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Film · Veriscope · 1897

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The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight

39Leave it.

It's a real fight on film, about a hundred minutes, and no story comes with the ticket.

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The review

There is no plot. Corbett and Fitzsimmons fought in Carson City, the camera stayed about a hundred minutes, and the crowd paid theater prices. Women came. The papers scolded them. A teen can watch a boxing match. I can say all of that without turning a purchase into a story.

People call it the first feature because of the length. I won't describe the blows, and I won't paste a lesson on a reel that never had one. If we put any of it on, we watch what the ticket bought, then we stop.

Journal

Keep The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 39. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Temperance 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

God With Us

50 instead of 39

God With Us is still a documentary film, and it scores 50 instead of 39. What you gain is piety: The title aims at worship.

The eight

6
Industry
Two men fight in Carson City, which is the job the crowd paid to see.
1
Household
No marriage or child is on the reel; the crowd is the company.
2
Piety
The papers scolded the women who came; the picture does not stop.
6
Courage
Corbett and Fitzsimmons risk a real fight with the camera running.
5
Republic
Carson City hosted a paying crowd, and the papers made a scandal of it.
2
Temperance
The ticket buys a fight with no plot, and the want is the product.
7
Truth
The camera recorded a real prizefight; the claim is length, not a story.
2
Stewardship
After the ticket, a reel of a match and a scolding in the papers remain.

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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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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?

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

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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.