After Conan Doyle launched the Sherlock Holmes series, children in Europe and America aspired to become detectives, just as Chinese children longed to become knights after being immersed in martial arts. The world-famous Buster Keaton holds a book "How to Be a Detective" all day long.
In fact, Keaton can't be a detective because he's a total "hard-faced comedian."
He had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a name for himself in the film "Sherlock Holmes II". The future father-in-law's watch was stolen, and Keaton quickly took out the detective Bible and painted a scoop, but unfortunately let the rival put it together, but instead became a The suspect was kicked out of his girlfriend's house. Keaton, who had not been successful in his apprenticeship, was not discouraged. He resorted to a trick of stalking sugar, but unfortunately, his rival was locked in the car, making him soaking wet. Undoubtedly, the setback was heartbreaking, and the reality humiliated him severely, so, like the general public, Keaton chose to jump from the car halfway, leaving the matter of becoming a detective to his dreams.
It is often said that movies are dreams, and comedy is the most enjoyable part of this dream. Comedy often benefits from bold and outrageous imagination, and dreams provide the soil for it to shine. In dreams, you can be anyone and do anything amazing.
So, Keaton got into the dream of becoming a detective. It is more coincidental that Keaton used a ready-made tool-movie. A movie called "Conscience and Jewelry" is being shown in the theater. The plot coincides with Keaton's experience just now, which is very understandable, because "Thinking about in the day, dreaming in the night", the dream is by no means out of thin air, it must be able to find a basis in the real world. Although there are other male and female protagonists in the movie being shown, Keaton can turn them all into people he is familiar with. This is called empathy. A character in the film is immersive, which is the dream of the film creator. The film is not only the movement of light and shadow on the screen, but also the inner interaction between the audience and the creator. And Keaton visualized this interaction. He walked into the screen carelessly. This move is estimated to be a precedent for film and television works. It expresses the voice of many people who are addicted to movies. Chinese children have been thinking, If I can get into the world of "Journey to the West", I must let Sun Wukong teach me the seventy-two transformations.
Keaton entered the movie, and an interesting scene happened. Because of the constant switching of locations, Keaton was caught off guard and became a classic in film history.
I was at the gate a second ago, I wanted to go down the steps, but I let the stone bench fall, and came to the wall. I wanted to sit on the stone bench, but I lost my butt and rolled onto the street where the cars came and went. , I wanted to walk on the street, but I almost fell off a cliff. The next second I came to the zoo and met two male lions. I wanted to walk away, but I was walking in a sandpit, surrounded by cacti, and the train whizzed by. One second sitting on the sand pile, the next second sitting on the reef in the sea, a wave of waves came, and there was no way to go. Suddenly, he stumbled and fell, and came to the wall with the stone bench again.
It is said that these empty scenes should not exist in detective movies. Keaton seems to ignore this point, but from the perspective of dreams, there is nothing wrong with Keaton. Keaton has played the advantage of quietly making jokes. Well, the characters in comedies are often very unlucky.
At the beginning of the film, Keaton was a complete unlucky guy. He did some errands in the small theater, such as sweeping the floor. There was a piece of paper on the broom, and he couldn't shake it off, so he wanted to step on it with his foot and use the right The foot touched the right foot, the left foot and the left foot, so I pulled with my hand, pulled with my left hand, touched my left hand, pulled with my right hand, and touched my right, but fortunately Keaton was smart enough to put his right hand. Put it at the door and let the paper get on the feet of the boss who just went out. It would be an overstatement to say Keaton is smart. Anyone who understands knows that if you use both hands together, won't the piece of paper be torn off? But this is comedy, and the characters in comedy tend to be one-sided and lovably stupid.
