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Film · MGM · 1925

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The Big Parade

55Watch it awake.

He comes home short a leg, so don't let the title call it a parade.

The review

King Vidor and John Gilbert made the war picture the 1920s actually crowded in for. An idle American enlists, falls for a French farm girl, and walks into the Great War with his friends. He comes back short a leg. A teen can watch it. I would not linger on the wounds, and I would not let the title do the selling.

The crowd numbers will not sit still. Some tallies print 18 to 22 million. The studio ledger prints about 6 million. I won't pick one. Either way it leads. Either way the name is a parade and the picture is not. That's the correction I'd make on the drive home: the sending looks festive, and the man who returns is missing a leg.

Journal

Keep The Big Parade in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety 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

Casablanca

68 instead of 55

Casablanca is still a war film, and it scores 68 instead of 55. What you gain is stewardship: He hands the future to people who can use it.

The eight

5
Industry
An idle American enlists; the army is the first work the story gives him.
6
Household
He falls for a French farm girl and comes home short a leg.
3
Piety
Enlisting is not staged as a conscience that could have held him back.
8
Courage
He walks into the Great War with his friends and returns short a leg.
6
Republic
Friends go to war together under a title that calls the sending a parade.
5
Temperance
The title offers a parade the picture will not let the crowd enjoy.
7
Truth
Some tallies print 18 to 22 million; the studio ledger prints about 6.
4
Stewardship
He comes home short a leg, which is less body than the town sent.

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Avatar

55Watch it awake.

The land is not a warehouse. The sermon is right. The body he borrows, and the war that follows, are the part to hold lightly.

The review

A corporation will burn a place for a rock, and the film is not shy about naming that. That is the line to keep. Jake Sully's answer is to become the people he was sent to betray, and then to lead their war, which is a thinner answer than the warning.

Watch it for the warning. Do not take the blue body as a permission to throw your own life away for a feeling of belonging.

Journal

Keep Avatar in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?

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

Consider this

Demon Slayer: Mugen Train

65 instead of 55

Demon Slayer: Mugen Train is still a action film, and it scores 65 instead of 55. What you gain is courage: He stays when the dream offers him his family back.