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It's Lion Turtles all the way down ([personal profile] lettered) wrote in [community profile] historium 2018-12-12 07:40 pm (UTC)

The documentary isn't good. At all. I certainly don't need Quentin Tarantino telling me Buster Keaton is manly, because um. Did he see Steamboat Bill Jr.

BUT I am not a Keaton aficionado and so there was a lot of stuff I didn't know as well as excellent clips, so if you're interested in an overview it's nice. None of his talkies were good (according to the documentary), but they make the point that if he hadn't been so misused (by the MGM studio) he might've made it as a drama star. I'm not convinced; I guess I'd need to see more. I've never seen Limelight (the Chaplin film) but now I want to.

Yeah sometimes I think Sunset Blvd is having as much fun with its in-jokes/behind the scenes stuff as it is with it's in front of the screen stuff, which is part of what makes it so delightful. It's almost as fun to read about as it is to watch.

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