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Film · MGM · 1935

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Mutiny on the Bounty

46Watch it awake.

The lash is real, and the film lets Tahiti wash the mutiny cleaner than history.

The review

Gable is Christian, Laughton is Bligh, and the men will not sail the breadfruit voyage home under that captain. The lash is why. Tahiti is where they go. Best picture, and the crowd of its year on the tallies still cited. A house can watch it. I understood a crew that would not take the lash. I did not trust how finished the argument felt.

The film picks Christian's side more cleanly than the history does. Say that before anybody treats the island as the reward for being right. The paradise is also a desertion. They leave the ship, the voyage, and the law of that deck. If a teen is watching, keep the cruelty and the leaving in one breath. A bad captain does not make the beach a clean conscience.

Journal

Keep Mutiny on the Bounty in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship 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 Jungle Book

59 instead of 46

The Jungle Book is still a adventure film, and it scores 59 instead of 46. What you gain is household: Wolves as parents.

The eight

7
Industry
The breadfruit voyage is the work, and the lash is how Bligh drives the crew.
2
Household
Tahiti is where they stay, not a marriage, a parent, or a child.
5
Piety
The lash can wake a conscience, and the island still lets them off too clean.
7
Courage
They will not sail home under Bligh, and that refusal risks the voyage itself.
6
Republic
A crew owes the ship a law, and the film clears Christian faster than history.
3
Temperance
Tahiti plays as rest, and the picture lets the desertion feel like peace.
4
Truth
The lash is a real cruelty; Christian's side is cleaner here than the history.
3
Stewardship
The breadfruit does not get home, and the men are left in a desertion.

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Film · United Artists · 1964

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A Hard Day's Night

46Watch it awake.

Watch it awake, or put it on for the songs and the work. Nobody is asked to become worse.

The review

They have a television appearance to make, a train to catch, and an afternoon in which the city wants pieces of them. The jokes are at the expense of managers, advertisers, and anyone who needs the boys to stand still and be a product. The songs are the work, performed as work. Nobody is asked to betray a friend. Nobody is asked to be cruel to a girl. For a phenomenon as large as this one, that is a remarkable restraint, and I will credit it.

A family can put it on. The limit is that it is a day, not a life, and a day of fame is a thin diet if it becomes the only picture of adulthood in the house. Watch the studio session and ask who in the room was doing a job seriously. Include them. The screaming outside is the decade. The work inside is the part worth keeping. A very large cultural fact of 1964. The fact is not a reason. The songs and the decency are.

Journal

Keep A Hard Day's Night in the record.