I’ve seen these gags dozens of times and they still make me laugh. His stunts still make me cringe. The artistry of his body language speaks as well today as the day it was put on film, as does his scene framing.
I always felt Keaton was treated shabbily in his twilight years, relegated to goofy cameos in bad movies like How To Stuff a Wild Bikini and Beach Blanket Bingo.
Tonight we celebrate him again.
HT/ Rob E.
This guy was an amazing athelete. Live his stuff.
Love his stuff
Disagree: Harold Lloyd was much better and he blew half his hand off and kept working with a glove to hide his disfigurement. The guy is amazing to watch.
And he was a republican
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEcTjhUN_7U
Love his ‘stuff’ ?
Steamboat Bill Jr. is my all time favorite comedy. Silent movie or not it was pure comedic and surrealistic as well as an athletic masterpiece of cinema. Who else could have a house fall all around him and end up safely inside a window frame. It could’ve killed him if it would’ve missed and hit him. Buster Keaton was the best nearly a hundred years later, his comedies were masterpieces of good comedic slapstick. And I prefer Buster Keaton to Charlie Chaplin.
Those were some dam dangerous
stunts!
One of the best, AND he was in an episode of Twilight Zone.
Keaton was an absolute genius. If you don’t know his work, start with a short called “10 Days”.
He also did Ernie Kovacs-type gags 40 years before Ernie Kovacs did them.
Check out “Sherlock Jr” & “Cops”.
And “Buster Keaton, A Hard Act To Follow” is probably the best documentary I ever saw about anything. Highly recommended!
Video was too short. I could watch that all day.