# 10: It’s a Wonderful Life
Why I watched It’s a Wonderful Life 16 times from 2003 to 2012.
I’ve now gotten into my top 10 most viewed movies, and it’s getting intense.
Also this is my 3000th tumblr post, so yay milestones!
I agree with everything you said about the movie, which is also in my all-time most-watched list (if I kept track of that, which I don’t, really). I find it interesting that you don’t really talk about the film’s style and tone, which to me is one of the most amazing things about it. It was so far ahead of its time in terms of the gritty realism of the heavier scenes. I’ve read that audiences of its day found it really off-putting, such that it flopped at the box office originally, and only became a huge hit decades later when modern audiences embraced it from all the TV airings it had.
The Gower scene that you mention, the last conversation George has with his father, the scene where George stops by Mary’s house and they share the phonecall with Sam; I could just keep listing them. They’re so dark, and so real. It’s scary how intense those scenes are.
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