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Video of some of his better stunts: https://youtu.be/yOo_ZUVU_O8?si=1OEwZTk-d88ma2Zs

And a great Every Frame a Painting film essay on his work: https://youtu.be/UWEjxkkB8Xs?si=n-4ZNr_cMnYVKijs

He was truly an innovator that makes today’s “films of people talking to each other” look amateurish.

A few months ago the local theatre was playing Sherlock Jr. with a live band, and it was awesome. Try to see it in similar circumstances if possible.

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> He was truly an innovator that makes today’s “films of people talking to each other” look amateurish.

I feel you could have said the first part without attempting to critique films with a different aesthetic aspiration.

I just watched Eisenberg's "A Real Pain" last night, and there is no way that any of the things Keaton was good at would have improved that film at all. Which is not to say that Keaton was not an innovator .. just that there is more than one aesthetic goal for films, and room for all of them.

I was comparing Keaton to a modern film that has people talking back and forth without any interesting use of space on film. This video explains it well:

https://youtu.be/jGc-K7giqKM?si=0sOBkBrsYa4IBo5N

A lot of Keaton’s gags and shots are similar.

Wow, those stunts are incredible - it's hard to believe he died of old age and not of these super risky stunts.

> A few months ago the local theatre was playing Sherlock Jr. with a live band

AFI in Silver Spring?

Nope, other side of the world

All those falls, my toddler is going to love his films I guess.

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