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@CountDankula please do a Absolute Mad Lads episode on Roy Benavidez: American War Hero and Real Life Rambo Andrew Joseph Stack: guy harassed by the IRS so bad that he took off in his personal prop plane and 9/11’d it into the IRS’s office building Miguel Z-40 Treviño Morales: founding leader of the Mexican Los Zetas drug cartel Zeljko Arkan Raznadovic: Serbian Crime Boss and Paramilitary Leader of Arkan’s Tigers Alexander “The Superkiller” Solonik: Russian contract killer that had an obsession with becoming “Superhuman”. Viktor Bout: Russian arms dealer and REAL “Lord Of War”. Neall Ellis: South African Mercenary that fought off an insurgent force with his attack helicopter Mid-Night Club: Japanese Street-Racing gang ‘Mad Sam’ DeStefano: American Mobster too crazy for the Mafia Hiroo Onoda: Japanese Army Officer that surrendered 28 years after WW2 ended Bielski Partisans: Jewish Resistance Fighters that fought off the Nazis with Guerilla Warfare Pablo Escobar: No Introduction
As a person who has devoted 3 years of life almost exclusively to Buster, studying, checking and exploring his life and legacy, I want to thank you very much for this video, and for one of the most error-free stories about Buster's life that I have heard during this time. Very good.
As a devoted Damfino I'd like to thank you for your high quality uploads of Keaton's work. I often watch your videos and adore your thumbnail art! Nice to see you here
Muscle memory from childhood would be a hell of a glitch to the system. That's an oddity of experience of life. I love what people are capable of for the weirdest reasons.
This was not only a great Mad Lads episode, but it was also one of the best tributes to a man that went above and beyond not just for his craft, but for his heart.
Love Buster, we watched The General in film class, around 2010. Imagine having 150 millennials all watching this silent film, and laughing at all the good bits. Once that bridge collapses, I heard people gasp. Never underestimate the power of a good story. RIP Buster
In my last history class during my senior year would choose old movies and watch them. The General popped up as well, sadly we never watched it, but we watched his other great works
It's worth noting that the John Wick movies are so inspired by Buster Keaton that they include snippets of them. Action movies of today owe such a debt to those comedies that to this day in the movie industry stunts get called 'gags'.
Damn I’m only halfway thru the video but I never realized how rad Buster Keaton was. You always hear the name much like many old celebrities and you know they were of some significance but jeez Louis..... what an incredible man
My father passed earlier this year from esophageal cancer, but years before I had many fond memories watching Buster Keaton with him. Thanks for bringing those happy memories back friend, and the additional insight to a crazy entertaining man.
He said in a video that he never does madlads unless their story is over, so that sounds like a good idea But he’ll probably wait a few months to a year so it isn’t too soon
You left out the firing of the mortar in The General...blasting a giant cannonball at another moving train...all the misses until they got the powder charge just right...great stuff!
The most influential stunt-actor in human history. I remember my grandparents talking of his antics, even though they were kids when he was at his prime.
It's also worth saying that Buster's textbook method of filmmaking was that all actors on screen only saw what was in the frame. They literally only 'saw' what was in the shot and visible to the viewer. This gave way to endless gags and slick moves, as well as Buster playing with different camera angles to get different responses and make different messages out of the same shot, which he would choose later which angle was best. Who knew the amazing comedy that would come from shrinking scenes down, and tailoring them around only what the viewer was capable of seeing
The General holds a special place in the hearts of Railfans world wide. The use of the classic American locomotives and the cinematography and stunts with the locomotives was some of the best when people use trains in movies. Some of the more modern movies that use locomotives contemporary to the era they're set, use CGI and not real locomotives.
"Throwing around a 5 year old like he's a Hermes package marked fragile" As someone who dislikes Hermes about as much as I dislike Herpes, I enjoyed that
@@highclasswhitetrash9027 Innit!? Most cases of herpes are symptomless (I cannot spell to save my life so sorry), but I consistently have problems with Hermes packages.
