American History as Seen Through It’s a Wonderful Life. The movie was not written as a history lesson, but due to its age and scope, it deserves a deeper look into its contemporary historical references.
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"Christmas Time Is Here" Is the Best Christmas Song Because It’s the Most Depressing Christmas Song.
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Millipede Nearly Nine Feet Long Discovered. Calm down, it's a fossil. (via Damn Interesting)
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Dogs usually like things that smell awful, but this is a step too far.
A blast from the past (2017): 8 Legendary Monsters of Christmas.
There seems to be a disconnect between the title and actual article on Christmas Time is Here. "Most depressing"? I think not.
ReplyDeleteTraditionally, I'd go with I'll Be Home For Christmas as the winner here. After that, Band Aid's Do They Know it's Christmas? or the Kinks' Father Christmas certainly fit.
Ragging on It’s a Wonderful Life as history is silly. It reflected the times otherwise people couldn’t have connected with it. The Black woman only got 2 minutes screen time? The movie was not about her it’s was about Bailey and a small town. There still is a hell of a lot of small towns with no Black people, no Asians, no Latinos.
ReplyDeleteIt would kind of blow the deal if the angel showed George his widow doing quite well without him. Duh. I know two women who lost their husbands in the last two years, one a stay at home Mom and the other a outspoken helicopter parent and feminist. Both fell apart because he had handled everything from cars upkeep to checkbook and tax stuff.
Like it or not the movie shows what was, learn from it, change things that it shows are distasteful, but don’t criticize the film and who made it because you find history isn’t to your liking.
Why am I so wound up over this? Because I keep seeing this over and over, movies, song lyrics, plays, literature, everybody wants to criticize the past but don’t want to do anything to improve the present/future.
A different world can’t be built by indifferent people.
Let me just move my soapbox here so nobody trips over it.
You're sending mixed messages here Bruce. The author is not ragging on his all-time favorite film - doesn't make sense. His closing argument is the same as yours. Pretty accurate breakdown of the film from a historical perspective, which is what the article title promises. No wokeness here.
ReplyDeleteHow come there are not Inuit people cast in "Out of Africa"?
ReplyDeleteI tried not to but ...
ReplyDeleteA millipede that has 9 feet ?
A millipede that is a as long as a car (because using an accepted measurement method is too vague ?
And then ... using the word that means a measuring machine instead of one that refers to the internationally standard unit of length ... just because 'you' don't like the way the whole world except the USA spells a word doesn't mean you can change the spelling and hence, the meaning.
I won't even bother with their claim it costs £50.
Censor me if you want, lol.
Manchin.
ReplyDeleteWeird how an entire political party can have every member vote the same way.
Its almost as if you are not electing a person to represent you, you are voting for a regime to do so.
You'd think one person in the ... what is it called ... The Red Party ? .. you'd think one person in that party would have the conscience to vote for themselves.
And if the rules are you vote how your party demands, this guy Manchin must now be removed as a turncoat !
At least, somebody should check his bank account deposits.
Someone here appears to be inebriated by the exuberance of their own verbosity.
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ReplyDeleteYes he claims it's his favorite movie and extols how wonderful it is but the majority of the article is not him but other peoples opinions. Each of those people criticizing the movie for not being a damn documentary, not giving an accurate picture of what reality was in their favorite whipping boy category.. Sure, Capra touches on historical events when they can be used to move the story along, but the film is not to tell the detailed account of those events. Bulletin, Harold Lloyd hanging off a clock face is not reality, it's entertainment.
If Capra had made it a documentary we wouldn't know if it was accurate because nobody but a few eggheads would have seen it and it would be lost to history by now. Most people see films for entertainment not to learn history.
Hey Baby how about a little kissy face? Not now I contemplating some cultural points of the film. LoL
Now you damn whippersnappers get off my lawn.