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From: leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Keaton, Sennet,etc.
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Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 14:13:32 EDT
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 >Buster  Keaton, however, is hilarious, in my
 >opinion.  To say that he only has one  expression is to miss
 >the point.  Keaton's genius lay in his persistence, his 
 >ability to carry on in the face of any disaster without
 >complaint or even the  slightest show of exasperation.  If
 >his expression changed even once, it would ruin the joke.
 >Just how much Keaton have you seen?

I'll second that opinion.  But I have to say that what I like about
Keaton comedies are so many of the jokes that revolve around clever
ways to solve physical problems or unusual ways to see common objects.
The sort of thing is Keaton has to cook a meal, though he has no
experience in a kitchen.  He uses all the kitchen implements in wrong
ways, but in doing so finds some very clever uses for the appliances
nobody else ever thought of.  I am sort of a mathematician and in math
the unconventinonal use of standard tools can be extremely useful.

				Mark Leeper
				...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper


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