George Bailey Was Never BornGeorge Bailey Was Never Born, a one-of-a-kind podcast experience, takes a definitive look at It’s a Wonderful Life, one of the most popular movies of all time, the story of Americans’ decades-long love affair with this cultural institution and how it may offer a light down the path we walk today, all 10 episodes available Nov 21, 2023. Created by Kurt Engfehr, the editor-producer of Oscar- and Palme d’Or-winning documentaries, and Ray Nowosielski, 2022 NAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Podcast, the series is a co-production of iHeartMedia and Double Asterisk, in association with True Stories. Narrated by a familiar angel, he takes listeners back and forth between the part of the multiverse where the events of Wonderful Life really happened and our own, one where George Bailey was never born! SaveGeorgeBailey.com
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So it would be on twenty or thirty times, like per day, on every channel.
You watch it every year.
Realizing that this movie that had become kind of a punchline because of its omnipresence was actually really good.
It moves you.
Every time my father cried, I had never seen my father cry before.
I just remember having this very warm feeling about everything about it.
George Bay, I'll love you a I die.
Yes, It's a Wonderful Life is one of the most popular movies ever, but it runs much deeper than you ever thought. If you were to ask the random person, is this a subversive movie, They're going to look at your cross eye.
I mean, of course not.
With regard to the picture It's a Wonderful Life. Federal Bureau of Investigation stated in substance that the film represented a rather obvious attempt bankers.
You sit around here and you spend your little webs, and you think the whole world revolved around you and your money. Well it does with mister Potter.
By choosing Dad to be George Bailey, Caprith must have intended to convey a certain type The movie means different things at different times, like in these troubled times in this country.
Could a Christmas movie from the nineteen forties be the answer to the questions your world is asking now?
Potter is quite clearly somebody who is narcissistic. You will find a lot of functioning psychopath in very senior positions multinational corporations, banks.
Privacy District Attorney Wendell Damison from the New York Times.
Here the Bedford Falls Police Department would have filed larceny charges against George Bailey.
Misappropriation of fun well.
Peasant, and then George Bailey goes off on this left wing rant Alexandria Kazakh Cortes's talking points.
Does rabble you're talking about? They do more for the working and paying and living and dying in this community? Well, is it too much to have them work and paying, live and dyeing a couple of decent rooms on a bath.
I think his idea that it was time to write about democracy was tied into his ideas about abolitionism, about anti fascism.
The failure of It's a Wonderful life is so devastating for him, and then through some kind of negligence it slips, I guess into the public domain, the audience votes, it becomes this feena.
I'm shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I'm going to see the world.
And the powers that be in the industry say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. Now let's make some money off this film.
People need this movie in this world where there's a lot of hopelessness.
That the George Baileys of the world are going to triumph over the hyper capitalists. She is a complete croc Potter one, not George Bailey.
Yeahs if you made me.
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