing.


59 posted on 12/21/2011 7:36:06 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: suspects

Strange way of looking at the movie.

The character George puts others before himself, not as a matter of political ideology, but as matter of Christian morals. He does the right thing by his family, because he sees them as his responsibility. He keeps his mother, younger brother, and uncle from being wards of the state.

Yes he sees the Savings and Loan as an altruistic venture, but it is still not a handout, just a niche market with less return. Given that he has renovated a large worn down house, has clothed and fed a large family, and isn’t in debt are not signs that he is in poverty. Far from it.

He is not much different than every farmer I’ve ever met, who prefers doing a job they love and value over a job that pays more money.

And the ending is based on voluntary charity based on strong character.

This is NOT an Occupy feel good movie.


60 posted on 12/21/2011 7:42:27 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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