Buster Keaton
The Art of the Gag
Before Edgar Wright and Wes Anderson, before Chuck Jones and Jackie Chan, there was Buster Keaton, one of the founding fathers of visual comedy. And nearly 100 years after he first appeared onscreen, we’re still learning from him. Today, I’d like to talk about the artistry (and the thinking) behind his gags. Press the CC button to see the names of the films.
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He was not only a genius, but his athleticism was unbelievable... and countless scenes where he risks his life and yet retains that stoic, deadpanned expression. There will never be another like him. May God bless and keep this man.
He was not only a genius, but his athleticism was unbelievable... and countless scenes where he risks his life and yet retains that stoic, deadpanned expression. There will never be another like him. May God bless and keep this man.
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The last part really made me emotional for a moment. I really appreciate what this man has done for the film industry and we'll never forget him.
The last part really made me emotional for a moment. I really appreciate what this man has done for the film industry and we'll never forget him.
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At age 70, he made his last film: "The Railrodder", for the National Film Board of Canada. In that film, he demonstrated the same natural athleticism, timing and comic genius which he had first brought to the silver screen starting in 1917. In addition to his early 1950's TV show, during the early 1960's (I was around 12 years of age, at the time) there was a 1/2-hour long TV show on Saturdays (it may have been local to just SoCal) which featured Buster Keaton's shorts, and that TV show formed my introduction to Keaton's remarkable silent films.
At age 70, he made his last film: "The Railrodder", for the National Film Board of Canada. In that film, he demonstrated the same natural athleticism, timing and comic genius which he had first brought to the silver screen starting in 1917. In addition to his early 1950's TV show, during the early 1960's (I was around 12 years of age, at the time) there was a 1/2-hour long TV show on Saturdays (it may have been local to just SoCal) which featured Buster Keaton's shorts, and that TV show formed my introduction to Keaton's remarkable silent films.
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I was at a silent film festival a while back and they were playing The General for the grand finale of the whole festival, with a jazz-funk band playing the score. I had no idea who Buster Keaton was, but holy shit. I've never heard that much roaring laughter take place in a cinema before, and I've never seen stunts so ambitious and ahead of its time. Eventually, I found this video after restlessly searching for more of his movies and you hit the nail in the head when you say that you can really see his influences in a lot of today's directors.
I was at a silent film festival a while back and they were playing The General for the grand finale of the whole festival, with a jazz-funk band playing the score. I had no idea who Buster Keaton was, but holy shit. I've never heard that much roaring laughter take place in a cinema before, and I've never seen stunts so ambitious and ahead of its time. Eventually, I found this video after restlessly searching for more of his movies and you hit the nail in the head when you say that you can really see his influences in a lot of today's directors.
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He's not just valuable and relevant today because of imitations and homages, his actual films are still hilarious!
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Buster Keaton could easily win the modern "American Ninja Warrior"!
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It’s amazing how films made almost 100 years ago can still make me crack up in laughter.
He's not just valuable and relevant today because of imitations and homages, his actual films are still hilarious!
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Buster Keaton could easily win the modern "American Ninja Warrior"!
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It’s amazing how films made almost 100 years ago can still make me crack up in laughter.
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 - February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is best known for his silent film work, in which his trademark was physical comedy accompanied by a stoic, deadpan expression that earned him the nickname "The Great Stone Face". Critic Roger Ebert
wrote of Keaton's "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929" when he
"worked without interruption" as having made him "the greatest
actor-director in the history of the movies". In 1996, Entertainment Weekly recognized Keaton as the seventh-greatest film director, and in 1999 the American Film Institute ranked him as the 21st-greatest male star of classic Hollywood cinema.
Working with independent producer Joseph M. Schenck and filmmaker Edward F. Cline, Keaton made a series of successful two-reel comedies in the early 1920s, including One Week (1920), The Playhouse (1921), Cops (1922), and The Electric House (1922). He then moved to feature-length films; several of them, such as Sherlock Jr. (1924), The General (1926), Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), and The Cameraman (1928), remain highly regarded. The General is widely viewed as his masterpiece: Orson Welles considered it "the greatest comedy ever made...and perhaps the greatest film ever made".
His career declined when he signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
and lost his artistic independence. His wife divorced him, and he
descended into alcoholism. He recovered in the 1940s, remarried, and
revived his career as an honored comic performer for the rest of his
life, earning an Academy Honorary Award in 1959.
Buster Keaton's
Crazy Stunts & Comedy
(Supercut)
A tribute to the best Director, Comedian and Stuntman in the History of Cinema, the one and only Buster Keaton!
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This guy was on a different level of stunt men. How he survived back then is amazing.
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My favorite comedian (some would argue; it comes down to taste) but finest stuntman and yes, a brilliant, often underestimated director. Everything is planned and comes off as spontaneous. He did so many things for the first time ever and the imagination is quite astonishing, always delightful.Keaton builds pace and creates tension like no-one else. The word "genius" gets thrown around a lot but here it is. Bravo Buster
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Un sacré cascadeur, tout est calculé au millimètre prés, l'enchainement des scènes est vraiment spectaculaire et l'imagination omniprésente. Un acrobate et un artiste vraiment doué. Fabuleux Monsieur Buster Keaton's.
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My favorite comedian (some would argue; it comes down to taste) but finest stuntman and yes, a brilliant, often underestimated director. Everything is planned and comes off as spontaneous. He did so many things for the first time ever and the imagination is quite astonishing, always delightful.Keaton builds pace and creates tension like no-one else. The word "genius" gets thrown around a lot but here it is. Bravo Buster
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Un sacré cascadeur, tout est calculé au millimètre prés, l'enchainement des scènes est vraiment spectaculaire et l'imagination omniprésente. Un acrobate et un artiste vraiment doué. Fabuleux Monsieur Buster Keaton's.
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Some of Buster Keaton's
Most Amazing Stunts
Clips used: Three Ages, Cops, Day Dreams, Sherlock Jr., One Week, Hard Luck, Neighbors, The General, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Seven Chances, Our Hospitality, The Bell Boy
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Buster Keaton
The "Great Stone Face"
Mar 27, 2022 He was a vaudeville performer from the age of four, a silent-film star in his 20s, and the writer and director of some of the greatest comedy films ever made. Yet Buster Keaton never quite achieved the fame of Charlie Chaplin, and, at the peak of his success as an independent filmmaker, he signed a studio deal that he would call "the worst mistake of my life." Correspondent David Pogue talks with biographer Dana Stevens, and with comic actor Bill Irwin, about Keaton's artistic ingenuity, stunts, and innovations that inspire filmmakers to this day.
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Buster Keaton:
The Great Stone Face
The Great Stone Face
(1920s Spotlight)
I decided to make a spotlight series about important people of the 1920s, and today we have the great "Stoneface" Buster Keaton. Keaton was perhaps the most imaginative and inventive comedians of the decade, if not of all time.
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