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re: Official Home Alone is a Christmas movie thread
Posted on 11/24/14 at 3:05 pm to lsufan9193969700
Posted on 11/24/14 at 3:05 pm to lsufan9193969700
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Unlike DH, there is no way that you can claim HA is not a Christmas film.
While I admit that HA is a stronger case for being a Christmas movie, it is arguable. The family trip could have been anywhere, Disney, Hawaii, etc.
There was a little more Christmas, overtly, in and around HA, but it is essentially a reverse heist film. The funny bad guys come to get the kid who is Home Alone.
No supernatural, no Santa, no Jesus - there is a running theme of family, but I do not see:
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Christmas is the central idea, the setting, and a reoccurring symbol within the film.
Beyond merely superficial signs - other than the drive of the family to get back and the reunion at the end. Other than that, Christmas forms part of the setting but is not central to the movie.
In other words, the plot of, say, The Santa Clause - falls apart without Christmas - ditto for Christmas Vacation or Scrooged.
With HA - a little tweak here and there - movie works fine in the Summer, or another holiday.
(Full disclosure - I do see it is as a Christmas movie, but just barely. )
This post was edited on 11/24/14 at 3:07 pm
Posted on 11/24/14 at 8:15 pm to Ace Midnight
So Christmas Vacation couldn't have been about Thanksgiving or family coming in for a wedding?
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