James Stewart classic Christmas gets the approval of Stephen Spielberg

In 2024, Stephen Spielberg included a list 20 his favorite films in all ages for Far out magazineAnd many of them are classic and uncomfortable, one may expect to include Spielberg. “Seven Samurai”, “Citizen Kane”, “Night For Night” and “A Space Odyssey” are all listed in the list, of course, although he also threw a few curves. James Gan “The Guardians of the Galaxy” It was mentioned, as was the 2011 Olivier movie and “The Intouchables”. He also chose Victor Fellang, a relatively mysterious in 1943, “A man named Joe” as one of the best ever, although these tracks; Spielberg reshaped the movie in 1989 as “Always”.

SPIELBERG No. 1 was ever, however, was a safe and reliable situation; It is very fond of Frank Capra’s Christmas Classic. It is a great life. But then, who does not like “it’s a wonderful life?”

Kabra’s classic story is likely to be known even for non -regions. The film was just reviewed when it was first released, as some critics complain of his arrogant feelings and the harsh play; He did not benefit from fears in the real world that the masses feel at that time. He came in the seventh place in the box office that year, but he lost a pile of money for its studio, RKO. He was nominated for six Awards in the Oscars, including the best image, the best actor, the best director, however She only won the technical Academy Award for her fake snow. The film was diluted by “The Best Years of Our Life”.

Because “wonderful life” was a bomb, which disappeared from the public eye for decades. It was not even started playing annually on the TV screens, “The movie has been rescued.” It is often considered one of the best films of all time – not only by Spielberg.

“It is a wonderful life” that was not deeply explored after it came out of the Oscars’ conversation in the late 1940s. Kabra continued to produce good films, but “wonderful life” was seen as the end of the line after a series of visits. The film went not edited for many years.

In 1974, the “wonderful life” passed in the public domain, and local television stations found that they could throw them for free, and decided to do this during the Christmas season. It became an easy tradition of Christmas for many TV stations, and the audience finally began linking it with it. The repeated restarts of the “wonderful life” on TV did not give her a new life, but she allowed her to explode in public awareness. Very soon, it has become a vital and necessary part of the Christmas season.

The film underwent a bold new re -application, and critics began to understand it to be one of the best films in its contract, if not at all. It was included by AFI as one of the 100 best ever, and was recruited in the National Film Registry in 1990.

The film became so familiar that its hypothesis was borrowed by films and comic series forever. He was frightened by “Saturday Night Live” in 1986, and Re -made by Tiny Toons In their 1992, “It’s a wonderful little birthday.” “Married … with the children,” she mocked him. HECK, choose a random TV series, and it is likely to have a “Wonderful Life” episode – that is, a story that allowed the hero to see a parallel world where they were never born. “It is a great life” has become legendary like Charles Dickens “Carroll Christmas.”

It is impressive to mention the story “It is a wonderful life”, given how popular it is, but doing my duty: “It is a wonderful life” that revolves around George Billy (James Stewart), a very decent man. When he was a child, he saved his brother from drowning, an act he left unable to hear one ear. The local pharmacist helped and prevent him from making a drug -related error. George inherited unintentionally, his father’s savings and loans and forced to operate it for years, despite many attempts to empty it and leave the small town of Bidford. His beloved Marie (Donna Reed) marries, but he still aims to escape.

After a large number of money was placed in a misplaced one by one of his colleagues in George, and the greedy cat in the city, Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore), rejects any kind of financial assistance, George runs to a bridge in the hope of getting rid of himself. While thinking about the self -fly, George faces an angel (!) Called Clarence (Henry Tarfars) telling him that life deserves to live. George, in your depression, explains to Clarence that just his presence is a burden on the world. Clarence proves that he is wrong by showing George a parallel world where he was never born. Everyone’s life is terrible in this world. George, apparently, is a vital piece of Bidford Fols. (The final parallel hierarchy sequences are amazingly small from the time of the film.) In the end, George returns to the house happy and just.

It is a sophisticated message, of course. We all have value. When we are exposed to depression, we have a dark imagination to photograph a happier world without us, and we suddenly lack imagination to imagine a better world because we are in it. But it is appropriate that Spielberg, who is often optimistic about a cinematic, is attracted to this story.