This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!
Exactly why I own all my Christmas favorites on DVDs. It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol, Home Alone, Rudolph, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, A Charlie Brown Christmas, etc. When you hit the info button and see It's a Wonderful Life is a three hour run, you know it will be painful. Ain't nobody got time for dat.
a sign, all too common these days, that those people do not understand the most important element of humanity - that, as one and above of all living things, we were designed to work, succeed, even provide.
Hey look, mister. We serve hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast, and we don't need any characters around to give the joint "atmosphere". Is that clear, or do I have to slip you my left for a convincer?
That’s a real high school gym in Hollywood and that pool/gym still exists today. Not sure how it got written into the script.
All good and Crowther was a great film critic. He’s in the pantheon with Kael and Ebert. He was a huge influence on bringing an appreciation of foreign films to the US. However, he was finicky and wasn’t afraid to rip movies apart. I don’t agree with his take here but it’s valid. As for endings, I like It’s a Wonderful Life because it takes you right to edge of the most bleak and nihilistic ending possible and then reminds us that when we step outside of our current self, we can see there is a larger design and purpose to the world and most importantly to each individual cog.I was unfamiliar with his oeuvre. That said, take up this brightest light stuff with Bosley, bub.
I just posted him late night because I had a funny feeling about the critics of the time, who were immersed in an economic worldview that incorporated a "labor" spirit, shall we say.
In all seriousness and away from that aside, my friends all laugh at my love of plausible endings that enrich the spirit and edify our faith in others. They like bleak, actualistized, even nihilistic ones. So if the dark/bright stuff is what it does, then good on it. I'm all for it!
And I typed why it was plausible, but forgot how to use the spoiler function of all things.
This is what I wished for.Gets me every damn time
Idiot. Should’ve taken it.No wonder George nearly burned a hole in his suit with the cigar Potter gave him after the job offer.
A 20K salary in 1935 is roughly equivalent to 375K today.
It really refreshing to watch. Seems so real. I like older movies for that reason. My 9 year old also loves it.
So like an entry level gig for the average FBG? Ok. Got it.No wonder George nearly burned a hole in his suit with the cigar Potter gave him after the job offer.
A 20K salary in 1935 is roughly equivalent to 375K today.
Yeah, I’ve always questioned how far you can slide on a crappy wooden shovel, even on ice.
So reckless. Things were a little different then I guess.
It would have been a nine fold increase in George's yearly earnings. That would be like me suddenly making Otis money.No wonder George nearly burned a hole in his suit with the cigar Potter gave him after the job offer.
A 20K salary in 1935 is roughly equivalent to 375K today.
And it would have ensured that there was never a decent home built in Bedford Falls again. Everyone would have been waiting and saving to get into one of Potter's shacks. George Bailey was like Dalton in Roadhouse; he was the only thing that kept one man from running the entire town. Yes, he would have become rich, but he would have lost his soul.
Speaking of fairy tales and all that, did you finish this?
Unfortunately, no, I didn't. I wrote that this morning and have been on the boards more than paying attention. I can be finicky or irritated quickly: I actually got put off with them riding down the shovel with the shovel's arm pointed that way against their ya-ya's (what kid does that? Even as a kid you know.) but your statement about the fifteen minutes helps. At some point, I'm going to watch it. I'm not sure I've been a Capra fan, though, in the past. I'd have to jog my memory on that.
Capra certainly has a clear POV. I will say this is Stewart and Capra's first movie after returning to WW2 and I think it shows. It gets dark as it paints the picture of a boy full of confidence and big dreams to a man who is ready to give it all up, considering himself a failure (It certainly comes to a much difference conclusion though than The Irishman). The war had a very profound impact on Stewart. Stewart had an Oscar for best actor but still was the first major Hollywood star to enlist in the army. Stewart was an accomplished pilot with a long family of history of combat in American wars so when it became clear the Army was going to use him for training videos, he demanded to be sent into combat. He received numerous honors from the US and France, was promoted to major for flying B-24 Liberator and leading a bomber wing. When he came back, he gave up his "aww shucks naive roles" and took on darker and more complex roles such as Vertigo and Winchester 73. You can watch the transition in his career happen in In It's a Wonderful Life. I am sure that is something that drew Stewart to the film. It is well worth the watch IMO, the talking stars opening and kids playing is really just a prologue to set the stage and isn't representative of what the rest of the film is IMO.
