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Film · Warner Bros. · 1959

Rio Bravo

Name: Rio Bravo scores 66 — Live Historic
Item: Rio Bravo
Rating: 66
Author: Live Historic

66Worth an evening.

Worth an evening. He will not be bought, and he cannot hold the jail alone.

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The review

A sheriff arrests a killer whose brother has the money to hire the town. He is offered the easy version, which is to let the man go and call it peace. He refuses, and then he does the other hard thing: he accepts help from a drunk, a kid, and an old man the powerful people do not count. A woman who works in the saloon is a person in the strategy, not a reward at the end. The film takes its time. The time is the point. A siege is mostly waiting and judging who you can trust.

I would put this on before the westerns that think a fast draw is a personality. Ask why he turns down the first offers of help and takes the later ones. The answer is about whether the help is a way of buying him. A house can use that distinction the next time a favor comes with a string. One of the best of these years, and quieter than its reputation. The quiet is the confidence.

Journal

Keep Rio Bravo in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

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

High Noon

74 instead of 66

High Noon is still a western film, and it scores 74 instead of 66. What you gain is courage: He walks the street alone.

The eight

8
Industry
Keeping a prisoner, deputizing, and waiting out a siege are the job, done plainly.
5
Household
A deputy who drinks, a young gun, an old man, and a woman. The jail becomes the house.
4
Piety
Duty is the piety. He will not hand a prisoner to a rich man for peace.
8
Courage
He stays in a town where the brother's money has hired the other side.
8
Republic
The debt is the definition of the job: the town gets a law, or it gets a man with a payroll.
6
Temperance
The film is leisurely and does not confuse leisure with indifference.
7
Truth
The offer to let the prisoner go is a bribe, and nobody decent pretends it is a compromise.
7
Stewardship
A house inherits a man who will take help and will not take money.

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Film · 20th Century · 1979

Alien

66Worth an evening.

Ripley reads the quarantine rule. The company already decided the crew was expendable.

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The review

The fright is what people quote. The paperwork is what decides it. A commercial towing crew, not soldiers, answers a signal. The company wants the organism. On the forms the crew is expendable. Ripley, the warrant officer, reads the quarantine rule. Someone brings the organism back aboard anyway.

Adult, and I am not going to describe the body. She is not a chosen one. She is the officer whose work is to say no when the cargo is worth more to the firm than the people hauling it. Watch who treats them as a line item and who treats them as a crew. The rule was the promise. Breaking it is the bill, and the company had already signed the crew away.

Journal

Keep Alien in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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

Consider this

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

76 instead of 66

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is still a science-fiction film, and it scores 76 instead of 66. What you gain is stewardship: What he leaves is the crew alive, and a funeral held in space.