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The public is outraged at Amazon for releasing an “abridged” version of “It’s A Wonderful Life” that’s devoid of its most important scene.

Both in the original version and the abridged one, the character George Bailey of the town of Bedford Falls faces a financial crisis that threatens to ruin his business and life. This leads him to contemplate jumping off a nearby bridge into a freezing river.

While standing over the bridge, Bailey meets a wingless angel named Clarence Odbody. Bailey tells Odbody that he’s worth more to his friends and family dead rather than alive. Odbody in turn tells Bailey that he must earn his wings and that to do so he must save the suicidal man.

Odbody proceeds to save Bailey by showing him how miserable his friends and family would have been had he never been born. This is known as the “Pottersville scene” because, in this reality, Bedford Falls has transformed into a veritable s-hole known as Pottersville.

Amazed at what he sees, Bailey adopts a fresh, new, optimistic outlook that he then rushes off to share with his friends and family. The problem with Amazon Prime’s abridged version of “It’s A Wonderful Life” is that the “Pottersville scene” has been completely eliminated.

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In the abridged version, right after Odbody tells Bailey that he must save him to earn his wings, a joyful Bailey rushes off to share his newfound happiness with his friends and family. It’s as if the “Pottersville scene” has been completely removed from the storyline.

The problem, of course, is that the story no longer makes sense. Think about it. One minute Odbody tells Bailey that he must earn his wings by saving him. And the next minute Bailey is suddenly saved. How was he saved? That’s never answered in the abridged version.

Responding to the abridged version, critics have been crying foul for days, lambasting Amazon for ruining and despoiling one of the all-time best Christmas movies ever made.

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The good news is that the full version of “It’s A Wonderful Life” still remains on Amazon and can be streamed by Prime members.

As for why Amazon removed the “Pottersville scene,” there appear to be two reasons.

“One because the suicide scene is ‘too dark’ and secondly there has been a copyright dispute over that segment of the movie because it is supposedly based on a short story that was never recognized by the film’s original producers,” according to Breitbart News.

Of course, if there is a copyright issue, then how come the “Pottersville scene” isn’t also censored in Amazon’s full version!?

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