montrealfilmguy
Supporting Actor
- Joined
- Apr 17, 2011
- Messages
- 541
- Real Name
- Ben Weaver
I try NOT to watch any Buster when i'm working at IBM cause answering the phone guffawing is.....simply not good. But it's hard to resist. And part of me is beginning to think Buster was the world's first Wolverine.His entire body must be made out of adamantium for him to jump,crash into things ,run like the wind fall 100's of time on his head or his ass,or get his neck broken and not feel it.While keeping the famous blank starecombined with breaking the fourth wall,which helps make it even funnier. I love how sometimes one very small visual gag will be followed by a huge stunt gag.The mechanics and dynamics of Buster's mayhem are in my book pretty much unsurpassed. In Montreal,in the 80's we had a exhibition which was called Cinecity.Huge sets recreating famous film sets and each set had a screen with a loop of 5-minute clips of all kinds. In one of the loops,there was Chaplin in his short The immigrant, the loop started around 2:25 to the 2:45 mark.I love how Chaplin simply cannot make it stop. So me and a buddy were sitting there figuring we'd watched the loop and move on But there was this bit from Buster.From Steamboat Bill it starts at 2:20 and ends at 2:27.Buster's "giant " leap against the wind. We kept rolling on the floor and stayed 3 times just to see that.