To give another example, Keaton found a dollar in the rubbish heap. He was so ecstatic that he thought he could afford a beautiful gift. As a result, a middle-aged woman came to dig through the rubbish and said that a dollar was lost. Keaton foolishly asked her to describe the characteristics of the dollar she dropped. People said it like this. Keaton looked at the dollar he picked up, and it was not bad at all, so he had to give it back to others, the audience. Of course I saw Keaton's stupidity. Isn't a dollar all the same? If the stupid Keaton just returned the one dollar he picked up to the owner, the audience might think that he did not pick up the gold, and should give a good review, but unfortunately another old woman also said that he lost a dollar, Keaton Helplessly, he took out his own money and gave it to her. Later, a tall man came again, and Keaton wanted to give him the remaining dollar in his pocket. Unfortunately, they didn't want it, and turned it out in the garbage. With a bulging purse, Keaton, who saw his fortune fly away, was completely dumbfounded.
In addition to playing stupid, Keaton also used the comedy method of "shooting himself in the foot", which was once Zhou Xingchi's signature. Seeing that his girlfriend let his rival come to the fore, Keaton sat on the chair and was indignant, so he threw the banana peel on the ground, trying to get the rival in love, but unfortunately it didn't work. After a few seconds, Keaton probably forgot about the banana peel. When he saw his rival kissed the back of his girlfriend's hand, he suddenly became angry and wanted to rush to stop it, but he stepped on the banana peel he threw, and came with four feet in the sky.
This kind of "harming others and eventually one's own" tactics is also reused in Keaton's dreams. The bad guy wanted to murder Keaton. There were three ways. They replaced the No. 13 billiard ball with a bomb, installed a trap on the stool, and poisoned the wine. In the end, none of them succeeded. The head of the villain number 1, and the poisoned wine almost made the villain number 2 drink himself, and the remaining billiards number 13 blew up the car chased by the villains in the final car-by-car scene.
In addition to the two comedy styles of "stupid" and "harming others", Keaton makes perfect use of coincidence. If there is no coincidence, there is no story, and coincidence always inspires the creativity of comedy.
At the climax of the film, coincidences can be said to be everywhere. While tracking Bad Guy 1, Keaton was tricked into being trapped on the roof. Seeing that Bad Guy 1 was about to drive away, the witty Keaton leaned on the stop bar from the roof and fell into the back seat of Bad Guy 1's car, thereby exploring. Got the lair; with the help of an assistant (let's just say Watson), Keaton placed the round box containing a woman's dress on the window sill of the villain's lair, snatched the villain after finding out where his girlfriend was imprisoned The jewelry in No. 1's hand was pierced out of the window sill with lightning speed, and changed into a skirt in an instant, leaving the villains nowhere to look; Keaton, who was wearing a skirt and walking on the road, was eventually discovered and forced to leave without a trace. On the way, Watson appeared again. Watson was carrying a suitcase like a tie seller. Keaton jumped into Watson's suitcase under the eyes of the two villains and disappeared. The two villains went to check the back. The wall turned out to be a revolving wooden door, and Keaton turned out and locked the two bad guys inside. This part can be described as exquisite; next is the funniest part of the film, Keaton is sitting in the car of the old policeman's motorcycle On his hand, he ran towards his beloved. Keaton's sitting posture was originally cute. When the motorcycle passed a puddle, the old policeman was shaken off, and Keaton continued to move forward without a driver, a joke It has been upgraded here and galloped on the busy road, which undoubtedly made the audience sweat for Keaton, but he always saved the danger and caused a lot of damage. The coincidence was perfectly reflected from the bridge crossing. It was originally a broken bridge. When Keaton passed by, the two trucks just happened to pass side by side. Keaton was walking on the ground. The bridge behind him collapsed when he passed by. Someone blew a tree trunk to clear the road. When Keaton drove past, the tree trunk collapsed. It happened to be blown into two pieces, the road was clear, and there was an arched car, much like the "Airbus" developed by China some time ago. Keaton passed under the arched car without any obstacle, and finally escaped and drove over The train is really magical; just about to reach the hut where his girlfriend was imprisoned, Keaton's motorcycle hit the wood in front of the house, inertia made him enter through the wall, and just kicked the bad guy from the other. One side kicked out of the hut.
Keaton made the coincidences linked together, thus speeding up the rhythm and making the audience dizzy with thrills and laughter. When he came back to his senses, he realized that there was no Sherlock Holmes at all, and Keaton made it clear that he was here to laugh. , he is laying out jokes in the detective's dream to let the little people succeed.
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