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Film · United Artists · 1921

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Little Lord Fauntleroy

41Leave it.

Let a child meet the grandfather, and say out loud that Pickford was a grown woman.

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The review

Mary Pickford plays the boy. She was a grown woman. I want that said before the grandfather and the title do their work, because the picture will not say it. An American boy is summoned to an English grandfather and a title. A child can watch it. The goodness is the product. It ran near the top of 1921, behind the bigger male spectacles, which only means people bought the sweetness.

A boy and a grandfather can still be a real household. Being called into an old man's house and a title is a life, not a sticker. I will not pretend the face is a child's face. The goodness arrives too smoothly, like goods. Let the kids have the grandfather. Do not let them leave thinking a grown woman was little Lord Fauntleroy.

Journal

Keep Little Lord Fauntleroy in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 41. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Courage and Republic 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

Dumbo

53 instead of 41

Dumbo is still a family film, and it scores 53 instead of 41. What you gain is industry: The circus is the work, and he is mocked while he is in it.

The eight

2
Industry
No real job matters; an English title and a grandfather's house carry it.
7
Household
An American boy is summoned to his English grandfather, and that tie is the life.
4
Piety
The goodness is the product, not a conscience that costs the boy anything hard.
4
Courage
He is summoned to a title, a change of house more than a danger he chose.
3
Republic
The prize is an English title, and no neighbor, law, or town is owed a duty.
6
Temperance
It sells goodness instead of a craving, though the goodness is still a product.
3
Truth
Pickford was a grown woman playing the boy, and the film asks you to forget.
4
Stewardship
He is summoned to a title, and the studio kept selling the goodness as product.

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Buddy

41Leave it.

Forced cheer is a cage. The child who says no is the one the show cannot bear.

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The review

Inside a 1990s children's program, an orange unicorn leads the songs. A boy will not join the dance. He vanishes, and the host tells the others he has gone to a perfect city. Another child finds what he left, and it is not a postcard. The public story stops at the crack: the cheer was the lock, and the no was the thing the lock could not allow.

Do not put this in front of a child who still loves a show like it. The measure is for the adult who presses play. A smile that punishes the child who will not wear it is not friendship. It is a host.

Journal

Keep Buddy in the record.