Buster Keaton Questions

1. He got his start by performing on stage with his parents when he was a kid. His family and vaudeville influence him by him keeping a serious look and his dad is always abusing him, but he stills love the guy and respect him.

2. Keaton's comedy is unique because he designs the set and do all of his humor in an organise way. He also does a lot of stuff by accident and making it looks funny. This is how he makes his film so unique and very humorous. Keaton's comedies are unique because he had a script to work with while Chaplin doesn't.

3. The rwite compared Keaton to Chaplin in the article is by saying that Keaton is a more organise way and he does his humors by acting serious. He also said that Keaton doesn't need a funny hat and shoes to be funny. He said that Chaplin works were just stuff that he did over and over again unlike Keaton who thinks of a scene to shoot. The writer appears to have a bais toward Keaton's work than Chaplin's work.

4. Keaton's career ended because he was becoming more alcoholic and his films were not getting a lot of money for the company MGM. So they decided to fire him. Also another reasons for his failure was that his voice that really match his silent character and he always view himselfs as a failure. Then he got depressed and became woeful. He couldn't come up with a script and the company jsut crush him indifferently.

Parallel Sequencing

Modern Times has good acting, lighting, and music. The acting was wonderful and it was hilarious. The lighting in Modern Times was more high key than Metropolis because it is more cheerful and it is like that world in Modern Times still have happiness, even though the people doesn't have job and are starving. The acting and the musics in Modern Times really go together and it is like the are mesh together to make a wonderful masterpiece. Modern Times have a lot of really random music, but they use a lot of acting to tell the story and really get you on the hook right away when you first watch it.
Metropolis even though it has acting, lighting, and music I think that it was not that much of a great movie because it was kind of creepy anf very dramatic. The acting of Metropolis was not okay because they over act it and it was way to dramatic for people to like it. The lighting that they use aws mostly low key which gets boring after awhile and you want to watch a different movie instead. The music did go with the story, but it has some very negative effects. It adds more dramatic to the acting of the characters. Too long and it is kind of confusing when you watch it. The part where they show Freder hallucinating makes me feel very dizzy from all the circling around and stuff.

Metropolis and Modern Times

Metropolis and Modern Times both uses pretty much the same techniques of lighting. During the movie Metropolis, I notice that they do use a lot of black and white to show the difference b/w the rich and the poor people. They uses color to created different emotions that we have as we watch it. Modern Times doesn't have that much lighting even though they still uses black and white. Modern Times mostly depends on acting. The acting cause people to laugh, find it amusing, and also flat-out hilarious. It also uses a lot of white rather than black to show happiness and joyfulness. The time card in Metropolis and Modern Times are very different because one uses that to create suspense and the other one is very plain. The one in Modern Times jsut tells us what is happening and there is no suspense; pretty musch straight forward informations. I think that Metropolis and Modern have a lot in commons and a lot of differences.

Film Studies

The director is Edwin Porter and he created the film called Battleship Potemkin. This film is important because it shows how people back then use contrast in black and white back and how do they use a lot of editing. so that they can use it to control people emotions and feelings. It is also important because they didn't have a lot of advance technology back then so it was pretty amazing to see them actually become creative and use their different techniques in film.