Classic Hollywood Meme: 03 Favorite quotes
↳ about Buster Keaton, by Richard Corliss
“Watch his beautiful, compact body as it pirouettes or pretzels in tortured permutations or, even more elegantly, stands in repose as everything goes crazy around it. Watch his mind as it contemplates a hostile universe whose violent whims Buster understands, withstands and, miraculously, tames. Watch his camera taking his picture (Keaton directed or supervised all his best films); it is as cool as the star it captured in its glass… The medium was still in its infancy; comics were pioneering the craft of making people laugh at moving images. Keaton, it turns out, knew it all — intuitively.”
“I never had a more affectionate pet or a more obedient one. After a while I was able to walk her through doors, in and out of sets, even past bright lights. The only difficulty we had was when I sat down and she tried to climb into my lap”
-Buster Keaton, about Brown Eyes.
So I was going to go to bed… but… this happened…
UGH BLINGEE IS APOCALYPTIC.
I’M SO SORRY, BUSTER.Oh my god. It hurts to laugh this much.
My brain does not know how to process this but it seems to result in laughing hysterically so that can’t be all bad.
From an animator’s perspective these all fascinate me.
Look at what that dude does with his leg in the top left, I mean holy shit what an antic, and Buster does two full turns in that top right one! I’m not even going into the secondary action in all these (I know it’s partly natural physics but still, what the ever loving).
That man was a living cartoon I swear to god.
(via fuckyeahbusterkeaton)
