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? The film begins with Keaton and his housemate making dinner with a clever pulley style contraption that lays the table, gets beers out of the fridge and cleans up after them. Both of them are fighting over the same girl- whose farmer father dislikes the pair. To win over her father’s affection the daughter bakes him a cream pie (classic “get my dad to like my two potential husbands” desert) which is accidental left unguarded outside and eaten by a dog. Buster’s character comes into the contact with the dog first, and seeing the pie allover its face assumes it has rabies.
The Scarecrow (Buster Keaton, 1920)
The Scarecrow (Buster Keaton, 1920)
The Scarecrow (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? The film begins with Keaton and his housemate making dinner with a clever pulley style contraption that lays the table, gets beers out of the fridge and cleans up after them. Both of them are fighting over the same girl- whose farmer father dislikes the pair. To win over her father’s affection the daughter bakes him a cream pie (classic “get my dad to like my two potential husbands” desert) which is accidental left unguarded outside and eaten by a dog. Buster’s character comes into the contact with the dog first, and seeing the pie allover its face assumes it has rabies.