At first glance, it might appear that Christmas films are pretty easy to make. Take a mediocre family film, put everyone in knitted jumpers, have a couple of scenes set at a snowy ice rink where the protagonist delivers some festive dialogue (“brrr, it sure is cold this mid-to-late December”), and just like that, you’ve got a film like Daddy’s Home 2, a film so Christmassy it’s made everyone in the world forget all those things Mel Gibson said about Jews and black people.
But creating a classic Christmas movie is actually quite hard. For one thing, the original story of Christmas is kind of a snoozefest - “I gave birth in a barn and then a bunch of academics gave me some gold” is a killer anecdote to liven up a dinner party, but not a great basis for 2,000 years of storytelling. For a Christmas movie to really pop, it needs some magic ingredients. After extensive research (hey, I’ve read more than 10 plot summaries of Christmas movies on Wikipedia) I can reveal the secret elements for creating the most joyous Christmas movies ever!
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