@@Gblonkers I once bought a record player on Ebay, pristine Pioneer Pl-12d all original. Despite it being incredibly well packaged, Hermes managed to hurl it around enough to smash the £60 dust cover and leave a crack in the corner. Hermes are absolutely awful
@@CoalChrome How did we become so weak as men? Look into the past People sitting on girders 50 stories up Bare knuckle boxing that goes for 30 rounds Everyone was armed yet civil When you think about it we are such let downs
"Landing right was second nature to him" Reminds me of an old man I used to know. Dementia was getting to him, but his paratrooper training from WW2 always prevented the worst when he fell.
PLF, Parachute Landing fall, 4 points of contact, pop the riser, stow your chute and unass the DZ. 30 years on, I still instinctively do a PLF when I jump from any height, lol.
I really enjoyed this one Dank, thank you. My dad used to talk about Buster, Charlie and Harry when I was little but I never realized what an actual cool guy he was or how he lead the way in movie-making. A very exceptional fellow. Cheers to you, the wifey and baby.
Want to know what makes Buster Keaton even more awesome? He was Jackie Chan's biggest inspiration for films and without old Buster then Jackie Chan would never have combined jaw-dropping stunts with great comedy- which means he may never have become a global superstar.
@@Saint_nobody back in ye olde days you could toss dwarfs left and right and not even get a bad look from the public! What good times they were. Everything was better. except for polio
I can see Dankula has sat with his mates while drinking and telling tales alot, this due to his outstanding ability to hang on sentences and his timing.
For anyone who hasn't already seen it, I highly recommend checking out the _Twilight Zone_ episode that Buster was in that Dank referenced near the end. It's titled "Once upon a Time," and it's excellent, with roughly one half of it being done in silent film fashion complete with piano music, and the other half with dialogue, including from Buster himself. It's one of the finest episodes in a series full of wonderful episodes, and Buster is clearly enjoying himself, including doing a full recreation of his famous building collapsing right over him.
Buster sounds like more of a human crash test dummy the more I hear of his backstory. Definitely the kinda guy who earned my respect several times over back when I watched his films with my dear old dad who was a classic movie buff in addition to his hobby of being an amateur historian. Ah, those were the days. 🥲
@@MrNecryptic it was still fucked mate, we just didnt have 24hr world wide media coverage and internet access to every egomaniacal psudogenious. Did lots of world travel, pre2010, and i can say not much has changed other than the fact you can watch it all on the telly.
When I was a kid I'd never heard of Buster Keaton: tv only seemed to show Chaplin or Laurel & Hardy. It wasn't until the brilliant British TV series "The Golden Silents" hosted by Michael Bentine that I heard of Keaton, Harry Langdon, Harold Lloyd, and so many others.
As another Mad Lad in movies, I wouldn't mind seeing one about Audie Murphy. I don't know if he is the only actor who scared a director enough that the director quit on the spot.
For those who want to check out his filmography: The essentials are Sherlock Jr., The General, and Steamboat Bill Jr. (All of which are found on RUclips, in HD!) Every Frame a Painting also made a great episode about him you should see!
@@TommyCrosby Though keep in mind that inflation is not a great way to understand the real cost of something in the past, it needs to be compared to average earnings to better fit the bill because inflation doesn't happen in a bubble. Right now we live in an era of not only hyper inflation (and boy oh boy, the after birth of those "15 days to flatten small businesses and rights... I mean the curve" are going to hit *HARD* in the near future) but average earnings have moved at a crawl. Money has lost almost half it's value in the US in the past decade but wages have barely moved so not only did things cost less 10 years ago, you made more relieve to the price of good. So basically while inflation had effectively doubled prices on paper, you're also not making any more money relative to this so it's more like things cost four times as much. This is why you'll heard people call inflation a hidden tax.
