Editing Frank Capra (section)

=== Legacy and Misinterpretation ===
Many critics dismissed Capra in later decades as sentimental or naive. But this misunderstands the '''structural logic''' of his films. He was not a dreamer—he was a '''moral formalist''', building cinematic fables out of ethical equations, not emotional intuitions.

His influence on filmmakers like Spielberg, Zemeckis, and Lucas lies not in his “heart,” but in his '''method''': the ordered revelation of truth through '''affective restraint and narrative justice'''.

Capra’s life and work are not best understood through emotion—but through '''moral mathematics'''.
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