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.
It reflects reak life.
It’s a good movie.
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
I think it’s a great movie; it’s a lesson in how failure can turn into success and despair into hope. It shows how life can be depending on how one thinks and believes.
Interesting astronomical stuff in the movie, about Stephan’s Quintet:
https://www.space.com/stephans-quintet-its-a-wonderful-life
The Best Years Of Our Lives, the film that won the Oscar that year, is much better.
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Based on personal tragedies, thoughts of suicide, thievery, drunkenness and more.
It’s called life more so now then ever.