Monday 9 March 2015

Buster Keaton

His full name was Joseph Frank Buster Keaton who was born on the 4th of October 1895 who was born in Piqua, Kansas and died on the 1st of February 1966 in Los Angeles, California of lung cancer.

He was known for being an actor, filmmaker, writer, stunt performer and vaudeville which is a theatrical genre of entertainment, like musicals. He got a lot of exposure in his silent films since he had a physical comedy with stoic with a deadpan expression which gave him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" and making it his trademark.
Surrealism in Buster Keaton's "One Week":
  • Poetry
  • Jumping out of cars
  • Assaulting the law (police)
  • Building house by himself from supplied boxes with paper instructions
  • Logic used
  • Getting up/durable from taking high falls
  • Gravity, Weather
  • Unnatural strength, Balance
  • The dangers included that he faces and avoids
  • Strange changing furniture, properties/materials and architecture of the house and the use of some of them 
  • Unreal situations mixed with everyday situations or making them overdramatic
  • Censorship
  • Misuse of objects/Use of objects
  • Tricking the viewers perspective and view



















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