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Film · Universal · 1916

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The Dumb Girl of Portici

51Watch it awake.

Pavlova's only feature is a mute dancer's work, with a Naples revolt beside it.

The review

Lois Weber directed Anna Pavlova's only feature, and the dance is why anyone paid for it. She plays a mute dancer in Naples, with a revolt around her. A house can watch it. I did, half tired, and the useful line for the kids was simple: the body here is a dancer's work, not a dare.

She does not speak. I am not going to write her a line. The revolt is the public trouble beside the performance. If you want to show a child that a star's job can be the subject, this is a decent night for it. If you came for a plot about Naples, you will look past the thing the picture was built to keep.

Journal

Keep The Dumb Girl of Portici in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety 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

Don't Say Good Luck

63 instead of 51

Don't Say Good Luck is still a drama film, and it scores 63 instead of 51. What you gain is household: The whole film is a girl who will not leave a mother who is ill, and a house trying to keep its shape.

The eight

8
Industry
Pavlova's dance is the work, and it is why the feature was made.
2
Household
A mute dancer and a revolt, with no marriage or child in the facts.
3
Piety
Conscience is not the motor; Weber stages a dancer inside a revolt.
5
Courage
A revolt in Naples sits around her, so the public risk is already there.
6
Republic
The revolt is the city's stake, set beside one dancer's performance.
6
Temperance
The body is presented as a dancer's labor, not as a dare to the house.
5
Truth
She is mute, and the picture was made to hold the dance, not a speech.
6
Stewardship
Her only feature leaves the dance Weber built the picture to keep.

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Barbie in the Nutcracker

51Watch it awake.

A small courage story inside a toy commercial. The courage is real enough for a child.

The review

Clara is told she is only a girl, and the plot contradicts the aunt without turning Clara into a brand ambassador for defiance. She is kind to a toy, steady in a strange country, and willing to be the one who moves when the mice have the room. The Nutcracker is a prince who needs help. That order is fine.

It is also a doll's film, and the last frame is a product. Do not pretend otherwise. The middle is still a usable picture of a girl who acts. Put it on for a young child. Do not build a theology out of it.

Journal

Keep Barbie in the Nutcracker in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Republic 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

Room on the Broom

66 instead of 51

Room on the Broom is still a family film, and it scores 66 instead of 51. What you gain is industry: The broom is a tool.