{"id":4490,"date":"2006-02-17T16:10:35","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T21:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4490"},"modified":"2022-10-09T22:38:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T02:38:26","slug":"buster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4490","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The hard stare remains, even as every last part of him disappears under the water.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/film.guardian.co.uk\/features\/featurepages\/0,,1711408,00.html\">A wonderful article about the work of Buster Keaton.<\/a>  Thanks for sending it, peteb &#8211; You&#8217;re right &#8211; it describes the whole Keaton thing marvelously.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you&#8217;re going to characterise your entire career in cinema by a single expression, the expression on Buster Keaton&#8217;s face is a very good one to have. I remember recognising this when I first saw Steamboat Bill, Jr, made in 1928. There&#8217;s a scene in it featuring a particularly fierce hurricane visiting destruction on a small town. Keaton is holding on to a tree to stop being blown away by the fierce gale. However, the force is so strong the wind breaks the tree from its roots in the ground and carries it, with Keaton still clinging on, up and across a river where it slowly sinks. Keaton&#8217;s expression throughout all these stunning visuals is the best part of the joke: he consistently stares blankly at the camera, a man who can&#8217;t believe his dignity is being robbed in this way. The hard stare remains, even as every last part of him disappears under the water.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>hahahaha<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s stupid and sentimental of me &#8230; but for some reason Buster Keaton makes me want to cry.  I mean, he makes me laugh, too &#8230; but the sheer inventiveness of him, and &#8230; also the fact that he&#8217;s NOT a forgotten genius &#8230; that people, to this day, (including Cashel!!) truly LOVE Buster Keaton &#8230; It just fills my heart.  I&#8217;m a goof.  Sue me.<\/p>\n<p>Astonishing.  To this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wonderful article about the work of Buster Keaton. Thanks for sending it, peteb &#8211; You&#8217;re right &#8211; it describes the whole Keaton thing marvelously. If you&#8217;re going to characterise your entire career in cinema by a single expression, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4490\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[303],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178978,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions\/178978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}