kill Cliff!I like the movie.
I get the “banker is evil” idea you are saying, but George is also a banker and not evil.
There ARE “Evil” bankers just like there are “Evil” garbage collectors.
And if you don’t want to work for a piece of crap human being, banker/rich or not, that makes you an Occutard?
Call me one I guess. I have turned down jobs to avoid the corruption and influence that working there would incur.
And yes, when it comes down to it, I’d rather have Zuzu’s petals than a million dollars.
It depends on my mood.
This dude is exhibit “A” on how the worldly think - life is about what you can take rather than what you give. I am so grateful God saw fit and had the grace to open my eyes to the truth of existence.
Sorta funny article, but IAWL isn’t a crime thriller.
Justice for Mr. Potter isn’t in the script.
Now, if you want JUSTICE for Mr. Potter, look no further than Dana Carvey’s wonderful revisit way back when Saturday Night Live was actually funny (imagine that).
In that epilogue, Uncle Billy remembers what he did with the money, and George Bailey and gang go down to the bank and kick the living sh!t out of Mr. Potter.
One of SNL’s better moments.
I never liked this movie, either. Not because of any perceived evil or hidden messages, but because Jimmy Stewart screeches through parts of it and is just sappy in others. Not his best work, IMO.
This is the worst opinion article ever.
Don’t be surprised if a ‘writer’ from the libtard bastion of Boston doesn’t understand what the movie is about.
The ‘economic’ message is that small, private banking is a fine enterprise if it is part of the free-market system. The mean banking system is the one that seeks to conglomerate to eliminate competition so that it can create a monopoly. In other words, the mean banking system is the socialist banking system that we and the rest of the industrialized world are suffering under and that is best known as “central banking.”
The ‘spiritual’ message is that even people of faith fall on hard times but that God is always watching out for us and has a purpose even for our suffering.
The ‘community’ message echoes that of the ‘economic’ message, that a small neighborhood of people who truly know one another and care about one another and voluntarily take care of one another is the truest and best form of community. This is in stark contrast to the un-voluntary (forced) support that is mandated through the “State” and that forces one group of people to take care of another group of people whom they do not know, may not share common traits with, who may even be starkly opposed to and who may feel that ‘justice’ is being served by forcefully taking from that group to give to the recipients.
It is not just a nice movie.
It is an excellent movie with an excellent message.
Liberals don’t like it because it is an excellent example of how pop culture can praise traditional American values and how it can be done artistically.
And, as we all know, all communication channels in this country are only supposed to speak the Marxist message.
Merry CHRISTmas, everybody!!
Look no further, Michael!
Here I am--at my unfettered best! With a family safe and prosperous thanks to the wealth I've earned making the world a better place!
YES! THIS IS A WONDERFUL LIFE!
When we understood that marrage, family and good friends were the true measure of a man's life.
Now, apparently, Charley Sheen is the gold standard for the commentariate.
Well, I'm happy w/ my friends & family here in Hooterville. I didn't lose anything in NYC and you couldn't pay me enough to live in that sewer.
Please don’t pervert the classics. Thank you.
LLS
George Bailey was a chump. He gave all these people a break on their mortgages and when he fell into his troubles, these same people were able to come up with fistfulls of dollars. Also, the movie suggests that problems can be solved with wads of cash. And doesn’t the bank examiner want to know what happened to the cash that was lost? Yet I still cry when the decorative wooden all comes part on the stairway.
Not only that, but George also turns down a primo job when his buddy Sam opens up the Soybean-Plastic plant! There’s Sam driving away in Royce. Your fault, George, for passing it up! He could have had his beautiful wife AND wealth! So, I don’t entirely feel sorry for him. (Still like the movie, though).
I always liked the “Married With Children” parody of this movie, “It’s a Bundyful Life”, with Sam Kinason as Al Bundy’s guardian angel.
Why “It’s A Wonderful Life” Is The WORST Christmas Movie Ever.
Attempting to be “clever” and “counterintuitive,” this author falls flat and is, quite simply, full of unalloyed and utter bullsh*t.
kill Cliff!Nothing against ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ (and the author is a miserable POS), but nothing makes my holiday like seeing 24 hours of ‘A Christmas Story’. This year our oldest son is getting a gift like Ralphie (no, not the pink bunny costume). I can’t wait to see his eyes when he opens it :)
Years ago, Saturday Night Live did a skit on the “real ending” of It’s a Wonderful Life. The uncle remembered that Potter took the money, so the mob goes over to his house and kicks the crap out of him while singing Christmas carols. That was a funny skit.