Good News
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- intimate
Cosy, breathless, gentle mgm / freed-unit, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.
Our read · Good News (1947) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded mgm · freed-unit · college entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive 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 Good News
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