Plot Keywords Each week, The Dissolve designates a Movie Of The Week for staffers and readers to watch and discuss together. When he proposes her, his rival steals the chain watch of her father and incriminates him. Dusting himself off and sitting down, he lands on his keister in a busy street. Scott: Perhaps the primary reason that Sherlock, Jr. is so treasured among cinephiles is that it’s a touchstone movie about the movies—about their possibilities, about the fantasies they inspire, about our capacity to live vicariously through film characters, and about the desires that we project onto the screen. Nathan: I share your frustration with the CFO score, which nudges hard in the ribs when it should sit back and let Sherlock, Jr. and Keaton do the heavy lifting. In fact all of the characters are glamorised within the dream narrative, the girl wears a simple gingham dress in reality but within the dream she wears an elegant black gown. On the surface, Sherlock Jr. is a typical Walter Mitty tale: A hapless movie projectionist, framed by a romantic rival for a theft he didn’t commit, fantasizes about becoming a detective and clearing his name. A meek and mild projectionist, who also cleans up after screenings, would like nothing better than to be a private detective.
CASE STUDY I-2 CASE STUDY I-3 But also like you, I eventually just gave into the illusion, and there are few films that make giving into the illusion as enjoyable or as easy as Sherlock, Jr. Noel: One of my favorite things about watching movies from the first three decades of the 20th century—as opposed to watching movies about the first three decades of the 20th century—is seeing little glimpses of the past that weren’t meant to be quaint. Throughout the film, Sherlock Jr plays with ideas of reality and fiction and the distinction between them. The sheik steals and pawns the girl's father's pocket watchfor $4. Sherlock Jr. places the paper drum on the window sill. His characters tend to end up in comic situations that double as powerful metaphors: trying to control out-of-control technology, pursued by potential brides, and so on. Nathan: Keith, the phrase “movie magic” ran through my mind throughout the film as well. But it also offers a strange, post-modern-before-it-had-a-name exploration of movies, viewers, and the relationship between the two. The projectionist/Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton) sits at the back of an empty movie theater with his broom, reading "How to Be a Detective." Sherlock, Jr. nicely illustrates both ways to watch Keaton.
Then again, Anderson is one of those directors, like Martin Scorsese, whose films so bear the imprint of other work (and yet are distinctively theirs), that it’s hard to pull a single filmmaker like Keaton from the soup. See the list below. Scott: I’m definitely a Keaton man myself, for a number of reasons: The deadpan countenance, the amazing stunt work and comic inventiveness, and mostly for the way he staged sequences as discrete units, conceived with the camera as a key partner.
Skip to: Start of Article. The film is filled with Keaton’s signature acrobatic stunts and delightful visual wit, but things really get interesting when the projectionist falls asleep while screening a drawing-room mystery.
(I still regret missing my chance, a few years back, to see a Japanese silent with a real, live benshi, the storytellers who used to explain the action to Japanese audiences, and who had enough clout to extend the silent-film era into the mid-1930s in Japan.).
Sherlock Jr. is only the third silent film I've seen and the first from Buster Keaton. The projectionist buys a $1 box of chocolates, all he can afford, and changes the price to $4 before giving it and a ring to her.
Anderson’s attention to the very center of the frame was recently pointed out in a nifty supercut , but when Keaton sets about solving the case by following the steps in his How To Be A Detective book, there was a same sense of comic orderliness here as there is in Anderson’s work, which is liberal with the use of titles for inventory purposes. Analysis / Sherlock Jr Go To × Edit Locked. It’s funny and a testament to the varied pleasures that movies have to offer. Come for the laughs, stay for the philosophical hall-of-mirrors. What are some of your favorite gags and/or moments here? Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, the U.S, 1924) depicts a cinema projectionist and janitor who’s studying and dreaming about becoming a detective like Sherlock Holmes. Scott: I’ll fourth everyone on the CFO score for Sherlock, Jr. It’s atrocious and so distracting that I actually muted the sound completely at one point out of frustration. Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 1997. (It’s one who boasts about picking up distant signals using the then-new technology of short-wave radio.) Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. While watching this film, we see Sherlock Jr. trying to identify himself with his idol Sherlock Holmes by picturing himself as the detective in movie to achieve his imaginary identification and satisfy his desire to be as sophisticated. But the whole experience made me think about how much we’re missing when we watch and try to appreciate silent movies today. © 2020 Pitchfork Media Inc. All rights reserved. (As he lands, we see the snoozing projectionist twitch.) Throughout he remains stoic and unwavering, living up to his famous nickname, ‘The great stone face’. Neither has much money. For example, what’s up with that “stag party” in Sherlock, Jr., where a bunch of dudes are having a picnic and playing tug-of-war? He becomes engaged to a pretty girl but a ladies man known as the Sheik vies for her affection. (Serves me right for not picking up the Kino reissues. When the father notices his watch is missing, the sheik slips th… We’ll talk next about the big walking-into-the-movies montage sequence, but that’s not the only place where Sherlock, Jr. plays with the idea of movie-life and real-life bleeding together, and it revisits that idea with this sweet final scene. This scene is considerably self-reflexive; we as the audience are viewing a film where we are impressionistically positioned within a viewing theatre, to watch a character from a film, enter another film within it. Ad Choices. narrated by Crispin Glover and accompanied by a live orchestra and live sound effects. In the dream the boy solves the case and escapes with the girl, yet in reality it is her who unearths the truth and she returns to him, ending the story and the film. About halfway through watching on Netflix, I gave up and dug out my Kino DVD with the much more classical-sounding Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra score, which I enjoy much, much more. It is in the film, he worked only with the thing itself, creating what amounts to theory out of his body, his camera, his fingers, a pair of scissors”. There is a box of candies that costs a dollar, and a bigger one that costs three dollars. This parallel of narratives gives Keaton the ability to offer a comedic analysis of an individual’s identification with those on screen. Shrugging, he returns to his work. And when his dream of becoming a detective cannot be realised he is accepting of his place in society and within the real world. In contrast to the social commentary evoked in Chaplin’s the ‘Tramp’, or reflected in the bespectacled character of Harold Lloyd, Keaton was deemed as more of a generic ‘funny man’; a silent film star who offered a highly physical slapstick comedy. A reminder that the Synch/Non-Synch Sound Symposium runs tomorrow and Friday at the Huston Film School. Feel free to pitch in or suggest your own discussion points. His rival intrudes on one of Sherlock Jr.’s dates with the girl and makes the girl’s father think that Sherlock stole a watch. The main character, Sherlock Jr. falls in love with a beautiful girl but another man shows up as his competition while he’s trying to win the girl’s heart. ( Log Out /
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