Frank Capra and the need for lightness
In his day - we are, roughly, at the turn of the forties and fifties - regarded him as the director of "cinepanettoni" made in USA: not Miss asunder, but your spirit and happy ending.
During the period when he lived and worked, between the twenties and sixties, was crucial: the years following the crisis of '29 was just needs someone to strappasorrisi tell stories, experienced by the most brilliant actors of the time - James Stewart , Cary Grant tragicomic aspects and characters that would eventually remained in the collective (the angel Clarence, who was even d ' inspiration internettara ).
At a time when the most common words are "economic crisis" and "recession", the lightness is a value. Invaluable.
And just look at his two masterpieces, 's a Wonderful Life and Arsenic and Old Lace , one of the funniest films of film history, to feel light, cheerful, optimistic.
And remember to keep it, the lightness, even in times of general well-being.
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