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re: "To my big brother George: the richest man in town!"
Posted on 12/24/24 at 8:44 pm to kywildcatfanone
Posted on 12/24/24 at 8:44 pm to kywildcatfanone
tGOAT movie wife
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Posted on 12/24/24 at 8:49 pm to RollTide1987
Have yall heard about the alternate ending that is offered on Amazon Prime that removes the entire Pottersville (life without George's ever being born) portion?
Posted on 12/24/24 at 9:48 pm to SlowFlowPro
“ Per the current definition of "Christmas Movie" (written to intentionally exclude films like Die Hard), is this a Christmas movie?
Isn't Christmas more of a time/setting than an active part of the story?
If you removed Christmas from the movie altogether, would the movie really change at all?
*ETA: this is not my theory but it's now ripe to test it.”
Same logic applies to Home Alone…
Isn't Christmas more of a time/setting than an active part of the story?
If you removed Christmas from the movie altogether, would the movie really change at all?
*ETA: this is not my theory but it's now ripe to test it.”
Same logic applies to Home Alone…
This post was edited on 12/24/24 at 9:50 pm
Posted on 12/24/24 at 9:58 pm to RollTide1987
Still think this is the best scene in the film.
There are no atheists in foxholes.
There are no atheists in foxholes.
Posted on 12/24/24 at 11:51 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
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She also played Miss Ellie Ewing on Dallas.
I had no idea. Apparently she took over the role of Miss Ellie for one season while Barbara Bel Geddes recovered from an illness.
Posted on 12/25/24 at 12:20 am to East Coast Band
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Have yall heard about the alternate ending that is offered on Amazon Prime that removes the entire Pottersville (life without George's ever being born) portion?
I just read about little about this. I haven’t heard why they would cut this out. It a big part of the movie. Who did it offend?
Posted on 12/25/24 at 12:26 am to dallastigers
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I just read about little about this. I haven’t heard why they would cut this out. It a big part of the movie. Who did it offend?
I don't know. I figured our wise posters could clarify.
My guess it's either something about how the world looking bad if there wasn't a white man helping out, a la evol patriarchy. Or it's about suicide tjoughts?
Posted on 12/25/24 at 12:27 am to SECSolomonGrundy
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Thats a perfect age. Its wasted on the young.
"Youth is wasted on the wrong people!" - Random fat dude pissed off that George wouldn't make his move on Mary
I'm a man of few traditions, but watching "It's a Wonderful Life" on Christmas Eve is one of them. And yes, the final scene when everyone comes together to help out George Bailey never fails to choke me up. In my opinion it's the greatest final scene in film history and it's not even close. It's perfect.
Posted on 12/25/24 at 12:45 am to IggyReilly
I teared up at the end of this one this year, too.
Posted on 12/25/24 at 6:44 am to dallastigers
I read it was due to copyright issues. Apparently, that part of the movie is not public domain.
Posted on 12/25/24 at 8:27 am to Adajax
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Apparently she took over the role of Miss Ellie for one season while Barbara Bel Geddes recovered from an illness.
For one season, then was fired when Bel Geddes was healthy enough to return. Sued and won for breach of her contract, then died the next year.
Posted on 12/25/24 at 8:32 am to GetCocky11
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Monorail!
That’s more of a Shelbyville idea.
Posted on 12/25/24 at 8:47 am to kywildcatfanone
Posted on 12/25/24 at 11:00 am to SCLibertarian
Out of all the "hot" plastic THOTS everybody loves now, I've always thought Donna Reed along with maybe Grace Kelly were possibly the most naturally beautiful women I've ever sen. It's one of my favorite movies ever but like others I only ever watch it on NBC Christmas Eve. That damn big brother George line has melted my face annually since I was little
Posted on 12/25/24 at 12:47 pm to kywildcatfanone
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Donna Reed was hot
Posted on 12/25/24 at 1:50 pm to East Coast Band
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Have yall heard about the alternate ending that is offered on Amazon Prime that removes the entire Pottersville (life without George's ever being born) portion?
Watched that one the other nights. Cuts 30min off. He saves Clarence at the bridge, talks a bit in the op house, then goes straight to the part where he yells Mary on the bridge and ends up at his house. No Pottersville, no Nick’s, no library Mary, no Bert interaction and realization of lip and zuzu’s petals on the bridge. Pure travesty.
Posted on 12/25/24 at 1:57 pm to SlowFlowPro
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Per the current definition of "Christmas Movie" (written to intentionally exclude films like Die Hard), is this a Christmas movie?
Do you just dream up things to be wrong about in so many threads?
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It's a Wonderful Life premiered at the Globe Theatre in New York City on December 20, 1946
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Capra revealed that it was his favorite among the films he directed and that he screened it for his family every Christmas season.
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It is based on the short story and booklet "The Greatest Gift", self-published by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1943, which itself is loosely based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol. After it was rejected by several publishers, he had it printed as a 24-page pamphlet and mailed to 200 family members and friends for Christmas 1943.
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Channel 4 in the United Kingdom airs the film to British viewers annually on Christmas Eve.
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On Christmas Eve 1945, in Bedford Falls, New York, George Bailey contemplates suicide
The whole premise of the film was his feeling of depression brought on by the failure of the Savings and Loan at Christmastime. Because all the other apparent failures of the business didnt bring him to this level of doom. So the setting of Christmas is THE KEY to the film, and the events that follow. The flashbacks are part of the backstory, setting up the story that we are dropped into on Christmas Eve
Posted on 12/25/24 at 2:25 pm to RobbBobb
Prime has 3 versions
Black and white
Color
Abridged version
Yall must have clicked on the abridged version. It takes multiple parts out to make the movie quicker
Black and white
Color
Abridged version
Yall must have clicked on the abridged version. It takes multiple parts out to make the movie quicker
Posted on 12/25/24 at 3:09 pm to WestCoastAg
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That movie is such a powerhouse. Has two of the top 5 scenes in the history of cinema between the one referenced by OP and when George and Mary first kiss
As Stewart waited for the hot sun to go down before he ran through the snow of the renewed Bedford Falls, sweating, smoking, sweating, he was undergoing one of his worst episodes of PTSD.
They show up occasionally it seems, in the eyes mostly, showing an undisguised anguish.
His air combat over the ETO took an awful toll on him.
Posted on 12/25/24 at 3:36 pm to RollTide1987
I start losing it when they read Sam’s telegram. That’s when you know George is in the clear. Wife and I are complete waterworks by the time Harry arrives.
One of the best movies of all time.
One of the best movies of all time.
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