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Film · Warner Bros. · 1933

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Footlight Parade

39Leave it.

Cagney beats a rival's clock, and the waterfall is women arranged as product.

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The review

Third Warner musical of the year, and this time the clock is the story. Cagney builds the live shows that play before the pictures. He has to invent new ones before a rival steals them. He dances. The work is the deadline. I know a week that feels like that, and the hurry is the honest part.

Berkeley builds a waterfall of women. The numbers are the product, and the women are arranged. A house can watch it. Give the deadline its due. Don't treat the waterfall as if those women had been asked. You can like Cagney moving and still see the product sitting on top of the job.

Journal

Keep Footlight Parade in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 39. Yours can differ.

The glance

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

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

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West Side Story

51 instead of 39

West Side Story is still a musical film, and it scores 51 instead of 39. What you gain is truth: The last bodies are not a metaphor the editor rescues.

The eight

8
Industry
He builds live prologues on a deadline before a rival can steal them.
2
Household
No parent, marriage, or child is a life; the theater is the whole house.
2
Piety
A rival is the spur, and no conscience steps in to slow the next prologue.
6
Courage
He risks the job on new shows a rival will steal if the deadline slips.
3
Republic
The debt is a rival and a house that plays pictures, not a town or a law.
3
Temperance
Each stolen idea feeds the next number, and the waterfall asks for one more.
4
Truth
The theft threat is plain; the numbers sell an arrangement as if it were the labor.
3
Stewardship
A deadline is met, and what remains is product: women arranged as a waterfall.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 1972

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Deliverance

39Leave it.

They wanted a wild weekend, and the film never gives that weekend back.

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The review

Four suburban men wanted a last wild weekend on a river a dam is about to bury. They got a trip they were not built for. The river was the point, and then it was not. One of them is changed in a way the film does not heal. That refusal to tidy the ending is the honest part.

Adult. Do not describe the assault, and do not make a contest out of who can sit through it. The dam was already going to spend the river for people who do not live on it. One of them carries that change home. If someone in the room goes quiet, stay with that, not the canoe.

Journal

Keep Deliverance in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 39. Yours can differ.

The glance

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

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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

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The Manchurian Candidate

46 instead of 39

The Manchurian Candidate is still a thriller film, and it scores 46 instead of 39. What you gain is industry: The army and the campaign are work, shown as institutions that can be used.