Only Murders in the Building 403

2024-09-13 - Friday - 03:27 AM - Only Murders in the Building 403

Trying to find the murderer. Actors follow them and help them. This was interesting to see the three stars interact with the three actors who are to play them in a movie. So, we see the dynamics of each pair. I enjoyed this episode. I enjoyed the back and forth from each of the pairs. It was interesting. The end had a voice from like a ham radio saying stop or else you're next as in we will kill you if you get too close like Hillary Clinton two bullets in the back of the head call it a suicide kind of thing.

Wonderful Life

2024-09-13 - Friday - 06:00 PM - 07:50 PM - It's a Wonderful Life, Movie

Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946), an RKO Radio Release, is still enjoyable today. Starring James Stewart (George Bailey), Donna Reed (Mary). Based on a story by Philip Van Doren Stern. Story takes place in Bedford Falls. Movie starts and ends with a Liberty Bell or something like that, Liberty Films. It's basically like A Christmas Carol with a ghost showing the rich man his past, present, and future kind of thing except with this it was what if you were never born. The movie gives an outline of his life. He graduated in 1925 from high school. He went out on a date with a girl. The other girl liked him too but she liked all the boys. He wanted to travel the world and everything. He made a wish when throwing rocks at the old house. He wanted to travel the world and build stuff. The girl threw a rock too, so they could both play baseball if they wanted to. She wished for that house. His dad died. He sent his brother to college. After that, the brother fought in the second world war which would probably be early 1940s. I am not totally sure of the timeline but his brother was off in war. And he graduated in 1920. Potter said at one point that he was like 28 years old which would be 1930. So, perhaps it jumped ahead another decade or more after that. At one point, he does marry that one girl and they have kids. But then his staff lost money. They were going to go under. He tried to beg Potter but at this point, Potter was going to have him thrown in prison for whatever similar to the left trying to throw Trump in prison. Earlier, Potter tried buying him out by hiring him. He said no. Years later, Potter tried getting his revenge. Catholic ideology in this film with people becoming angels. We have one angel jumping off the bridge to save George who was gonna jump as it was snowing on Christmas. George wished he was never born. He gets to see that. Mary was a librarian but still hot. But sad. No kids. People thought he was crazy. He gets kicked out of a bar. His taxi driver gets the cop to follow them. At the last moment, he prayed and was returned back to the original timeline. The movie starts off at the end of the movie where everybody is praying for him. Thus, we see his guardian angel save him and get his wings. George was 12 in 1919. So, he was born in 1907. Class of like 1925. George turned 28 in 1935. We see Mary and Violet in 1919 at the place George worked. George eventually marries Mary. At one point, they skipped their honeymoon and gave money to people in town to bail them out before Potter could swallow up the bank as well. Potter was taking over everything. At the end of the movie, everybody paid it forward by giving money back to the Bailey family to save them. It is a heartwarming story that made me laugh and cry. At one point, they fell into a pool during the dance. Others jumped in. Even adults jumped in. They walked home. She accidentally lost her clothes. She hid behind bushes like Adam and Eve in the Bible. George said he was in an interesting situation. He was going to play with that situation as he had her robe. But then his dad died and he left. Fast forward to when they got married. They saved the town. No honeymoon. But wait, honeymoon in that old broken house which she would go on like Home Improvement Tim Allen and fix it up, everything but the stairway nob. Mary whispered into his bad ear when they were 12 he would love George till the day she died. So romantic.