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Film · 20th Century Fox · 1961

The Hustler

Name: The Hustler scores 46 — Live Historic
Item: The Hustler
Rating: 46
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46Watch it awake.

Watch it awake. Winning is the hunger, and the man who feeds it is not a coach.

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The review

He can play pool better than anyone he meets, and he needs the fact to be seen. An older gambler offers to stake him and takes a piece of him for the service. A woman who limps and drinks and tells the truth attaches herself to him and is not improved by the attachment. The film is famous for the games. The games are the temptation to miss the sentence. The sentence is that a gift handed to a user becomes a product, and the person with the gift helps.

Adults. The rooms are full of smoke and use, and a young player will want the posture more than the warning. If you watch it, watch the woman as closely as the table. She is the one who says what the stake is. Ask, at the end, whether he won anything he can take home. The film's answer is quieter than the last shot's reputation. A reputation for cool is exactly the danger the picture is about.

Journal

Keep The Hustler in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

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

Rocky III

59 instead of 46

Rocky III is still a drama film, and it scores 59 instead of 46. What you gain is temperance: The soft life is the excess he has to drop if the work is going to matter.

The eight

7
Industry
Hours at the table are the craft, and the craft is shown as practice, not as magic.
3
Household
He cannot be a household to the woman who is trying to be one to him.
3
Piety
Almost no reverence except her clarity about what he is selling.
6
Courage
He stays in a game that can break him. The nerve is real and pointed at a trophy.
3
Republic
The pool hall is a public of gamblers. He owes it a spectacle, and he pays.
3
Temperance
The drink and the win are the appetites, and they are not ordered by the end.
8
Truth
A man who buys a piece of a winner is a user. The film does not glamorize the purchase.
4
Stewardship
Adults can inherit the warning about a gift. A gift in this picture eats the person holding it.

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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.