Okay, this cheered me up immensely:
Jan. 24th, 2010 01:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
capri0mniAfter being reminded of how handsome and romantic Buster Keaton was, in this thread on LJ, I actually went looking for Buster Keaton on YouTube.
Here: have his movie One Week (1920), in five parts (under 30 mins., total):
If this were a modern Hollywood Rom-Com, the 'humor' would be all about their bickering, instead of cooperating and giving each other quick kisses just-because, and the bride would actually fall for the lying cheat (for awhile) because she believes her new husband to be incompetent, etc., etc..
And even though this movie is built on the gender-normative roles of 1920, I actually thought the woman's role in this to be stronger than the majority of those portrayed in 2010.
[Edited to Add: The Motorcycle stunt, in part one, is famous. But I'm most impressed, in blow-me-away style, by the spinning house stunt in nearly all of part four. And my favorite bit is a neither a pratfall nor a stunt -- it's when he sees the pot of paint in the hall, and makes a welcome mat from the scrap of carpet (part three -- 3:14 - 3:38). It's just so full of d'Awww! (iz ded of kyoot)]
Here: have his movie One Week (1920), in five parts (under 30 mins., total):
If this were a modern Hollywood Rom-Com, the 'humor' would be all about their bickering, instead of cooperating and giving each other quick kisses just-because, and the bride would actually fall for the lying cheat (for awhile) because she believes her new husband to be incompetent, etc., etc..
And even though this movie is built on the gender-normative roles of 1920, I actually thought the woman's role in this to be stronger than the majority of those portrayed in 2010.
[Edited to Add: The Motorcycle stunt, in part one, is famous. But I'm most impressed, in blow-me-away style, by the spinning house stunt in nearly all of part four. And my favorite bit is a neither a pratfall nor a stunt -- it's when he sees the pot of paint in the hall, and makes a welcome mat from the scrap of carpet (part three -- 3:14 - 3:38). It's just so full of d'Awww! (iz ded of kyoot)]
