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The General (1927) is an imaginative masterpiece of dead-pan "Stone-Face" Buster Keaton comedy, generally regarded as one of the greatest of all silent comedies (and Keaton's own favorite) - and undoubtedly the best train film ever made. The Civil War adventure-epic classic was made toward the end of the silent era. Posters describing the slapstick film heralded: "Love, Locomotives and Laughs." However, Keaton's greatest picture (arguably) received both poor reviews by critics (it was considered tedious and disappointing) and weak box-office results (about a half million dollars) when initially released in the late 20s, and it led to Keaton's loss of independence as a film-maker and a restrictive deal with MGM. It would take many decades for the film to be hailed as one of the best ever made.

Filled with hilarious sight gags and perfectly timed stunt work, the chase comedy was written and directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, and filmed with a huge budget for its time ($750,000 supplied by Metro chief Joseph Schenck). It is memorable for its strong story-line of a single, brave, but foolish Southern Confederate train engineer doggedly in pursuit of his passionately-loved locomotive ("The General") AND the woman he loves. His stoic, unflappable reactions to fateful calamities, his ingenious and resourceful uses of machines and various objects (water tanks, a large piece of timber, a cowcatcher, a rolling artillery cannon on wheels, and unattached railroad cars), and the unpredictable forces of Nature, provide much of the plot.

The film's fictionalized plot was based on Lieut. William Pittenger's Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railway Adventure (aka The Great Locomotive Chase), a true Civil War story of the daring raid/seizure by a group of about two-dozen Union spies (led by civilian spy James J. Andrews) of a Confederate train near Atlanta (at Marietta, Georgia) in April of 1862. They attempted to ride "The General" back into the Union, meanwhile wrecking communications, tracks, and bridges along the return way to Union-occupied Chattanooga (about 140 miles away). Within just 10 miles of safety at the border, the Union group was captured and Andrews and seven of his Raiders were later hanged as spies in Atlanta in June, 1862. Congress created the Medal of Honor in 1861-62 and posthumously awarded it to some of the Raiders (James Andrews, leader of the raiders, was not in the military and therefore not eligible).

The original tale (told from a Northern perspective) was reworked for the film - the tale was told from the point of view of the South and a Southern engineer, a second return train-chase was added, and a heroine named after Edgar Allan Poe's Annabelle Lee was also introduced. A second film was also made to depict the raid - Walt Disney's The Great Locomotive Chase (1956), with Fess Parker as mastermind Union spy James J. Andrews.

The General displays marvelous technical and structural perfection, playful comic inventiveness and realistic romance, and non-chalant graceful, fluid athleticism on the part of Keaton - the Great Stone Face. Realistic stunts (without stuntmen to double for Keaton), uncontrived, free-flowing set-pieces, non-stop motion, and a preoccupation with authenticity make parts of the film a visual history of the American Civil War, with each shot looking like a Matthew Brady photograph. Part of the film was shot near Cowan, Tennessee, between Nashville and Chattanooga. Another locale for the film was around Cottage Grove, Oregon alongside Oregon's Row River, where a half-mile stretch of narrow-gauge track was found for the two ancient, wood-burning, steam locomotives that figured prominently in the film (the General and the Texas). [The original antique locomotive, the General, on display in Chattanooga at Union Station since 1911, was not used in the film. The Texas was the locomotive that used for the river-gorge crash sequence.]

Each half of the film is predominantly composed of two train chases over the same territory. Each scene in the chase of the first half has a counterpart in the film's second half. In the first chase, loyal Southern engineer Johnnie pursues the blue-coated spies who have stolen The General and escaped to the North. In the second half, the Union spies chase Johnnie in his re-possessed General back to the South. The film concludes with a climactic battle at a river gorge, with the dramatic crash of the pursuit train into the Rock River in the film's most spectacular scene - and the most expensive shot of the entire silent era.
 
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Nekada sam mislio da samo posebni ljudi (a da nisu britanci) razumeju i uzivaju u engleskom/britanskom humoru.

Red Dwarf je moja omiljena serija iako je ta rec, "omiljena serija", oksimoron za moje poimanje sebe.

Sada, siguran sam da ne moze svako da uziva u sarkazmu (ili cinizmu kako definise BZLjP) cega je u izobilju u brit serijama, jer jednostavno ne vole to isto. Slicno kao sto meni US sitkom komendije retko da izazovu nekakav osmeh (iskljucujem "That 70's show" koji je istkan sarkazmom).

Steta, pomislim po nekad, sto ne gledam vise tv program...
ali tek ponekad.
 
Meda Božanin:
Nekada sam mislio da samo posebni ljudi (a da nisu britanci) razumeju i uzivaju u engleskom/britanskom humoru.

Red Dwarf je moja omiljena serija iako je ta rec, "omiljena serija", oksimoron za moje poimanje sebe.

Sada, siguran sam da ne moze svako da uziva u sarkazmu (ili cinizmu kako definise BZLjP) cega je u izobilju u brit serijama, jer jednostavno ne vole to isto. Slicno kao sto meni US sitkom komendije retko da izazovu nekakav osmeh (iskljucujem "That 70's show" koji je istkan sarkazmom).

Steta, pomislim po nekad, sto ne gledam vise tv program...
ali tek ponekad.
Kliknite za proširenje...

eee...da dozivim da je i na ovom...mjestu...neko gledo Red Dwarfa...
ma sta gledo - gledo i skapiro...:D
 
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