Film · France · 1898
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The Four Troublesome Heads
20Leave it.
Heads come off, sing, and return; tell a child it is a trick, not a wound.
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The review
Tell them before it starts. The body is a trick and not an injury. Méliès takes his head off, sets the heads on a table, and they sing. He smashes them and they are back. 1898. The copies will not behave. A child can watch it once that sentence has been said. The joke is multiplication.
I did not flinch for a wound, because there isn't one, and I don't want a child supplying one. He spends his own face as a prop. They return after the smash, which is the proof. Nothing is kept, nothing is owed, nothing hurts. It is a short comedy about copies that will not sit still. Say the trick. Then you can laugh.
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The glance
Industry and Household and Piety and Courage 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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Consider this
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
33 instead of 20
Ferris Bueller's Day Off is still a comedy film, and it scores 33 instead of 20. What you gain is courage: Cameron finally refuses his father's fear.
The eight
- 3Industry
The labor is Méliès multiplying his head so the copies can misbehave.
- 1Household
No parent or child lives here; the extra heads are only props.
- 1Piety
He smashes the heads for the joke, and the joke does not stop him.
- 1Courage
Nothing real is risked; the body is a trick and not an injury.
- 1Republic
A table of singing heads owes nothing to a neighbor or a town.
- 2Temperance
One head will not do, and the copies return after he smashes them.
- 5Truth
It looks like harm until you are told the body is a trick, not a wound.
- 2Stewardship
He smashes them, they return, and the only thing kept is the gag.
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