Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sea - Boo! - Er" data-source="post: 196652" data-attributes="member: 57">Miracle on 34th Street (1947)My Christmas tradition.This is one of those film that you can keep watching and discovering new things. Take Kris's cane, for example. Sawyer and Pierce argue about whether he would use it as a weapon but we have already seen him threaten Drunk Santa with it in the opening scenes, and he will hit Sawyer with it just as he fears. It might be a single, measured blow but it's still resorting to physical violence, so Sawyer is right about that.In fact, that's what makes the film so intriguing. No one, "hero" and "villain" included, is wholly  right or wholly wrong. Everyone is acting independently for what they see as the best and the result is something planned by no one.That's what all the remakes get wrong. They're all rewritten so that someone gets the idea and orchestrates the outcome, so that there's actually no miracle at all.There is one nice little addition  in the 1973 telemovie that I like, though - when Tom Bosley, as the judge, emerges from the mound of envelopes and surreptitiously slips his own grandchildren's letters into the pile.</blockquote>

Poison your name this Hallowe'en