BUSTER KEATON : 'One Week' and 'The Scarecrow' analysis
The use of editing in One Week and The Scarecrow both present the early stages of filmmaking in the early 1920s, in particular The Scarecrow which employs a heavy use of a chase scene to provide the audience a comic effect. In particular, The Scarecrow's dog chase scene is a prolonged scene that's filled with cuts in-between, one example of this would be when the man is on top of the building and falls off, awkwardly cutting off to when he's already at the ground rather than showing the fall. Buster Keaton does a good job at keeping the audience used to his style, as usually he makes characters fall in different ways each time and shows the full fall rather than a cut. This shows us how even in the 1920s when filmmaking was such a new thing, Buster Keaton was already making an autership for himself, making him very well-known in the film industry, and his films being such huge hits back in the 1920s. Furthermore, The Scarecrow's use of the role of the female is very w...