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In Reply to: New Yorker cartoon on Bill Murray posted by clarkjohnsen on September 21, 2005 at 08:45:02:
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Keaton was far more than an actor: he directed many of his movies, helped plot them, created the gags, acted as his own stunt coordinator and did his own stunts. Bill Murray is a moderately funny guy but he's not in the same league as Keaton. Murray has done nothing that compares to The General or Steamboat Bill Jr. .
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I agree. "The general" and "Sherlock, Jr." are on my top ten list (of films, not just silent films).
I'm a big Keaton fan, to the point that I've put flowers on his grave in Forest Lawn. During all the years I lived in NYC I was able to attend at least 2 and perhaps 3 extensive Keaton film festivals. As a result I've seen every silent feature and two - reeler he made, most of the shorts where he costarred with Fatty Arbuckle, and most of his sound work too including several of the sad mediocre films teaming Keaton with Jimmy Durante. I'm don't think there is a 21st century Keaton. The closest anyone has come to being Keaton's heir is Jackie Chan in the films he made in Hong Kong, not in his later Hollywood movies.
In his review of "Broken Flowers" Ebert made this same comparison.
..can I flatter myself?
;0)
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(nt)
..and after having googled the name and, jesus, where would we be without google, tell me that..that it's possibly the guy on the left with the rather unsure smile trying to look calm.
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Don't see that at all, sorry.
extraordinarily "quiet," which makes his expressiveness, when it occurs, powerful. I can't understand how you couldn't notice? He also has a world-weariness which Murray seems to have grown into: Marcello had it from the beginning. The wry smile is also similar. I wonder if Murray would acknowledge what is an apparent "take" on MM's style.
Er, yes, actually I have really seen Mastroiani some films.
La Dolce Vita, 81/2, Blow out etc..
Why, does that surprise you?
I still don't see a comparison, sorry again.
is he in that one? The DePalma film with John Travolta?
No, that's a different film with the same title.
I know, it's complicated.
The film is La Grand Bouffe.
In the UK it was called Blow-out.
In the US it was called The Great Bouffe.
meant this one which was directed by Michelangelo).
See one of his films again and don't be stubborn: you'll see it when it's fresher in your mind's eye.
..as La Grande Bouffe (aka Blow-out in the UK) by Marco Ferrei.
I'll certainly try & see one of his films again since this seems to be a subject dear to your heart.
Stubborn, did you say? lol!!!
I'm right none the less ;^[)
I've been meaning to see La Grande Bouffe ffor a long time, thanks for the reminder.
nt
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