Some of Buster Keaton's most amazing stunts
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2017
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Clips used: Three Ages, Cops, Day Dreams, Sherlock Jr., One Week, Hard Luck, Neighbors, The General, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Seven Chances, Our Hospitality, The Bell Boy - Фільми й анімація
For more amazing silent comedy stunts, check out my Harold Lloyd video
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It's greatly enhanced by the ambient music.
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Thank you for including Harold Lloyd! He was underrated and underappreciated, but extremely talented. He could do everything Charlie Chaplin & Buster Keaton could do; usually did it first, and did it flawlessly!
He was my favorite out of the three.
The fact that Buster Keaton survived into old age is nothing short of miraculous.
Crazy how the best most real stunts in cinema history is from comedies and not action films lol
The fact that all of these things used to be done in real time just makes it even more amazing. Incredibly dangerous work executed so perfectly and with style.... what a legend.
Thanks Lucy. You must be pro stunt person yourself I imagine ಠ︵ಠ
@@jimmycricketlopez2746 do you play cricket 😂
@@jimmycricketlopez2746 ???????
@@jimmycricketlopez2746 What are you painfully trying to say ? Because until now you just wrote random words and look stoopid.
@@iamincrediblystupidbut4364 fyi it’s the second most popular sport next to football (soccer)
The man was tougher than nails and had a command of his body that most professional athletes can never reach. I'm glad he's continuing to get the attention and adulation he deserves.
He verbally mentions it in this video, but Buster Keaton started practicing physical comedy stunts at around 4 years old. His family was part of a vaudeville act they co-owned with Houdini, and his dad (as part of the act, with no real malice and not a single recollected injury from Keaton himself) would throw him at walls, into the orchestra, off the stage, etc.
He credits that very early training with his success, but his family BARELY got away with it in the 1890s (his father was actually arrested multiple times for abuse after the audience saw the show, which Keaton had always fully rejected, asserting very firmly it was all for the act).
Risking your son for the act is not okay. No matter what.
@@Noasphere I think the damage has already been done lol
@@Noaspherepressure makes diamonds. Being weak and lazy is not the lifestyle of all humans throughout history
@@philpyung4831, it is the inevitable future though.
@@Noasphere Today's youth is so coddled and entitled and weak, and it's ruining society.
He is almost like an animated character. Just unbelievable.
Except for his face.
Shame he stopped the cartoonish gags he did in his early career.
Well 5:00 just as good as invented a Roadrunner gag
@@donyoung7874 you're right my father said he had a paralysis in his face. So he could never laugh at his own skits
That's part of the whole point in these early silent movies. They needed to exagerate their body language in order to convey the acting, hence the cartoonish look of it.
Some of this stuff is literally 100 years old and I still can't figure how they did it. Simply amazing.
the trick is usually that they actually did it for real.
Buster Keaton was a legend. A time in Hollywood before the stuntman.
@@chrismofer no hes talking about things like at 4:55
@@Immortal_BP that man was at horisontal position before Keatons jump. After that he stood vertically
@@piotrpan7862 Right.
The waterfall clip was absolutely amazing!! Never seen this before. What a legend!!
Me neither.. Its absolutely bonkers.. I mean all of it is.. 😂😂
@Enthusiastic Aizawa there’s a cut and the girl he saves is a fake doll. Yes he really did the stunt. No she wasn’t really going to fall
@@justingood1443 Two cuts. It cuts to the doll floating downstream, then it cuts after he's caught the doll. You'll see that the doll doesn't move on its own, but the real woman does.
@@justingood1443the rope still injured his back. Shits wayyyyy harder than it looks.
Easily one of the most legendary actors to ever exist. It’s a shame that so many modern people don’t understand what it took to do what he did way back when. He will always be a legend.
Who says no one understands? Who says they don't understand and don't just think it's a bad idea? The guy broke bones and could have gotten killed. Those things are bad, actually.
Keaton risked his life in every scene of every film; that he survived all these stunts is miraculous.
