The General (1926) Buster Keaton
The General is a comedy film written and directed by Buster Keaton:
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and co-directed with C.Bruckman. It was released in 1926 by United Artists. It is a story of daring rescue during the Civil War. The two directors created an almost perfectly balanced narrative structure and staged elaborate gags within single shots. In 1926, The General failed to win popularity but is now considered as one of the greatest films ever made.
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0:00 - Titles
0:52 - The General
11:29 - A year later
30:32 - General Parker's victorious Northen army advancing
1:00:34 - The Rock River bridge
1:13:23 - Heroes of the day
Buster Keaton (born as Joseph Frank Keaton in 1895, Piqua, Kansas – died in 1966, Woodland Hills, California, U.S.A.) is an American actor and film director. The son of wandering vaudeville actors, Keaton was forced to tread upon stage already at the early age of 3. In his late 20s, he went to New York and began working as the sidekick of the comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, to continue from then on his solo career.
His ever-serious deadpan expression will earn him the nickname “The Great Stone Face”. His comedy, bordering on the surreal, and in fact, he was much loved by the surrealists, constantly plays on the contrasts of true/false, dream/reality, and in a world that is in constant change. Often towards catastrophe, his expression is the only firm point that reveals the contradictions and the most absurd aspects; moreover, in many of his creations, Keaton stages the methods and the cinema itself: metalinguistic elements appear in many of his films and in particular in
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But the advent of sound put an end to his career, as well as that of many other silent film comedians, whose comedy was based on physical gags and therefore no longer suitable for sound cinema.
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