Mary’s horrendous and shameful fate without George Bailey.
George:Clarence, where’s Mary?
Clarence:“She’s just about to close up the library!!!”
Watching this scene as an adult and laughing my ass off every time has become one of my favorite holiday traditions.
Honestly imagine being Mary and just trying to leave work after a long day, when this weird shit happens.
It always bothers me that George actually stole her away from his friend, who ends up being insanely rich. So without George it’s most likely that she would have married that dude and wound up a wealthy socialite in Manhattan.
It’s like they wrote the first half of the movie and just kinda forgot her entire story and we’re like “what’s a woman without a husband?” “Oh yeah, a librarian that needs glasses because she reads too much.”
Honestly imagine being Mary and just trying to leave work after a long day, when this weird shit happens.
That’s probably why the movie calls for Mary to…
checks script
Scream bloody murder! :)
I never saw this movie until I was an adult. How the fuck did boomers love this movie and end up such bootlickers? Did they just walk away from the movie saying that suicide is bad? Does the whole building and loan storyline not even register for them?
I really don’t understand Boomers, I do not understand how you can be the free love hippies of the 1960’s and then turn around and vote for Nixon.
Maybe it’s like how New Agers turned into QAnon
I do not understand how you can be the free love hippies of the 1960’s and then turn around and vote for Nixon.
Did you vote for Trump? What are your children going to say about you?
- No
- They’d probably say “…” which is what people who don’t exist normally say. I was born sterile and that was before I had my nads removed
Here’s the secret: There’s more than one.
More than one what?
This is timely. I just read a fantastic article all about how Mary becoming a spinster without George probably isn’t as goofy (or as overtly sexist) as it seems. Quite a thought provoking article.
Wow, good read.
She just wouldn’t settle for anything less than someone with big dreams who sacrifices them for the wellbeing of others, and how she keeps giving and giving tirelessly to make those big dreams come true.
They are both extremely worthy of each other, and it makes sense that she’d choose no other in a world without him
My biggest issue with that movie is that George’s problem isn’t that he thinks everybody else would be better off without him alive. It’s that he doesn’t want to be alive cause his life is too stressful. Clarence doesn’t really get that.
That, and, Mary was happy as an old maid.
Mary was happy as an old maid
Wait, was she? She seemed vigilant as fuck. I don’t know what happened to her, but I can guess what had been tried
All we see is her reaction to George being a god damn psychopath.
Reminds me of the “She’s got glasses. And a ponytail. Ugh, she’s got paint on her overalls. What is that?” line from Not Another Teen Movie
The cop at the end of that scene just started shooting down the street!
I was just thinking this whole scene is wild as fuck, but especially without context!
Like if you were shown nothing but this brief clip and had no other knowledge about the movie this looks fucking insane.
I mean other than the target being a white guy, it’s pretty spot on
https://lithub.com/when-bruce-lee-trained-with-kareem-abdul-jabbar/ (ctrl-f “racist cop”)
Mary is so freaking hot. Either way.
Yea…
TIL there’s It’s a Wonderful Life (Abridged)
To be fair, this movie frontloads an hour of exposition from talking points of light onto viewers. Even for the 1950s, that’s a bit much.
Didn’t that movie used to have a war in it?