Was he not especially trained to master such stunts? It looks amazing, but him risking his life for real doesn't sound right. Was he tired of living, very conscientious wanting to do the best job, or what?
@@Medietos is he the inspiration of jackie chan?
Unlike him, Jackie Chan is a real buster!
@@Medietos to put your ALL into something that’s something this man and only few can claim
@@user-if1de8pt2j CGI? Do you know when these films were made? Buster Keaton did a few stunts involving *camera tricks* but most of his stuff is very very real. CGI wasn't used in movies until Keaton was in his 60's. Well after he did his stunts, and only a few years before his death.
To impress Harry Houdini and inspire Jackie Chan, you have to be a legend.
Buster Keaton, the man, who never laughed.
Во каскадер! Всем каскадерам, каскадер!
the Houdini story is a fabrication although the story is true it wasn't Houdini
@@SkeligMichael sad like and Cursed like curly Howard
@@SkeligMichael or smiled
Keaton was one of the greatest performers to ever live. Without speaking a single word he made timeless comedy that can make anyone, from anywhere, born in any year laugh until it hurts.
I can't imagine all the small injuries he sustained over the years. That boy was tougher than a bucket of nails!
If you're not amazed by his stunts, you need to watch them again. Astounding.
I would love to watch the making off of his movies
I am amazed and I have to watch it again !
Now that's real Entertainment.
@Rare Color Films Jeez, lay off already, how many times do we need to hear this comment FFS?
They're good but the first one on the building is fake.
0:55 As historian David MacLeod explains, "He grabbed the water spout, it slowly came down and the force of the water knocked him down on to the railway line. In the film he got up and ran away, but he said for about two or three weeks afterwards he was getting these terrible headaches”.
Remarkably, unbeknownst to the actor, Keaton had broken his neck and only noticed the injury 30 years later when the doctor performed an X-ray and revealed the shocking news.
Thats nuts. Love learning this stuff
Whoa…
I didn't know he broke his neck, but I did know that he broke his arm at 3:35 and somehow managed to stay in character.
I went to school with a torn ACL without knowing but this is a different level 🤯
As they say, "'tis but a flesh wound."
That boucing and rolling down the sand hill, is just beyond belief, I can recall seeing them as a child when played at his works Christmas party for the kids and weall laughed and chered but now I am 70 and watching these stunts as an old man, I just can't believe the heights he did them at ,
The cleaning of the glass window must have been an inspiration to Marcel Marceau. Buster Keaton was absolutely phenomenal !!! His stunts were death defying and executed to perfection. He was superbly fit, flexible and strong with an incredible sense of timing and guts like very few had or will ever have. Just a rare individual who performed some of the most dangerous stunts as if they were business as usual.
The glass window thing was (probably) done by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle first, though - Roscoe did do it though I don't know when, but I can't think of an earlier silent film comedy star than Roscoe. ... Also, both Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin were in films of Roscoe Arbuckle's.
The stunt on the front of the train still makes me tense up even after seeing it hundreds of times.
Utter genius.
I saw a lot of videos of people in pieces below a train , that scene really puts me tense
He knew how to put his feet on the wood. so that he would slide on the train.. and his feet would not get under it.. :)
Me to cause even at that slow speed you would still get smashed
They said at least two stunt men prior to him actually did get mangled under the train and one of them lost their life.
You can tell it was real but must have taken steel balls to do it
It's not 'just' the jaw-dropping stunts but that facial expression and the body movements to enhance the effect yet more.
A Genius.
He should be awarded a posthumous Oscar for such a significant contribution to the action film.
Agree totally..and Buster had real bruises to prove he did the stunts no stuntmen used..I'm surprised he never ended up in a morgue but he did it for us and we are forever grateful..Watching Buster and Chaplin together in "Limelight" is so memorable..
He doesn't need an oscar. He is a legend.
Yeeeeeeeessssss!
HE. IS. LEGEND......
