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Buster Keaton: Navigator
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Buster Keaton finds himself adrift on The Navigator, a huge vessel out on sea. He soon discovers there is a very naive girl that's on board as well. Through a series of mishaps and humorous game of cat and mouse, they soon discover they need each other in order to get off the boat.
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The Navigator (1924), which followed, is more of a ballet than a film, a dry account of two rich twits, effete Buster and out-of-it Kathleen MacGuire, stranded aboard a deserted boat. The gags are cerebral and as mild as you can imagine. There's an aesthetic at work in The Navigator that is unlike that of any other director, a style that is distinctly Buster. For once, the girl is just as funny as he is—he and MacGuire make a fine team.
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At times like this, Keaton's understanding of the way the world works is even more brilliant than Newton's. It just doesn't quite apply to the world we live in. In The Navigator, Buster tries to drill a hole in the top of a can of evaporated milk, but the drill goes all the way through the bottom of the can. When he discovers this, he instinctively cups his hand below the leak, while holding the can in his other hand, and then tries to pour the milk back in the top -- juggling with liquid, as if he could somehow suspend the milk in mid-air and keep it running in a circle until he's ready to pour it into another receptacle.
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