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Film · United Artists · 1925

The Eagle

Name: The Eagle scores 56 — Live Historic
Item: The Eagle
Rating: 56
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56Watch it awake.

He masks up to right a family's loss, and the payback softens into a courtship.

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The review

Lighter than the sheik pictures, so this is the Valentino I'd try with the house. A Cossack officer is disgraced, becomes a masked thief to right a family's loss, and falls for the daughter of the man he is after. We can watch it together. I would not put those earlier ones on the same evening.

The mask is the romance. He had a post, lost it, and hid in order to answer what a family lost. Then the revenge softens into a courtship. I like that better than a grudge with no end, and it is still a man she cannot see plainly. Tell the kids the softening is the story. A mask is not a kind of honesty.

Journal

Keep The Eagle in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry is the thin one.

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

Casablanca

68 instead of 56

Casablanca is still a romance film, and it scores 68 instead of 56. What you gain is republic: A occupied city, and a man who stops pretending it is only a nightclub.

The eight

5
Industry
A disgraced Cossack officer takes up a masked thief's work.
6
Household
He means to right a family's loss, then falls for that man's daughter.
5
Piety
Righting a family's loss is the aim, and the revenge is let to soften.
6
Courage
Disgraced, he wears a thief's mask to answer what a family lost.
5
Republic
An officer, once disgraced, acts outside that service for a private loss.
7
Temperance
The revenge does not stay hungry; it softens into a courtship.
5
Truth
The mask hides who he is, and the courtship sits on that disguise.
6
Stewardship
The loss he sets out to right belongs to a family, not a prize he keeps.

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Film · Orion · 1984

Amadeus

56Watch it awake.

The music is a gift, and the man narrating it is not on your side.

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The review

Salieri is the one talking. He knows he is good, he knows the other man is better, and he calls that God's injustice. The film is not a note-by-note life of Mozart. A father, a wife, money, and a body are in it. The music is the evidence. The confession is the frame. I enjoyed the music and did not enjoy the man handing it to me.

Save it for a night when envy is worth talking about afterward. Nobody in the room should be asked to admire the narrator. He tells a truth about a gift he cannot match, then spends the truth on a grievance. The music does not need his permission, and the warning is how a gifted man talks once he has decided heaven owes him an apology.

Journal

Keep Amadeus in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance 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

Footloose

70 instead of 56

Footloose is still a drama film, and it scores 70 instead of 56. What you gain is piety: By the end the preacher is not a cartoon.