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Film · Magna · 1955

Oklahoma!

Name: Oklahoma! scores 46 — Live Historic
Item: Oklahoma!
Rating: 46
Author: Live Historic

46Watch it awake.

The songs are lovely, and the picnic still pushes the hired hand out of the chorus.

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The review

The songs are what people keep, and the musical mostly wants the picnic. A territory is about to become a state. A farm girl. A cowboy and a hired hand who both want her. A community, and a dream ballet. The hired hand is the dark thread. A family can watch it. You should still notice who gets pushed out of the song.

I liked the courting. I did not like how easily the sunny numbers carry you past him. He is not a guest. He is the man the community will not quite include, and the picture knows he is dark without letting that trouble the picnic for long. If the kids watch, say that out loud. A state is being born, and somebody is already outside the chorus.

Journal

Keep Oklahoma! in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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

Consider this

My Fair Lady

58 instead of 46

My Fair Lady is still a musical film, and it scores 58 instead of 46. What you gain is industry: Speech is taught as drill, and the drill is the plot, not a montage of charm.

The eight

5
Industry
Farm, cowboy, and hired hand are the jobs sitting under the picnic.
7
Household
A farm girl and two men who want her are the marriage the town expects.
3
Piety
The picnic matters more than any qualm about the hired hand.
4
Courage
The dark thread is a real danger the songs mostly dance around.
6
Republic
A territory is becoming a state while one man is pushed out of the song.
3
Temperance
You are steered toward the courting and away from who stands outside.
5
Truth
The hired hand is the part of the town the happy numbers will not hold.
4
Stewardship
A new state is coming, and the chorus has already sorted who is extra.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 1933

42nd Street

46Watch it awake.

The rehearsal is real work, and Berkeley still turns the girls into a pattern.

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The review

Start with the sick man, not the pattern. A Broadway director is ill, a chorus girl has to go on, and the show must not close. Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Warner Baxter. The rehearsal is the work. This is the picture that announced the Warner chorus line, a hit in the year King Kong led. I believed the rehearsal more than the fame.

Busby Berkeley turns the girls into a pattern. The bodies are the machine. A house can watch it, and you can say that without sneering at the dancers' job. The job is real. The pattern is the sell. Opening night is a grind. A person is not a shape you repeat until the song ends.

Journal

Keep 42nd Street in the record.