The Remake Hollywood Should Green-Light

Here’s an idea for Hollywood: Remake You Can’t Take It With You, the 1938 classic directed by Frank Capra. It’s a film that defends family, community, and individuality in the face of bureaucracy, war, and heartless monopolies. With artificial intelligence about to absorb America, inflation making people fall behind in bills, social media giants reaching into every life, the government paying for war, and schools creating a leftist monoculture without eccentricity and critical thinking, a new You Can’t Take It With You would be quite relevant — maybe even as much as the film Capra is famous for, It’s a Wonderful Life. ...

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Though 1938 was a long time ago, You Can’t Take It With You offers a very important lesson for today. Namely, that there is an amazing amount of diversity within the family and that the family is a bulwark against bullying and groupthink by the state. 

Ed Morrissey

It's a fine idea, but I wonder how Hollywood would mangle it to suit its own purposes. It's a classic, but so was Snow White. 'Nuf said?

I enjoyed this because it's been decades since I watched the movie and had forgotten most of it. I mainly remember it for the high-school production that we did in my sophomore year, and that mainly because our 22-year-old drama teacher allowed the cast to have a lit cigar and firecrackers on stage. Which was incredibly cool at the time, but ... (Note: I was not personally involved in that production.)

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