Buster Keaton
Unidentified people, including a man dressed as an angel (C), attend the funeral of Marcel Marceau, the world-famous mime artist who died 22 September 2007, at the age of 84, at the Pere Lachaise cemetary in Paris, 26 September 2007. Marceau, whose real name was Marcel Mangel, became internationally famous for his 1947 creation of Bip, a sad, white-faced clown in a striped jumper and a battered silk opera hat. He was single-handedly responsible for reviving the art of mime after World War II, after two decades of being eclipsed by the silent movie, dominated by the genius of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton or Laurel and Hardy.
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Moviegoers today are used to seeing fast edits, but we show the full performance played out onscreen ... That famous scene in which Buster Keaton gets a building falling on him but manages to remain standing where the window was - that would lose all its charm if we didn't see the whole context.
She’s got some physical stuff that reminds me of Buster Keaton or another of the old silent comics ... There’s not one moral person in the play, except maybe the chef at the end.
I did a Buster Keaton somersault flip over my date. … It was a great special moment for me and a lot of people in my life. You can’t do that at an I-MaxMore quotes »
