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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.

If you count the number of times the word "Mafia" is pronounced
in I<The Godfather>, you obtain a count of zero.

If you count the number of alphabetic characters in Truffaut's
I<Fahrenheit 451>, not taking into account the books
being burned, you obtain a count of zero.

If you count the number of scenes which include a horse in
I<Monty Python's Holy Grail>, you obtain a count of one.

At the end of the same movie, if you count the number of names appearing in the final
credits, you obtain a count of zero.

If you count the number of words said during
Mel Brooks' I<Silent Movie>, you obtain a count of one.

If you count the number of sexy scenes in I<Robin Hood>
(the Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland version), you obtain a count of one.

If you count the number of times Grace Kelly appears naked in
I<The Bridges at Toko-Ri>, you obtain a count of one.

If you count the number of times Humphrey Bogart says "Play it again
Sam" in I<Casablanca>, despite what the movie buff lore says, you
obtain a count of zero.

If you count the number of sequences in I<Rope>,
you obtain a count of one.

If you watch I<Le Fils de Caroline Chérie> to have a look