So much wrong with "It's a Wonderful Life" it's waiting for the snowflake patrol to ban the lewd Holiday classic.
Little did Frank Capra realize back in 1946 that his film about a man who finds the spirit of the Holidays in finding his self worth would 70+ years later be a target of the sensitive left.
Lets just review a small portion of this flick:
The main bad guy in the film Mr. Potter played brilliantly by Lionel Barrymore steals money that he knows doesn't belong to him...heck, he knows it belongs to the forgetful Peter Bailey. SHAME!!!! But...that's just the beginning. Lets move on to the child beating (George Bailey himself!) by Mr. Gower the Pharmacist....That brutality would get you in trouble and add his attempted drug-over-dose murder of some innocent customer as Gower was in a bad mental state.... wow!..
So we have that scene and Georges still a little boy trying to impress the town's two little girls, Mary and Violet, who both grow up 'hotties' (Pardon my opinion , hopefully I didn't offend you with it...) Violet show her premeditated future in her comment to Mary...
Mary: "Oh, You like ALL the boys..." Violet : "Why do I have to choose? "
" Would you like to?....Yeah I'd like to..." George Bailey speaking with Ernie the Taxi driver and Bert the Cop...
These two little girls do grow up in Bedford Falls and and Violet is a bit of a floozy. As she passes George, Ernie and Bert in a little flirt with George, Violet walks away missing out on the boys 'locker room talk' of Presidential proportions. More wow....just wow....
We have the pool scene with a couple of "bully episodes". First George tells Mary's date Freddie Othello (Yes he does have a name and he's played by Carl 'Alfalfa' Schwitzer of "Our Gang" fame!) getting told to stop being so annoying as George steals Mary away and then of course the retaliation by Freddie as he opens the pool to catch George as he Charleston's with Mary. Brutal!
Then it's onto Mary and George. George a bit of an older man is told by sweet mother to go visit Mary Hatch as she's back in town. George stops by and Mrs. Hatch is none to pleased by it. See, she is shopping her offspring to Sam Wainwright who's going to be 'successful' unlike that George Bailey....
'What's going on down there? ", inquires Mrs Hatch.
"It's George Bailey Mother, Mary says, "and he's making passionate love to me..." WHAT!
Is Mary now accusing the confused George Bailey of a rape! We're not even half way through the movie and the sensitive youth of today are tuning out....it's way too sexual and violent for them....
Well the movie touches on attempted suicide, Angels (religion) and drinking.Child abuse, spouse abuse and.....oh and in the alternative life Violets a hooker.(no surprise there...hey, she doesn't have to choose that way!)
So much 'WRONG" in this movie....a black house maid? That Housemaid is also the only black in Bedford Falls. George's forceful introduction to Mary at the library ? The abuse of Gower as an ex felon?
I'll stop now....there is more, but we've already offended way too many Snowfla...er 'Sensitive people' . Way to go Capra....