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Film · Goldwyn · 1930

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Whoopee!

16Leave it.

Cantor got the crowd, and the blackface is part of the act.

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The review

Say the makeup before the songs. Whoopee! puts Eddie Cantor out West, a hypochondriac tangled in a romance and a chase, in two-strip color. Blackface numbers are part of his act here. Not a scrap in the background, and not a thing I'll file under the year and skip. A house that watches has to name them. The plot is a farce. The crowd came for Cantor.

The color and the star explain the gross. They don't make the blackface a small fee for a musical. If this goes on, the naming is the adult's job in the room, not a shrug after the laughs. I wouldn't hand it to a child as a harmless old show. The farce is thin. The blackface is the fact that stays.

Journal

Keep Whoopee! in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 16. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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

Gigi

26 instead of 16

Gigi is still a musical film, and it scores 26 instead of 16. What you gain is industry: They teach her a craft.

The eight

2
Industry
Cantor's act is the product, and the plot around it is only a farce.
2
Household
A romance and a chase, tangled for laughs, not a marriage anyone keeps.
1
Piety
Blackface numbers stay in the act, and nothing in the film stops them.
1
Courage
A hypochondriac chase out West, with nothing real he would miss.
2
Republic
The crowd came for Cantor; the film never pays what the makeup owes.
2
Temperance
People bought the star, and the farce trains you to want the next bit.
2
Truth
Blackface is part of the act, and the film does not treat that as a lie.
1
Stewardship
What the gross left is Cantor in color, blackface included, not a household.

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Film · 20th Century · 1975

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

16Leave it.

Funny if you already live in the costume. Not for kids, and not a little church.

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The review

People dressed for it. A newly engaged couple breaks down and enters a castle where a scientist from another planet is building a man. The songs became a midnight ritual. The joke is innocence walking into appetite and staying. If you are already inside that joke, it is funny. It is adult, and it is not for children.

They arrived engaged. The night does not hand that back. Staying is the punchline. I would not play this where a kid can hear the songs and decide the castle is the more interesting life. A ritual you dress up for is still a ritual, and this one is organized around wanting, not around getting anybody home.

Journal

Keep The Rocky Horror Picture Show in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 16. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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

Gigi

26 instead of 16

Gigi is still a musical film, and it scores 26 instead of 16. What you gain is industry: They teach her a craft.

The eight

2
Industry
A scientist builds a man for a song. It is a party, not a craft.
2
Household
They arrive engaged. The night spends that promise and does not return it.
1
Piety
No conscience pulls them back out. The joke is that they stay.
2
Courage
A breakdown and a castle door are not a risk taken for anyone else.
1
Republic
The ritual is a midnight crowd in costume, not a duty to anybody.
1
Temperance
Innocence walks into wanting, and the film treats staying as the laugh.
2
Truth
The engagement was a promise. The castle treats it as a setup.
2
Stewardship
What lasted is a dress-up ritual, not a life anybody could take home.

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Finding the page.

Live Historic · The Rocky Horror Picture Show · 16IMDb

Whoopee!

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