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Samson (1961 Polish film)
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “a 1961 film made by academy award -winning polish director andrzej wajda that uses art house aesthetics to tell”. Today it says “a 1961 polish film directed by andrzej wajda that uses art house aesthetics to tell a story about the holocaust”.
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The opening as it read in 2010
Samson is a 1961 film made by Academy Award -winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda that uses art house aesthetics to tell a story about the Holocaust .1 Wajda's World War II film alludes to the Old Testament story of Samson , who had supernatural physical strength. But unlike the Biblical character, Wajda's Samson has great emotional strength.
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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “a 1961 film made by academy award -winning polish director andrzej wajda that uses art house aesthetics to tell”. Today it says “a 1961 polish film directed by andrzej wajda that uses art house aesthetics to tell a story about the holocaust”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
a 1961 film made by academy award -winning polish director andrzej wajda that uses art house aesthetics to tell
Now
a 1961 polish film directed by andrzej wajda that uses art house aesthetics to tell a story about the holocaust
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