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Post by Claire de Cerises on Feb 14, 2006 22:27:50 GMT
Talk about Buster Keaton movies here.
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Post by Señorita Présidenté on Apr 19, 2006 21:32:21 GMT
Never heard of him. Explain.
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Post by Claire de Cerises on Apr 20, 2006 3:19:45 GMT
I'm sorry. Let me show you some info on him. Buster Keaton When at six months he tumbled down a flight of stairs unharmed he was given the name "Buster" by Harry Houdini who, along with W.C. Fields, Bill Robinson ("Bojangles"), Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson shared headlines with The Three Keatons: Buster, his father Joe Keaton and mother Myra Keaton. Their act, one of the most dangerous in vaudeville, was about how to discipline a prankster child. Buster was thrown all over the stage and even into the audience. No matter what the stunt, he was poker-faced. By age 21 his father was so alcoholic the stunts became too dangerous to perform and the act dissolved. He first saw a movie studio in March 1917 and on April 23 his debut film, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle's The Butcher Boy (1917), was released. He stayed with Fatty through 15 two-reelers, even though he was offered much more to sign with Fox or Warner Bros. after returning from ten months with the U.S. Army (40th Infantry Division) in France. His first full-length feature, The Saphead (1920), established him as a star in his own right. By the middle of 1921 he had his own production company--Buster Keaton Productions--and was writing, directing and starring in his own films. The General (1927), his favorite, was one of the last films over which he had artistic control. In 1928 he signed with MGM and his fame dwindled. By 1932 he was divorced, reduced to co-starring roles and became an alcoholic. In 1935 he entered a mental hospital (by 1937 he had been re-hired by MGM as a $100-a-week gagman). In 1947 his career rebounded with a live appearance at Cirque Medrano in Paris. In 1952 James Mason, who then owned Keaton's Hollywood mansion, found a secret store of presumably lost nitrate stock of many of Buster's early films; film historian and archivist Raymond Rohauer began a serious collection/preservation of Buster's work. In 1957 Buster appeared with Charles Chaplin in Limelight (1952) and his film biography, The Buster Keaton Story (1957) was released. Two years later he received a special Oscar for his life work in comedy, and he began to receive the accolades he so richly deserved, with festivals around the world honoring his work. He died at 70 years of age. from: www.imdb.com/name/nm0000036/bio
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Post by Señorita Présidenté on Apr 21, 2006 3:51:21 GMT
That's OK. Thank you. *karmas* he was really young when he died, although he did produce blockbusters I presume.
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Post by Claire de Cerises on Apr 21, 2006 6:11:31 GMT
The only movie I have seen him in was Sherlock Jr. It was so interesting watching because you wondered "How could they do that with the technology they had?" It is amazing.
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Post by Señorita Présidenté on Apr 22, 2006 23:39:16 GMT
Well, nowadays, people are losing their imagination, because the computers do all the work for them.
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Post by Claire de Cerises on Apr 23, 2006 18:25:32 GMT
Yes. And that may be why people are making books into movies. They don't have the ability to imagine it for themselves.
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Post by Señorita Présidenté on Apr 24, 2006 9:38:49 GMT
I thought HPGoF looked OK though.
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Post by Claire de Cerises on Apr 25, 2006 3:38:56 GMT
Yeah, I suppose so. Though a friend and I were ranting about how they changed a lot of the sequences. (such as how they didn't put a sphinx in the maze). Then again, it was a long book. You can't put every detail in the movie.
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Post by Señorita Présidenté on May 1, 2006 5:55:31 GMT
I liked the way that everyone changed in the maze though. Psychotic Death Wish.
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Post by Claire de Cerises on May 2, 2006 3:41:24 GMT
Ha. Changed? I didn't really get what they meant by that.
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Post by Señorita Présidenté on May 3, 2006 4:53:25 GMT
The first person to change in the maze was Fleur. Do you remember how she ran around; really scared and sort of hallucinating because she didn't know what was going to happen next? Then there was Krum, who was under the Imperious Curse who stunned Fleur. Krum, then still under the Imperious Curse tried to kill Cedric. Cedric cast Expelliarmus on him, so that he couldn't use his wand. He then ran away from Harry trying to get to the cup. Harry kept on clinging onto Cedric, so that he could try and get him out of his state. By this time Cedric was acting rather odd and didn't want Harry to help him. Then when they see the cup, Harry and Cedric run towards it. Cedric gets caught in some roots and gets dragged behind. He shouts for Harry to help him; and this is the cue where Harry changes. He looks back and forward between Cedric and the Cup. There is a close up then of his face slowly turning around. For he is making a decision whether to help Cedric or not. This is when Harry changes. He then does help him, and they both make it to the cup.
I told you I was obssessed.
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Post by Claire de Cerises on May 3, 2006 4:58:12 GMT
Yeah. I realized that NOW. When you first mentioned it. But before I never got that. Neat.
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Post by Señorita Présidenté on May 3, 2006 5:34:29 GMT
You're welcome. Erm....what's with the bread icon in your signature?
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Post by Claire de Cerises on May 3, 2006 23:48:28 GMT
Does it look like bread? Gah. I'll change it then. It is supposed to be Namine from Kingdom Hearts. ( A girl sitting down in a chair drawing)
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