Here's another silent film for ya. now before you decide you want to hop on over to Cracked.com and read the"Top Ten Animals That Look Like John Belushi", but i promise you this is a good one.
The General is set during the first year of the Civil War. A young train confederate train engineer is desperate to gain the acceptance of his girlfriends family but to no avail her father refuses to acknowledge him. One day a band of Union spies attempt steal a train with the engineers girlfriend onboard. with little time to waste the young engineer sets out on a wild adventure beyond what the engineer could ever imagine.
It's hard for me to to dive down deep into a film like this when it really is as straight forward as you can get in a film. it's the basic damsel in distress story, with a hero setting out to save her. Buster Keaton plays a delightfully dim wired but kind hearted hero . All in all the action is quite clever. I always find it so surprising that a train chase sequence could be as exciting as they portray it. where the film really shines is in the action and i honestly find it hard to talk about this film because the film is entirely action. there are two major sequences n the film and both of them take up about two thirds of the film. this doesn't mean the film is bad but that it's very very simple.
Aaaaaaaaaand yeah that's all i have to really say about this film. it's really fun and quite entertaining, but if you wanted an in depth analysis of this film there isn't much to analyze. i highly suggest it for the sake of viewing it but don't expect something on the level of Schindlers List because it's not that kind of movie.
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