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Battling Butler Sherlock Jr Keaton
649 wordsIn "The Playhouse" (1921), a tour de force of special effects unrivaled even to this day, Keaton played every part in a theater: the whole orchestra, the actors, all nine blackface minstrels, both halves of a dance act, and every single member of the audience, young and old, male and female. He was a generous collaborator, sharing directing credit with Eddie Cline on most of the shorts and three features, though Cline graciously conceded that Keaton was responsible for 90 percent of the comic in...
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Buster Keaton Prentice Hall
2,324 wordsBuster Keaton "No man can be a genius in slap shoes and a flat hat. " Buster Keaton. First of all one needs to remember that Joseph Frank (Buster) Keaton was born into a family of vaudevillians. Joseph, his father, did an eccentric dance act and his mother, Myra, danced and played the saxophone. He was the oldest of three siblings; he had one brother, Harry (Jingles), and a sister, Louise, both of whom would later appear with the rest of his family in some of his movie shorts. Buster joined his ...
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Dead Poet Society Carpe Diem
361 wordsCarpe diem Carpe Diem; seize the day capture it by the ears. Dead poets society the movie focuses on this phrase. Suck the marrow out of life according to Mr. Keaton this phrase meant to not ever let a day pass with out you. Problems such as death of a student Neil Perry, the expulsion and Keaton fired were all the bad things that happened because of carpe diem. There were some good things such as Todd learning to speak publicly, and Knox tried harder to get the girl of his dreams Chris who as i...
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Buster Keaton Gold Rush
3,911 wordsIn the first years of American cinema, comedies appeared only occasionally among the numerous documentaries, dramas, and actions Edwin S. Porter directed at Thomas Edison&# 39; s New York studio from 1900 to 1909. His earliest comedies, up until around 1902, were one-joke shorts in various series: Grandma and Grandpa, Happy Hooligan, Old Maid. In his 1906 The Dream Of A Rarebit Fiend, Porter deftly employed the fantastic trick-photography humor which France&# 39; s George M? li? s had developed ...
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Buster Keaton Warner Bros
4,657 wordsIn 1927 Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, a silent drama with sound sequences in which Al Jolson sang and spoke. The film was a hit, and within two years American cinema shifted irreversibly to talking films. At first everyone was planted around the microphone, but even as the technology improved, sound still slowed down the onscreen tempo because of the greater detail and realism which it brought to action. This change helped the dramatic players of silents, most of whom had equal or great...
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Buster Keaton Cary Grant
2,315 wordsThe Meaning of Chow (Its In His Mouth) Ultimately, it comes down to his mouth. Chow Yun-Fat is the coolest movie actor in the world today, and the only way I can explain this is to talk about his mouth. He does cool things with his mouth. Smoking cigarettes is no longer an emblem of cool in the USA, but Chow does wonders with cigarette smoke in Prison On Fire. Director Ringo Lam understands this; like most of the great Hong Kong directors, he loves using slow motion and freeze frames to pinpoint...
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World War Ii Martial Arts
1,858 wordsOne of the most underrated and misunderstood of all film genres, the martial-arts film is also one of the most popular among the movie-going masses and encompasses several sub-genres: kung fu, judo, ninja, and karate action flicks, samurai epics, the Asian fantasy and modern-day &# 34; new wave&# 34; gun-action violence of directors like John Woo, the acrobatic action / comedy antics of the talented Jackie Chan, and the historical epic as reinterpreted by Tsui Hark. The Orient has always seemed ...
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Marlon Brando Buster Keaton
2,876 wordsThe history of the illustrious film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, more commonly known as MGM, begins with Marcus Loew, a first-generation American and son of Austrian immigrants, who began purchasing penny arcades in 1905 with his business partner, Adolph Zukor. They were soon buying up motion-picture theaters, and by 1912, when Zukor struck out to form the production company Famous Players (which eventually became Paramount), Loew had his own business, Loew&# 39; s Theatrical Enterprises, which o...
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Benedick And Beatrice Claudio And Hero
1,229 wordsThe two main plots have Don Pedro and Leonard conspiring as matchmakers to bring together Beatrice and Benedick, and evil Don John attempting to tear apart the young lovers Claudio and Hero. Branagh has obviously directed members of his cast to clearly express themselves for the modern audience, as their emphatic readings of the dialogue and the physical comedy here indicate. But he may have miscalculated a bit with the business surrounding Don John, which doesnt seem to have enough foundation f...
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