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posted 19 years ago by rudeboy8080
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'College' does contain some "blackface" humor that some people may find offensive. There's a scene where Keaton is disguised as a "black waiter"(in tanned make-up)so he can spy on his dreamgirl. Oh, well...

I like that bit where Buster Keaton's character is trying out for baseball so he can impress a girl that he has a crush on. His character is on 2nd or 3rd base and he tries to catch a flying baseball with his mit. Instead, the baseball bounces off of his glove and a player on the opposite team slides into 3rd base and knocks him over! That scene was so well executed; I was laughing my head off!

[–] daroy68 16 years ago

Pauline Kael had a very high opinion of "College":

"A beautiful little comedy. Buster Keaton is a bookworm, working his way through college and determined to become a star athlete. The story line isn't as miraculously fresh as in a couple of his films, but it allows for some of his most startlingly inventive stunts. Despite the many pilferings from this film (it has been a gold mine for other comedians), the routines are executed so precisely and with such an air of confident innocence that they are charged with surprise-and probably will be forever."

[–] gnolti 16 years ago

I'm sorry, it's politically incorrect to say so, but to see Buster trying to be a "colored waiter" still makes me LMAO.

The future, Mr. Gittes, the future.

[–] cmashieldscapting 12 years ago

He looked so ridiculously fake around the eyes and mouth the gag was that he wasn't caught long before his inevitable unmasking.

[–] dana_086 11 years ago

it makes me so happy to find that the most often ruthless critic Kael had such a high opinion of Buster. It goes to show that the lady knew what she was talking about.

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