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The Title??? I dont' get it..

posted 18 years ago by blacknails4
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Why is it called "You Can't Take It With You"...am i missing something obvious here???

[–] novastar_6 18 years ago

Oh boy, I'll say you are.

When the Kirbys and the Sycamores are in jail, Grandpa Vanderhof tells Mr. Kirby that he ought to stop worrying about all his business deals because if they all fell through, it could be the best thing that ever happened to him. "Maybe it'll stop you trying to be so desperate about making more money than you can ever use? You can't take it with you, Mr. Kirby. So what good is it? As near as I can see, the only thing you can take with you is the love of your friends."

[–] imdbmovie 18 years ago

It is a money.

[–] novastar_6 18 years ago

And as we all know, having more money than you'll spend won't do you much good because when your time comes, "You can't take it with you". I reckon, like Grandpa said, what you CAN take is the love and memories of your friends.

[–] marvel88 18 years ago

^^Novastar put it perfect. it means there's no use getting tons of money by being a jerk and backstabbing people and then getting your own buildings and fountains that spurt pure gold because in the end when you die, what do you have? Objects that ultimately mean nothing.

"I know you're in there, Fagerstrom!"-Conan O'Brien

[–] dancergurl4eva 17 years ago

in the end though, can you even take the love with you? maybe you cant take anything, in which case there's no use in anything.

[–] Gular-Scute 17 years ago

No pockets in a shroud and so on...

[–] gryspnik 17 years ago

What matters is what you also leave behind...how much love and good deeds you've left when you pass away. Also I think the moment you're dying, if you can still think rationally you mut prefer having felt loved than having felt rich

[–] novastar_6 17 years ago

Indeed, money is something of which there can be copies and copies and copies printed up everyday and you'd never know the difference in one bill and the next, but you ALWAYS know the difference between one person and the next and the next in the people you've met and the love exchanged between you and your family.