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Why Be Good? is a 1929 American sound comedy film produced by First National Pictures starring Colleen Moore and Neil Hamilton. While the film has no audible dialogue, it is accompanied by a Vitaphone soundtrack that features a musical score with sound effects and some synchronized singing.
Why be good? Because the consequences of doing good are more favorable than those of not being good. This can be seen no matter how we interpret the meaning of ‘being good’. For children, being good means obeying one’s parents. By being good we gain parental approval and avoid punishment.
Why Be Good?: Directed by William A. Seiter. With Colleen Moore, Neil Hamilton, Bodil Rosing, John St. Polis. A flapper with a dubious reputation enjoys a vivacious night of dancing and finds herself romantically linked to her boss.
- (571)
- Comedy, Drama, Musical
- William A. Seiter
- 1929-05-23
- 1. Being Bad Is Just Bad… For You and Everyone Else. Some have come up with this misconception that being bad or immoral can be good for a person, in other words justified, especially when we can “get away with it”.
- 2. Furthermore, Being Good Is Need For One’s Own Happiness. Undeniably, a full defense of this reasoning requires more than can be given in a blog post, but optimistically, it isn’t too hard to see how lying, cheating, and stealing – or being immoral in general – is conflicting with having genuine self-respect.
- It’s The Only Way To Have Honorable Self-Respect. We can only have self-respect by respecting who we really are. We can’t do that if we just respect some false image of ourselves.
- 3. Being A Good Human Allows You To See All The Beautifully Good Things That Hold Value In The World. Part of what makes good, good, is that it requires the good people in the world to know what is good and what is not.
Sep 8, 2014 · Part of what being good requires is that good people know what is good in the world and what is not. Bad people have bad values, good people have good values. Having good values means valuing what deserves to be valued and not valuing what does not deserve to be valued.
Filmperlen's Time Travel back to the 1920s Featuring the silent comedy WHY BE GOOD? (1929) Starring Colleen Moore, Neil Hamilton, Bodil Rosing ...more.
- 81 min
- Filmperlen 2
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Why Be Good? opens with a boisterous party at the penthouse apartment of the wealthy Peabodys. Winthrop Peabody, Jr. is celebrating his last night of freedom before going to work at the family department store the next morning.
