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incredible

posted 16 years ago by Don_Farshido
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Keaton was as much a genius as Einstein. I could not come up with half as much ideas in my lifetime as he did in a single one of his shorts, and his slowed down features are so wonderfully told that watching them is like being hypnotized by a great piece of music.

I've been growing up with Chaplin and checked up on Keaton later, while I could never choose between the two, I now can bring myself to admit that there never will be a greater genius on visual gags than Keaton and there never was. How one scene developes into another, how he could come up with a more incredible idea than the minute before... truly, truly amazing. It's not only comedy, for me it is a look at the wonders of life, seen through the eyes of a true artist.

[–] Chrissie 15 years ago

Amen to that.

[–] cmashieldscapting 12 years ago

As far as I am concerned Keaton and his work cannot be appreciated enough.

[–] droptoonswatchacid 12 years ago

this is all very well said,

cheers to this

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[–] leadingrole344 8 years ago

Although Charlie Chaplin's comic imagination was also fertile and no one was more graceful in his movements (plus he wrote music!), Buster Keaton was equally ingenious comedically, his camerwork much more sophisticated, and he was never equaled for his athleticism in big set pieces. He not only did all his own stunts, but other actors' as well. (Except one time, when he had a pole vaulter run and vault into a second-story building in "College.") Keaton's death-defying actions in film after film throughout the 1920's are breathtaking to this day.