Film · Metro · 1923
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Scaramouche
51Watch it awake.
A dead friend is the debt, and the Revolution is only weather around the duel.
The review
A friend is killed by a noble. That is the debt, and Ramon Novarro's lawyer becomes a stage swordsman to meet it. Metro, 1923, a large costume hit, not The Covered Wagon and not the 1952 remake. A teen can watch it. I wouldn't let them file it as a lesson on the French Revolution.
Around him the revolution is weather, and the duel is the debt he keeps. He leaves the law he trained for because someone he cared about is dead. Narrow courage, personal, not a town he has to hold. A costume crowd doesn't make the score any wider. Afterward, the sentence is short: he owed a friend, and the storm was not the point.
Journal
Keep Scaramouche in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household 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
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
63 instead of 51
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is still a adventure film, and it scores 63 instead of 51. What you gain is household: A cramped house that loves him.
The eight
- 6Industry
A lawyer becomes a stage swordsman after a noble kills his friend.
- 3Household
The life that moves him is a friend, not a spouse, a parent, or a child.
- 5Piety
A friend's death at a noble's hand is treated as a debt he will answer.
- 7Courage
He takes up the sword because a friend was killed by a noble.
- 5Republic
The French Revolution is the weather, not the duty the duel is keeping.
- 5Temperance
One friend's death, one debt, one duel: not a chase after the next thrill.
- 6Truth
A noble killed the friend, and the duel is how that debt gets kept.
- 4Stewardship
It settles a private score while a revolution blows past as weather.
Where to watch
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