Posted on 12/17/2009 3:32:58 PM PST by NYer
Name the only film, based on a work of fiction, blessed by a pope! Good luck!
We watched it (again) just a couple nights ago.
One of America’s great Conservatives.
The Godfather?
DVD?
The Quiet Man.
Why buy a DVD when it’s on tv a hundred times during the holidays.
Not here in NY.
For decades, it was the custom here in NY to broadcast the original version of "Miracle on 34th Street" on Thanksgiving day. Not anymore. The same is true for "It's a Wonderful Life". The only way to see this film is by purchasing it on DVD. "Home Alone" and "Home Alone2" are broadcast throughout the year and now we can look forward to 24 hours of "A Christmas Story" beginning on Christmas Eve. As for the other classics, they have simply vaporized in our part of the country.
I guess I’m in a minority, but seeing “A Christmas Story” once was more than enough for me. Unnngh.
That said, I don’t like “It’s a Wonderful Life” that much.
I don’t think you can really appreciate this movie till you get in your 40’s.
You really have to experience loss and disappointment.
You're behind the times. NBC bought the right & now it is shown only once a year!!
Is there something in particular that you don't like about this film? And ... what is your guess on my question ;-)
Seriously, the problem with the movie is that George Bailey engages in the same kind of slipshod lending practices Congress pressured the banks to engage in in the 1990s. And we know where that led. But Bailey is treated like a hero. He really is little more than a human doormat with everyone’s footprints all over him.
Well, someone better call NBC because it’s been on several times already this year.
My guess was “The Quiet Man.”
Regarding “It’s a Wonderful Life,” I really don’t like James Stewart that much, as an actor. Not that he isn’t good, objectively, but he just doesn’t appeal to me. And I’m annoyed by the mispresentation of angels, who are, from Creation, “created spirits without bodies,” and none of this confusion about their being somehow transformed from people.
And also, the Baileys should have more children. Everyone has just two children in the movies, unless it’s one of those big-family shows, when in context, everyone would have been saying, “What’s wrong? Is she sick? Don’t they *like* each other?” if people had only two children.
>>Seriously, the problem with the movie is that George Bailey engages in the same kind of slipshod lending practices Congress pressured the banks to engage in in the 1990s. And we know where that led. But Bailey is treated like a hero.<<
Um, no.
Everyone that the Savings and Loan is lending to has jobs. Martini even has his own business.
Pay attention to the backgrounds and you will see the whole story. He is a hero. Perhaps you don’t know what it’s like to live in company owned homes. My grandparents did. When someone gave them a hand up, they worked like dogs to keep what they had earned.
It was a different time back then.
Jimmy Stewart, to my mind THE greatest of all American movie actors. From It’s a Wonderful Life, to Mr. Smith goes to Washington, to the great Hitchcock films, Vertigo and Rear Window, and way, way, beyond, he embodied both Old Hollywood stardom, and great Americanism, AND great , almost blessed, acting talent.
I have seen IAWL about a dozen times.
My wife has seen it probably two dozen times, and just went last week with friends to a Satirday morning screening of it
at a nearby oldfashioned mini-Movie Palace where the place was packed with local people.
Even if we sympathize with their circumstances, the fact is they couldn’t afford the loans. Even Bailey admits they would be too old to enjoy their homes if he waited for them to qualify under ordinary rules.
In 1899 William O. Cushing and Ira Sankey devised the following hymn, which is based on Psalm 91:
UNDER HIS WINGS
Under His wings I am safely abiding,
Though the night deepens and tempests are wild,
Still I can trust Him; I know He will keep me,
He has redeemed me, and I am His child.
Under His wings, under His wings,
Who from His love can sever?
Under His wings my soul shall abide,
Safely abide forever.
Under His wings, what a refuge in sorrow!
How the heart yearningly turns to His rest!
Often when earth has no balm for my healing,
There I find comfort, and there I am blessed.
Under His wings, under His wings,
Who from His love can sever?
Under His wings my soul shall abide,
Safely abide forever.
Under His wings, oh, what precious enjoyment!
There will I hide till life’s trials are o’er;
Sheltered, protected, no evil can harm me,
Resting in Jesus, I’m safe evermore.
Under His wings, under His wings,
Who from His love can sever?
Under His wings my soul shall abide,
Safely abide forever.
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