It's a Wonderful Life Movie Script

杰瑞发布于2025-07-09

乔治（詹姆斯•斯图尔特 James Stewart 饰）在圣诞节前准备自杀，这时上帝传来旨意，派天使拯救他，并让他了解到自己一生的使命——拯救那些不幸的人。乔治小时候左耳有疾，在贝德福德镇上的一家药店帮工。他很机灵，深得老板器重，同时也很招女孩喜欢。某日，老板接到爱子死亡的电报，悲痛欲绝，配错了药，幸亏乔治才化险为夷。乔治从小嫉恶如仇，尤其看不惯富人专横跋扈。长大后，乔治一表人才，准备去读大学。这时，他的父亲去世了，他子承父业，协助叔父料理公司事务。然而公司经营状况不佳，在董事会会议上面临破产。如果公司破产，小镇将会有很多家庭陷入困境。乔治力排众议，说服了董事会，但是条件是他要担任董事会秘书长。这与他的大学梦相去甚远。而且，此时他还陷入了对一个女孩的爱恋之中……

CLOSE SHOT �� Harry, on top of hill, preparing to make his slide.
HARRY:
I'm not scared.
BOYS (ad lib) Come on, Harry! Attaboy, Harry!
MEDIUM SHOT �� Harry makes his slide very fast. He passes the marks made by the other boys, and his shovel takes him onto the thin ice at the bend of the river. The ice breaks, and Harry disappears into the water.
CLOSE SHOT �� George.
GEORGE:
I'm coming, Harry.
MEDIUM SHOT �� George jumps into the water and grabs Harry. As he starts to pull him out he yells:
GEORGE:
Make a chain, gang! A chain!
WIDER ANGLE �� the other boys lie flat on the ice, forming a human chain. When George reaches the edge with Harry in his arms, they pull them both to safety.
JOSEPH'S VOICE George saved his brother's life that day. But he caught a bad cold which infected his left ear. Cost him his hearing in that ear. It was weeks before he could return to his after-school job at old man Gower's drugstore.
DISSOLVE:
Drugstore EXTERIOR MAIN STREET �� BEDFORD FALLS �� SPRING AFTERNOON MEDIUM SHOT �� Five or six boys are coming toward camera, arm in arm, whistling. Their attention is drawn to an elaborate horsedrawn carriage proceeding down the other side of the street.
MEDIUM PAN SHOT �� The carriage driving by. We catch a glimpse of an elderly man riding in it.
CLOSE SHOT �� the boys watching the carriage.
GEORGE:
Mr. Potter!
CLARENCE'S VOICE Who's that �� a king?
JOSEPH'S VOICE That's Henry F. Potter, the richest and meanest man in the county.
The boys continue until they reach Gower's drugstore. The drugstore is old-fashioned and dignified, with jars of colored water in the windows and little else. As the kids stop:
GEORGE:
So long!
BOYS (ad lib) Got to work, slave. Hee-haw. Hee-haw.
INTERIOR DRUGSTORE �� DAY MEDIUM SHOT �� George comes in and crosses to an old-fashioned cigar lighter on the counter. He shuts his eyes and makes a wish:
GEORGE:
Wish I had a million dollars.
He clicks the lighter and the flame springs up.
GEORGE (cont'd) Hot dog!
WIDER ANGLE �� George crosses over to the soda fountain, at which Mary Hatch, a small girl, is seated, watching him. George goes on to get his apron from behind the fountain.
GEORGE (calling toward back room) It's me, Mr. Gower. George Bailey.