jc CTVA 310
Tim Halloran
10 September 2017
A Short Review of "Three Age" and "Our Hospitality"
I watched both these films at 7 PM on September 7th. "Three Age" and "Our Hospitality" were both mainly acted and directed by Buster Keaton. "Three Age,” Buster Keaton's first feature is a combination of three short films. He shots to fame with another feature, "Our Hospitality,” which is a black and white silent thriller produced by Joseph M. Schenck, and it is distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation. Like Buster Keaton’s early works, these two features display his own style. They have included all the crucial elements in Buster Keaton’s Style, which are the three-act structure (The Classic Narrative Structure), thrilling scenes with lots of danger action effects, fascinating plots with natural but also hilarious performances and romantic happy endings.
More specifically, every short film in the feature “Three Age" has the Classic Three-Act Structure system. The system has three acts: The Set-up (Act I), The Development (Act II), and The Conclusion (Act III). During Act I in "Three Age," the audience is introduced to the film’s protagonist, a young man acted by Buster Keaton. Act I also shows the goals that each character wants to achieve: The protagonist "Keaton" and antagonist both want to get the same female, but they are standing in each other's way of achieving this goal. In Act II, the film’s protagonists generally encounter a number of obstacles that keep them from succeeding. As Keaton’s goal becomes harder to reach, he is losing his female partner and his rival is too strong to beat. In Act III, the film reaches its climax. The protagonist and the antagonist finish their last duel, after which Keaton beats the antagonist and gets the female lover.
Moreover, "Three Age" and "Our Hospitality" both have thrilling scenes with lots of danger action effects and happy endings. For instance, in the climbing scene in "Three Age," wherein Keaton climbs the cliff, it causes the audience to feel nervous and agitated, just like the gun-shot chasing scene in "Our Hospitality." Likewise, they both end in happiness. Every protagonist in "Three Age," beats the rival and wins his love. The protagonist in "Our Hospitality" also survives Vendetta and marries his enemy's daughter.
Compared with the movies produced nowadays, Buster Keaton’s films, as "old-fashioned" comedy style pieces in the early 20th century, had not benefited from modern sound and vision technologies. However, his comedic silent features are still remarkable film-works with a high level of completion. "Three Age" and "Our Hospitality" were early films, but they are still extraordinary, and have shown Buster Keaton’s style to the world.
(7/10)最后……走出來了一只汪星人……………………………………
三個片段拼湊的太刻意,其實沒什么關(guān)聯(lián),最后領(lǐng)著一只狗的現(xiàn)代夫婦諷刺啊
如果片子不是那么長,也許我會給四星甚至五星。但我還是得說,基頓真的是一個十足特別的人~
那恐龍做得可真可愛啊
有點兒意思,但是沒興趣看第二遍。
石器、羅馬、現(xiàn)代,三個時代的三對情侶。巴斯特基頓的第一部劇情長片。對比中帶有人文思考,歌頌兩個最美的詞匯Love&Beauty。love is the unchanging axis on which the world revolves.用speed need and greed來形容現(xiàn)代的大都市。天臺踏板速降地面的驚險一幕很經(jīng)典。
3.5
指望基頓幫我哦沖百部默片了。這個三時代結(jié)構(gòu)有點像寫文章嘛。那個大象是亮點,假牙還是定制的。
瞧瞧人家原始社會和古羅馬的屌絲是怎樣自強不息戰(zhàn)斗不止最終抱得女神歸的,再看看你自己,加油吧。哎。
構(gòu)思可以,但是拍出來就有點差強人意了
這么早就拍出了長篇,而且還是交叉敘事,剪輯合理,很難得。影片中依然有不少被后世模仿的橋段或者讓人忍俊不禁的精彩設(shè)計,如逃跑新娘、能當(dāng)車鎖用的頭盔。。
向D.W.格里菲斯致敬的喜劇短片,效仿了《黨同伐異》的方式,分別勾勒出基頓在石器時代、古羅馬時代、現(xiàn)代世界中和心上人以及死對頭之間的關(guān)系,時代不同,愛情卻是不變的。
7。石器、羅馬、現(xiàn)代,三個搶女人的故事。
有些東西會隨著時代的發(fā)展而被淘汰(改變) , 但自問自己,卻會發(fā)現(xiàn)對他(它)們擁有一份嚮往及喜愛~!!
電影聲音的出現(xiàn),一定程度使得電影喪失了一種幽默的曖昧感。
把《黨同伐異》改成了《愛是永恒》。史前亂石戰(zhàn)(雖然把1.35億年的恐龍和250萬年的石器時代瞎拼貼吧),羅馬吊貓撐桿拆屋大法(給獅子玩偶美甲也是發(fā)自內(nèi)心的關(guān)懷),現(xiàn)代羽量級football(原來橄欖球是基頓已經(jīng)玩過了的,身體控制得非常出色,簡直是瑜伽大師的級別),劫婚場追愛換車詭計。最后的一家足球隊,一家手牽手,一家去遛狗,倒也很會心的。字幕卡也萌。
那條龍顯然是定格動畫吶;特寫;基頓第一部長片,其實是三個二十分鐘短片拼接將起來。
看得我好痛苦...額
三段平行敘事雖然有點呆,但是片子依然創(chuàng)意十足,開始覺得基頓在電影語言上對電影的貢獻應(yīng)該大于其他默片時代喜劇大師吧。笑死了。。。。
巴斯特·基頓導(dǎo)演的第一部劇情長片。這部影片是一次討巧的嘗試,基頓打算,倘若作為長片票房失敗,就將之重新切割組合成一個系列短片,以原先成熟的20分鐘短片形式發(fā)行。影片講述三個時代的三個愛情故事,分別是石器時代、古羅馬時代與摩登時代。情節(jié)大致相似,并戲仿《黨同伐異》的結(jié)構(gòu)進行交叉剪輯。