I offer the same objection to this @CaitlinPacific take on Rudolph. It works as a Christmas story *because* it is a dark story with a redemptive ending, just like Wonderful Life and Christmas Carol and the Grinch.https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/rankin-bass-rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer/616932/ …
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always wanted to open a bar called Pottersville
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That might be just be a little too dark and on the nose.
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A Christmas story is about a child nearly shooting his eye out with a gun his mom told him not to get.
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I would like to see a reboot from the wife's perspective because she's also clearly about to lose it. Her husband is suicidal, his business is bankrupt, she's managing a big family living in an old house, and her kids are sick.
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Better put a trigger warning out to these kiddos before they watch Inside Out and learn that "joy" isn't the only emotion.
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It's remembered as happy because it has an exuberantly happy ending, which is only possible because it plumbs the depths before the redemption occurs. The last 10 minutes of the movie are some of the most beautiful and joyous cinema ever put to the screen.
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Yep, he’d seen some serious stuff.
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I think Stewart said himself (pararaphrase) that Frank Capra made you pay for your happy endings
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