@@TheRyujinLP I wouldn't worry too much about it. Biden can just hand out free money to everyone which will totally solve the problem. Deficit spending ad infinitum couldn't possibly have any negative consequences.
me and my brothers grew up watching Buster Keaton and we always loved "the general" best since it had guns, adventure and trains. We've continued to show these movies to our children who now also love them.
The people of Orson Welles days: “Citizen Kane is the greatest movie ever” Orson Welles: “Fools! I am nothing compared to the old masters.” The old masters:
@@randomtology2173 maybe not when it came out, but it was very popular with film students in later 50’s and 60’s and the constant praise for it bothered Welles
I really like the lighting and framing here dank, my mom and I used to wait for these to come out before she passed, last one we got to watch together was the Saxon king stronk lad. Lots of great memories, all thanks to u Dank!
Papa Keaton was the daddest dad to ever dad. "Hey honey, look! I put a suitcase handle on him, now I can throw him easier! It'll be a riot, the crowd'll love it."
I can confirm his story in terms of him not being injured when falling down stairs. As the same happened to me, and when my parents came up to me, freaked out; I apparently laughed at them, as well.
@@azmanabdula Believe me, I know it. Recently I survived a 5-Roll car wreck, due to a tire popping at 70MPH. My "injures" consisted of some seatbelt burn on my left shoulder and an inch & 1/2 long scratch on my right forearm.
@@RockorSomething83 Dude you were made for being shot out of a cannon : P Image you 100 years ago *Puts on glasses* *Gets in cannon* You sure about this? Do it!
I once fell from the top bunk of a bunk bed and broke our fishtank with my forehead. I was perfectly fine. Sometimes children just become immune to damage for a time.
My Dad showed me the classic films, with Charlie Chaplin, Audrey Hepburn, and then he showed me The General. Buster Keaton was probably the first stuntman and actor, not to mention so many of his stunts became tropes because of how great they were.
This was so wonderfully done! He truly was an enormous influence with not only people in front of the camera and behind it, but also stuntmen and stuntwomen who put their own lives at risk just for the sake of getting the shot, and for the sake of entertaining the audience. I've always had respect for Buster Keaton, but the way you've portrayed his life, that respect is even more pronounced and more profound than ever. I have to say, this is probably my favorite Mad Lads episode to date!
i am just glad he found some peace around the end of his life. he got used and thrown around alot it seems like from the people who should have been supporting him so its nice to know he found a women who actually loved him and got his life back together.
I used to watch "The General" with my grandfather many times when I was a kid. It was one of his favorite movies. Needless to say that both the General and Buster Keaton are very close to my heart.
Nice one dank, You mention his cohorts in 52:00, I'm the age where Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton and Fatty Arbuckle were on BBC2 in the evenings of the 70's. I loved it all.
As someone who got his ass whopped periodically by his parents, I can tell you that the body gets used to pain, it's not like if I get stabbed I won't feel it, but I can probably take a punch better than most untrained people
While researching Buster Keaton a few years ago watching his films, I remember thinking about how much the comedy still worked (And is arguably funnier than a lot of "Comedians" today) despite coming out almost 100 years ago..
It's because as much as some tossers might scoff at slapstick, it's a form of comedy that doesn't date itself with historical and political context and plays at very basic notions of comedy that some of the modern "talents" insist of forgetting about.
Because slapstick, done right, is the only comedy that will always be funny since the target is the comedian themselves and nobody else. Every other form makes fun of another person, society/era, or the meta of comedy itself which always changes and shifts.
Classic (pre-Talkie) cinema is so under-rated and misunderstood by modern audiences, and such a time capsule of a completely different time in the world. I unironically love it all.
Buster Keaton is my Dad's favorite silent film actor and I have liked Buster Keaton since my Dad and I watched a whole day of his films on television including The General when I was 6 years old. Buster Keaton was a true genius of comedy, stunts, and cinema. Keaton was truly an impressive man.
He dismantled a camera and put it back together at age 21 to figure out how it worked. I’m 21 and can’t even finish building my Lego millennium falcon. IT HAS INSTRUCTIONS. Some men are just destined for greatness I suppose.
