Do you want to know the favorite movie scene of the man who directed Tom Cruise in “The Last Samurai”? It’s timely, since it comes from an absolute Christmas movie classic!
It’s Christmas ! On this occasion, we invite you to discover the favorite cinema scene of a renowned filmmaker which, in fact, is taken from a Christmas classic. This filmmaker is the American Edward Zwick, to whom we owe The Last Samurai, and this Christmas classic (and of the seventh art in short) is Frank Capra’s Life is Beautiful.
The sequence that Edward Zwick loves in Life is Beautiful, a timeless work which is one of the 24 best Christmas films according to AlloCiné spectators? It features James Stewart and Donna Reed, the two main performers of this masterpiece, and it is shockingly simple.
“My favorite scene is a scene from Life is Beautiful”Edward Zwick told AlloCiné a few years ago, during the promotion of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. “It’s about the telephone scene with James Stewart And Donna Reed. They fall in love while he gets angry with her. You see it on their faces.” A superb sequence to (re)discover in our player above.
Released in theaters in 1946, the fable Life is Beautiful tells the story of George Bailey, a man who, after the death of his father, must take over the family business of construction loans, which allows the most disadvantaged to house. As he comes into conflict with the richest man in town, who tries to ruin his efforts, he approaches victory but misplaces the $8,000 he was supposed to deposit in the bank.
On Christmas Eve, in despair, George contemplates suicide. It is then that Heaven sends to his side a second-class angel, who to earn his wings will have to help him get out of this bad situation…
The trailer for “Life is Beautiful”: