Hard Luck: Difference between revisions

[[File:Hard_Luck_3499.jpg|frame|Goodbye, cruel world.]]

 

 

In this 1921 short, a despondent [[Buster Keaton]] decides to end it all, but then he gets a job, meets a girl (Virginia Fox) and his luck changes -- or does it? [[Hilarity Ensues]].

 

 

* [[Alliterative Name]]: Lizard Lip Luke.

* [[Beach Episode]]: Much of the action is set at a country club with a pool.

* [[Black Comedy]]: Did I mention that Buster spends much of the film trying to die?

* [[Cunning Like a Fox]]

* [[Digging to China]]: Or in this case, {{spoiler|diving}} to China.

* [[Fan Service]]: The country club's pool is an excuse to put several actresses in bathing suits; later, Buster takes a dip and dresses accordingly.

* [[Glove Slap]]

* [[Horrible Camping Trip]]

* [[Human Ladder]]: Actually, human mounting block.

* [[Improvised Weapon]]: Fishing rod versus handgun.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Some time after Buster tries to hang himself from a tree.

'''Buster:''' "I was attached to a branch of the zoo." }}

* [[Interrupted Suicide]]: The first fourth of the film is a series of unsuccessful suicide attempts.

* [[The Man They Couldn't Hang]]

* [[Nobody Here but Us Statues]]

* [[Outside Ride]]

* [[Railroad Tracks of Doom]]: Subverted in Buster's suicide attempt involving a trolley.

* [[Rule of Funny]]: How Buster survives his high dive.

* [[Slapstick]]

* [[Slobs Versus Snobs]]: Buster wanders into a country club and joins a fox hunt.

* [[Train Escape]]

* [[Unsuspectingly Soused]]

* [[Wanted Poster]]

 

[[Category:Hard Luck]]

[[Category:Film]]