Buster Keaton was Hollywood's original actor-director-stuntman star, both incredibly athletic and a fearless filmmaking daredevil.
, our minds can’t help but drift to the cinematic artform of the professional stunt performer. Gosling, after all, is playing a consummate stunt professional in the David Leitch action comedy, a workaday stunt man thrust into leading role status, who must both solve a mystery and navigate a tricky romance with his own director, played by Emily Blunt. It seems safe to say that the film will pay homage todoesn’t have an Academy Award to honor it.
This boldness, and the drive to entertain audiences by any means necessary, were fully on display during Buster Keaton’s classic run of silent comedies from 1920-1928, when the pioneering director and performer would cook up dozens of iconic stunts in both short films and features. Many of these sequences left their mark on the actor in the decades to follow, and a few of them are probably lucky to have not killed “The Great Stone Face” on the spot.
Suffice to say, the sheer power of balance featured here is pretty incredible, and it’s easy to imagine how badly any of the performers could have been hurt at any time by a collapse or fall.This stunt happens pretty much immediately in the wake of one of Keaton’s most famous visual gags/stunts, when the entire front section of a house collapses around him, but we’ll get to that one later on the list.gag relies on the same cyclone winds as the other one, occurring as Keaton’s Bill Jr.
There are just so many ways that this sequence could have gone wrong for Keaton, particularly in the portions where he is surrounded by smaller rolling rocks. Lord only knows how many times he may have tripped over them, but he was lucky not to crack his head open, descending a 30 degree slope at high speed while completely surrounded by rolling prop boulders.
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