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Film · Biograph · 1909

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The Sealed Room

29Leave it.

The king walls them up, and jealousy is the entire picture.

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The review

The jealousy is the whole plot. A king walls up a wife and her lover. The punishment is the wall. Griffith, a reel. A teen can watch it. I will not describe the death. The room is the sentence. I came out with a marriage closed into a room, and nothing else I trust.

He has the power and he spends it on the wall. That is not a court. It is spite with a crown. No conscience stops him. Nothing is left afterward but the room. A teen can take the idea if nobody calls it tragic romance. The bill for the broken promise is the wall. That is the picture.

Journal

Keep The Sealed Room in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 29. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry 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?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Godfather

41 instead of 29

The Godfather is still a drama film, and it scores 41 instead of 29. What you gain is industry: The family is grimly competent.

The eight

2
Industry
A king spends his power sealing a room, which is not a job.
5
Household
A wife and her lover are walled up, and jealousy is the whole plot.
2
Piety
Jealousy runs the reel, and no conscience stops the king.
2
Courage
The king risks nothing he would miss; he only closes a room.
3
Republic
The room is the sentence, a private wall standing in for a court.
2
Temperance
Jealousy is not put down; the wall is what that want builds.
5
Truth
The marriage promise fails, and the wall is the bill that follows.
2
Stewardship
What remains is the wall, and the room is the sentence.

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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.

Take controlThis scores 29. Cleopatra cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

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.