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Film · France · 1905

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The Black Imp

16Leave it.

A minute of furniture that will not sit still, and then you are done.

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The review

I sat down thinking a room that won't behave might buy me one quiet minute. Méliès has an imp move the furniture, and a traveler cannot settle. That's the whole joke. A child can watch it. There is no story past the wrecked room.

I wouldn't build an evening on it. The imp is the cause, and once the furniture has misbehaved you've seen the trick. Put it on if the kids are already wound up and you want sixty seconds of someone else's mess, not yours.

Journal

Keep The Black Imp in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 16. Yours can differ.

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?

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

Consider this

The Kissing Booth 3

28 instead of 16

The Kissing Booth 3 is still a comedy film, and it scores 28 instead of 16. What you gain is household: A friendship and a father are in the frame.

The eight

2
Industry
A traveler trying to settle is not a job the reel cares about.
1
Household
No child, parent, or marriage; just a traveler and an imp.
1
Piety
Nothing in the traveler stops the imp; the wreck is the joke.
1
Courage
He loses a place to settle, not anything he would miss later.
1
Republic
No neighbor, law, or town is owed anything in this room.
2
Temperance
Each moving chair trains you to wait for the next one.
3
Truth
It never pretends the imp is anything but the cause of the mess.
2
Stewardship
What's left after is a minute of a room that will not behave.

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Film · 20th Century · 1975

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

16Leave it.

Funny if you already live in the costume. Not for kids, and not a little church.

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The review

People dressed for it. A newly engaged couple breaks down and enters a castle where a scientist from another planet is building a man. The songs became a midnight ritual. The joke is innocence walking into appetite and staying. If you are already inside that joke, it is funny. It is adult, and it is not for children.

They arrived engaged. The night does not hand that back. Staying is the punchline. I would not play this where a kid can hear the songs and decide the castle is the more interesting life. A ritual you dress up for is still a ritual, and this one is organized around wanting, not around getting anybody home.