http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/moonrise-keaton/ david cairns Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:42:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/moonrise-keaton/#comment-49106 Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:49:55 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=19930#comment-49106 [...] As I believe I mentioned, Fiona and I (and houseguest Chris) really dug MOONRISE KINGDOM. Which opinion is of no use to anybody else, of course, so I thought I’d talk about the Keaton connection, which might even be of interest to people who don’t like the film, or Wes Anderson, or even Keaton.  [...]

]]> http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/moonrise-keaton/#comment-49051 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:32:27 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=19930#comment-49051 Good call, Harry! Yes, that has shades of Seven Chances and The Paleface and maybe Cops. It’s also a great example of how Anderson can function without lots of gags, just a funny situation filmed from the right distance. But I’d like to see him do more gags (or maybe dance) because he understands about comic distance.

]]> http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/moonrise-keaton/#comment-49047 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:29:54 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=19930#comment-49047 My Keaton flash happened at the campground, when they were chasing Sam around the playing field in fast motion right before he gets hit by lightning. It looked like it was cut right out of Seven Chances.

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