[net.movies] It"s a Wonderful Life

lsk (12/17/82)

That movie is one of my all time classics, I , too , could watch it
once a day, and I'd cry each time, too!!!
Larry S. Kaufman, WECo, NSC, Lisle, Il

heliotis (12/20/82)

I just saw "It's a Wonderful Life" for the first time, here on my public
television station.  I guess it was entertaining, a rather complete story,
and I certainly felt for the protagonist.  However, I also had feelings of
how it was yet another attempt to rip off Dickens's "A Christmas Carol";
I got the feeling they figured that people could 'relate to' this story
better than the old one.  Sorry, I shouldn't say "rip off", that's too
severe -- Dickens's book certainly heavily inspired the author of this
story.  The other negative feeling I had to the story was that the average
Joe on the street, no matter how good a person he/she is, does not have that
much of an impact on Society in the large -- if he's lucky, he enriches
the lives of a bunch of people who are close to him.  And, how do they
show the difference in Bedford Hills (is that a REAL town in the Buffalo -
Rochester - Elmira area?)?  They show that, instead of its being the
"good" town of stereotypical middle-class WASP's, it instead shows all
the classic appearances of American "badness": loose women, drinking
establishments, porno-movie houses, and everyone is nasssty!  Come on,
give me a break!

However, in the end, I got a positive impression from the movie because
of the message Clarence the Angel (is that his name?) left us in the
book.

But as for holiday tradition, I'll stick with that old English movie
version of "A Christmas Carol".

             :-O    oh-noooooooo!

					Jim Heliotis

lsk (12/21/82)

Regarding Jim H.'s remarks on 'It's a Wonderful Life' -- I have the typical
net.landers reaction to someone who attacks one of my most favorite movies
in the world. The man is obviously a Pinko, Commie.