Film · Vitagraph · 1915
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The Battle Cry of Peace
23Leave it.
Blackton stages an invasion so you'll want an army; it is an argument, not news.
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The review
Propaganda, and I'd say so before the lights drop. J. Stuart Blackton made a preparedness hit. America is invaded in the picture so the audience will want an army. A teen can watch it. It wants you afraid and armed. It is an argument, not a dispatch. The fear is the sell. I can sit through that and still refuse to file it next to a newsreel.
Nothing on the screen had to have happened. A country is used so a policy feels like a duty you already failed. You might argue defense on another night, with facts. This one does not earn belief by inventing the attack. If we watch, we name the scare and we don't let the fake invasion finish the talk.
Journal
Keep The Battle Cry of Peace in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
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The glance
Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
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Consider this
Dr. Strangelove
38 instead of 23
Dr. Strangelove is still a war film, and it scores 38 instead of 23. What you gain is truth: The inadequacy is the truth, and the film will not give you a competent savior.
The eight
- 3Industry
Blackton's job is the argument; the army it wants is a wish, not work shown.
- 2Household
No marriage or child is the life here; the invaded country is the prop.
- 2Piety
Fear is asked to move you, not a conscience that could refuse the sell.
- 3Courage
It calls for arms, but the risk is staged by an invasion that did not happen.
- 3Republic
It says you owe the country an army, and it invents the attack that proves it.
- 1Temperance
The fear is the sell, and a preparedness hit wants that fear kept fed.
- 2Truth
An imagined invasion offered as argument, not a dispatch from a real front.
- 2Stewardship
What it leaves is a frightened audience and a push to arm, not a record.
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