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Writer's Block: Two words: Charlie Brown
Nov. 24th, 2010 08:35 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
For the last 15 years or so, "A Christmas Story" has become the quintessential holiday movie for this sort of thing. It's definitely the humorous choice.
But long before that was "It's A Wonderful Life." Strictly speaking, it's not a Christmas movie, but of course the denouement lodges it partway in that category; it IS definitely a Thanksgiving theme, though. My mother had a great love of both Jimmy Stewart and of this movie - even in high school I'd seen it enough that I could have almost acted it out for you, LOL. (I even wanted an under-floor pool. And I wondered every time I watched that scene why the high school kids all looked about 30.) To this day, when I hear "Auld Lang Syne," the end scene is what I picture in my head.
/hums "Buffalo Girls"
For the last 15 years or so, "A Christmas Story" has become the quintessential holiday movie for this sort of thing. It's definitely the humorous choice.
But long before that was "It's A Wonderful Life." Strictly speaking, it's not a Christmas movie, but of course the denouement lodges it partway in that category; it IS definitely a Thanksgiving theme, though. My mother had a great love of both Jimmy Stewart and of this movie - even in high school I'd seen it enough that I could have almost acted it out for you, LOL. (I even wanted an under-floor pool. And I wondered every time I watched that scene why the high school kids all looked about 30.) To this day, when I hear "Auld Lang Syne," the end scene is what I picture in my head.
/hums "Buffalo Girls"