He should STILL BE HONORED FOR HIS INCREDIBLE INDURANCE, strength, talent and unending amount of gumption!!!! He was like a machine! Once he set his mind to something he didn't quit until he accomplished it. His physical endurance was unrivaled......how many people do you know can jump over a standing horse??? Anyone??? How about a 5ft tall hedge?? 🤔 The man was unreal!
A hundred years later and it's still astounding!
This guy was amazing, most stunts wouldn't even be thought of today, nevermind done.
Just by looking at this 5 min of clips he's the greatest stuntman of all time.
He truly is there should be a statue of this man it feels like Buster Keaton has not been given the proper recognition for his great achievements.
is there any movie about his life story,
@@charlesel5983 Pulling yourself into a moving trolley was insane, best stuntman
jackie chan is up there
Harold Lloyd too
Without CGI etc, his stunts and effects seems flawless and amazing even today
Thats because 98% of them are flawless, the other 2% are happy little accidents.
Gary Matthews And every little tree needs a little friend.
Pure talent
Better than today
Perfectly thought out, perfectly timed. No rehearsal. Do or die.
That flying scene with one hand holding the train handle. OMG!!!!!
The fact that he lived to be 70 tells you how well-thought out and performed his stunts were.
I cannot believe how easy he makes these stunts look. Unreal. I remember watching him as a kid, honestly thinking he was just another cartoon. Watching him now is incredible.
Something I read years ago: If the audience can see how hard you're working, you're not working hard enough.
The sheer athleticism of this man's stunts is just awe inspiring.
Also seemed to have some of the best luck of all time
He's not a huge guy, and wrestling a railroad tie - ever tried that? - I don't recommend it. 💪
@Reee Flex except for the risk factor is 100% and modern stuntmen have millions of ways to make things safer even those 30ft drops you want to scoff at.
@@Magneticlaw You really think that was real wood?
@@impact0r It was. We know because that tie still exists (forgot where, some Railroad Museum)
The thing he hit it with was a heavy metal iron though.
He had the vision long before youtube put everyone on the screen with these stunts. Incredible thanks for posting!
Absolutely genius picture... such brave, mad, clever men and women..
This guy was just insane. The scene with the Train and water tower is so crazy. The high pressure burst of water actually broke his neck, but this guy just finished the scene despite the pain and only realised he had a broken neck a full 10 years later.
Methinks a broken neck not as serious as you're tryna make out then.
@@robovac3557 it very much depends, if the nerves running through the vertebrates get pinched or broken. obviously it was a "lucky" case with him otherwise he'd died or been paralized.
Whoa!
@@robovac3557 Football (soccer) goalkeeper Bert Trautmann fractured his neck in a diving tackle during the 1956 FA Cup final. He not only didn't realise the seriousness of the injury, but played the remaining 17 minutes of the game, collected his winner's medal with his teammates, and only had it diagnosed by a doctor three days later because his head was "noticeably crooked"!
@@niknitro8751 I was in a head on collision five years ago and the air bag deployment caused two cracked vertibre in my neck. I still cannot turn my head to the left as far as I used to and my left hand is partially numb all the time. I still have some pain, but I am not dead or paralyzed. I still get around as well as I used to.
Perhaps Buster didn't actually break his neck, just cracked some vertibre.
How he did some of these is nothing short of amazing. No cgi and elaborate harnesses and wires for the most part. A true G.O.A.T
Yeeeeeeeessssss!
Well, there were certainly wires and harnesses. I think VFX was particularly clever then and ironically more subtle than nowadays.
@@LeonardoMastrogiovanni Who are you talking about?
@@LeonardoMastrogiovanni calm down
@@LeonardoMastrogiovanni silence.
This video was century ago and still the camera quality way way better than today's security footage or UFO videos
His stunt work is not only ahead of his time, but ours as well.
42 years old. Right now (literally) is first time I’m hearing about this man and his work. All because it appeared on my UA-cam feed. Makes me wonder how many other extraordinary people or events are out there….
