“With it all, you wouldn’t believe a comedian could be so serious. He showed them all how to underact. He could tell his story by lifting an eyebrow. He could tell it by not lifting an eyebrow. Buster was his own best gagman. He had judgment, taste; never overdid it, and never offended. He knew what was right for him.”
- Clyde Bruckman to Rudi Blesh
Sherlock Jr’s “movie within a movie”: The scenery changes around Buster Keaton very quickly. He suddenly finds himself in a doorway to a garden, on a crowded city street to on top of a rock, etc. Keaton later recalled that his cameraman, Byron Houck, had used surveying instruments to position him and the camera at the exact correct distances and positions to give the illusion of continuity as the scenes changed. Long before CGI, Keaton created a vivid world with its own laws.
(via miraclemango)
MANGO WHAT THE SHIT
THIS IS GLORIOUS
I CAN’T
/flips every table in the universe I CANNOT DEAL WITH WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE
I am such a dork. I named all of my Eeveelutions after Buster Keaton films. Having a Vaporeon called after the Navigator is too funny to me.
Umbreon got to be called Buster though.
He’s the cutest coolest :3
Yes.
I really want to redo it though. I need to make his head a thousand times bigger to fit the MLP:FiM proportions >.<
I blame drawing normal horses too often.
A bit. When I was back home for Christmas people said I’d picked up a bit of a Trans-Atlantic ‘twang’, but interestingly it was only the people who knew I’d been in Canada for a year; other people didn’t notice any change at all. My immediate family said it was only evident when I used bits of slang I’d picked up, like saying 'gonna’ instead of 'going to’.
Really though I shouldn’t mind at all; moving to study in Canada has been one of the greatest decisions I’ve ever made and I owe this country nothing but gratitude. I never thought I’d care much either, but I suppose it’s the comedy value. You see, being so stupidly English has become something of a running joke with me, even back home; I kind of like being able to make people smile because of it.
