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Hot Property. Times Events. Slowly, both George and the audience realize how his actions affected so many people in his past. Without him, Bedford Falls is run by Mr. Potter, and its residents are miserable. His brother died as a child, his wife works as a lonely librarian, Mr. Gower George's boss from the drugstore is in prison for manslaughter, and many of the people that George would have helped are either dead or living terrible lives.

George recognizes every person he encounters, but no one recognizes him. George realizes that his life means something and begs Clarence to bring him back. After running from the police and returning to the bridge, the world becomes correct again. George then happily greets everyone that he encounters, loudly screaming "Merry Christmas! He returns to his family, greeting them more enthusiastically than ever before, and learns that Uncle Billy and Mary have raised enough from the townsfolk who we realize ALL love Mr.

He then reads the heartwarming note left behind by Clarence, which reads "Remember no man is a failure who has friends. This film still holds up as one of the greatest films ever created due to its resonant themes that still apply to our lives today and will always apply to our lives in the future.

It reminds its viewers that every life, big or small, is worth something to the people that it touches. It also brings forward many, many tears, tears that I am not afraid to admit that I shed.

On top of this, It's a Wonderful Life is funny, well-acted, well-scripted, and provides more than a few memorable scenes and quotable snippets of dialogue. It is also a very well-structured film, effectively utilizing its long set-up to make its audience care about its protagonist and his life.

With memorable characters, a heartwarming story, and themes that are essential for every adult to comprehend, this film proves itself as one of the most important masterpieces of cinema. It's a Wonderful Life is fantastic, and it easily gets 5 out of 5 stars. Paul F Super Reviewer. Jun 16, It's a Wonderful Life is not particularly complex, deep or stylistically marvelous.

None of that is a criticism of the film it is, in fact, the very reason why this movie is so brilliant. I struggled for sometime to write a review of this film. I tried to pick apart the elements and pieces of the movie to find why it worked, and it does, but could never really place why. I started by assessed some of the usual parts of a film.

Is the filmography great, fantastic or memorable? Not particularly, but it is certainly strong in a number of places. Usage of shadowing for mood changes and to emphasize the nature of the characters is tastefully done.

I will add, please watch the black and white original, the color version does not do this movie justice and many elements are lost. Acting is the next major area to investigate. The answer again, strong, and well tailored to the film, but not stand out. James Stewart did a good job, but I would not rave about it. The setting is all solid, apple pie america, but not provocative or engrossing.

Mr Potter, a passable villain. The mystery remained though. I cannot help but describe this film as anything other than a simply great movie. I think, perhaps, the simplicity is indeed the magic of this film. The message is profound, albeit sort of obvious, that what really matters is love and humanity for one another. The trick is in telling this sort of tale without resort to cheap ploys or weak story telling. It struck me that this is a truly accessible film in every way.

The film has a quality of production, but it is not too flashy. There is a whimsical childlike approach to all of it, but it is not a kids movie. The love story is innocent and light, but not cheap or hallow. The villain is unlikable, but not a focal study in evil. Its not so much that you want to believe in the film's message to embrace idealism in a grand gesture, but you instead feel that warm sense of humanity for just a little bit.

Given the subject of the film, that might be all that is really possible with this theme. Maybe it is fitting that such a universal message is so well captured in such a universally accessible movie. Shane S Super Reviewer. Dec 24, The best Christmas film ever.

Ian W Super Reviewer. Oct 09, A feel good American classic of the s that will pierce even the most cynical modern moviegoer's heart.

The lasting impact of the film is due more to its darkness than its soap, and the measure of both played against each other is in just the right amount that the film is nothing like a Hallmark card. This is the kind of movie that will make you strive a little harder towards being a nicer to your fellow man.

Paris S Super Reviewer. See all Audience reviews. There are no approved quotes yet for this movie. Best Horror Movies. Worst Superhero Movies. Capra—who trained as an engineer—and special effects supervisor Russell Shearman engineered a new type of artificial snow for the film.

At the time, painted cornflakes were the most common form of fake snow, but they posed a bit of an audio problem for Capra. So he and Shearman opted to mix foamite the stuff you find in fire extinguishers with sugar and water to create a less noisy option.

This, according to these sources, is a common trick used by Communists. I was not present at the naming, but I was always positive [the rumor] was incorrect. Despite his many talents, Jim had no memory for details like this. He knew the movie, of course, but would not have remembered the cop and the cab driver. They decided that one of them looked like an Ernie, and the other one looked like a Bert. The movie character names are purely coincidental.

Sure, not an epic financial and critical failure on par with "Ishtar," "Gigli" or "Santa Claus: The Movie" but a disappointment nonetheless. And get this: Out of the films released in it was technically released on Dec. In the years following its release, "It's a Wonderful Life" fell somewhat into obscurity only to re-emerge on the scene and receive some serious loving during the s and '80s when it began appearing — somewhat relentlessly — on television during the holiday season.

In , the nearly year-old film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress. In name, the fictional burg of Bedford Falls is popularly thought to be a combination of Bedford Hills, a hamlet within the chichi Westchester County, New York, town of Bedford home to Martha Stewart and a host of other high rollers that don't quite share the proletarian woes of George Bailey and Seneca Falls, a more working-class village in New York's Fingers Lakes region near Rochester.

The tourism bureau of Seneca Falls is banking on the fact that they're the real deal. In fact, Seneca Falls has an entire website, The Real Bedford Falls , dedicated to pointing out the numerous similitudes between the two towns. The evidence is convincing enough despite road signs in the film pointing to Katonah and Chappaqua which are both in Westchester County in or near the town of Bedford : Frank Capra reportedly visited Seneca Falls in although no solid proof of this exists; the film references nearby cities like Elmira, Rochester and Buffalo; both are mill towns; and both sport large Italian populations and an abundance of Victorian homes.

Visitors can book a room at the Hotel Clarence, a recently restored boutique hotel named after, of course, George Bailey's guardian angel. Now that we've established that the town of Bedford Falls was not filmed on location in some sleepy upstate New York burg during the winter but on a massive studio backlot in the San Fernando Valley during the middle of the summer, you're probably wondering how Frank Capra made his fictional town look so darned wintry — fake snow and lots of it.

And this wasn't your run-of-the-mill fake snow. Prior to "It's a Wonderful Life," most productions used cornflakes painted white to simulate snowflakes but, as you can imagine, this was a rather loud way to go about it and the dialogue during snowy scenes was usually dubbed in during post-production due to actors stepping on crunchy snowflakes.

Capra insisted on recording the sound live during the film's snow-filled scenes so a new, less disruptive snow made from water, soap and a fire-fighting chemical called Foamite was invented and pumped through a wind machine.