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There aren't many films that can be described as masterpieces or classics as some people freely label their favourite movie. Probably the best way to judge a film's credentials is by it's lasting ability and none comes into that category better than Frank Capra's 1946 adaptation of a Philip Van Doren Stern short story, The Greatest Gift, that has captured imaginations for decades.
It's A Wonderful Life tells the story of one man's life and how everything we do affects so many other lives around us. In short, it preaches to us how precious life is but is played out in such a warm and sentimental way that it is easy to overlook the moral of the story and get lost in the heartwarming fantasy.
In one of the greatest cinematic roles ever created, James Stewart plays George Bailey, a banker in the sleepy town of Bedford Falls. His early life, in particular, the key moments that are to become relevant later in the film, is shown in flashback. His presense becomes more crucial to the townsfolk in later life as his good samaritan ways come to the fore. He marries his childhood sweetheart Mary ( Donna Reed ) and raises a family while all the time, relinquishing his lifelong ambition to travel in order to run the family savings and loan business.
Tragedy strikes when one Christmas Eve, a sum of money goes missing from the business coffers and George's life turns upside down. He decides that the World would be a better place for everyone if he had never been born and so decides to take his own life. However, waiting to intervene is the magical Henry Travers as angel in waiting Clarence, sent from the heavens to earn his wings by saving George Bailey. What follows is a brilliant piece of ingenious storytelling as Clarence takes George under his wing, so to speak, and begins to show him what in fact the World would be like had he never been born.
He takes him to unfamiliar places that George thought he knew. He shows him tombstones of his brother who died in a tragic accident all because George wasn't there to save him and tells of all the subsequent tragedies that followed. He takes him to see Mary, who dosn't even know George because he'd never been born. George slowly realises that whatever adversity life threw at him, it didn't compare to the vision of what the World would be like without his input. He begs Clarence to let him live again.
The ending is unashamedly schmaltzy. In a touching last sequence, we learn that Clarence finally got his wings and there's not a dry eye in the house to be found.
It's A Wonderful Life has to be THE greatest Christmas film of all time. It gets better with every viewing.
It's A Wonderful Life tells the story of one man's life and how everything we do affects so many other lives around us. In short, it preaches to us how precious life is but is played out in such a warm and sentimental way that it is easy to overlook the moral of the story and get lost in the heartwarming fantasy.
In one of the greatest cinematic roles ever created, James Stewart plays George Bailey, a banker in the sleepy town of Bedford Falls. His early life, in particular, the key moments that are to become relevant later in the film, is shown in flashback. His presense becomes more crucial to the townsfolk in later life as his good samaritan ways come to the fore. He marries his childhood sweetheart Mary ( Donna Reed ) and raises a family while all the time, relinquishing his lifelong ambition to travel in order to run the family savings and loan business.
Tragedy strikes when one Christmas Eve, a sum of money goes missing from the business coffers and George's life turns upside down. He decides that the World would be a better place for everyone if he had never been born and so decides to take his own life. However, waiting to intervene is the magical Henry Travers as angel in waiting Clarence, sent from the heavens to earn his wings by saving George Bailey. What follows is a brilliant piece of ingenious storytelling as Clarence takes George under his wing, so to speak, and begins to show him what in fact the World would be like had he never been born.
He takes him to unfamiliar places that George thought he knew. He shows him tombstones of his brother who died in a tragic accident all because George wasn't there to save him and tells of all the subsequent tragedies that followed. He takes him to see Mary, who dosn't even know George because he'd never been born. George slowly realises that whatever adversity life threw at him, it didn't compare to the vision of what the World would be like without his input. He begs Clarence to let him live again.
The ending is unashamedly schmaltzy. In a touching last sequence, we learn that Clarence finally got his wings and there's not a dry eye in the house to be found.
It's A Wonderful Life has to be THE greatest Christmas film of all time. It gets better with every viewing.
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The ultimate xmas movie would have shotguns, reindeer hunting, surface to air santa missiles and Jean Claude Van Damme as Santa. I can imagine him now saying his final cutting remarks to whomever his enemy is - "Merry Christmas" and then he'd jump and kick his head off.
Grix Thraves wrote:
> I really do love It's A Wonderful Life, and I really don't understand how people
> can't like it.
But, that being all and well, the Ultimate Christmas Movie is
> actually A Muppet's Christmas Carol.
Light the lamp, not the rat....
> I really do love It's A Wonderful Life, and I really don't understand how people
> can't like it.
