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Film · Magna · 1955

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Oklahoma!

46Watch it awake.

The songs are lovely, and the picnic still pushes the hired hand out of the chorus.

The review

The songs are what people keep, and the musical mostly wants the picnic. A territory is about to become a state. A farm girl. A cowboy and a hired hand who both want her. A community, and a dream ballet. The hired hand is the dark thread. A family can watch it. You should still notice who gets pushed out of the song.

I liked the courting. I did not like how easily the sunny numbers carry you past him. He is not a guest. He is the man the community will not quite include, and the picture knows he is dark without letting that trouble the picnic for long. If the kids watch, say that out loud. A state is being born, and somebody is already outside the chorus.

Journal

Keep Oklahoma! in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

My Fair Lady

58 instead of 46

My Fair Lady is still a musical film, and it scores 58 instead of 46. What you gain is industry: Speech is taught as drill, and the drill is the plot, not a montage of charm.

The eight

5
Industry
Farm, cowboy, and hired hand are the jobs sitting under the picnic.
7
Household
A farm girl and two men who want her are the marriage the town expects.
3
Piety
The picnic matters more than any qualm about the hired hand.
4
Courage
The dark thread is a real danger the songs mostly dance around.
6
Republic
A territory is becoming a state while one man is pushed out of the song.
3
Temperance
You are steered toward the courting and away from who stands outside.
5
Truth
The hired hand is the part of the town the happy numbers will not hold.
4
Stewardship
A new state is coming, and the chorus has already sorted who is extra.

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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.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic 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

Singin' in the Rain

60 instead of 46

Singin' in the Rain is still a comedy film, and it scores 60 instead of 46. What you gain is courage: Telling the public the truth.