Live HistoricSee what matters.

Film · Edison · 1901

Pass it on

Kansas Saloon Smashers

28Leave it.

Porter cartoons Carrie Nation's raid, and neither side gets a real argument.

Take controlThis scores 28. Kansas Saloon Smashers cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Women break up a bar and the drinkers hide. Porter, 1901, and the papers already had this fight. It is a parody of Carrie Nation's raids. The temperance raid is the joke. The saloon is not defended with a serious argument. A cartoon, then, of a quarrel that was actually in the street.

I can see a house putting this on as a curiosity. I wouldn't put it on as a lesson either way. Nobody is asked to stop wanting a drink, and nobody is asked to say why the smashers are wrong. The drinkers hide. The women smash. Then it is over, and the fight in the papers is still waiting on a sentence this picture never bothers to write.

Journal

Keep Kansas Saloon Smashers in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 28. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage 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

Scooby-Doo

41 instead of 28

Scooby-Doo is still a comedy film, and it scores 41 instead of 28. What you gain is household: Friendship is the household.

The eight

3
Industry
A bar is smashed and the drinkers hide; nobody's work is taken seriously.
2
Household
Women raid and men hide, and no marriage or child is a life here.
2
Piety
The raid looks like conscience, and the picture plays it as a joke.
3
Courage
The women break up a bar, and the risk is staged as a cartoon.
4
Republic
It cartoons a saloon fight that was already a quarrel in the papers.
2
Temperance
The temperance raid is the joke, and the drink is not seriously refused.
4
Truth
A real fight from the papers is drawn as a cartoon, not argued.
2
Stewardship
When it ends, the bar and the raid are both just the gag.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

Live Historic · Kansas Saloon Smashers · 28IMDb

Live HistoricSee what matters.

Film · DreamWorks · 1999

Pass it on

American Beauty

28Leave it.

The household is rotting, and the picture is too pleased to watch. Adults. Not a liberation.

Take controlThis scores 28. American Beauty cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

The film is right that a house can become a catalog and a silence. It is wrong about the cure. A man chasing a feeling, and a plastic bag offered as transcendence, is not a repair. A daughter lives in the house while the film calls his restlessness honesty.

Adults. If you saw it in its year and called it brave, look again at who the bravery costs. The table was the place to begin. He begins with himself and calls it beauty.

Journal

Keep American Beauty in the record.