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Film · Fox · 1917

Cleopatra

Name: Cleopatra scores 13 — Live Historic
Item: Cleopatra
Rating: 13
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13Leave it.

The print is gone, so I will not pretend I watched Theda Bara's Cleopatra.

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The review

I have not seen the 1917 Cleopatra, and I am not going to fake a viewing. Theda Bara as the queen. Fox, named among that year's draws. A spectacle of the vamp. The print is gone. This is not the 1934 picture and not the 1963 one. What survives is the reputation and the stills.

The country bought a body and a barge it can no longer see. That is as far as I will go. I will not invent a court, a speech, or an ending, and I will not send anyone to a screen that is not there. If the name comes up, say the print is lost. A still is not the film. A later queen is a different picture.

Journal

Keep Cleopatra in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 13. 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.

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Richard III

26 instead of 13

Richard III is still a history film, and it scores 26 instead of 13. What you gain is stewardship: What lasted is Warde's performance, among the oldest American features.

The eight

2
Industry
What was sold was a body and a barge, not work a house can still see.
0
Household
No parent or child is in what survives, only a vamp's reputation.
2
Piety
The reputation that remains is the vamp, not a conscience I can check.
0
Courage
No risk is left to name; the 1917 print does not survive.
0
Republic
No city or law remains to see; Fox's print of Cleopatra is gone.
2
Temperance
The country bought a body and a barge, which is a want with nothing left.
3
Truth
Reputation and stills remain, and they are not a film you can test.
1
Stewardship
Nothing of the picture is left for a house to keep or to put on.

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Film · Universal · 1978

Animal House

13Leave it.

It takes the wreckers' side, and you can feel later comedies learning that trick.

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The review

The dean wants the fraternity shut, and the film never seriously asks whether he has a reason. It takes the wreckers' side. A parade is destroyed. The school is a prop. Damage plays as charm, and a long line of comedies learned that trick from this one.

People had a huge time with it. That is not the same as a good thing to leave on. The nerve on screen is mostly the nerve to break a ceremony you will not rebuild. I would not hand this to a teenager as a picture of school. The laugh is borrowed from a town the movie does not intend to pay back.

Journal

Keep Animal House in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 13. 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

Sixteen Candles

26 instead of 13

Sixteen Candles is still a comedy film, and it scores 26 instead of 13. What you gain is household: A family forgets a daughter's sixteenth.

The eight

1
Industry
The school is a prop, and nobody's work is asked to matter.
1
Household
A fraternity is the set, not a family anyone has to keep.
1
Piety
The film sides with the wreckers and does not let conscience in.
2
Courage
The risk is expulsion, spent on smashing a parade.
1
Republic
They destroy a parade and owe the town nothing back.
1
Temperance
Damage is played as charm, and the next wreck is the reward.
2
Truth
The dean's reasons never get a fair hearing on screen.
1
Stewardship
A ceremony is ruined, and later comedies copied the wreck.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

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Cleopatra

Keep Cleopatra in the record.

Richard III

Animal House

Keep Animal House in the record.

Sixteen Candles

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