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Film · Paramount · 1915

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The Girl of the Golden West

35Leave it.

DeMille's west is a theater set, and the saloon girl holds the room they want.

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The review

DeMille took Belasco's stage west and filmed a saloon girl, a bandit, and a sheriff. The California is one the theater invented. The house can sit through it. The west is a set. I got impatient with that. The woman is the one with the room everybody wants, which is the actual center, not the invented camp around her.

Don't tell a child this is how California was. Say it is how a play wanted the west to look. Sheriff and bandit are parts that theater already had. She holds the room they both want. That's more specific than a western postcard, and it is still a set. Pleasant enough for one night. Empty if you wanted a real place left afterward.

Journal

Keep The Girl of the Golden West in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 35. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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

Django Unchained

43 instead of 35

Django Unchained is still a western film, and it scores 43 instead of 35. What you gain is household: He goes back for his wife.

The eight

5
Industry
She works the saloon; the sheriff and the bandit are the other trades.
3
Household
No marriage is named; the room everybody wants is where she works.
3
Piety
A sheriff is present, and nothing says conscience moves the bandit.
4
Courage
A bandit and a sheriff both want the room, and she is the one in it.
4
Republic
The sheriff stands for the law inside a California the theater invented.
3
Temperance
A saloon is the setting, and the room is what everybody wants.
3
Truth
The west is a set, so this is not a report from California.
3
Stewardship
What remains is a stage camp, not a place the people get to keep.

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Spectre

35Leave it.

Brand maintenance with a funeral in it. The craft is professional. The reason is thin.

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The review

There is a real public question under the tux: who watches the watchers when every camera is one system. The film picks the question up and sets it down for a childhood grievance that makes a franchise feel like a family saga. It is not a family saga. It is a product arranging its villains into one line.

Adults who like the craft can see the craft. Do not call it serious because it is gloomy. Gloom is cheap. The question about the cameras was the part worth keeping, and they spent it.

Journal

Keep Spectre in the record.