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Film · Famous Players · 1915

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Madame Butterfly

29Leave it.

Pickford's makeup plays a Japanese wife, and the American officer still leaves.

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

The review

Mary Pickford was a white woman, and the makeup is how she plays a Japanese wife. Say that before anything else. An American officer takes that wife and leaves. There is a child. I won't linger on the child. The abandonment is the plot. A house can watch it only if the casting is said out loud. This is not a later opera film.

The marriage is a life in the story, and he walks out of it. Paint on a famous face doesn't make the leaving smaller. I got tired of how easily a star's makeup was asked to stand in for a whole people. Tell the children who is under it, then decide if you still want his exit in the room. Don't borrow an ending from the opera. The 1915 fact is the leaving, and the false face.

Journal

Keep Madame Butterfly in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 29. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry 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

The Godfather

41 instead of 29

The Godfather is still a drama film, and it scores 41 instead of 29. What you gain is courage: Michael sacrifices his soul with his eyes open.

The eight

4
Industry
The officer's post is the work that takes him away from the wife.
5
Household
He takes a Japanese wife, there is a child, and then he leaves.
2
Piety
Nothing says conscience stops the officer from leaving her.
3
Courage
She is the one left; the story gives her no brave act to cheer.
3
Republic
An American officer owes a wife abroad and treats the bond as brief.
2
Temperance
He takes a wife and leaves, which is want without staying.
2
Truth
The marriage does not hold, and the makeup is another false face.
2
Stewardship
He leaves a wife and a child, the wife played by Pickford in makeup.

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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.