Nothing Special   »   [go: up one dir, main page]

    Calendário de lançamento250 filmes mais bem avaliadosFilmes mais popularesPesquisar filmes por gêneroBilheteria de sucessoHorários de exibição e ingressosNotícias de filmesDestaque do cinema indiano
    O que está passando na TV e no streamingAs 250 séries mais bem avaliadasProgramas de TV mais popularesPesquisar séries por gêneroNotícias de TV
    O que assistirTrailers mais recentesOriginais do IMDbEscolhas do IMDbDestaque da IMDbGuia de entretenimento para a famíliaPodcasts do IMDb
    EmmysSuperheroes GuideSan Diego Comic-ConSummer Watch GuideBest Of 2025 So FarDisability Pride MonthPrêmios STARMeterCentral de prêmiosCentral de festivaisTodos os eventos
    Criado hojeCelebridades mais popularesNotícias de celebridades
    Central de ajudaZona do colaboradorEnquetes
Para profissionais do setor
  • Idioma
  • Totalmente suportado
  • English (United States)
    Parcialmente suportado
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Lista de favoritos
Fazer login
  • Totalmente suportado
  • English (United States)
    Parcialmente suportado
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Usar o app
Voltar
  • Elenco e equipe
  • Avaliações de usuários
  • Curiosidades
IMDbPro
Buster Keaton in A Casa Maluca (1921)

Avaliação por Igenlode Wordsmith

A Casa Maluca

9/10

"The little idiot from the bank"

'How do I love Keaton? Let me count the ways...'

As I watch more and more of Buster Keaton's films, I find myself reduced to a state of abject adoration that I am at an almost complete loss to convey; it's easier by far to comment on the individual elements that may disappoint in any given film, but this totally fails to reflect the sheer degree of enthusiasm that they create. Yet again I'm struggling to find words -- the shorts are funnier, the features are more touching, and I wouldn't have missed any one of them. The landscapes of my mind's eye have become peopled by a positive kaleidoscope of Busters, tumbling, leaping, hapless or inspired, resigned to the inevitable but endlessly alert to the passing balletic chance. I've roared with laughter and gasped in surprise and had my heart melted in sympathy; I've marvelled at his athletics and been astounded at the range of his acting. In short, in the space of twenty-odd films and the passage of a month, I have simply become an utter Buster Keaton addict.

"Haunted House" I particularly liked -- better, in fact, than "The Electric House" with which it is unfavourably compared, merely because the structure of the latter is comic-strip predictable: gadgets introduced, gadgets go wrong. "Haunted House" has the lunatic juxtapositions that are Keaton's craft at its best, as his hero gets mixed up with bank robbers, opera singers and a counterfeiters' conspiracy -- the sheer ingenuity and variety of the jokes that can be based around a single staircase had the audience in stitches, as every time we thought we knew what was going to happen, Buster came up with a fresh approach to the problem!

The film has been dismissed as consisting merely of two disjointed halves, but "Sherlock Jr" -- where the famous dream sequence is almost totally without effect on the main plot -- demonstrates that this is no drawback. Certainly in the case of "Haunted House" one would not wish to lose either part. The introductory sequence, where Buster inadvertently finds himself in a position to save the day, only to become a scapegoat, is classic Keaton comedy. The second part takes the place of the extended chase to which such a plot line would normally lead, with all the parties converging on the same booby-trapped building to terrify the wits out of each other... until, that is, Buster's "little idiot", dismissed by the villains as harmless, is the one to work out what's going on.

This development, of course, enables Keaton to have the best of both worlds, milking the comic possibilities first of his character's horror and then of his blasé scepticism -- one rightly-renowned sequence is where he steps in to take control of the spook 'traffic'! Even self-possession and preparation, however, aren't necessarily going to help him with that staircase...

In the space of its brief twenty minutes, this surreal short film features an amazing trick photography shot, some classic sticky mime, deadpan titles, long-running gags with a multiple twist, the cloak of Mephistopheles, a celestial fantasy, plus a bonus ten-second seduction of Buster -- what's not to love? ;-)
  • Igenlode Wordsmith
  • 4 de mar. de 2006

Mais deste título

Explore mais

Vistos recentemente

Ative os cookies do navegador para usar este recurso. Saiba mais.
Obtenha o aplicativo IMDb
Faça login para obter mais acessoFaça login para obter mais acesso
Siga o IMDb nas redes sociais
Obtenha o aplicativo IMDb
Para Android e iOS
Obtenha o aplicativo IMDb
  • Ajuda
  • Índice do site
  • IMDbPro
  • Box Office Mojo
  • Dados da licença do IMDb
  • Sala de imprensa
  • Anúncios
  • Empregos
  • Condições de uso
  • Política de privacidade
  • Your Ads Privacy Choices
IMDb, uma empresa da Amazon

© 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.