Paris, Texas — IQ Score 160/200
Paris, Texas has an IQ Score of 160/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.
Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity
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IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
Wim Wenders's 1984 Sam Shepard-screenplay road film whose Robby Müller cinematography rendered the Texas-California desert at a visual register the medium has rarely matched. Harry Dean Stanton's Travis Henderson is one of the most carefully-restrained leading-man performances of 1980s American film.
The Ry Cooder slide-guitar score is structural rather than ornamental. Cannes Palme d'Or winner; required viewing for 1980s independent-cinema canon.
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