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In an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at the sea when he's caught by pirates.
The Love Nest
1923 Directed by Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
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Любовне гніздечко, 사랑의 둥지
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"Since you've broken off our engagement, I've decided not to marry you" - opening intertitle.
The Love Nest sees a broken hearted Keaton, try to forget his woes by sailing off in the Cupid, a small boat. Not long into his round the world journey he runs into the whaling ship Love Nest. On board the whaling ship's Captain (Joe Roberts) throws anyone overboard whom falls on his bad side. Instead of a life belt a wreath is tossed to the drowning sailor. The understated intertitle simply states "The captain is rather irritable".
Keaton is made the Captain's steward and spends most of the short trying to avoid being thrown into the ocean himself. The comedy is mostly…
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didn't watch a buster movie all day yesterday, i missed him 😔💔
writing a heartbroken letter and sealing the envelope with your tears is SO goth
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Buster, having recently been the victim of a broken heart, decides to embark on a trek around the world in order to forget his ex-sweetheart. He boards his small boat, the aptly-named "Cupid," and begins his journey.
While out to sea, he comes upon a large whaling ship, which is helmed by a gruff short-tempered sailor. He decides to join the crew, and minor wackiness ensues. Besides contending with the always-cranky captain, the ship encounters a whale, some pirates, and even experiences a mutiny attempt. The only thing that's missing is some swashbuckling.
This is a lesser Keaton short, to be sure, and it lacks much of the wonderful stunt work that would define Keaton's style. Still, I'm glad it didn't turn into a sappy romance story.
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Dearest,
As you have canceled our engagement, I have decided not to marry you. I am leaving to sail around the world so that I will forget you.
Yours for the last time,
BusterP.S. If you do not receive this letter, write me.
In his final short, a heartbroken Buster seals that letter (with his own tears! 😭), hits the open seas, grows a greasepaint beard, is shanghaied by the titular whaling boat, tangles with the tyrannical captain, sinks the ship and finds himself on the wrong end of target practice. In just over twenty minutes!
Even lesser-Keaton is a treat. Somehow my biggest grin came in reaction to the captain ordering, "All hands on deck!”
I’m a simple creature.
Available here.
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☆"The story of a man who lost his interest in women and everything else."☆
Oh, it's my autobiography! Predicted 60 years before I was born.
It's Buster Keaton's final two-reeler before he moved on to his string of successful and lauded feature-length works, The Love Nest has its very funny moments and an overall arc of sweetness that makes for an enjoyable 20 minutes, but it already felt like he was saving his best gags and stunts for the upcoming bigger movies of the mid-1920s.
Setting sail on the Cupid after his love cancelled their engagement, Buster is running away from it all. Several days later he encounters the whaling ship The Love Nest in the open ocean, led by…
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Men, I am now your captain. I will raise your pay and get you an insurance policy!
Keaton's final silent short isn't one of his masterpieces, but it has a couple of good twists.
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Je l'ai regardé principalement à cause de l'homonymie du titre avec celui du film que j'ai vu juste avant, Love Nest de Joseph Newman avec Marilyn Monroe, qui m'amusait beaucoup. Mais somme toute, c'était très sympathique comme p'tit film; Buster Keaton avait une belle mèche rebelle dans son front presque tout le long et je sais pas pourquoi, mais j'ai trouvé ça pas mal émouvant.
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Film School Drop Outs Weekly challenge: Week 2
Genre - Comedy - Silent Comedy IconsBuster swears off women, takes to sea in a tiny boat and ends up on a whaler named the Love Nest. Once there he constantly earns the ire of Big Joe Roberts and resigns himself to being thrown over board.
Rather a disconnected set of situations that aren't really satisfyingly turned into anything greater than the sum of their parts. Those parts are funny, I liked the wreaths, ladder and the rope gags, I liked Buster playing against Roberts. i even liked the stock footage but it's not one that I'm likely to return to and it doesn't ever really take that step into magic.
The youtube stream of it that I saw might be partially responsible as it loses a fair amount of detail but I'm not really sure how they would weld this one together.
letterboxd.com/owene73/list/watched-for-the-film-school-drop-outs-weekly/
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The graceful swoop of his body when he's yanked overboard.
You can be my cabin boy anytime, Keaton.
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Keaton is rejected by his girl in The Love Nest so he decides to sail around the world. After running into difficulties, he encounters a whaling vessel helmed by a tyrannical captain. He joins the crew and is soon terrorized along with the rest of the sailors.
The Love Nest is a strange title for this short because there is no love and no nest. It's really a short that has a lot more to do with the open sea.
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It's a little bit too tame to be much fun and there's a lack of good stunts. Nice enough way to pass the time but nothing special.