Posted on 12/21/2011 5:13:07 AM PST by suspects
I guess Graham doesn’t get the gist of the movie. The evil banker angle only supports the basic thrust of the movie that George Bailey’s life really is worthwhile. The money Uncle Billy lost is really incidental. It’s like the McGuffin in the Hitchcock flicks.
The Boston Herald is a conservative paper. You're thinking of the Boston Globe.
I hate that movie. It is just too sappy for me.
All Christmas movies seem to wallow in the sap this time of year except A CHRISTMAS STORY. When it starts to get sappy something happens to stop the sap. (Grownups like to say things like that. We kids new better. We knew it was best not to get caught!).
They should redo it again and this time kick the crap out of Bawney Frank and John Corzine.
This Idiot must have issues with bells and christmas trees..
Couldn’t be Angels that crawled his nape.. could it?..
He’s also struggling with the subversive message that materialism doesn’t matter at all.... Rather then condemn the life that he loves, he’d rather attack Bedford Falls.
My favorite movie is 1984s George C. Scott A Christmas Carol.
It is my favorite as well. Come to think of it I love most versions of A Christmas Carol. The version with Alistair Sim is also very good.
Yes!!!! That’s what I’m talking about. I don’t like the end to It’s a Wonderful Life, because essentially Potter stole $8000.
And if Potter could actually steal $8000, and since Potter had the law on his side, why wouldn’t he have just stolen more of the money? Once you have decided that the guy who has all the power is going to be actively evil, there’s no way you beat him the way IAWL ended.
But that’s how movies used to be. Today, we’d find some way for Potter to get his due.
I will also note that Bailey was pretty stupid to trust his uncle with an important task. Sure, Potter stole the money. But he didn’t SET OUT to steal the money — The stupid uncle could have just as easily dropped the money into the trash, never to be seen again, and the same story could be told (except Potter wouldn’t be so violently evil then).
Not PC, huh?
Out of respect, for the multitude who love the movie, I don’t usually voice that opinion.
*crawling back under my rock*
(And yes, I recognized your sarcasm - and enjoyed it)
I disagree with you.
The people helped by Baily Savings and Loan were just ordinary working folks.
Taxi drivers. House cleaners. Whatever.
Just people with jobs and growing families trying to get a piece of dirt with a house on it that had a couple bedrooms, running water, and a fireplace.
There is ZERO socialism or liberalism about that.
specially pottersville....
LLS
Oh I so second that emotion.
Never regarded it as a Christmas story- felt the same way about the ‘shoot your eye out’ kid movie. I like the Hallmark TV stories. There was a made for TV movie in the mid 90s about the Rockefeller Christmas tree [Sister Anthony] that was very good. For fun Christmas Vacation.
Yes, a point I made when I mentioned that he didn’t return the “lost” money.
Sorry, my FRiend. I missed that point.
Great minds think alike.
Merry Christmas!
No worries, FRiend. Merry Christmas to you!
If George Bailey was an occupier, he would have selfishly taken Potter up on his offer. Occupiers do not impact others lives positively, they are a drain on society. They are liberals.
Well, he does make me wonder what “It’s a Wonderful Life” would have looked like if Ayn Rand (who was in Hollywood in those days) had written the script ...
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