Pottersville looks fun as hell! At least, more fun than sleepy Bedford Falls, where the coolest thing you can do is throw rocks at a condemned house or sled into an icy pond and suffer lifelong hearing loss.Īdmit it, Clarence–Bedford Falls is better off without George Bailey. Potter, the immoral real estate mogul who stakes claim to the place, is obviously is a very shitty old coot, so it's sad to see him in power, but you just can’t deny the irony of the situation. Can you imagine? Jazz music! Not in my Christian street!īut over 60 years after the film was released back in 1946, Pottersville doesn't look quite so bad anymore. Without George Bailey, Bedford Falls becomes "Pottersville," a hive of sin and villainy, where sex workers roam the streets freely and the film's orchestral soundtrack is replaced with jazz music. The picturesque storefronts on the town's main road turn into a drag of "jitterbug" bars and billiards halls, there's flashing lights everywhere, and we even see advertisements for strip clubs. When George Bailey contemplates suicide and recedes into the Twilight Zone in It's A Wonderful Life, the old-fashioned American values of Bedford Falls go dark.
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