John Stapp comes to mind. A name most know but probably know little about is Alfred Nobel. Also check out some famous physicists, such as Richard Feynman, Robert Oppenheimer, or Werner Heisenberg. Another couple favorite scientists are Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell. There are so many good documentaries and short videos about all kinds of extraordinary people on youtube.
Sounds like you’ve had a very sheltered existence to date.
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Not a stuntman, but a steeple jack. He repaired huge factory chimneys. He repaired things like the rooster on top of a church tower. BBC discovered this remarkable man. Check Fred Dibnah climbing chimneys.
Buster Keaton Broke the internet before there was internet.
Maybe he delayed its creation by decades? Woah.
The internet...
Is that still a thing?
Only idiots born after 95' say idiotic things like "break the internet"
@@TOGGGAA1 ok boomer
Right after he broke his 856th bone :P
ABSOLUTE GENIUS, WAY AHEAD OF THE TIME , MASTERPIECE WILL NEVER GROW OLD AND THAT LAST VIDEO HOW DID THEY DO THAT 🤔🤔🤔😯😯😯😳😳😳
He was a one shot. Just imagine if the director or film guy says we ran out of film. Just imagine what we all would have lost. A pure genius at play.
He was a professional with a professional crew. They always made sure they had enough film in the camera.
The car falling apart gets me every time! :)
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When he did all those stunts the creators of UA-cam did not even exist at the idea stage of their parents. And now this video has 19 million views :) This is amazing!
This is February 2024 and amazing, awesome and astounding stunts of Buster Keaton continue to be exceedingly popular even today. These are hugely hilarious & fun-filled silent era movies. 😀😀😁😁😆😆
Buster Keaton was a genius, all of his stunts being real action, just next level.
When Jackie Chan said he dedicates his Work to Buster Keaton, I felt that RIP to the Greatest Man of Cinema Entertainment Bravo👏🏽👏🏽
To never say a word and leave your audience speechless is a gift few ever achieve buster was that man a stuntman , actor of unmatched skill fearless and so so funny ! 🙏🏻👏👏👏
Buster Keaton was a legend,a few mins of this beats any movie today
Buster keaton was a true legend.
Total respect to him.
R.I.P.🙏✊
I never took the time to fully appreciate this man's ingenuity. I have some serious viewing to catch up on!
Just Liam You and me both!
Just Liam I agree
I've just started watching him and i'm 69 years and never knew what a genius he was.
me too
Don’t forget Harold Loyd. Another great stuntman.
Some of these stunts are just off-the-chart impressive!
My first day working on a roof as a painter. I was told " do you fall down just waking around" no "then good just do it" buster Keaton is an amazing example of just do it.
Wait a second...these stunts were F'n real??? That's insane!!! Obviously this was way before my time and I've heard the name Buster Keaton thrown around my entire life but this is the first time I've seen anything from him....I'm literally dumbfounded by this, one of the most impressive things I've ever seen.
They're REAL. Carefully made, but real. A true legend.
He did all his crazy stunts when his wife left him and didn't care about life.. he was insane!
You should definitely watch some of his movies. Here’s the greatest physical comedian of all time.
Nice to know Buster is appreciated in the 2020's.Hed be thrilled!!!!
@@ronmartin4212 right? He was making movies 100 years ago that people still watch and enjoy. I think he’d be very proud to know that.
When I was young he was my favourite actor, I remember laughing hard to his movies. Now I realize how many times put in risk his health only to entertain us. He was amazing.
Only to entertain us? You realize he made money from it right?
Yea , that's stupidity.
Nobody to be admired
@@owneraccount4334 Account owned...
@@ThanatosSD yea by Me
@@owneraccount4334 your subjective oppinion is somehow objectively wrong. congrats!
I remember in high school film class,
Buster Keaton was my teacher’s favorite actor.
Непревзойдённый и один из величайших людей на планете!Пожалуй,из-за невероятных трюков его фильмы сейчас вышли бы на очень высокий уровень!
