First of all, in the dressing room, ladies, was anybody else, like I was tonight, when Buster was getting undressed and you see all the muscles in his upper body, I know I personally was like ' I'm in luuuuuv!' And that was so funny
Secondly, that was so funny when he fell in the pool and his suit came off, especially since you can tell he wasn't wearing anything underneath, he's the only guy I know who could make it look funny, cut, and hot all at the same time.
Agreement, not only fell in love but am impressed as hell that he and the other guy ad-libbed the whole dressing room sequence. I was wondering what kind of rehearsal it would take to do such perfect physical comedy and make it look so real!
shareYeah, I don't know how but I think people just had more natural talent back then because today I could see that taking like 50 takes to get right or so.
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I loved suitless Buster in the pool! Not just his increasing panic as he tries to get away from all the girls swimming around him. But when he finally bumps into Sally again, and he tries to hide from her by submerging himself up to his eyes in the water! When all that's above water is those big dark eyes he looks so hilariously guilty and sinister somehow - he does the same thing when he stalks the lady with the bloomers. I expect to hear the music from 'Jaws' - he's like a shark heading for its prey. Funniest part of the movie for me.
Flat, drab passion meanders across the screen!
I wholeheartedly agree!
"Think slow, act fast." --Buster Keaton
The DVD special features of The Cameraman has a still photograph of the two gents being filmed during their struggle in the "room". And, that space was as small as it appears to us.
The man with Keaton in the dressing room was actually Keaton's prop master at MGM, Edward Brophy, so the chemistry between the two in knowing how the other would react to a comedic situation was probably strong.
Stupid!?! I never called you stupid! To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!
The original script called for Buster's embarrassing date debacle to be tearing his trousers and trying to patch them with chewing gum. Buster clearly decided to up the ante.
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