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#     Acme::MetaSyntactic::counting_to_one -- A selection of various movie titles
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package Acme::MetaSyntactic::counting_to_one;
use strict;
use Acme::MetaSyntactic::List;
our @ISA = qw( Acme::MetaSyntactic::List );
our $VERSION = '1.000';
__PACKAGE__->init();
1;

=encoding utf8

=head1 NAME

Acme::MetaSyntactic::counting_to_one - The "movies where you count up to one" theme

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This list gives the names of some movies
where you only need to count up to one or,
in some cases, up to zero. More precisely:

If you count the number of gunshots in I<M*A*S*H>
(a Korean-war film), you obtain a count of one.

The same thing with I<The Man Who Never Was> (a WWII movie)
gives a result of zero.

If you count the number of surviving characters at the end
of I<The Trench>, you obtain a count of one.

If you count the number of female characters
in I<Dr Strangelove>, you obtain a count of one.

On the other hand, if you count the number of male characters
in I<Huit Femmes> (I<Eight Women>), you obtain a count of one.

If you count the number of times you see John Belushi's
eyes in I<The Blues Brothers>, you obtain a count of one. If you prefer Dan Acroyd's
or Cab Calloway's eyes, you obtain a count of zero.

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from the forehead to the chin. A "sexy" scene is a scene
in which Maid Marian appears with her whole bare head:
face, ears, long flowing hear. Yet, from the neck down,
she is still fully clothed.

=item The Bridges at Toko-Ri

This film includes a scene where Brubaker (William Holden), his wife
(Grace Kelly) and their two girls take a Japanese bath. But don't
hold your breath, the angles of view and the ripples in the water
prevent you from seeing more than the Hays Code would permit.

=item Rope

This is a movie with five reels, yet with seemingly
only one camera shot. Actually, from time to time,
the camera zooms towards a dark object, such as
James Stewart's suit or the lid of a wooden trunk.
Then, when the camera zooms out, you notice a slightly
different rendering of the colors. But it is customary
to pretend not noticing that and to wonder how Hitchcock
did this feat. The contributor does not agree. This movie
is one of the few Hitchcock movies he dislikes.

=item Le Fils de Caroline Chérie

Actually, Caroline appears only something like 0.05 times,
rounded up to one. The entire movie is about her son,
living in Spain during the Napoleonic War and
looking for his mother. His quest is fulfilled at
the very end of the movie and he sees at last
her mother exiting from a stagecoach. But you
barely see her foot and ankle and the film
ends on this picture. By the way, nothing
ensures that this foot and this ankle are
Martine Carol's (the actress playing Caroline
in both other Caroline Chérie movies).

=back

=head1 CONTRIBUTOR

Jean Forget.

=head1 CHANGES

=over 4

=item *

2012-11-19 - v1.000

Published as the last theme submitted before
the release of Acme-MetaSyntactic version 0.99,
in Acme-MetaSyntactic-Themes version 1.028.

=item *

2012-10-21

Jean selected I<counting_to_one> as the theme name.

=item *

2012-09-25

Updated version submitted by Jean Forget.

=item *

2006-07-11

Submitted by Jean Forget as the I<movies> theme.

=back

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<Acme::MetaSyntactic>, L<Acme::MetaSyntactic::List>.

=cut

__DATA__
# names
MASH
The_Man_Who_Never_Was
The_Trench
Dr_Strangelove
Huit_Femmes
The_Blues_Brothers
The_Godfather
Fahrenheit_451
Monty_Python_Holy_Grail
Silent_Movie
Robin_Hood
The_Bridges_at_Toko_Ri
Casablanca
Rope
Le_Fils_de_Caroline_Cherie
A_Streetcar_Named_Desire
The_Night_of_the_Iguana
Cat_on_a_hot_tin_Roof
Three_Ages
The_Navigator
College
Steamboat_Bill_Jr
The_Cameraman
Monkey_Business
Horse_Feathers
Duck_Soup
A_Night_at_the_Opera
Go_West
The_Big_Store
A_Night_in_Casablanca
Love_Happy