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Film · Edison · 1906

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The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend

29Leave it.

A short silly nightmare about supper, not a lesson about eating.

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The review

A man eats a heavy supper and the room will not stay still. A bed flies. He clings to a weathervane. Porter, 1906, from Winsor McCay's comic. A house can watch the reel. The food is the nightmare. The tricks are why it played, and they are tricks, not a plot I would retell in the morning.

It was a popular comedy. I don't need a second pass to know the joke, which is that supper got him. If the house wants something silly and short, this will do, and then everybody can sleep without a moral pinned to the weathervane.

Journal

Keep The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 29. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic 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

Scooby-Doo

41 instead of 29

Scooby-Doo is still a comedy film, and it scores 41 instead of 29. What you gain is courage: They go into the scary room for each other.

The eight

2
Industry
No job is on screen; a heavy supper starts the trouble.
2
Household
A man, a meal, and a bed, not a spouse or a child.
3
Piety
The nightmare follows the meal, and he does not stop eating first.
2
Courage
He clings to a weathervane because the tricks put him there.
1
Republic
A private dream after supper, with no neighbor or law in it.
5
Temperance
The food is the nightmare: the heavy supper will not let him rest.
5
Truth
Porter took the nightmare from Winsor McCay's comic.
3
Stewardship
A popular trick reel; what you keep is a flying bed and a bad supper.

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Film · 20th Century Fox · 1963

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Cleopatra

29Leave it.

The procession is the product. The affair is the plot, and the plot is not a life.

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It cost enough to nearly sink a studio, and the cost is not a quality. A queen manages Rome by managing two men, and the film is interested in the managing as a pageant and a love affair. The processions are long because the processions are what the money bought. I will not pretend the length is grandeur. Length is what you get when nobody was willing to cut the entrance.

The marriages in the way of the affair are treated as furniture. That is the part a house should not absorb. Adults can look at the barge as a document of a certain kind of Hollywood excess and then leave it. Do not sit a young person down in front of four hours in which the lesson is that history is a romance with better curtains. The crowds came. The number is not the crowds.

Journal

Keep Cleopatra in the record.