It’s a Wonderful Life is the Most AUTHENTIC Christmas Movie
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- What is ‘Authenticity?’ I argue that the movie It's a Wonderful Life straddles two opposite poles of authenticity: on the one hand, it has the honesty to express the depths of bitterness, disappointment, and despair we might reach (thus making it one of the most relatable films of all time), while, on the other hand, it also shows us that our feelings about life might be wrong. Ultimately this films wants to show us what life really is: the authentic vs. the counterfeit.
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Archangelo Corelli, 12 Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 - Concerto no. 8 in G minor (Christmas Concerto)
Archangelo Corello, 12 Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 - Concerto no. 4 in D major - I. Adagio - Allegro
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Suite No.1 in D minor - II. Divertimento
P.I. Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.5 in E minor Op.64 - II. Andante cantabile
Symphony No. 6 In B Minor, Op. 74, 'Pathetique' - I. Adagio, Allegro Non TroppoSaint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 "Organ" - Finale
On the 10th day of Christmas, RUclips apparently decided to stop blocking my video... It may get removed again if Paramount decides it doesn't fall under fair use, but I wanted to release it anyway. Anyhoo, hope everyone had a great Christmas/New Year. I'm thankful for all the connections I was able to make with people around the world last year, even if it was something as small as a comment on a video. I'm thank for all of you, more than you'll know.
Cheers mate, belated happy Xmas, but happy New Year. Ho ho ho 😁
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Isn't the movie public domain it's so dumb they can copywriter strike it. The story it's self is copywriter though.
As another person described it, It's A Wonderful Life is not only the best Christmas movie, but maybe even the best movie ever made.
Blind since birth? That must be strange.
I only question "maybe even" in your statement.
nonsense
It's a magnificent film, a masterpiece but using "best movie ever made" - in terms of General Semantics, cheapens the whole art of film-making. What happens to Ford, Wyler, Wilder, Welles, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Coppola, Ozu, Lean, Powell-Pressburger, Reed, Lumet, Bergman, etc.
What's funny is that it wasn't a smash hit when it was released in theaters! It wasn't appreciated until they started airing it on TV.
From the moment when George yells, "MY MOUTH'S BLEEDING BERT!" through to the end credits I can't help but helplessly smile the whole time. George finally accepted that bad things have happened and that that's ok. Things will always get better in the end.
Also, "To my big brother George, the richest man in town." Is the single best tearjerker line in movie history.
I don’t get that things will always get better because they don’t. But my takeaway is that no life is insignificant. We all make an impact even when we feel our life has no meaning anymore. George changed the fate of everyone he touched. His light made the world a better place because of the true sacrifices he made
Same here, Auld Layne Sayne and Hark the Herald Angels Sing being played on the piano often make me tear up when I hear them
You're right, Harry's as-good-as-it-gets 12-word toast to his "big brother George" is one of the best lines in movie history -- a culmination of everything that George has experienced in his "what if I'd never been born" life, with Clarence as his traveling companion and guide. But did you know this line is not included in the American Film Institute's 100 Greatest Movie Quotes of All Time? Always makes me wonder about the real reasons those "100 Quotes" were selected. And maybe for similar reasons, in the 10th anniversary update of AFI's Greatest Movies of All Time (2007), "It's a Wonderful Life" was dropped from #11 to #20.
Even this analysis is a tearjerker.
The RIGHT WORD. And suitable for masses of people having sunk into a coma. Well.today...governments have taken over this function.after having discovered!
Even here in Germany we watch this movie every Christmas with the whole family.
Every visitor who happens to come by is dragged in front of the TV set and has to wait until the movie is finished.
Many watch it every Christmas from then on. ^^
Wholesome. It represents in my mind what the season should be about: Community, family, friendship, self-sacrifice.
Frohe Neujahrsgrüße aus Texas!
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Your still the most underrated channel on RUclips. Please never stop doing these fantastic videos.
