When it comes to pantomime, we will generally only think of Chaplin, after all, he is too classic, his works until now is also the kind of enduring, and pantomime master, is also the originator, Buster Keaton (Buster Keaton), born on October 4, 1895 in the United States, the United States of America, silent era actors and directors, known as "the cold-faced comedian".

Major works include Sherlock Holmes II and The General, Seven Chances, etc. In 1960, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 32nd Academy Awards.

As we all know, it was extremely difficult to shoot in those days, first of all, the machine can not, and a lot of the plot is to be on the actors themselves to shoot, almost no stuntman, and will not be like today so that you can use the special effects, or P picture or something, which is impossible in those days is to need the actors personally to interpret.

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Buster Keaton (Buster Keaton) shot although the comedy movie, but he never laughed once in the movie, completely relying on physical action to achieve the role of funny, and many times also let people in the funny at the same time, appreciate the connotation of 1923 to 1929, was the first time that Buster Keaton had been in the movie. Between 1929 were the six best years of Buster Keaton's film career.

During those six years, he made 12 feature films, each of which was highly successful. With his distinctive looks and comedic delivery, he was on a par with Charlie Chaplin (in fact, since Chaplin appeared in films much less frequently in the 1920s, the comedians who made the most noise at the time were Keaton and Harold Lloyd).

Famous among them are The Way of Hospitality (1923), The Navigator (1924), Sherlock Jr. (1924), The General (1926), Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) and Cameraman (1928). In The Navigator due to Keaton's films The Admiral and College did not do well at the box office.

From 1928, Joseph Schenck chose to give up independent production to become chairman of United Artists full-time, and proposed that Keaton join MGM.

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