Les trois âges

Titre original : Three Ages

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThe misadventures of Buster in three separate historical periods.The misadventures of Buster in three separate historical periods.The misadventures of Buster in three separate historical periods.

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- 1 nomination au total

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Buster Keaton

The Boy

Margaret Leahy

The Girl

Wallace Beery

The Villain

Joe Roberts

The Girl's Father

Lillian Lawrence

The Girl's Mother

Kewpie Morgan

The Emperor
(as Horace Morgan)
…

Lionel Belmore

Undetermined Role
(unconfirmed)
(uncredited)

Bernard Berger

Roman-age child
(uncredited)

Basil Bookasta

Stone-age Child
(uncredited)

George Bookasta

Stone-age Child
(uncredited)

George Davis

Roman Guard Knocked Down
(uncredited)

Louise Emmons

Old Fortune Teller
(uncredited)

F.F. Guenste

Butler
(uncredited)

Blanche Payson

The Amazon
(uncredited)

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Anecdotes
The most famous stunt in the movie was actually built around what went wrong with the original stunt. Buster Keaton intended to leap from a board projecting from one building onto the roof of another building, but he fell short, smashing into the brick wall and falling into a net off-screen. He was injured badly enough to be laid up for three days. However, when he saw the film (the camera operators were instructed to always keep filming, no matter what happened), he not only kept the mishap, he built on it, adding the fall through three awnings, the loose downspout that propels him into the firehouse and the slide down the fire pole.

Gaffes
In the medium shot of the Stone Age soothsayer scene, Buster's hands are resting together near the side of the turtle. But in the cut to a close-up, we see only a hand double's right hand, and it's directly in front of the turtle's mouth. (It's clearly a hand double, since Keaton was missing his right index finger tip.)

Autres versions
In 1995, Film Preservation Associates copyrighted a version with an orchestral score; no details were specified on the print.

Connexions
Edited into The Golden Age of Buster Keaton (1979)

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Pleasant & Funny

This is a pleasant and funny combination of slapstick and satire, period humor and romantic comedy. It does not have quite the number of sustained chase/stunt sequences as in most of Keaton's features, but instead there are a lot of fine subtle gags of all different kinds.

In each of the "Three Ages", Buster and Wallace Beery vie for the affections of the same woman, with amusing and unpredictable results. The simple romantic triangle theme sets up a lot of good material, on the one hand lending itself to a lot of gags about the unchanging nature of romantic courtship, and on the other hand being used for a lot of deliberate anachronisms that are often extremely funny. Beery makes a nice foil for Keaton, and the girl's parents also have some good moments.

This one usually gets lost in the crowd among so many brilliant Keaton masterpieces, but it works very well and is definitely worth seeing for any fan of silent comedy.