Our Hospitality (1923) :
Brief Review -
Buster Keaton's Timeless Tale of Classic Slapstick and Situational Comedy. It is an honour to watch Films from silence cinema which gave birth to most of the common stories told over the years. Our Hospitality is another genuine script with timeless impact and influencial screenwriting segments. This is how you put expected odds in your story and make them look reasonable yet dramatic. Our Hospitality is about a Young Man who returns to the town to claim his father's property but soon realises that the neighbors want to kill him to counter old feud revenge. As he becomes thier guest and falls in love with the only girl in thier family, they find it difficult to kill him respecting thier guest-code. So, it all turns into cat and mouse game and we find ourselves on an adventurous ride through house, train and water. I liked the odds feed by the writer in this intelligent traditional and detailed period film. I fully agree with the statement that It was a groundbreaking work for the comedy film genre, as Keaton included "careful integration of gags into a dramatically coherent storyline". Yep, it is all there but the term called goodwill is something which fulfills the entire movie. Buster Keaton is hilarious and terrific in this film. I wonder how did he pull off that stunt at waterfall, it looked startling and wonderful. Natalie Talmadge looks beautiful and performs upto the mark. Supporting actors are fine too. Our Hospitality shown the world that how to make a hilarious comedy without using cheap situations and yet finish making more sense than other family and romantic dramas. It has seen remakes after 8 decades that tells very much about it's legacy. Keaton and Blystone's director duo did a fabulous job keeping everything at right place from emotions to comedy to logic to cinematic Liberty. An early Classic and timeless Comedy of Hollywood.
RATING - 8/10*
Buster Keaton's Timeless Tale of Classic Slapstick and Situational Comedy. It is an honour to watch Films from silence cinema which gave birth to most of the common stories told over the years. Our Hospitality is another genuine script with timeless impact and influencial screenwriting segments. This is how you put expected odds in your story and make them look reasonable yet dramatic. Our Hospitality is about a Young Man who returns to the town to claim his father's property but soon realises that the neighbors want to kill him to counter old feud revenge. As he becomes thier guest and falls in love with the only girl in thier family, they find it difficult to kill him respecting thier guest-code. So, it all turns into cat and mouse game and we find ourselves on an adventurous ride through house, train and water. I liked the odds feed by the writer in this intelligent traditional and detailed period film. I fully agree with the statement that It was a groundbreaking work for the comedy film genre, as Keaton included "careful integration of gags into a dramatically coherent storyline". Yep, it is all there but the term called goodwill is something which fulfills the entire movie. Buster Keaton is hilarious and terrific in this film. I wonder how did he pull off that stunt at waterfall, it looked startling and wonderful. Natalie Talmadge looks beautiful and performs upto the mark. Supporting actors are fine too. Our Hospitality shown the world that how to make a hilarious comedy without using cheap situations and yet finish making more sense than other family and romantic dramas. It has seen remakes after 8 decades that tells very much about it's legacy. Keaton and Blystone's director duo did a fabulous job keeping everything at right place from emotions to comedy to logic to cinematic Liberty. An early Classic and timeless Comedy of Hollywood.
RATING - 8/10*