But, that being all and well, the Ultimate Christmas Movie is
> actually A Muppet's Christmas Carol.
Light the lamp, not the rat....
It's a Wondeful Life is the ultimate feel-good movie, and it'd better be on this Christmas, or I'll have to go all the way down the hall and get my video of it out.
I really do love It's A Wonderful Life, and I really don't understand how people can't like it.
But, that being all and well, the Ultimate Christmas Movie is actually A Muppet's Christmas Carol.
But, that being all and well, the Ultimate Christmas Movie is actually A Muppet's Christmas Carol.
Not true, Santa Claus the movie is the best Christmas movie of all time.
There aren't many films that can be described as masterpieces or classics as some people freely label their favourite movie. Probably the best way to judge a film's credentials is by it's lasting ability and none comes into that category better than Frank Capra's 1946 adaptation of a Philip Van Doren Stern short story, The Greatest Gift, that has captured imaginations for decades.
It's A Wonderful Life tells the story of one man's life and how everything we do affects so many other lives around us. In short, it preaches to us how precious life is but is played out in such a warm and sentimental way that it is easy to overlook the moral of the story and get lost in the heartwarming fantasy.
In one of the greatest cinematic roles ever created, James Stewart plays George Bailey, a banker in the sleepy town of Bedford Falls. His early life, in particular, the key moments that are to become relevant later in the film, is shown in flashback. His presense becomes more crucial to the townsfolk in later life as his good samaritan ways come to the fore. He marries his childhood sweetheart Mary ( Donna Reed ) and raises a family while all the time, relinquishing his lifelong ambition to travel in order to run the family savings and loan business.
Tragedy strikes when one Christmas Eve, a sum of money goes missing from the business coffers and George's life turns upside down. He decides that the World would be a better place for everyone if he had never been born and so decides to take his own life. However, waiting to intervene is the magical Henry Travers as angel in waiting Clarence, sent from the heavens to earn his wings by saving George Bailey. What follows is a brilliant piece of ingenious storytelling as Clarence takes George under his wing, so to speak, and begins to show him what in fact the World would be like had he never been born.
He takes him to unfamiliar places that George thought he knew. He shows him tombstones of his brother who died in a tragic accident all because George wasn't there to save him and tells of all the subsequent tragedies that followed. He takes him to see Mary, who dosn't even know George because he'd never been born. George slowly realises that whatever adversity life threw at him, it didn't compare to the vision of what the World would be like without his input. He begs Clarence to let him live again.
The ending is unashamedly schmaltzy. In a touching last sequence, we learn that Clarence finally got his wings and there's not a dry eye in the house to be found.
It's A Wonderful Life has to be THE greatest Christmas film of all time. It gets better with every viewing.
It's A Wonderful Life tells the story of one man's life and how everything we do affects so many other lives around us. In short, it preaches to us how precious life is but is played out in such a warm and sentimental way that it is easy to overlook the moral of the story and get lost in the heartwarming fantasy.
In one of the greatest cinematic roles ever created, James Stewart plays George Bailey, a banker in the sleepy town of Bedford Falls. His early life, in particular, the key moments that are to become relevant later in the film, is shown in flashback. His presense becomes more crucial to the townsfolk in later life as his good samaritan ways come to the fore. He marries his childhood sweetheart Mary ( Donna Reed ) and raises a family while all the time, relinquishing his lifelong ambition to travel in order to run the family savings and loan business.
Tragedy strikes when one Christmas Eve, a sum of money goes missing from the business coffers and George's life turns upside down. He decides that the World would be a better place for everyone if he had never been born and so decides to take his own life. However, waiting to intervene is the magical Henry Travers as angel in waiting Clarence, sent from the heavens to earn his wings by saving George Bailey. What follows is a brilliant piece of ingenious storytelling as Clarence takes George under his wing, so to speak, and begins to show him what in fact the World would be like had he never been born.
He takes him to unfamiliar places that George thought he knew. He shows him tombstones of his brother who died in a tragic accident all because George wasn't there to save him and tells of all the subsequent tragedies that followed. He takes him to see Mary, who dosn't even know George because he'd never been born. George slowly realises that whatever adversity life threw at him, it didn't compare to the vision of what the World would be like without his input. He begs Clarence to let him live again.
The ending is unashamedly schmaltzy. In a touching last sequence, we learn that Clarence finally got his wings and there's not a dry eye in the house to be found.
It's A Wonderful Life has to be THE greatest Christmas film of all time. It gets better with every viewing.
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