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Film · First National · 1922

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Oliver Twist

39Leave it.

Hunger in the workhouse is true, and Chaney's Fagin is a Jewish caricature, full stop.

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The review

Jackie Coogan is Oliver. A workhouse boy falls among thieves. Lon Chaney is Fagin, played as a Jewish caricature. Say so. I will not sand that down because the film is old and the boy is small. A child can watch most of it and should be told what the makeup is doing. The hunger is real. The villain's face is a libel.

A well-known hit, and not Robin Hood's money. Fame does not pay for that face. The workhouse leaves a child hungry, which is a true thing about a place that will not feed him. Then the thief at the center is costumed as a lie about Jewish people. If this plays here, we stop and name the libel before the story gets winning. I will not swap a hungry boy for a slander and call the swap a classic.

Journal

Keep Oliver Twist in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 39. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

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

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The Devil Wears Prada

51 instead of 39

The Devil Wears Prada is still a drama film, and it scores 51 instead of 39. What you gain is truth: It tells the truth that 'it's just a job' is how the job wins.

The eight

6
Industry
The workhouse is the town's machine, and it leaves a boy hungry enough to fall.
5
Household
Oliver is a child without parents here, passed from the workhouse to thieves.
2
Piety
Fagin as a Jewish caricature is a wrong the picture never asks anyone to stop.
5
Courage
A hungry workhouse boy falls among thieves, and living through that is the grit.
3
Republic
The workhouse is how a town keeps a child, and Fagin's face is a public libel.
5
Temperance
The hunger is a real lack, not a tease, and food is not played as a prize.
3
Truth
The hunger is true, and Chaney's Fagin is a Jewish caricature, a lie of a face.
2
Stewardship
A child is left the hunger, and the audience is left a libel for a villain.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 1972

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Deliverance

39Leave it.

They wanted a wild weekend, and the film never gives that weekend back.

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The review

Four suburban men wanted a last wild weekend on a river a dam is about to bury. They got a trip they were not built for. The river was the point, and then it was not. One of them is changed in a way the film does not heal. That refusal to tidy the ending is the honest part.

Adult. Do not describe the assault, and do not make a contest out of who can sit through it. The dam was already going to spend the river for people who do not live on it. One of them carries that change home. If someone in the room goes quiet, stay with that, not the canoe.

Journal

Keep Deliverance in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 39. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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The Manchurian Candidate

46 instead of 39

The Manchurian Candidate is still a thriller film, and it scores 46 instead of 39. What you gain is industry: The army and the campaign are work, shown as institutions that can be used.