А они и сейчас отлично смотрятся, даже если человек до этого немое кино не смотрел)
Величайшие люди это учёные, а не прыгуны из окон . Мозги включи
@@ShadowBrocker ну, он был не просто "прыгуном из окон", а режиссером, опередившим и во многом определившим облик современного развлекательного кино
Buster was a man before his time!
this man invented parkour 100 years ago
Nooe he was the man who designed modern day cinematography
He was a man while he was alive also.
Is he a woman now?
❤😃.
Even today his movies are absolutely iconic. For something over 100 years old, his work was ahead of his time
Considering how the majority of stunt actors usually end up after a couple of years or so, I highly suspect that this man had an extremely rare ability to precisely foresee if he survives the trick or not, or - what exactly will happen the next second and what to do. Someone may call that "luck", if they will, but I mean something else. Besides a truly excellent physical shape and perfect body control, of course. Amazing.
This is brilliant no matter how many times and for how many years i watch it.
The last scene took an amazing amount of planning and practice. In every scene Buster could have been killed or badly injured. Instead he just got back up.....Incredible performer....
Rob Jontay Incredible nerve! No one else like him.
Actually if you delve into his career, he was injured many times! Broken ribs, dislocated shoulder, even cracked a vertebrae in his neck just to name afew. Same for Chaplain and Harold Loyd.
b3j8 As a fan of silent films, I got to say I’m a little curious. Are there any books on how he did the stunts, that sort of thing?
Phil Bullen Don’t know of any still in print, but I’ll bet wherever there are schools that offer classes in film, there are bookstores that can order you some.
@@powerpopaholic876 Phil I read about this era in general many(MANY) yrs ago. I don't now recall what the name of that book was. It was not just about Keaton, but the Era in general. You might try some of the reading suggested on the Wiki site for him if you haven't already.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Keaton
The GOAT. No one will ever come close to this. Absolutely unique.
That waterfall stunt is absolutely incredible.
This guy is almost certainly one of Jackie Chan's influences.
Yeah, he was for sure. You should watch the Every Frame a Painting videos on Keaton and Chan he mentions his influence in those videos.
The shot where he was straddling the two cars was used by JC VanDamme (impressively, I might add) in a Truck commercial.
Do not compare the legendary Keaton to a clown?
@@djamelbouch3670 eh?
Was looking for this comment, even the way he steps after an "accident" that "comedic stomp"
There's not an actor today that could do these stunts. Not physically, mentally and most of all legally.
Tom cruise
@@LincolnVOS drive a car
Jackie Chan destroys him dude
Jackie chan
@@LincolnVOS Hopefully, calling those born Males/Females "Trans".
No wires, no cgi, just a camera, a man and his life on the line.
This guy was no joke, very killer stunts.
That stunt on the train grill was extremely dangerous, one slipped foot and he would have been caught under the grill and brutally killed. These are fun to watch, but he did stuff that was insane.
Oh god yes those grills they called "cow catchers" although they should have been called cow exploders because that's what they did at any decent speed. So so dangerous.
How about that waterfall stunt?
Yeah I fast forwarded through that.
@@brianchadwell2 the waterfall stunt was insane
@@johno1544 Actually, he was standing on the “headstocks” which on certain loco’s, connect to the cowcatcher.
The one true master of film.
Master of physical comedy and stunts indeed huge respect to him and Harold Loyd But the all time master of film Has to go to Chaplin,because did physical comedy/drama and also directed,writen,produced, composed music etc That is just unreal so i will go with Charlie Chaplind
Buster Keaton also wrote and directed many of his films. The general is just one example. The things he did were extraordinary and many have not been done since. I have a lot of respect for Chaplin as well. They were both revolutionaries. Each were great in their own ways.
Keaton not only did stunts lol, he exploited the cinematographic space, he made, contrary to Chaplin who used drama to make masterpiece, burlesque a major art, he's as good if not better
@@Realmasterorder Chaplin used a stunt double though.
