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Film · Paramount · 1917

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The Poor Little Rich Girl

54Watch it awake.

Everything in the house but attention, and a grown Pickford is playing the lonely girl.

The review

The title is the joke and the point. A rich girl is lonely in a house that has everything except attention. Mary Pickford plays the child. She was grown. Say so before the cooing starts. A child can watch it. One of the 1917 draws, and not the 1936 Temple musical. I do not want that later picture wandering into this one.

I felt the missing attention harder than any gag. A house full of things, and no person whose work is the girl: that is a household failing, and the picture knows it. The star is a woman doing a child's part, so the loneliness is acted by someone who already had a childhood. Watch it if you want the reminder. Then don't go buy an object because you were out of the room.

Journal

Keep The Poor Little Rich Girl in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 54. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Courage 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

ParaNorman

66 instead of 54

ParaNorman is still a family film, and it scores 66 instead of 54. What you gain is courage: He walks toward the person everyone else stones.

The eight

4
Industry
Money has done the buying, and nobody's job in that house is the girl.
8
Household
A rich girl is lonely where everything is present except a person's attention.
6
Piety
It can stop a parent: a full house is not the same as seeing the child.
3
Courage
She chooses no risk; the house forgets her, and that forgetting is the trouble.
3
Republic
The failure sits in one rich house, not in a duty to a town or a law.
7
Temperance
Everything except attention is not enough, so the pile of things is refused.
6
Truth
The title tells the truth, and hides that Pickford, playing the girl, was grown.
6
Stewardship
The house kept the goods and did not keep the child who had to live there.

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Aang

54Watch it awake.

The original measure stands: a child is not only a weapon. This poster has not earned a new score.

The review

Aang, in the story people love, runs from a duty and then picks it up without becoming cruel. Friends are not a squad. The enemy is an empire, and the answer is not a prettier empire. A new picture with his name on it can keep that or spend it. The tile shows the name and a Paramount mark.

Do not give the new film the old affection for free. Watch twenty minutes. If the boy is a brand and the bending is the product, you already have the series, which did the harder thing. If he is still the one who will not win by murder, stay.

Journal

Keep Aang in the record.