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Frankly, I'd rather the film didn't make any money so that would teach Michael Keaton a lesson.
That lesson comes in as the last quote of the film: 'you can find me in the school any time.'
It adds more to the story to keep the interest of the newer generations and is a good lesson of how sometimes things can be taken away without a moments notice, and you have to work to get them back.
The death knell for MGM's Our Gang's was the fact that as Hal Roach's holdovers aged they were invariably replaced by an unlikable cast of untalented kids (the sole exception was Buckwheat) in unfunny plots that usually centered around a lesson.
This film is so contrived and idiotic in its attempts to be profound that it is a lesson in how not to write a script.
A remarkable lesson here.
And the moral lesson I have learned from "I, Claudius" is that we all know a few mini emperors - I know a Caligula, a wannabe Livia, some hardcore Messalinas (we call them hoochies around here), and I'm not sure if I am a Claudius or Tiberius, but I'll be happy either way so long that I find a Sejanus.
Therefore, it cannot be treated as a serious historical epic and it is not a history lesson whatsoever.
It's a lesson to all con artists out there - one way or another you'll get your comeuppance, if not at the hands of angry 'customers,' then angry giant ants.
a real Christmas story, very true to life with a lesson for everyone.
The makers of Finbar have obviously learned a lesson from this, and have made a film that is totally un-commercial.
It is not history lesson, it is fantasy.
One is trying to teach the others a lesson.
I was lucky enough to get to see this movie in a German lesson in school.
This movie is trying to teach the lesson that if you cry hard enough your loved ones will come back!? Bull!
Then finally at the end the memory of Ash and everyone else is erased so the lesson that fighting is bad is basically gone.
What transpires is a valuable lesson for all.
His travel back to the past takes unexpected turns, and makes a sharp lesson for him and the viewer.
The direction by Michael Mann is masterful, an object lesson in how to frame shots and let silence, as well as words - and music - work for the story.
Le Boucher is a lesson in suspense from French director Claude Chabrol.
It is a great lesson in story-telling as well...the simple truth is the ultimate scenario.
There is a lesson here: if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.
The demonstration effect of China may be compelling, with the lesson being that it is possible to implement the reforms needed to grow fast while staying in power.
Fifteen years of Middle East chaos unleashed by the 2003 Iraq war have taught the world one indisputable lesson: nobody in the White House, the CIA, Mossad, or the Saudi intelligence services has a clue as to what might happen next in the region.
It was only in trade policy that the lesson was learned more quickly.
That a country must take ownership of its reform program is not a new lesson.
That lesson has been fully internalized.
That lesson has been lost on most economists today, but not on the king of Bhutan – or on the many people who have come to recognize the limits of quantifiable wealth.
Emerging fintech services can take a lesson from the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba, which was quick in leveraging its payments platform, Alipay.
The question is whether the US will acknowledge the obvious lesson this time and change course.
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