Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Absolute Mad Lads - Buster Keaton" video.

  1. I've never been able to find the movie, again, but there's one where he bumps into somebody, knocks them down, they start chasing him, he bumps into somebody else trying to escape, and so on, until the entire town is chasing him. He runs into a blind alley and swarms up a drain pipe to the roof like a monkey or SpiderMan. Rushes to the other side, makes his death-defying descent, and soon there's another chain reaction mob chasing him, so there's one on his heels and another one looking for him, with all the confusion and mayhem you might expect. As I recall, two of the mobs (I think there were more than just two) run into each other and start brawling, until somebody spots him and they join forces. Non-stop laughs. You honestly can't stop. Good thing they were silents, because by 1 minute in, the crowds must've been SCREAMiNG with laughter. I just can't remember the title. Years later, I think the snobs all agreed that "The General" was, in fact, a masterpiece. So many of his shorts were lost or destroyed in fire or by other causes. Nobody - I mean nobody - could do a chase scene like Buster Keaton. He was an unbelievable athlete. I'm not sure how I feel about his first wife. I think he fooled around a LOT, even before she gave him permission. The ladies LOVED him. I imagine there are 10s or 100s of long-faced descendants with some other last name running around to this day. In his wife's defense, there's probably no telling what STDs he might have brought home. I don't blame her for refusing to sleep with him, after a certain point. The one thing I have no respect for is how his first two wives spent his money and walked off with most of it. Patriarchy, indeed! I used to feel sad, learning his life story, but I think he had a good old time - better than most - for much of it.
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  2. You meant to say "I cannot OVERstate," not "understate."
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  3. Buster DID have a really long face. I can see where that "He's a dwarf" thing might've worked. If I had a time machine, rescuing his films would be one of my first missions.
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  4. The way I heard it, the act was to throw him into the orchestra, not the crowd. Dank says he was thrown into the orchestra once, by mistake. That's just not the story I grew up on.
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  5. Keaton > Chaplin
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