{"id":10004,"date":"2015-07-30T20:30:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T01:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10004"},"modified":"2015-07-21T09:21:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T14:21:57","slug":"our-hospitality-1923-buster-keaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10004","title":{"rendered":"Our Hospitality (1923, Buster Keaton)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We managed to watch this despite obstacles (DVD gone missing, Amazon&#8217;s lies about runtime).  Keaton&#8217;s second feature, a vast improvement over <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7255\">his first<\/a>.  Keaton takes a train to brutal, rural America to claim his family estate, which turns out to be a crumbling shack.  So instead he focuses on the hot girl who rode the train out west with him (played by Keaton&#8217;s wife), but her dad (familiar heavy Joe Roberts) and two brothers are out to kill him because of a century-old family feud.<\/p>\n<p>After a flashback open where Keaton&#8217;s dad and Joe Roberts&#8217; brother kill each other, the first half of the movie is mostly the ride out west on a ridiculous wood-fired train said to be based on an actual vehicle.  Second half is Keaton, having been invited over by the girl, unable to leave since the men won&#8217;t shoot him while he&#8217;s a guest in their home.  He finally escapes dressed as a woman, then after a mountaintop chase culminating in one of the best stunts in movie history &#8211; Keaton swinging on a rope to catch the girl coming over a waterfall &#8211; they marry, ending the feud.  Watched with Katy as history lesson after the first <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7023\">Story of Film<\/a><\/em> episode, though we mostly forgot to analyze editing and obsess over the 180 degree rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We managed to watch this despite obstacles (DVD gone missing, Amazon&#8217;s lies about runtime). Keaton&#8217;s second feature, a vast improvement over his first. Keaton takes a train to brutal, rural America to claim his family estate, which turns out to be a crumbling shack. So instead he focuses on the hot girl who rode the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[526,214,1974,294,105],"class_list":["post-10004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1920s","tag-buster-keaton","tag-family-feud","tag-trains","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10026,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions\/10026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}