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Film · Vitagraph · 1914

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Gertie the Dinosaur

38Leave it.

McCay seems to boss a drawn dinosaur, and the short is the whole act.

Take controlThis scores 38. Gertie the Dinosaur cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Winsor McCay appears to give orders to a drawn dinosaur, and she appears to obey. Vitagraph, 1914. A child can watch it. It is a short, and a vaudeville act as much as a picture. Not a feature, and not a later cartoon studio. I was glad of the size. The trick is the obedience of a drawing, and the trick is the whole night.

She is ink that seems to listen. I didn't go hunting a moral in a dinosaur who isn't an animal. McCay is the man in the act. If you show a child, say that so nobody goes looking for a studio feature under the same name. When the order has been obeyed, the short is done. I turned it off. Nobody asked for another.

Journal

Keep Gertie the Dinosaur in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 38. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic 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 Addams Family 2

50 instead of 38

The Addams Family 2 is still a animation film, and it scores 50 instead of 38. What you gain is household: A mother and father who want their daughter, and each other.

The eight

7
Industry
McCay's work is the drawing, and the short exists to show it.
1
Household
No marriage, parent, or child is a life inside the act.
2
Piety
She appears to obey, which is a trick, not a conscience.
1
Courage
Nobody risks anything they would miss; the dinosaur is a drawing.
2
Republic
It plays as a vaudeville act, not as a debt to a town.
6
Temperance
A short ends when the trick is shown, and it does not beg another.
6
Truth
McCay is on screen giving orders, so the obedience is a shown trick.
5
Stewardship
A child is left with a drawing that moved, and then the short stops.

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Film · Marvel · 2015

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Avengers: Age of Ultron

38Leave it.

The interesting part is the weapon they chose to trust. The battle is the invoice.

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The review

The only grown sentence is the first one: tired men try to outsource the watching of the world, and the thing they built does not love the world. That is an old warning, and it is the right warning for a decade that kept handing judgment to a system.

Then Sokovia lifts and the warning becomes a set. Stay if you want the argument about who gets to build a peace. Do not stay for the peace itself. The film does not have one. It has a sequel.

Journal

Keep Avengers: Age of Ultron in the record.