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Film · Paramount · 1976

The Shootist

Name: The Shootist scores 55 — Live Historic
Item: The Shootist
Rating: 55
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55Watch it awake.

An old gunman wants a quiet death, and the town will not allow it. The boy is watching.

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The review

A doctor tells a famous gunfighter he has cancer. He takes a room with a widow and her son. He would like the last days to be a room and not a performance. The town has already decided he is a story.

He does not get to put the gun down all the way. That is the honest part. The boy is in the house the whole time, choosing which man to copy: the legend, or the man who was tired of it. Watch it for that choice. Do not let the last shootout be the only thing he remembers.

Journal

Keep The Shootist in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Republic 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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Rio Bravo

66 instead of 55

Rio Bravo is still a western film, and it scores 66 instead of 55. What you gain is industry: Keeping a prisoner, deputizing, and waiting out a siege are the job, done plainly.

The eight

4
Industry
The work he is known for is killing. He is late in trying to stop.
7
Household
A widow lets him a room. Her son is deciding which man to become.
5
Piety
He wants a death that is not a show. The town wants the show.
6
Courage
He faces the end he was told is coming, and he still cannot leave the gun.
4
Republic
The town treats a famous killer as an event.
5
Temperance
He is trying to quit the habit. The last day will not let him.
7
Truth
The doctor tells him the plain fact. The legend is the story the town prefers.
6
Stewardship
What he can still leave the boy is a warning, if the boy is looking.

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Film · New Line · 1984

A Nightmare on Elm Street

55Watch it awake.

The first one is a parents' secret and a girl who will not sleep. The sequels sold the joke.

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The review

People know the glove and the joke. That came later. This one is a dead killer in dreams, a street of parents who share a secret about how he died, and a girl who has to stay awake. The sequels turned him into a punchline. The first film is still the adults' lie.

Not for children. If a teenager is going to meet it anyway, put the secret in front of the monster. Sleep is the ordinary thing she would like to have, and she gives it up because the block will not say what it did. I would rather a house remember a girl who will not lie down on that pact than remember a quip. Leave the later ones off.

Journal

Keep A Nightmare on Elm Street in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Temperance 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

Alien

66 instead of 55

Alien is still a horror film, and it scores 66 instead of 55. What you gain is industry: A towing crew with ranks and a quarantine rule, and the job is the plot.

The eight

2
Industry
Staying awake is survival here, not a job anyone is paid to do.
7
Household
Parents share a secret, and their children are the ones who pay.
6
Piety
The adults buried how he died, and a girl refuses to sleep through it.
8
Courage
She gives up sleep, the thing a person would miss by morning.
7
Republic
A whole street of parents owes the truth and keeps a pact instead.
3
Temperance
Later films turned him into a joke people wanted to see again.
8
Truth
The parents' secret is the bill that arrives in the children's dreams.
3
Stewardship
What the sequels passed along was a killer people learned to laugh at.

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