Buster Keaton was a goddamned genius. Not sure if anyone yet has touched his mastery of physical comedy.
Buster Keaton clinging desperately to an uprooted tree in "Steamboat Bill, Jr." (1928)pic.twitter.com/P2YpYCxKRL
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And the use of film. Always fresh and ahead of the curve. A master class in subversion.
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Indeed. Chaplin gets a ton of well-deserved attention from that era. But Keaton and Lloyd...killed.
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I've never enjoyed Chaplin. I find him sentimental and arch. Except in Limelight. Keaton, Lloyd, Sennett, L&H
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Never? I"m not buying it. The Immigrant, The Champ, The Kid, yes. But Modern Times? The Great Dictator?
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If u separate out early from late Chaplin then sure. The Great Dictator is precursor to The Producers. Mea culpa.
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Mea culpa? No need for that! What I wasn't buying was you not liking sentiment in film. That'd disqualify 2 many!
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OK good point. I cannot bear pathos steeped in bathos with Princess Diana playing to the gallery eyes.
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