1000% agree
Despite the volume of RUclips I watch, I rarely comment or otherwise interact with the channels/videos I watch. I felt moved to make an exception in this instance. Your channel has quickly become one of my favorites on this platform. I have a passion for both cinema and philosophy but am also the only person I know who studies or appreciates either subject to the same extent. Your content is interesting, thought provoking, motivational, challenging, comforting, and makes this faceless profiles owner honestly feel less alone. I love your channel and just wanted to sincerely say, thank you. All of your hard work means a great deal to myself and I'm sure many others.
You’re welcome! I’m they same way: I don’t usually engage on RUclips, so I very much appreciate you taking the time to say these things. I need to hear it. Every word is strengthening.
You've encouraged me, the least I could do is return the favor in some small way! These topics, thoughts, and concepts are so vital to understanding and appreciating this life of ours. They often seem lofty of intimidating causing many to avoid them all together. You do truly perform a service to your fellow man by breaking these ideas down and making them more easily understood while still challenging the viewer to then consider and implement them personally. I'm usually not one to heap praise on another but I really do appreciate you and your channel.
After thirty odd years and five kids I finally sat down and watched this movie and my god, absolute perfection. Really enjoyed this, keep up the great work
The bright side is excellent,but...the other one? A tearjerker of the best sort.And...we're not waiting for all kinds of sentimental stuff!This movie luckily has been superseeded.Hence...no remake!
I rarely comment on videos, but man... that felt like a great late christmas gift. It's a Wonderful Life already had a special place in my heart. I will treasure it even more now. Thank you and be blessed.
I still live in the city where I was born, realizing that wherever I was to go, I would still have the same problems.
One of the sacrifices I made by doing the right thing for someone else was to give up my love for a woman and set her free for her own preservation.
I also was a caregiver for my Mother for over 20 years.
I am gratified because I served others. Now, I am turning 70, with all the time and money that is beyond anything I would have thought possible.
Watching this every year is a holiday highlight.
*Merry Christmas ya’ old Building and Loan!!!*
This is my favourite quote too! Love saying it.
You're not doing a bad job of touching 35,000 lives in a distinctly benevolent way; thanks and happy new year.
We all go through the dark night of the soul. Mine took place in the early 90’s. As dark as it was i still got up the next day and kept going given the circumstances. I’m so blessed and I would not change a thing……
I don’t come to RUclips to get into the Christmas spirit, but wow did this ring in the season for me. I’m crying over here! Thank you for this wonderful video!
We read the script as a drama unit and watched the movie. I felt like George because I wanted to get out of teaching and pursue my own passions. By the end of the movie I was sobbing like a baby. This movie examines interconnections and the bonds we form with people like no other. It's one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen. It also made me more grateful to be in my students' lives.
Just getting around to this one. I can't watch more than 2 videos of yours in one sitting and I tend to wait a week or so between viewings. I need time to thoughtfully enjoy them. They are like a culinary masterpiece. It isn't right to eat those every night, but they are the meals I'll remember. This video in particular struck me.
Yesterday I was meeting with a trauma survivor I've been working with for over 2 years. Having all value and meaning destroyed by her care givers in the most horrific ways throughout childhood, she was steeped in addiction when I met her - coping by numbing. Early in her healing journey, there were times when she called me contemplating suicide. I have been trained in those moments to remind people of the value I have seen in their lives. To speak back to them their triumphs and the unique gifts I've seen in them. I remember telling her on one call that her existence was like a masterpiece painting, one that many people had tried to destroy. But just because it was marred, didn't mean it ceased to be a masterpiece. And there was a master at restoration who was beginning the arduous work of bringing the painting back to it's original glory. She had a choice to end it all, but she had to know that 1. she didn't know what tomorrow would bring (what new healing or understanding) and 2. she would be depriving the world of the masterpiece she was created to be. I never realized the similarities to what Clarence does. In a weary time in my life, this is a reminder to keep fighting the good fight. Your commentary on bitterness, motivations, duty, perspective, and presence could all merit replies as long as this one. Just know that your work continually points me back to the truth and to the one who is Truth. Thank you.
God bless you, whoever you are. You have a poet's heart.
It's interesting how we never see Potter return the money (that was not his).
