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Film · Kalem · 1913

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The Vampire

29Leave it.

She uses him up, and anyone calling this the undead watched the wrong thing.

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

The review

Before Bara, and before anybody in this house reaches for a coffin. Robert Vignola directed. A woman draws a man off his respectable road and uses him up. The title means the Kipling poem, not the undead. Adult enough. A teen can watch it. She is the want. He is the fool.

I don't need a grave to explain it. He had a road and he left it. She uses him up, and the picture is content to let that be the story. Nothing puts the want down. I wouldn't leave it on as a joke about vampires. That joke would be the false part. A respectable life gets spent, and the spending is the point.

Journal

Keep The Vampire 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

The Godfather

41 instead of 29

The Godfather is still a drama film, and it scores 41 instead of 29. What you gain is courage: Michael sacrifices his soul with his eyes open.

The eight

4
Industry
He had a respectable road, and she draws him off it until he's used up.
4
Household
A man is used up; no marriage or child is kept in the frame.
2
Piety
He is the fool, and no conscience turns him back onto the road.
2
Courage
Leaving a respectable road for the want is not courage.
2
Republic
One man's private ruin, with no town and no law in the frame.
2
Temperance
She is the want, and the reel lets you watch him be used up.
5
Truth
The title means Kipling's poem; the undead reading is the false bill.
2
Stewardship
What remains of him is a man used up, off the road he had.

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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.