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David Lean wouldn't be allowed to make movies today, John Ford would be forced to turn John Wayne into a 30-something failure-to-launch hipster whose big moment is missing the toilet in the vomit scene in Hangover Ten.
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The ten-second scene was burned into his brain with perfect clarity.
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The most suggestive scene comes within the first ten minutes, when a young doctor named Merivel (Robert Downey, Jr.) places his hand on the beating heart of a living man.
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So if one atheist or attention-grabbing student in a public school is offended by a prayer, the Ten Commandments or a nativity scene on school property, liberals demand that the offending object must go.
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The answer, I think, is partly structural and script-driven: the ''funny'' moments are whiffed, the dialogue is ''scene-y, '' and each reaction shot is held a second or ten too long, leaving the actors hanging.
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