hello everyone and welcome to the NUMBER_TOKENth episode of analyzing evil featuring mr henry potter from it's a wonderful life a miserly curmudgeon hell bent on patting his enormous fortune and controlling the town of bedford falls mr potter has entered the mythos of american cinema as one of the greatest villains ever to appear in a film a dastardly and cruel representation of the dark side of capitalism one where men and women alike who are fueled by greed abuse their wealth and power to improve the lives of themselves without regard for the lives that are damaged or lost along the way in this video we're going to explore the duality that exists within this film one of the virtuous good battling against the holy selfish evil as well as what the characters of george bailey and henry potter are meant to represent using this information to discern what exactly makes mr potter such an effective villain before we start looking into mr potter i'd like to talk about our sponsor for this video audible as some of you may already know i'm a big fan of audible and for good reason not only do i use audible to find and listen to new and exciting titles in my free time but having access to any book i need to read to cover certain characters in spoken word form is incredibly helpful as you can utilize audible from anywhere and on virtually any device their expansive library is host to an unmatched selection of audiobooks and podcasts from any genre you can think of and audible also produces their own original content much of which you can access totally free by signing up for the audible plus membership package one that i highly recommend as not only will you have access to these free audible originals each month but you'll also earn a credit each month that you can use towards anything in the audible library i recently started listening to mistborn the final empire by brandon sanderson which is a high story set in a fantasy world one where our hero attempts to steal from a hero turned villain that now rules over a vast dark empire as a god making it a fun and unique take on both heist and fantasy stories that i highly recommend you pick up right now you can try audible free for NUMBER_TOKEN days by going to URL_TOKEN vile and using the code vile at checkout or by texting vile to NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN and as an added bonus you can enjoy NUMBER_TOKEN off your audible membership for the first three months of your service and with the holidays fast approaching audible makes a great gift for yourself or someone you love so go to URL_TOKEN vial and use the code vial at checkout or text file to NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN to start enjoying some old favorites and pick up some new titles for your library today thank you audible for sponsoring this video now without further ado let's begin a backstory for mr potter is non-existent but we are privy to one crucial detail about his personal life that adds to the image he projects as a deeply hateful man the fact that he's never married has no children and lives alone during the scene where mr potter is attempting to persuade george into selling the building alone mr potter remarks how virtually everyone in the town of bedford falls hates him and he in turn dislikes all of them we don't
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