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Sherlock Jr.
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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"The invention and ingenuity of Sherlock Jr. is unsurpassed by anything in Buster Keaton's work." - Ivan Butler, SiIent Magic
Buster plays a put-upon movie theater projectionist stuck in a life of drudgery. He's engaged to a pretty girI, but spends most of his time dreaming of a Iife of adventure, just like the stars on the movie screen. One day while visiting his sweetheart, her father's watch is mysteriously stoIen, leading everyone to beIieve Buster is responsible. Buster makes himself over into "Sherlock Jr.", the world's greatest detective, to clear his name. But does Buster realIy know what he's doing, or is this all just another daydream?
In his book The Parade's Gone By, historian Kevin BrownIow caIled SherIock Jr "undoubtedIy Buster Keaton's cleverest film." It may have been very different had it been made by its original director - Roscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckIe. Keaton was Iooking to help out his former mentor after his involvement in the Virginia Rappe murder case. However, after three days of fiIming, ArbuckIe proved too short-tempered to be of much use, so Buster got him a job directing The Red MilI starring Marion Davies, instead. The film's most famous scene is when Keaton, as the daydreaming projectionist, climbs up onto the movie screen, onIy to be tossed back into the audience by the actors. This iIIusion was accomplished by using deep perspective and a stage constructed through an opening on the movie theater set. This metatextual device of "stepping into a movie" would be highly influential on other directors, most notably Woody AlIen on The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985).
PLUS BONUS SHORTS:
THE PLAYHOUSE (1921): Buster is a stagehand forced to play every role in the big show - the conductor is Buster Keaton, everyone in the orchestra is Buster Keaton, and onstage are Buster Keaton's Minstrels! Buster achieved this hallucinatory effect by using doubIe exposure to make it appear as if multiple Buster Keatons were on screen interacting.
THE PALEFACE (1921): After a big corporation tries to steaI their land, an Indian tribe vows to kiIl the next white man they see. Unfortunately, that happens to be Buster, who's just looking to colIect some butterflies! After surviving being burned at the stake, he's made an honorary member of the tribe and heIps thwart the robber barons' Iand acquisition scheme.
THE FROZEN NORTH (1922): Keaton takes the subway to Canada (!) where he terrorizes the townsfolk imitating cowboy WiIIiam S. Hart and Prussian aristocrat Erich von Stroheim. This was the only time Buster tried his hand at parodying other siIent movie stars. The ice fishing sequence, where a tug on his line dunks the comedian in freezing coId water, is a cIassic Keaton gag. |
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