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The Student of Prague

29Leave it.

This is Wegener's 1913 bargain for a reflection, not the 1926 remake.

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The review

Somebody in this house said Prague and meant the wrong year. Paul Wegener, Germany, 1913. A student makes a bargain and loses his mirror image. The double does what he will not. This is the earlier picture. It isn't the 1926 remake, and it isn't an American gross.

A teen can watch it. I'd say the year out loud before the bargain, so nobody treats the double as a trick with no bill. He sells the reflection. The other one acts. That's the plot. Keep the later film out of the retelling or you've watched the wrong night.

Journal

Keep The Student of Prague in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 29. Yours can differ.

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?

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

Consider this

Sleepy Hollow

44 instead of 29

Sleepy Hollow is still a fantasy film, and it scores 44 instead of 29. What you gain is courage: He stays when his theory fails.

The eight

2
Industry
He is a student; the bargain is not a living that anyone keeps.
1
Household
No marriage, parent, or child is the life this bargain spends.
4
Piety
The double does what he will not, so his refusal does not govern.
2
Courage
Selling the reflection is a bargain, not a risk for someone else.
2
Republic
No law or town claims him; the double moves without his say.
3
Temperance
The bargain is the want, and the lost reflection is not restored.
7
Truth
The deal holds: he loses the image, and the double does the rest.
2
Stewardship
What remains is a man whose own reflection has been sold off.

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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.

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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.