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Film · MGM · 1929

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The Broadway Melody

39Leave it.

Two sisters get a New York chance, and their household does not survive it.

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The review

Two sisters come to New York to get into a revue, and one man stands between them. The songs stop the story. It was the first musical to win best picture, and it sounds like a film still learning to talk. Lists put it with Gold Diggers of Broadway at the top of the year. I won't invent a single winner. The clumsiness showed. I didn't trust the feelings the songs kept cutting off.

A house can watch it on a night when nobody needs a great picture. The household of the sisters does not survive the chance. That's what I'd say if the kids hear the songs and think a break is free. A man and a number get between two people who arrived together. It knows how to pause for the next song. It does not know how to keep them.

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The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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West Side Story

51 instead of 39

West Side Story is still a musical film, and it scores 51 instead of 39. What you gain is republic: A street is a public.

The eight

5
Industry
A revue is the job they came for, and the songs keep stopping the story.
6
Household
The sisters are the household, and that household does not survive the chance.
2
Piety
No conscience steps in when one man stands between the two sisters.
5
Courage
They come to New York for a revue and risk the bond they arrived with.
2
Republic
A New York revue is a crowd, not a neighbor, a law, or a town they owe.
3
Temperance
The chance and the next song outrank the sister who came with her.
5
Truth
It admits the sisters do not last, then stops the story for another song.
3
Stewardship
After the chance, a revue is left and the sisters' household is not.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 1972

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Deliverance

39Leave it.

They wanted a wild weekend, and the film never gives that weekend back.

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The review

Four suburban men wanted a last wild weekend on a river a dam is about to bury. They got a trip they were not built for. The river was the point, and then it was not. One of them is changed in a way the film does not heal. That refusal to tidy the ending is the honest part.

Adult. Do not describe the assault, and do not make a contest out of who can sit through it. The dam was already going to spend the river for people who do not live on it. One of them carries that change home. If someone in the room goes quiet, stay with that, not the canoe.

Journal

Keep Deliverance in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 39. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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The Manchurian Candidate

46 instead of 39

The Manchurian Candidate is still a thriller film, and it scores 46 instead of 39. What you gain is industry: The army and the campaign are work, shown as institutions that can be used.