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Film · Columbia · 1946

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Gilda

29Leave it.

Hayworth is why people stayed, and the two men still handle her like a bet.

Take controlThis scores 29. Gilda cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

People remember that she sings. I remember the ownership. A gambler in Buenos Aires runs a casino for a man who once owned his loyalty. The man's wife is the woman from the gambler's past. Rita Hayworth. The men treat her as the stake. Adult. I won't describe the sex. Not a film for children, or for a house that isn't ready to argue afterward.

A marriage sits in the room and it is not a life. It is a claim. I liked the glamour and I don't trust the souvenir it wants you to pocket. Loyalty here is something a boss holds, not a promise a person keeps. If you put this on, say out loud that she is not a prize. Otherwise you watched a casino and came home practicing their manners.

Journal

Keep Gilda in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 29. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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.

Consider this

The Godfather

41 instead of 29

The Godfather is still a drama film, and it scores 41 instead of 29. What you gain is household: Blood is everything, which is why the household becomes a fortress and a tomb.

The eight

4
Industry
He runs the casino, a real job that mostly exists to hold other people's bets.
2
Household
The marriage is a claim the men pass between them, not a life they keep.
2
Piety
Old loyalty never stops him, and nobody stops treating her as the stake.
5
Courage
She walks back into a room where both men already think they own the past.
2
Republic
A Buenos Aires casino, and no neighbor or law the story bothers to owe.
2
Temperance
The glamour wants the next look at her, and it never puts that want down.
4
Truth
The shared past is the secret, and the marriage is a lie they live in.
2
Stewardship
You leave with a song, and a woman the picture still lets them wager.

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Film · 20th Century Fox · 1963

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Cleopatra

29Leave it.

The procession is the product. The affair is the plot, and the plot is not a life.

Take controlThis scores 29. Cleopatra cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

It cost enough to nearly sink a studio, and the cost is not a quality. A queen manages Rome by managing two men, and the film is interested in the managing as a pageant and a love affair. The processions are long because the processions are what the money bought. I will not pretend the length is grandeur. Length is what you get when nobody was willing to cut the entrance.

The marriages in the way of the affair are treated as furniture. That is the part a house should not absorb. Adults can look at the barge as a document of a certain kind of Hollywood excess and then leave it. Do not sit a young person down in front of four hours in which the lesson is that history is a romance with better curtains. The crowds came. The number is not the crowds.

Journal

Keep Cleopatra in the record.