Buster Keaton Shorts
Buster Keaton Shorts One Week (1920): One Week uses quite traditional techniques. For example there are multiple long takes involved in order to create humour. In this film, he subverts that common trope of being a suitor by starting the film having already been married. Keaton also takes on the role of the everyman as he was like many other couples in the 1920s. We see Keaton and actress Sybil Seely playing a newly-end couple who build a new house. Seely's character in the film also subverts common representations of women seen in the 20s as she actually has a purpose in the film and helps him build instead of only being used as eye-candy. Keaton is also unable to fulfil masculine roles as he is unable to build the house. The film takes inspiration from the cubist movement. Cubism is an early 1920s art movement that revolutionised Europeans paintings and sculptures. Keaton isn't a realist filmmaker but he wants his jokes to look real. This is seen by his lack of cuts