Jodie Foster on IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Jodie Foster discusses the classic holiday favorite IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and the George Bailey character. The film first screened on December 20, 1946, making 2011 the 65th Anniversary. The film ranks number 11 on AFI's Top 100 Films List.
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I have no idea what movie she is talking about. George Bailey spent the first 2/3 of the film helping people and sacrificing his dreams in order to continue helping others. The last 1/3 of the movie he is thrown into despair because circumstances beyond his control have left him believing he will destroy his family and disgrace himself in front of the whole town.
George Bailey was definitely frustrated in most of the movie. He did help others, but not by his own volition. His father’s “higher moral” influence always got the best of him.
He spends the first part of the movie saying, 'I don't want to live’- I hate people - Leave me alone? He tries desperately hard to escape his goodness? Did you watch an alternate version that we don't know about?
Lol indeed. I mean, I started recalling where George even hated himself before getting heckled for that missing $8000. He was not entirely satisfied of his life due to some of the reasons like not being able to go to college, not being able to be rich, etc. But he never mentions that he wants to die or not be born in the first place. That part comes soooo later into the movie when he is downright hopeless.
Very weird that I’m discovering this now! In 2011 around the time this video was posted, I was doing You Can’t Take It With You for my high school fall play. A year earlier my drama buddies did Its A Wonderful Life for our fall show. Can’t believe we did two Frank Capra classics two Decembers in a row! Wise words from Jodie by the way
Love this film and its message. Merry Christmas!
Beautiful!
Same!!
I could not agree more - with Jody Foster!!!!!!! George Bailey is someone that you cannot help but really like - even love - but he never gets the breaks that he is looking for - until he gives up - and realizes he has always had all the breaks that he wanted!!!!!
For the past +20 ears - I've watched this movie EVERY year - as a prelude to Christmas!!!!!!! Now - in my mind - the two are one!!!!!!!!! This is the best movie ever made!!!!!!!!!!
+Jeff Schwartz I agree
Ditto!
My favorite too. It's corny as hell and deeply profound
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What’s “corny” about it?
@@BlueShadow777 Uh, well....geez lots and lots about it...but it deep down it's dead serious. I think that's a big part of the magic of it: all these people, a lot of the humor and sentiment are really ordinary and corny, but then life is really like that. The good guy kind of hates it all--he's desperate to get away and he something and see something extraordinary--but then through a lot of trial he's made to see that common decency is what he's really about, and that he's truly great in that, and there's a lot of greatness in being an average, decent, stand-up guy. He had believed in a false God of money, power, and success, and it made him terribly unhappy, as it does a lot of us. The movie really shows us all the disappointments in George's life, he makes a lot of sacrifices for always doing the right thing for others. But it also shows us the tremendous pride of the man. He just can't let others down because that's just not what he's about. And in the end he's rewarded because he never let himself down either. He always stood up to evil. Potter is never punished, and that's how it usually goes. George will have to continue fighting him. But it's worth it. He's the type of hero we all can aspire to be. So, I like all the corniness because it's all so uncool, and George kinda always knows it's uncool. But all the cool glamorous stuff doesn't amount to much of anything. The movie is corny and painfully sincere, but it doesn't have a cheap and easy message. Goodness is it's own reward, and to remain good means you'll pass on a lot of opportunities. George does, again and again. I dont know it I explained myself well. I don't mean corny in a bad way. Most, maybe every, movies that are more sophisticated on the surface and are all cool and never corny don't get near the depth of this movie. It's a great American movie, maybe the greatest of all.
Man she did not get George he didnt hate people other that potter. His problem is feeling trapped by circumstances
I love this movie, but I love Jodie even more :)
0:08 - "He spends the whole first part of the movie saying I don't want to live, I hate people, leave me alone, I wish I'd never been born."
Could she have fit any more wrong information into that statement? I thought she was talking about Potter.
This isn't the first movie opinion of hers that I've heard that I completely disagree with, and I wonder about her reputation of being intelligent.
So beautifully said.
Completely wrong, but beautifully said
She gets the entire first part of this film completely wrong.
She needs to rewatch it
Weird....I thought she was talking about Hinckley.
Did she actually WATCH the film?
Jodie apparently got this movie confused with a couple of other movies and just mixed them up all together.
love jodie foster
Has she ever really seen this film??? She doesn’t know what she’s talking about. He doesn’t spend “the whole first part of the film” ‘hating people and not wanting to live’!!! Far from it. In fact, just the opposite! Foster has a totally warped impression of a film I’m doubtful she’s ever seen considering her totally incorrect synopsis.
Thank you. I was just going to say all that. =D
The movie it's a wonderful life is my most favorite movie of all.. but I got to give kudos to Jodie Foster,,
I have had a crush on her since I was a child when I first saw her in the bad News bears and The last House on the Left
She was in the bad news bears?
Don't believe she was in either of those movies.
She was very young in the movie "taxi driver" though
That was Tatum O'Neil in The Bad News Bears. Is that who you had the crush on? Also- Jodie got the synopsis of the movie wrong here.
This movie was not as blindly embraced when it came out. Audiences were not as receptive to societal messages directed toward others like "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" and "Get back underground, you Morlock" and "The nail that sticks its head up gets pounded down."
Please leave this Movie alone we don't have to remake everything 🤔😵💫????!!!!!!?!!!??
I rather see a trailer first then make my decision to watch or skip. Although when I was thinking It’s A Wonderful Life being remade, I thought of something a little different.
Well said, Jody!
She's obviously out of her f-ing mind..
Well said Jodi
Ms Foster hits it right on the head!
Ummm no she didn't -
The message, Jodie, is believe in God.
As usual , Jodie Foster speaks the Truth ...
At no point in the movie does he hate anyone except Potter, and it's not until the 3rd act does he say he wishes he'd never been born because things begin to fall apart. He spends most of the movie stressing the importance of helping people.