Posted on 12/22/2010 2:05:14 PM PST by Kaslin
Read the tag line.
I’m going to see it on the big screen tonight. Hot Dog!!
We put a real ringing bell on our tree every year because George did. And we think the same thing he does when it rings.
God bless us, every one.
Lucky you, that would be an experience. I need to at least buy it on DVD. I tried to watch to watch it on TV this year and gave up. Unfortunately, NBC owns the rights to televise it and they milked it for all they could as far as commercials.
There’s a scene where George, Bert and Ernie are hanging around Ernie’s cab. Violet walks by and George says “hey that’s some dress you’re wearing.” Violet says, “this old thing. I only wear it when I don’t care how I look.” As she walks away Ernie says “how’d you like to” and the others both say “YES!”
Then Bert the cop says, “think I’ll go home and see what the wife’s up too”. AHEM!
Disagree. It stopped being a wonderful life when the commies and Jihadists conquered the planet.
‘George Bailey’ could have jumped and it would have made no difference at all.
I married the girl I went to high school with and
I never went to Europe.
Gee, that’s kind of like saying —
I won a million dollars and
I never fell in a pile of horse crap.
One night he got on and began talking about how sordid and unpleasant New York City had become. He described in vivid detail the short walk he had taken from the subway to the radio station that evening . . . the dirty streets, the noise, the unpleasant people, the bums outside the building, etc. He then focused on the X-rated video stores, and pointed out that there must be something wrong with the world because they seemed to be the only type of business where a whole string of them along one block face could all thrive at the same time. His closing line of that monologue will forever be a classic in my mind:
"As I came over to our building from the subway station this evening, I felt like I was walking in the world where George Bailey was never born."
We have a DVD and the family watches it every Christmas.
´Thundering out here. Sometimes it makes you wonder if that resonance could trigger an earthquake, but that´s about ten miles down... So much for my geophysical theories.
George Bailey’ could have jumped and it would have made no difference at all.
When Clarence shows him what would have happened if he had not been born, it was as though he had taken the other path. We got to see what life is like with the selfishness of Mr. Potter prevailing, and with love and responsibility removed. The comparison was an validation of the comparative goodness of those values and the final scene an affirmation and celebration of their mutual benefit.
Really good flick.
That’s ringing a bell in the ‘Bells Are Ringing’ tradition, don’t you think? :D
“I’m going to see it on the big screen tonight.”
It’s great to see old movies the way they were intended. A few years ago I only had one employee working on Christmas Eve, and It’s a Wonderful Life was playing in our local “artsy” theater (every Christmas they show one old movie—this year it’s White Christmas). So I closed up the office and took her to see it.
We had a great time, and were both crying by the end—along with just about everyone else in the theater. I’ve probably seen it 25 times over the course of my life, and it still makes me cry every time.
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