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Film · Warner Bros. · 1969

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The Wild Bunch

29Leave it.

Aging outlaws, a code, and a massacre they walk into. The code is not a virtue by itself.

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The review

An aging gang botches a robbery and runs into Mexico. A general hires them. They turn on him because he tortured one of their own. The film loves their competence and calls the loyalty a code.

Adult. The violence goes on, and I am not going to list it. The code is real between them. It is not a virtue by itself. A house does not need this as a picture of honor. If men you know quote it, ask who was in the square when the competence started.

Journal

Keep The Wild Bunch 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 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

Django Unchained

43 instead of 29

Django Unchained is still a western film, and it scores 43 instead of 29. What you gain is household: He goes back for his wife.

The eight

4
Industry
They are professionals at robbery and at a massacre. The skill is the lure.
2
Household
The gang is the only loyalty. No wife and no child is the point.
2
Piety
The code replaces conscience. It does not answer to anything above the gang.
6
Courage
They walk back in for one of their own, knowing what that walk is.
2
Republic
A general, a gang, a town used as a battlefield. No law they honor.
1
Temperance
The killing is prolonged, and the film wants you to admire it.
5
Truth
It does not pretend they are sheriffs. It does ask you to love the code.
1
Stewardship
What it hands a man is a style of dying. The square is left worse.

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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.