What is the film about? How is the story told? Who are the main characters and what happens to them? How is the narrative structured? This short silent film follows a just married husband and wife who inherit a plot and a flat pack home from his uncle. On the way to their plot 99, the wife nearly gets kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend but is saved by her husband. In retaliation, the ex paints changes the numbers on the boxes for different parts of the house. The couple build the house, but it soon becomes clear that the whole thing is topsy turvy with doors on the second floor and rotating windows. Next they try to build the interior, trying to use the cieling to pull a piano through the door which pulls down the floor like a trampoline and launches a man into the roof. The hold a party, where the husband chases he ex-boyfriend round the house which then starts rotating in the storm and everyone is thrown out of the doors and windows and leave angrily. The pair then find out they’d built on lot 66 not 99, and try to move the disheveled house on the back of a car- accidentally getting it stuck on a railway track. The first train misses it, but as they celebrate a train on the other track smashes through the house. They leave a for sale sign and the directions and leave the wreckage.
One Week (Buster Keaton, 1920)
One Week (Buster Keaton, 1920)
One Week (Buster Keaton, 1920)
What is the film about? How is the story told? Who are the main characters and what happens to them? How is the narrative structured? This short silent film follows a just married husband and wife who inherit a plot and a flat pack home from his uncle. On the way to their plot 99, the wife nearly gets kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend but is saved by her husband. In retaliation, the ex paints changes the numbers on the boxes for different parts of the house. The couple build the house, but it soon becomes clear that the whole thing is topsy turvy with doors on the second floor and rotating windows. Next they try to build the interior, trying to use the cieling to pull a piano through the door which pulls down the floor like a trampoline and launches a man into the roof. The hold a party, where the husband chases he ex-boyfriend round the house which then starts rotating in the storm and everyone is thrown out of the doors and windows and leave angrily. The pair then find out they’d built on lot 66 not 99, and try to move the disheveled house on the back of a car- accidentally getting it stuck on a railway track. The first train misses it, but as they celebrate a train on the other track smashes through the house. They leave a for sale sign and the directions and leave the wreckage.