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From: showard@udenva.UUCP (showard)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Pee Wee Hermans Big Adventure (really Keaton, Sennet,etc.)
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Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 17:00:31 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 11 17:00:31 1985
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> Comparing Pee Wee Herman to Chaplin and Keaton is overdoing it more than
> a bit.  Chaplin and Keaton were incredibly imaginative physical comedians.
> I have never heard of anyone being irritated by Keaton's
> comic persona, or even Chaplin's.  (The irritation with Chaplin usually comes
> over his sentimentality.) 
> 
> For those who haven't seen them, I suggest watching the great silent comedians
> (Chaplin, Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Langdon, and Laurel and Hardy; to a lesser
> extent, Fatty Arbuckle, Charlie Chase, the films of Mack Sennett, and Mabel
> Normand) for yourselves.  You will discover why the 1910s and 1920s were the
> golden age of screen comedy.
> -- 
>         			Peter Reiher
> 				reiher@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU
>         			{...ihnp4,ucbvax,sdcrdcf}!ucla-cs!reiher
    I find Buster Keaton to be far from humorous.  As for a comic persona, hav-
ing the exact same expression on one's face for an entire film career is over-
doing it just a bit.  Houses falling over, massive destruction, and hanging 
from the sides of tall buildings just aren't that funny.  Mack Sennet, too, 
used violence more than humor in his films.  You may find pie-fights and banana
skins hilarious but to me it seem juvenile and annoying.

                                   -- Mr. Blore, the DJ who would not die!
                                   -- udenva!showard
P.S.  Just so you Keaton fans don't feel too bad, I should add that I'm the
same guy who doesn't like Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare's Hamlet, or just about
anything else that is considered the best in its field.


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