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Also C: Its a christmas movie if we all decide it is. If it becomes one more of the christmas-centric traditions, then it becomes a christmas movie.
by cptaj 8y ago
Also C: Its a christmas movie if we all decide it is.
If it becomes one more of the christmas-centric traditions, then it becomes a christmas movie.
- reaperducer 8y agoExactly. As the author noted, "Jingle Bells" was originally a Thanksgiving song before popular culture started associating it with Christmas. If "Die Hard" becomes a Christmas movie over time, it's a thing that happens. People are messy. Societies of people, exponentially so.
- isostatic 8y agoGreat Escape is a Christmas movie to me, it was always on around Christmas or new year as a kid.
- rzzzt 8y agoItalia 1 shows "Trading Places" each year in Italy: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086465/trivia?item=tr2330606 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086465/trivia?item=tr2330606
- TeMPOraL 8y agoYup. In Poland, this makes Home Alone and Die Hard both Christmas movies. Ever since I was a kid, I remember both being on TV during Christmas days. Hell, people actually made quite a large uproar couple years ago, when the TV station showing Home Alone decided not to show it on Christmas, and AFAIR they eventually changed the programming to keep it.
- toyg 8y agoThis is the correct answer. It's why people look for chocolate eggs left by a rabbit when they are supposedly celebrating the death and resurrection of the son of god, or why kids get gifts from a old obese man when they are supposedly celebrating the birth of that same godly spawn - rationalisations were innested on activities that people already enjoyed for one reason or another. People turn things into traditions simply because they like doing them with some fixed cadence. The rationalisations tend to flow in later.