@@mollyr.goates8097 Only in certain dangerous scenes but most of the physical things he did himself but as i said above he did a lot more than that he was a one man Movie making Crew and a prefectionistic genius
The General was great - hilarious, impressive and grand. I need to see more of his work.
The car collapsing when it hits the pothole is priceless
Dude was a genius. Movie makers now a days can't do half the things he pulled off.
Because directors back then tried and failed over and over
At the expense of hundreds of lives.
bro use your head. Hundreds of actors died trying to do what this guy did. That's why Hollywood uses CGI instead of real stuff
they could pull it off sadly people died cause they are trash and can never compare to him. Good Riddance
@@dentonkellyjr8095 nice bait
@@SourLayedBack i dont know what that means
These days you can replicate these stunts with CGI. Back then you did them with GUTS. Amazing
That's why this phony era of CGI is so uninspiring. It's everywhere, overused. Old films like this invoke such an immediate attachment with the viewer.
@@easygoing2479 were actually in kind of a “practical effects renaissance” in terms of Hollywood movie making. There’s a bunch of directors right now moving to do actual stunts. If you’d said this a 5-15 years ago you’d be right
I don’t think you can replicate these with cgi so much as mimic them. Replicate is a strong word for the things he did.
Oh and don't forget the many broken bones and dead stuntmen :)
@@easygoing2479 I mean, Keaton's stunts are fucking insanity. You couldn't do them now adays because they are waaay too dangerous. Even Keaton broke bones constantly in his stunts, and even broke his neck at one point (the water tower stunt). Its a huge controversy to let a stunt actor die or break his neck, so for most film makers its seriously not worth the risk (and probably not legal).
Mind boggling sequences that will never be surpassed, ever!
No! you can not imagine what he'll done in our days...this man ARE CRAZY!!
A TOTAL FRIKKIN' LEGEND !..........RIP Buster......You're gone but not forgotten ....coz .... no one today can do what you did back then......RESPECT !
We'll never see another like him. He was brilliant, fearless and exceptionally gifted talent wise. He was a complete master of his craft from top to bottom. Lightyears ahead of his time.
Jackie Chan continued his legacy for certain.
@Necramonium Who?
@@walkingtrails7776 No one. Don't worry you're not missing anything.
@Necramonium a good stunt but also probably rigged with the best safety team also.
@@whyis45stillalive Truth. Not a big Tom Cruise fan myself. IMO He's kind of a twit.
It's 2020 and I think these scenes are magical. I watched the whole video with a smile on my face.
Not me. I was all like 😱
I'm amazed. I was just thinking the stunts must have been jaw dropping for audiences back then.
Love me some Buster. How he kept all his fingers and toes we'll never know...?
True legend.
3:41 I'm surprised and impressed with this one. I didn't know such film technique was possible in this time
A live action Duck Amuck.
I legit thought there was glass he was cleaning. That was smooth as hell.
No pun intended?
It’s just spectacular to watch and listen to a guy from a completely different world, and be completely transfixed by it. This guy was born over a hundred years before I was. How the hell did he manage all that with the sort of technology he had? It’s just remarkable.
One of the things that stands out to me is how normal he sounds. Lots of people from his time period had those goofy transatlantic accents, but he sounds like a normal gravelly old man.
This is one of the most important Videos on UA-cam
The amount of dangerous stunts this guy has put himself to is why he's king of stuntman
The first clip where he jumps from building to building where he fell was a stunt gone wrong. It resulted in him falling from the building. He took 3 days to recover then included the fall in the movie and edited it together with another stunt that saw him going through the window. He was a genius but made a massive error based on the advice of his lawyer and signed for MGM. MGM basically took away Keaton's creative control over his work, replaced Buster's own technicians with their own and eventually MGM sacked him for not doing a degrading promotional ad for a movie.
I wondered how they did that, it didn't seem possible to do it safely without CGI
@@no_peace oh, safety is such an overrated concept....
@@no_peace Workplace safety wasn't invented back then. 😄
You remember that famous photo with the workers on a steel beam on top of the Empire State building?
