It's A Wonderful Life (1946)

It's A Wonderful Life (1946)

In "It's A Wonderful Life", George is the underdog. He is a regular guy that grew up in Bedford Falls. He plans to travel around the world, and go to college, and he almost goes. He saves his money and he gets up enough to go, his plans quickly change as his father passes away, and he is left with the family business. The business doesn't get much money in, so naturally he doesn't have much money. He donesn't really have anything going for him. He went threw all kinds of stuff to keep the loan place open. He did it for everyone else, he didn't do it for himself at all. It payed off at the end of the day. 

The underdog won. Potter was trying to do everything he could to make George give him the loan place, but he wouldn't. Then George lost $8,000, so he went to Potter begging for money. Potter refused, but it turned out that he didn't need Potter's help to begin with. Once the community heard the George needed help, they all pitched in and gave some money, and everything worked out fine.

There was also a lot of courage displayed by George. He ran his father's business just so his community would have a way to do things without having to go crawling to Potter for money. He gave up his dreams, so people in his town would have a way to do things without worrying about Potter threatening them. Also with the money he saved to travel, he sent his brother to college, since he wouldn't be using it anytime soon.