You've made a lot of great points in this!
This movie means a lot to me. I rewatch it whenever I'm feeling extra down about life, and it always gives me this new hope.
I would be lying if I did not admit that I was very touched by your video. It probably is your best one yet. Thank you for sharing your presence here on YT with us.
Thanks for the thoughtful review, I had not noticed how dark of a story is presented in the movie. Thanks from bringing that out, it is definitely a reason why the movie touches you so much. Not just nostalgia, but an authentic story!
Happy new year
This is an insanely good analysis of one of the best films ever made. I'm a fan.
One of the Greatest Movies of All Time, works on so many levels.
Its funny (very funny at tumes), dark (very dark at times), emotional, thoughtful and truly uplifting.
Just discovered your channel, from your Barry Lyndon video, great stuff, and enjoyed this one hugely too... subscribed.
This is legit. I feel like Capra would have enjoyed your analysis. I know I sure did.
Again, your so spot on it's not funny! Well done sir well done. That move make me cry thinking of it. Now it will make me emotional for thinking of another perspective. Thanks
This is a beautiful video, but the cherry on the sundae is the phrase "Motzartian frivolity." CHEF'S KISS
Wow. Wow. Wow! Thank you so much for this video. This is a fantastic overview of the themes and morals of this film, lots of good solid references! Love it. Definitely sharing!
One more little reference I thought of while listening to this is one from Dickens' The Chimes (a story that has a lot in common with this one actually, not so much that Toby "Trotty" Veck was never born, but what might happen if others listen to the advice of others, and if Toby believes their postulation that "the poor have no right to exist." )
At the end of the story Dickens says this:
Had Trotty dreamed? Or, are his joys and sorrows, and the actors in them, but a dream; himself a dream; the teller of this tale a dreamer, waking but now? If it be so, O listener, dear to him in all his visions, try to bear in mind the stern realities from which these shadows come; and in your sphere-none is too wide, and none too limited for such an end-endeavour to correct, improve, and soften them. So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you! So may each year be happier than the last, and not the meanest of our brethren or sisterhood debarred their rightful share, in what our Great Creator formed them to enjoy."
This movie even works (maybe even more so) as a Thanksgiving movie, because it makes you realize what you're really thankful for, what really matters.
This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever watched. You’ve got a real talent at this. Can’t wait to go watch the movie.
Keep up the good work! Your videos are easily in the top 1% of all RUclips content.
I enjoyed your reflection on this film. I don’t enjoy watching it. It’s too grim for me. But my husband loved it, and your comments may prompt me to rewatch it. Thanks too for using the Saint Saens Organ Symphony. It’s over the top, but I like it!
so much WOW!! That conclusion was both challenging and encouraging! So powerful. I know this video is 2 years old, but I just discovered it. I was looking at other video essays on this film BECAUSE I didn't see the film this year. I usually watch it every year and just didn't this year. I've seen it dozens of times and caught new details every time, BUT your essay made me see it in a whole new light AND made me see my own life in a different light too. It's a slow snowy Saturday, so I'm going to rewatch your video (check) and then watch it's a wonderful life!
“Sometimes to do what’s right we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most, even our dreams” - Aunt May, Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Fantastic essay and a great message.
I appreciate all of your videos. But this one's got to be one of the best. Cheers.
Going to share this with all. God bless and thank you for showing me that my little town might just be worth it. time to go back again.
What a wonderful look at the philosophy of this film!
"It's A Wonderful Life" is, and long has been, my favorite movie ever. And I love that you ended with the finale from Saint-Saen's "Organ Symphony"!
The Bells of St Mary’s is displayed in my 2 favorite movies-The Godfather & It’s a Wonderful Life. Thank you for this
I love your analysis! Your channel rocks.❤🎄
Your clips are exemplary. You deserve wider views. Thank you 🙏 for doing this. I hope you continue to bless us with more of them in 2023. Health & happiness in 2023 🎉❤
This movie plays on NBC every time just as me and my family get home from Christmas Eve mass and it’s a tradition for me to watch it every year.
