A Wonderful Life

“Strange isn’t it? Each man’s life touches therefore many other lives.” Clarence the angel says as he shows how George's friends made an impact on him. The movie It’s a Wonderful life displays Friends along the way guarantee success through George’s visit to the unsuccessful town of pottersville, George telling Mr. Gower about the capsules and when his friends come to save the bank. His friends showed him how successful they are together and what failures they are alone. Brave young Bailey, only twelve years old, heroically informs Mr. gower abou the capsules. He was working for him at the pharmacy, Mr. Gower had trained him how to do his job correctly. Mr. Gower was supportive of his job, such as any treasured friend would be. George noticed something strange about the capsules, he realized that there was some sort of poison in those pills. He screamed at the top his lungs to make sure Mr. Gower knew not to give those pills out. Mr. Gower praised George and squeezed him tight. George was surely successful that day because his friend Mr.Gower taught him about his job. He easily recognized something was wrong because Mr. Gower gave him the knowledge to know what was supposed to be inside the capsules. He knew what would make the pills poison if they were consumed.…

Picture a man, living on the threshold of suicide, believing he’s worth more dead than alive..”Your life has Purpose” means to have impacted someone or even changed certain places , and that’s exactly what George Bailey has done. The story “It’s a Wonderful Life displays “Your LIfe has Purpose” through George Bailey by preventing the death of his brother Harry Bailey, stopping Mr. Fowler from having the accidental poison in his medical pills from being sold, and preventing Mr. Potter from taking…

7th, at 7:30pm, I attended It’s A Wonderful Life, A Live Radio Play. Illinois State University’s adaptation of this classic film took place in the Center for the Performing Arts. The actors took the stage as members of a 1940s radio show, playing a multitude of characters depicted in the original film. Although vastly different from the cinema version, this adaptation was very successful due to the congruous 1940s costumes, the use of varied voices to portray numerous characters, and the…

The monologue I performed is from the movie It’s a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra (Capra). The focus of the movie is on a young man named George Bailey, who lives in the small town of Bedford Falls (Capra). George’s dream is to leave Bedford Falls and become a world traveler. The day before George is supposed to get on a train and start his world travels, his father suddenly dies. His father was the owner of the Bedford Falls Building and Loans, so George has to go to the board meeting…

the snow crunching beneath his wet boots. As he wipes them on the welcome mat, mom hands him a steaming cup of hot chocolate with three marshmallows smiling back up at the child with the puffy coat. He settles down next to the fire that was slowly dying, and noticed mom was searching for something. “Aha,”she exclaimed. In her hand there were two DVD cases, labeled: “It’s a Wonderful Life,” directed by Frank Capra, and “A Christmas Carol,” written by Charles Dickens. She placed a disc in the DVD…

learned that anyone and anything can and will impact your future. “It`s a Wonderful Life”, displays that anyone can impact your life and you can impact their`s as well whether good or bad through by showing us how George Bailey impacted the lives of the people who lived in Bedford Falls when he took over his dad`s bank business, caring about the people and not taking advantage of them. It was also shown that Mary impacted his life by giving him her love and support as well as four children.…

One possible reason is what Gould described in his essay “Wonderful Life”, an idea that he called contingency. He reasons that sometimes the development of these odd traits occur by chance, and in the case of the tardigrade, are the reason for their survival. Gould states in his essay “We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximal freedom to…

“Remember no man is a failure who has friends.” In the movie, It’s a Wonderful Life, the main character, George Bailey, learns how these words of wisdom apply to his life. George is in despair over losing his family business and is thinking about killing himself, but thanks to the faith of his family and friends his Guardian Angel reveals to him the value of his life. This causes him to understand that many people in town benefitted from his support. Realizing that love is the most important…

Life is is what you make of it, nothing more, nothing less. George Bailey feels like he hasn’t made the most of his life. However, he finds that he has touched so many of his peers when he goes into a world where he doesn’t exist. The short story version was written by Philip Van Doren Stern. He sent his story on the back of Christmas cards, however with the help of publishers it was on the back of newspapers. It was made into the present day holiday phenomenon known as It’s A Wonderful…

It’s a Wonderful Life is a well-known uplifting holiday classic that is impactful both in its emotional depth and traditional cinema excellence. Filmed and released in 1946, it is a black and white film that has meaningful themes on the importance of life, and the impact one individual can have on the world. Directed by Frank Capra, it is a critically-acclaimed film that won five Academy Awards, and has often been regarded as one of the best films of all time. It’s a Wonderful Life follows…