FDR: American Badass!
- warm
- kinetic
- surreal
- cold
- funny
Warm, breathless, measured comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Chronicles the adventures of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as he rides a "wheelchair of death" to stop the world from being taking over by polio-carrying werewolves during WWII. A deadly menace that are led by Werewolf Hitler, Mussolini and Emperor Hirohito.
Our read · FDR: American Badass! (2012) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal comedy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of FDR
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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