Does "It's a wonderful life" still resonate?

[Cellblock2429]

The movie perseveres because it's good triumphing over evil, Christianity triumphing over irreligion, love triumphing over hate. These truths will always resonate.

/——/ The movie preserves mainly because it’s a heat warming Christmas movie with top rated actors, and also because some clerk at the studio forgot to pay the $6 to renew the copyright. This threw the movie into public domain and TV stations could run it for free each year and take in the ad money. People watched it every year and grew to love it.

 

[Borillar]

Yeah, family is important to him unless he's out fucking porn stars or grabbing women by the pussy.

 

[candycorn]

Sounds like an Antifa riot. Those insurrectionists, too?

If it was stopping (or trying to stop) the peaceful transfer of power, it would have been.

Nothing but a partisan witch hunt. Antifa thugs let off scot-free, even though 25 people died during their summer of terror.

Not only is that not even true, the urban riots were not political. Comparing the two is rather asinine.

 

[g5000]

Donald Trump is George Bailey. Idealistic, hard-working optimistic, generous to a fault. (Stories of Trump's generosity are legendary and numerous).

How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business​

Judge finalizes $25 million settlement for 'victims of Donald Trump's fraudulent university'​

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Not the last decade.

Although Jim Carey's rendition performed in 2009 of Scrooge startled me last night at how good and timely it is for our days now.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

OK, so Candy thinks Donna Reed is unattractive. Anybody here agree with that?

She is a keeper with 1940s and 1950s glamor.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

Burt and Ernie scene
Is that where Sesame Street got Burt and Ernie?

It could be. Check out this clip from the Sesame Street film named Elmo Saves Christmas.



God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[Tommy Tainant]

This thread comes up every year. Just enjoy the film.

 

[Flopper]

It's corny and it's in B&W but it still seems relevant in the 21st century. Lionel Barrymore was in a wheelchair for the role of the curmudgeon and it struck me that I saw him in a wheelchair in at least two other movies, Key Largo and another one I can't remember the name. Does he hold the record for wheelchair characters?

It's a Wonderful Life resonates with so many people over the years because it's a Christmas movie, a family movie, a love story, an existential journey, and a celebration of the everyman. but first and foremost, it is a small-town film with interesting characters.

Lionel Barrymore was in an accident when he started making the Dr. Kildare moves in the 30's. He could walk but it was painful so it was decided that he finish the 12 Kildare movies in a wheelchair. Audience seem like him as a cripple and thus he made many other movies in the 30s in a wheelchair such You Can't take it With You. By the mid forties, his arthritis was so bad he rarely appeared without a wheelchair. Other movies he made in a wheel or on crutches include, David Copperfield, Malaya, Down to the Sea in Ships, Right Cross, valley of Decision, A Guy Name Joe, Three Men in White, Thousands Cheer, Dragon Seed, Duel in the Sun, Key Largo, etc, etc... Too many to list.