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Film · RKO · 1938

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Bringing Up Baby

36Leave it.

The funniest wreck of a real job I have sat through, and the bone stays broken.

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The review

The crowd did not want it, and people have kept it anyway. A paleontologist needs one more bone and a grant. A heiress with a leopard will not let him get back to the work. Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn. The chaos takes the afternoon and then the skeleton. I laughed, and I still minded the bone.

A house can watch it. It is a comedy, not a harm. The work is what gets destroyed so the joke can run. I would tell the kids charm can be funny and still may not pretend a man's job was nothing. We had a good time. The skeleton does not come back because of that.

Journal

Keep Bringing Up Baby in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 36. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Secret Life of Pets

48 instead of 36

The Secret Life of Pets is still a comedy film, and it scores 48 instead of 36. What you gain is household: Home is the good.

The eight

8
Industry
He needs one last bone and a grant, and that work is the day.
2
Household
A heiress and a leopard, not a marriage, a parent, or a child.
2
Piety
She will not stop, and nothing sends him back to the work.
3
Courage
The grant is at risk because of her, not because he chose the risk.
4
Republic
The grant ties his digging to other people, and the day wastes it.
3
Temperance
The next smash is the pleasure, and it runs through the skeleton.
5
Truth
His true errand was the bone, and the afternoon will not honor it.
2
Stewardship
The skeleton is destroyed, and the kept thing is the comedy.

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Film · Fox Searchlight · 2010

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Black Swan

36Leave it.

The discipline is real. Perfection is the idol, and the film kneels with her. Adults.

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The review

Practice is not the villain. She has given herself to a hard craft, and the film respects the craft enough to show the feet. The villain is the idea that a person may be spent completely if the result is perfect. Her mother wanted a dancer in the house more than a daughter. The director wants the performance. She agrees.

Adults only. Do not watch it as a stylish breakdown to quote. If a young dancer in the house hears that perfection is this, say the plainer thing: the body is not raw material, and a role ends.

Journal

Keep Black Swan in the record.