There is a crucial spiritual mechanism at work in this film which rarely is spoken about, probably because it is so obvous; it is the principle that many of us were taught as children, or that we have heard, cynically, as adults, and that is:
"AS YOU SOW, THUS SHALL YOU REAP...."
Is this at the very heart of the film?
Your videos are a gift. I cherish each of them. Thank you
Yes it's back! Live long to fight another day against the RUclips copyright system, Empire of the Mind. 🤗
That was really good. You unlocked so much depth to this film. Thank you.
Thanks for this...I hope you had a Merry Christmas and I hope you have a happy, prosperous New Year!!
What A wonderful analysis, feeling better. thx
The duality of man. George and Potter exist parallel to one another. Capra also was able to sneak the fact that Potter is never punished for his behavior past the ethics code. Films back then required the villain be punished.
This was beautiful. You sir, earned a subscription.
I cry every time I watch this damn movie..l
It's a wonderful video you've made. Deepens one's sense of this great movie, thanks.
how does this video not have more views?!
Exceptional analysis. More please.
I have just found this channel and I am absolutely baffled by how low the views are. The story telling, explanation, and above all else, the narration are professional. I hope to see those channel grow in the near future.
Thank you for this video. It made me think and I needed it.
This video had me tearing up several times the way you were explaining the themes, ur such an absolutely underrated channel, I’ve never even seen this movie, yet heard of it plenty, and man what a message this film seems to have. Though I admittedly find the ending of your video a bit of a downer cuz a lot of us don’t have the privilege of a ‘hometown’ or a decent family. I moved all the time as a kid, and in that time I was so far away from my ‘homecountry’ that now i live there again i dont fit in at all and resent it. I’m not trying to say that ur ending is bad per se its just I get the sense this movie appeals not to a small town or the conclusion you made about not being too concerned with going away on travels (because I think thats a genuine part of life exploring and taking risks and its good). I think it appeals more simply to your friends and acquaintances, wherever you may make them, although again i think a lot of us wish we have friends that we have such an impact on.
Incompressible that this channel doesn't have millions of subscribers
Thank you for your thoughts. Very enlightening. You have opened up this movie, which I love, to ideas I hadn’t completely noticed before.
Excellent!!! Thank you.
Thank you sir. You’re welcome!
Wow! Watched it again and it was so worth it to be reminded of all the wisdom! Absolutely fantastic video! Filled with knowledge depth and spirit! God bless you!
excellent!!!!!! am sharing w/ everyone i know -- right now, we have to deal w/ life and death in ways unimaginable just a few years ago, and we question our value, our worth... our purpose. this brings it home! thank you soooooo much for posting this! and thank God someone put this on my youtube feed so i could watch it!!!!!
It's basically a twist on "A Christmas Carol".
in spite of it's wrong depiction of angels, I love this movie. This was a fascinating video and I see the film in a slightly different light now.
excellent work as always
Jimmy Stewart was a Bomber Pilot in WW2. He was removed from Flying after he was labeled as "Flak Happy" or what we call today PTSD. He stayed in the Air Force reserves being promoted to General in 1959. How ever in 1946, after the war ended he was suffering from PTSD, having nightmares, not eating and having flashback to bomber missions where a lot of men got killed. Many of the actors on the set will tell you when George Baily is on the verge of a total collapse, Stewart was not acting.
This is an extraordinarily good exploration of the meaning of "It's A Wonderful Life". And thanks for the reminder, of its themes. +JMJ+
I love this movie. I only watch it at Christmas, no other time is allowed. With that, the whole freaking town destroyed his life. He was going to take the fall for his Uncle’s mess up😢!!! They NEEDED him.
Its A Wonderful Life is possibly the greatest, most important Christmas movie and Christian movie in general this side of The Passion.
Well done indeed, sir.
Our world needs more stories like it’s a wonderful life to look to as an ideal. Sure it’s not realistic and how every single situation plays out but it at least gives us something to strive for instead of pessimism and nihilism.
What a great video! Thank you for creating and posting!
