Rambling: Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton was a silent film actor and perhaps one of the most famous. His work was primarily comedic in nature, but it was all well-done, especially considering the state of movie making in the silent movie era. If you don't like silent films, don't read the rest of this post, but if you're curious, I have a little bit to say about a movie I saw last night.

The movie wasn't that long (just over an hour), and it had creative stunts, a good story, and great story telling with a minimum of dialogue. Modern movie makers could learn a lot from how the characters of people are revealed without dialogue to the audience. Instead of telling us who they are, we see who they are. It's a very effective way of doing it. The only weakness of the version I saw was the music. It was simply classical music laid down underneath the movie without much thought to what was happening in the movie. A good soundtrack added in can make all the difference in the world.