Mural: Life is Wonderful

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MURALESLA VITA è MERAVIGLIOSA – Mariana Duarte Santos

Murals inspired by the films of Frank Capra give new light to the village, Andrea Buglisi with “The Eternal Illusion,” Angelo Genova (CrazyOne) with “It Happened One Night,” Mariana Duarte Santos with “Life is Wonderful,” and Camilo Nuñez (Theic) with “Mr. Deeds & Babe” have written, among the streets of Frank Capra’s hometown, an essential artistic page to remember the works of the Master of Hollywood cinema.

In front of you can see the work of Mariana Duarte Santos, a visual artist from Lisbon, Portugal, who works with a variety of media and street art.
Mariana’s pieces reflect the way she observes and perceives the world. Much of his work is based on frames from old, now-forgotten films and TV programs: he takes inspiration from old, discarded photographs in an attempt to renew or revive old, poignant images that he sees as still worthy of life.

The Frank Capra trail mural recalls one of the most iconic scenes from the movie “A Wonderful Life.“

Do you know this movie yet? George Bailey, an ordinary American living in an ordinary town, contemplates suicide. In Heaven his guardian angel Clarence reviews his protégé’s existence in a long flash back: from childhood to marriage, from his father’s death to taking over the family business that is now in crisis.
Just when George decides to kill himself the angel Clarence intervenes, diving into the river for him, allowing himself to be saved by George himself and explaining to him what his life would have been like if he had never been born…. What does this plot remind you of? Well yes, Frank Capra drew inspiration from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

“I thought Life is Wonderful was the most beautiful film I had ever made. Better yet, I was convinced it was the most beautiful film ever made.
Certainly it was not designed for the <<<oh-what-the-hell” of critics or for the “oh-what-the-hell” of literati.
It was the film for my people, the film I had wanted to make since I had first laid my eye against the camera’s viewfinder in a Jewish gymnasium in San Francisco.
A film to tell the depressed, the discouraged, the disillusioned, the homeless, the poor, the prostitutes, those behind prison bars or beyond the Iron Curtain that no man is a failure!”