Some of your points I was able to see on my own before. But you made it even more interesting as you added to it. Great job. I am better having watched and look forward to seeing the film again
WOW! Thank you so much for this video: you made me cry. I very much am like George Bailey. My dreams lead me to bitterness, not success and freedom. I did cry a little bit.
One of your best videos to date
Well said and thanks for this😊
When I get to Heaven I want to thank Frank Capra for making this movie. Yes, I know there will be a line.
Excellent video, sir. I’d love to own a copy of this. I love how you put to words how I feel about this great film.
This was brilliant. Reminds me of a favorite title which I early in my life I came to appreciate:
Whenever I’m trying to explain eucatastrophe to people, I bring up the end of this movie. What’s sad is that most of them have never seen it, so I have to hunt about for a lesser example.
Yeah that's the key the Good gets punishment.
Trivia: 1) the scene inwhich James is crying at the bar, was out of focus. Capra asked James to do it again but he said, "i can't" Capra stayed up all night to fix it 2) in 1946 it was a financial bomb
Brilliant!
Very well done. 😊
You got a sub for mentioning Chesterton
I've been wrestling with my meaning, my purpose. Lately I've been realising that George Bailey had been my role model for much of my life. My community and my family are what matters. I may not go to some big city and be a big time filmmaker, but I can stay and help the people that I care for and that care about me.
This is what matters. Merry Christmas, everybody.
Up until 17 minutes into the video I was intrigued. Until that point the discussion of the psychological issues which the film presented was compelling.
Then the video shifted to George being the same as Potter. And Lincoln was the same as Napoleon.
I am well aware of this line of argument from my philosophy classes. Fortunately one professor I had did not agree with the cherry picking to create only similarities between any horrific human with any moral person. Instead the professor went the other direction and picked extreme differences between individuals to show how all people were not the same.
- With that understanding in mind, in the film, George is not the same as Potter. Yes there are similarities. But those set up their important contrasts.
And using this same method, while Napoleon & Lincoln had the similarities of many leaders involved in war, they were not the same in some very basic ways.
* Anyway, this channel remains thought provoking & I am glad I am subscribed to it.
A fabulous effort once again, always captivating and interesting to watch/listen. Brilliant work and all the best for 2022 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Bloom where you are planted.
This movie has always horrified me because the truth is that despairing people ready to commit suicide are not saved by supernatural means. In real life, without Clarence around to give him a life-changing perspective, George would have jumped in the river while Mary and his friends were out collecting money. This kind of tragedy happens to all-too-many families. It happened to mine.
Bravissimo!! 👏
Beautiful video
The depiction of angels as heavenly bodies is pretty historically sound too. In the Bible and in other Near Eastern tradition the "heavenly host" is often depicted pretty literally.
Now that’s what I call BARS
The big question is why tf did Mary go away to college?
She clearly was ok w just staying in her hometown...
What was her major?
She's beautiful, smart, college educated and...a stay at home Mom with a husband who at best is not there emotionally, at worst really abusive... verbally anyway
To teach her son how to spell frankincense, and in order not to be an ignorant wife & mother and therefore contribute to her loved ones and to the community. No man is a failure, and no woman is a failure either.
Small, daily acts of sacrificial love will save the world if we pay attention to them.
I see so many Similarities between Spiderman and it’s a wonderful life. I know that sounds foolish at first but to the core they hold the same values. George Bailey has great power in the town of Bedford falls and therefore holds great responsibility for the town of Bedford falls. The selflessness between the two characters how they put everyone else before them then both struggle in their own personal lives and achievements. I would love to see a crossover spiderman comic about this. “Peter Parker webs the moon.”
One big difference between Mr. Potter and George Bailey. George has Treasure in Heaven. Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. We all have Guardian angels.
Great video. George had a Wonderful life because he never thinks about himself...and happiness comes from serving others..not from being selfish and doing what you want. Everybody loves George because George loves everyone. Lack of all these lessons is what has happened to our country.
It’s a Wonderful Life….. the film hated the most by Objectivitsts.
What’s a great analysis for a great film
Profound!