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Film · Paramount · 1949

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Samson and Delilah

46Watch it awake.

He breaks the vow, and the temple comes down on him and on his captors.

The review

Leave the love-story idea at the door. The strong man is set apart. He breaks the vow for a woman, tells her the secret of his hair, is blinded, and pulls the temple down on the people who captured him. DeMille, and the largest crowd of its year on the tallies that still get cited. I am not going to sexualize it. The strength and the broken vow are the story. The ending is not a rescue you can cheer without noticing who is under the roof.

A parent chasing the spectacle should say, before that ending, that he hands over the one thing he was set apart to keep. He brings the place down on his captors and on himself. You do not leave with a people housed and safe. You leave with a warning about a word that did not hold. The pageant is how they sold the warning.

Journal

Keep Samson and Delilah in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Republic and Temperance 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 Weight

54 instead of 46

The Weight is still a history film, and it scores 54 instead of 46. What you gain is household: The daughter is the true stake.

The eight

5
Industry
His task is a strength he was set apart to use, and he spends it.
3
Household
The woman is how the vow breaks, not a marriage the story is making.
6
Piety
He was set apart, and the whole story is a vow that does not hold.
7
Courage
Blinded, he pulls the temple down on the people who captured him.
3
Republic
The last act crushes his captors and himself, which leaves no town.
4
Temperance
He breaks the vow for a woman and only stops when the strength is gone.
7
Truth
He tells the secret of his hair, and blindness is the bill that follows.
2
Stewardship
The temple comes down, and the rubble is not a home for anyone.

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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.