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Friday, December 21, 2012

It's a Wonderful Life

Still here people. Why did we listen to a race easily wiped out by Europeans again?
Here's a theory:



    It's a Wonderful Life is one of the biggest Christmas Classics. Yet, it surprisingly has actually very little to do with Christmas. The third act takes place on Christmas Eve, but the first and second acts take place at different times throughout the year. But hey, we ignore that because of the ending! Plus it'd be rather odd to only explore his Christmases; he isn't a scrooge so he should have no problem with them.

    Before continuing forward: never remake this. Ever. If one day in the future we learn to make perfect recreations of humans on computer without making it look creepy, then you may redo the visuals. But keep the sound, unless you can make it sound exactly the same with higher quality.
     Or, more simply, leave it alone if you are not going to make it 100% the same. Yes it isn't perfect, yes there are one or two problems that could be fixed, but like the Rankin Bass specials, any attempt to remake it will end in tragedy for the studio. Do not mess with the classic.

Now, there won't be a plot summary, because I refuse to spoil anything for anyone who hasn't seen it, and those who has seen it won't need it.

Here are the few problems with it:

  1. The love interest's personality is too tied to George Bailey. She's human, she should have her own personality. Her humor implies a personality, but we don't get to see much of it.
  2. George Potter is a karma Houdini. We should at the very least get an epilogue where we get this scene relating to him:


That's really about it. Everything else is great. Go watch it is you haven't seen it. Go watch it again if you have. Oh, and people making Christmas movies, take note: not all Christmas movies need to target children.


This has been Fixer Sue. Tomorrow... Its... 



Not Monty python's flying circus, that's for sure.

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