Frank Capra’s cinematic masterpiece it’s a Wonderful Life It has entertained film lovers for generations, but a Canadian college professor considers the Christmas classic full of “racism” and worthy of condemnation.
James DeVille, who teaches music at Carleton University in Canada, emphasizes that the fictional town of Bedford Falls is very white – a racist construct symbolized in the musical score.
“Listen and pay attention to the sound of the film and the racism is implicit in the music,” the leftist academic complained. New York Post,
DeVille, a writer who lectures about music and sound in movies, insists that the tunes from the beloved yuletide epic are all wrong.
It’s a Wonderful Life poster featuring Larry Sims, Jimmy Hawkins, James Stewart, Donna Reed, Carolyn Grimes, 1946. (LMPC via Getty Images)
“The music in Pottersville is boogie woogie and jazz, which is a black kind of sound, but when the town is called Bedford Falls, the song that George and his wife Mary sing to each other is ‘Buffalo Gals,’ which is a white traditional standard,” he said.
He also said that Bedford Falls is inhabited mostly by white people “except for one black maid”, and he described the film’s producer and director Frank Capra as racist.
The Devil’s Awakening Words received little support among fans of the film.
Conservative commentator Matt Margolis wrote, “When I learned that some vulgar leftist professor claimed this classic contained ‘latent racist and bigoted’ ideas… I was furious.”
it’s a Wonderful Life is an American Christmas fantasy drama film released in 1946, directed and produced by Frank Capra.
It is based on the short story and booklet the greatest giftSelf-published in 1943 by Philip Van Doren Stern, itself based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novel a Christmas Carol,
