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Buster Keaton was born in 1895 and is a famous comedian, director, producer, screenwriter and stuntman of the American silent film era. His signature expression is a flat face, cool expressionless, and unexpectedly achieves comedic effect in comedies.
Keaton's comedic talent is comparable to Chaplin's, but he has one more unique skill than Chaplin — stunts.
The 1920s were the peak of Keaton's work, and he worked non-stop, shooting a series of films that rose to fame. In his 30-year career, Keaton has personally performed countless bold and creative stunt scenes, hovering on the brink of death several times.
In 1923, while filming his first film, Three Ages, Keaton designed a shot of placing planks on the roof of a building and then jumping up another building with the help of them. (He should be the first to try to do this type of stunt in front of the camera.) ）
However, while jumping, he failed to grasp the protruding edge of another building and fell from a high place into the safety net off the screen.
After watching the replay, Keaton had a new idea. He retained the previous shot of falling from a building, combining this shot with a shot through three awnings, and later adding a shot of swinging into the fire brigade through a pipe. The whole set of shots is connected smoothly, which is both moving and rich in content.
Keaton's scene chasing the tram in the movie "Daydream" is definitely a classic. In the film, he is chased by a group of police officers, crosses the streets of San Francisco, and grabs the handlebar behind him when he sees a tram passing by. The tram did not slow down, carrying him from trotting all the way, to running fast, and then to the whole body flying. He finally flipped into the carriage, and the agility of his hands was evident.
Little Sherlock is one of Keaton's most popular films, and what people don't know is that one of the stunts almost killed him. In the film, a train passes by a large water tower. Keaton's character walks on top of the train, and when the train all passes by the water tower, the man in the play grabs the water pipe of the water tower, and the plug of the water pipe is opened, and a huge column of water is poured down on him.
The water flowing out was completely unplanned, and the original design was just keaton using his weight to lower the water pipe, and then he jumped onto the railroad tracks. The force of this current was so great that it caused a bone in Keaton's neck to shatter that he himself didn't realize it at the time. The injury left him with lifelong injuries and was plagued by intense migraines for the rest of his life.
In the movie "A Week", the protagonist marries the lover of his dreams and the two go home together. Unexpectedly, the journey home was full of hardships. The newlyweds needed to jump from one moving car to another, and the bride quickly jumped over, and when it was the groom's turn, the distance between the two cars began to widen. Then a man on a motorcycle drove up and carried the groom in front.
Amazingly, the whole shot was made in one go and was not edited. No one in four can make a mistake, or the consequences will be unimaginable.
The General is one of Keaton's most famous works, based on a true story. He plays a train engineer named Johnny Gray, who is drawn into war while trying to get a stolen train to stop.
There are a number of train stunts in the play, the most famous of which is when Keaton uses a sleeper in his hand to knock off another sleeper that crosses the rail. The stakes are high, and if the timing is not accurate, or the hit is not in the right position, Keaton is likely to be thrown off the train and put his life in danger.
The effect of these desperate stunts on Keaton's body is self-evident, and it is said that no bone in his body is good. Injuries were also one of the reasons he contracted the vice of alcoholism, and he used alcohol to anesthetize himself and relieve pain.
Because of his alcoholism, his wife divorced him, and he had to go into abstinence therapy.
In the 1940s, Keaton made a comeback, returning to film and television, and in 1959 won the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Keaton's last film was made in 1965, and he died the following year at the age of 71.
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