Pure genius. It’s amazing he survived some of those stunts. No CGI, back then.
Это невероятно. Настолько завораживает. А какие опасные трюки выполнялись. И это по тем временам. Вот где талант. Браво!
i agree
Jackie Chan said Buster Keaton was his role model. Ironically Keaton was an American who inspired him to be a stuntman, and then years later he brings the art of stunts to American cinema. Full circle basically.
Special effects have been around since the birth of cinema,but a lot of the stunts that Keaton did were very real and very dangerous.Amazing but scary.
His dumbstruck look is just as incredible as the stunts themselves. No look of exertion in most cases. These shorts have such a timelessness.
Technically if it was done with pyrotechnics, etc. it would be called practical effects wouldn't it
I have never seen stunts like this ever in my life before. This is just another level especially in the initial age of cinema. Respect to such a talent who inspired the heros of the modern age.
We only simulate feats like these now
This man is tougher than 99% of living creatures
God I watch compilations of his videos for hours and listen to him speak for just as long.
In his final days he was restless. Despite dying of cancer he’s pace his hospital room and desired to go home. He even sat at a table playing cards with fiends the day before he died
Jeff Sanders Hope that didn’t imply his final destination 😰
He did not know he had lung cancer. He thought it was bad pneumonia.
@@malcolmabram2957 Wow 😮😮😮 that would be horrible!
U mean friends, right?
When he was on his last moments, someone near his bed asks to check his feet to see if he had died, claiming that the feet become cold after a person dies... and his last words were:
-"Joan of Arc's feet didn't."
JESUS, how did people laugh at this and not just gawk at the sheer madness of him. That is putting a lot of faith in way too many variables. It's AMAZINGLY impressive. A lot of tight timing.
there was no "behind the scenes" or knowing what was real and what was "movie magic" back then. chances are almost 100% of it was actually done, which boggles the mind, but when you hear about the injuries he actually sustained. nowadays the audience knows full well the risks most people have taken, and they know to suspend disbelief for the most part. wrestling was still real to people back then. i imagine that movies were in the same sort of category. also. silent movies had wonderful comedic music and sound effects. which played a big part in helping create the comedy/comedic timing of these stunts.
the thing is, they had music, atmosphere, and the knowledge of what they were going into wasnt killing anyone. With those its very easy to laugh at the intended joke rather than act brainlessly.
@@mwbwyatt And nowadays we have complete tools like Tom Cruise saying he does his own 'stunts'. Yeah. I am sure a company insuring a multimillion dollar picture would allow that.
The cost of Cruise's breakfast is probably equal to the entire budget of a Keaton two-reeler.
Yep, music sets the tone of any film.
The original Doctor strange and teleporting act. Awesome. It looked so seamless and flawless . Hats off to the showman of the time.
If you ever wondered what max luck looks like in real life, this man had it. Not to mention skill.
In Sherlock Jr when he goes into and out of the movie screen the effects are flawless. He was a mechanical genius on top of being a fearless stuntman/athlete.
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Woody Allen borrowed the trick for Purple Rose of Cairo decades later.
I watched the Lucille Ball doc recently and learned that she did a lot of her training, acting and physical comedy from Buster Keaton. I was surprised but it makes a hell of a lot more sense looking at her performances and career.
Buster Keaton, Jackie Chan and Tom Cruise are the guys you think of when it comes to doing crazy stunts in movies. They all deserve a great amount of respect, admiration and appreciation.
This is honestly too good to be real... like I'm more keen to belive this was made today with special effect and old school filter was added, than that he did all of this for real (ofcourse I know this is real, but ... you get the point).
100 years later and watching someone endanger themselves is still entertaining
And your point is? No the gladiators didn't do that?
I don’t understand why stunt performers are not awarded, it’s an extremely important and dangerous part of the business.
My fav Buster Keaton stunt is the dropkick-through-window he delivers in Sherlock Jr.
It really hits the mark
Some of these gags he came up with were reused in film dozens of times over the decades and even today. He was the best gag man of all time.