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It's A Wonderful LifeEnd of last part: POP: George, when you get out of college, I don't suppose you'd come back to the Building and Loan? GEORGE: Oh, no, now, Pop, I - I - I - I just couldn't. I - I couldn't face being cooped up the rest of my life in a shabby little office. I-- Oh, I'm sorry, Pop. Now, I - I didn't mean that, but it's just this business of nickels and dimes. I'd go crazy. I - I want to do something big. Something important. Act 1 - Part 2 POP: In a small way, we are doing something important, George. In that shabby little office, we help people figure out how they can own their own homes. GEORGE: I know. I know, Pop. I - I just wish I felt that I-- I-- But I just feel like if I didn't get away, I'd never live my own life. POP: You're right, boy. You get yourself an education. Then -- get out of here. GEORGE: Aw, thanks Pop! I think you're a pretty great guy. POP: Well, thanks, George. I'm glad to hear it. Look, why don't you go on over to Harry's dance? You'll have a good time. GEORGE: Well, I don't know, maybe I will drop in . Yeah, maybe I will. CLARENCE: So George Bailey went to a dance. Is that important, Joseph? JOSEPH: Why, yes, because it was at the dance where he met Mary Hatch.
CLARENCE: Ah-ohhh... JOSEPH: And three hours later, he was walking her home. George and Mary were feeling pretty good, Clarence. As a matter of fact, wonderful... [SOUND: FOOTSTEPS -- IN THE DISTANCE, A DOG BARKS] GEORGE AND MARY: (singing) "Buffalo Gals, can't you come out tonight? Can't you come out tonight? Can't you come out tonight? Buffalo Gals, can't you come out tonight... aaaaaaannnnnnnnd dance by the light of the moon?"
GEORGE: Terrific! MARY: Beautiful! GEORGE: Oh, just like an organ. MARY: At least. GEORGE: Hey, you know - you know something? If it wasn't me talking, I'd say you were the prettiest girl in town. MARY: Well, why don't you say it? GEORGE: I don't know. Maybe I will. Hey, how old are you, anyway? MARY: Eighteen.
GEORGE: Eighteen?! MARY: Too young or too old? GEORGE: No, no, no that's just right. It sorta fits you. Hey, look where we are! MARY: Hm? Oh, the old Granville house. GEORGE: Yeah, I gotta throw a rock! MARY: Oh, no, George. I love that old house. GEORGE: Well, don't you know about deserted houses? You - you make a wish and then throw a rock! MARY: George, but it's such a lovely old place. I wish I lived there.
GEORGE: In there? I would never live in there! Now, watch. Watch this. Here we go. [SOUND: GLASS BREAKS IN THE DISTANCE] GEORGE: How about that, huh? Pretty good, huh? Broke a window, huh? MARY: What did you wish, George? GEORGE: Oh... I don't know. Not just one wish. A whole lot of them. Mary, I'm planning to leave this little town and I'm gonna see the world! Italy, Greece, the Parthenon, the Coliseum. And then I'm coming back here and go to college and see what they know. And then I'm gonna build things. I'm gonna build skyscrapers a hundred stories high and bridges a mile long, and then I'm gonna - gonna-- ... Hey - hey, Mary? What is it you want? What do you want, huh? Do you want the moon? All you gotta do is just say the word and I'll-- MARY: Okay. The moon. I'll take it. Then what?
GEORGE: Then what? Well - well, then you could swallow it... and - and it'd melt like chocolate, you know? And the moonlight would shine from your fingers and the ends of your hair and the - the , uh... Do you think I'm talking like a crazy person? Am I talking too much? OLD MAN: (walking by) Yes! You are talking too much! Why don't you kiss her instead of just talking so much?! GEORGE: What? OLD MAN: [WALKING AWAY AND TALKING TO HIMSELF] Aw, what's the point of being young if you can't enjoy it?! GEORGE: Well, hey! Hey, just a minute, mister! Hey, you come on back here, I'll show you some kissing that'll-- [SOUND: CAR PULLS UP NEXT TO GEORGE AND MARY]
UNCLE BILLY: George! George! GEORGE: Hey, Uncle Billy! Look here, I'm gonna kiss Mary! Watch! UNCLE BILLY: George! Get in the car, quick! Your father's had a stroke! GEORGE: What? What? UNCLE BILLY: George, get in , hurry! JOSEPH: Well, George's father died that night, Clarence. So, of course, George couldn't go to Europe. But, that fall, just as he was ready to leave for college, the directors of the building and loan had a meeting. They were going to choose someone new to take the place of George's father... [SOUND: BOARD OF DIRECTORS TALKING] POTTER: I said, as long as Peter Bailey's dead, let's close the Building and Loan. We don't need it.
UNCLE BILLY: Now wait a minute-- POTTER: No, you wait a minute! Peter Bailey was not a businessman. Ideals without common sense can ruin a town. What do we get? A lot of discontented and lazy people, a lot of rabble, instead of a money-saving working class. GEORGE: Now hold on, Mr. Potter! POTTER: Oh, I meant no disrespect, George, but-- GEORGE: Now, wait a minute there. Why my father ever started this building and loan, I'll never know. Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this "rabble" you're talking about, they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so! People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated, old man, they're cattle. Well, in my book, he died a much richer man than you'll ever be. POTTER: I'm not interested in your book. I'm talking about the Building and Loan. Watch a video
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GEORGE: You're talking about something you can't control and you just can't accept that -- that's what you're really talking about. Well, this town needs this institution, if only to have some place where people can borrow a few dollars without dealing with someone like you who hates people! Now, let's go, Uncle Billy!
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