Buster Keaton: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"He was by his whole style and nature so much the most deeply 'silent' of the silent comedians that even a smile was as deafeningly out of key as a yell...No other comedian could do as much with the dead-pan. He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things; a one track mind near the track’s end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive; an awe-inspiring sort of patience and power to endure, proper to granite but uncanny in flesh and blood."''~~|'''James Agee''', ''LIFE'' magazine (5 September 1949)}}~~

{{quote|''"He was by his whole style and nature so much the most deeply 'silent' of the silent comedians that even a smile was as deafeningly out of key as a yell...No other comedian could do as much with the dead-pan. He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things; a one track mind near the track’s end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive; an awe-inspiring sort of patience and power to endure, proper to granite but uncanny in flesh and blood."''

|'''James Agee''', ''LIFE'' magazine (5 September 1949)}}

{{quote|''"No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat."''~~|'''Buster Keaton'''}}~~

{{quote|''"No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat."''

|'''Buster Keaton'''}}

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton, Jr. (1895-1966), was the original [[The Stoic|Stoic]], also known as [[Frozen Face|The Great Stone Face]]. Possibly the toughest man in show business history; during one film shoot, he ''broke his neck'' and continued with the day's shooting.

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| [[The Boat]] ||''[[Steamboat Bill, Jr.]]''

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| [[The Paleface (1922 film)|The Paleface]]

| [[The Paleface (1922 film)|The Paleface]] || ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]'' (his last role)

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| [[Cops (film)|Cops]]

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* [[Rule of Three]]

** His father claimed that one eventful day, when Buster was ''three years old'', he:

##got a finger caught in a clothes-wringer, necessitating its partial amputation;

:#got a finger caught in a clothes-wringer, necessitating its partial amputation;

##tried to knock a peach from a tree with a stone and hit himself in the head;

:#tried to knock a peach from a tree with a stone and hit himself in the head;

##got sucked out through the open window of his boardinghouse room by a tornado.

:#got sucked out through the open window of his boardinghouse room by a tornado.

** He was married three times.

* [[The Stoic]]: The Keatons realized that they got more of a rise out of the audience when Buster didn't smile or laugh during their act, so they taught Buster his famous deadpan.