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Film · Warner Bros. · 1928

The Singing Fool

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Rating: 25
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25Leave it.

Jolson sells a dead child and sings the hit in blackface, and I would not leave it on.

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Al Jolson is the singer. He loses his wife, then his little boy, and Sonny Boy is the tear the country bought. The crowd was larger than The Jazz Singer in those early sound years. The child dies. I'm not lingering on that. What I won't skip is the rest of the act.

Blackface numbers are part of the performance, and the film treats them as the show. That is not a neutral musical. I wouldn't put it on and call the crying harmless. If adults watch, somebody has to say the makeup out loud. The song is what they sold. The boy is how they sold it.

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Keep The Singing Fool in the record.

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The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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.

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The Greatest Showman

40 instead of 25

The Greatest Showman is still a musical film, and it scores 40 instead of 25. What you gain is courage: The performers walk into a room that came to gawk, and stay standing.

The eight

4
Industry
Jolson's job is the act, and blackface numbers are treated as the show.
3
Household
He loses a wife and a little boy, and the boy is the tear they sold.
2
Piety
Nothing in the act lets a conscience stop the number or the makeup.
2
Courage
The losses happen to him; he never risks a life he still gets to keep.
2
Republic
The country bought Sonny Boy, and nobody owes that child a refusal.
2
Temperance
The tear-song trains a crowd to want another cry, and the film sells it.
3
Truth
The child dies, and blackface is played as if it were only the performance.
2
Stewardship
Left behind: a hit song, a dead child, and blackface as entertainment.

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Film · Fox · 1916

A Daughter of the Gods

25Leave it.

Kellerman's island story is for a teen only after you say why Fox paid.

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Fox spent real money on a fantasy, and the swim was the sell. Annette Kellerman plays a swimmer. There's a tyrant and an island. A teen can watch the story, and I'd split that sentence before anyone sits. The costume, and the lack of it, was the argument in the papers, so it is adult enough on that point. I will not describe a body. The body was why Fox paid. Say the sentence and stop.

I don't mind a tale with a tyrant in it. I mind pretending the check was for the island. Swimming is real work, and the studio used the swimmer as the advertisement. If a teen follows the story, name the argument in the papers first and leave the rest unsaid. Adults who already know why it cost so much don't need the rest told.

Journal

Keep A Daughter of the Gods in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 25. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

38 instead of 25

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is still a fantasy film, and it scores 38 instead of 25. What you gain is temperance: One reel for a nickelodeon does not train you to wait for a sequel.

The eight

4
Industry
Kellerman's swimming is real work; the body, not the island, is why Fox paid.
2
Household
A tyrant and an island, and no marriage, parent, or child is the life here.
2
Piety
A tyrant fantasy does not show a conscience stopping the one who holds power.
3
Courage
She swims the fantasy; the risk the papers bought was the costume, not a rescue.
2
Republic
A tyrant rules the island, and the picture is not a civic argument.
2
Temperance
The swim was the sell, and the papers were trained to argue the costume.
3
Truth
The fantasy is not a report; the honest part is why Fox wrote the check.
2
Stewardship
An expensive picture leaves a costume argument, not the island the money claimed.

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The Singing Fool

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