"The General" is Keaton's only one in the IMDB high score list. This film fully reflects his multiple talents as a director and editor, and created a perfect Civil War triumph with his uncontrollable performance and plot. In "The General", Keaton plays a standard "short and poor", but he is small and ambitious, and he has always been eager to make a contribution to the war. So in the whole work, the two wonderful train battles back and forth and the constant little humor interspersed in it, let the audience see a wonderful one-man show, and finally he also became the person in his own mind.
Highlights content notes:
1. "General" was manufactured in New Jersey in 1855. It was shipped to Georgia a year later, costing US$8,850, weighing 53 tons, and the fastest was 60 miles per hour;
2.440 engine is the first four driving wheels of the engine ; 3.1862
a car theft occurred on April 12th;
4. The real General The leader is William Fuller;
5. During the 20-minute break for breakfast, the robber Andrew separated the two carriages and hijacked the train;
6. The robber was finally arrested after 10 days of fleeing because of the train’s steam and charcoal burned out, and Andrew was eventually arrested. Execution by hanging; (the difference between this and the movie is big)
7. Lincoln awarded Andrew and his party a medal;
Keaton laid the railway in 8.1926 and asked to use the general, the locals refused to let him use the general for comedy;
9. The train It was bombed on the bridge for $42,000 and was salvaged in 1942;
10. "The General" was filmed in Oregon in 1927;
11. Many scenes are still there today;
12. The historical cost of the silent film was filmed on July 23, 1927 The highest shot;
13. Olson Wells thinks Keaton is very handsome, but he has lived in the shadow of Chaplin for a long time;
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