Well, the Spartans took it a step farther. Like tossing kids with ailments off of cliffs. But still, this day in age, I could see the benefit sometimes. Jk, ofc.
@@jimbomclimbo7467 probably. Nowadays it seems every story, no matter which side, is saturated in disingenuous unauthenticity. So we're left guessing at history, as well as current events.
@@rukus9585 we're all biased as fuck in our every day life why would our recording of history be any different. Look at various Roman emperors being outright demonized just because the biggest writers/chroniclers of their time were also their political enemies or simply hated their guts. We always need to read between the lines, look for as many points of view as we can find on any event and always take things with a grain of salt.
LMAO the John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin was anything but a singer, he did backing vocals on a couple of live performances and sucked pretty badly 😂 he can play around half a dozen instruments though
@@DiscreetHobo indeed. His bass tone is absolutely fire, his keyboard and mandolin playing are magnificent, and he played bass with his feet while taking care of the keys or mando. He is good at pretty much everything except singing, so it's funny to see someone refer to him as a singer 😆
Soo happy you have done one about buster. All time hero of my own. My perents nicknamed me buster for my toddler antics of falling down stares and being unfazed. when I was a kid I used to play a game in the back garden of climbing a ladder in the middle of the lorn leaning against nothing and using it as stilts trying to climb to the top rung. I have a nack for landing on my feet and walking away. After in later life watching all the buster Keaton films I know why I earned the name. His stunts even today are recreated in Hollywood but no body can do it with the skill and humour of The great stone face.
Have to say how cool it is that Dankula has turned this channel so legitimate and popular in a massive middle finger to RUclips. The shows are entertaining, informative, and funny. There is obviously considerable time and care put into the research and preparation. Thanks for the great content.
I just want to say that me and my girlfriend have been watching your channel since around the 100k mark and it's honestly very heartwarming to have seen the production of these videos take leaps and bounds, I'll forever be reminiscent of the days when the audio levels of your intro music so fucking loud in comparison to your commentary and we'd have to dash around the room looking for the remote to save the life span of our ear drums Big up our boy Dankula for coming so far :')
I had a vague idea of who Buster Keaton was, just from some of the films he made and all the crazy stunts he did, but I had no idea what a wholesome and inspiring story his life was. Thank you Dank for making such great content, I was look forward to every Mad Lad you make. Take good care of yourself Dank and keep up the good work.
Do one on Robert smalls!!!!! Mad lad for the ages. A slave who frees himself by stealing a ship, fought the confederates as a private citizen, and bought the house his master lived in
I grew up on Buster Keaton and as I have gotten older the risks and skills involved in his stunts amaze me. Having ridden in steam train cabs, the amount of skill involved to operate one of those properly takes a lot of time, not to mention the time involved to prep them for filming. The cool part is how legends like Jackie Chan have paid honor to his scenes in their movies. That is some dang respect!
I remember being a little kid and my Great Grandmother going to the movies with me and my family, she sat there and watched the movie silently and did enjoy it but as we were leaving she says to my grandmother “I miss Buster Keaton he knew how to make a movie, because everything you saw, was real” and that quote stuck with me forever, and after doing an A/V class where an assignment was to analyze one of Buster Keatons movies, I grew to appreciate what my Grandmother had said
Gotta be honest, this might be one of your best! (nothing will top St. Heemeyer) Never knew Buster Keaton was so hard core. Thank you for putting this together ❤
Holy fuck I love Buster so much, I tried to exclaim about his glory but no one can relate or even recognize the legend now days except for an elite few
Johnny Depp is a huge fan of Buster Keaton and does some great renditions of his work in the movie "Benny and Joon". He's actually really really good too.
Wow--that doctor asked Buster the exact same thing my grandfather was asked by his doctor. My grandfather broke his neck in a car accident when he was 18~ and didn't find out about it for 40 or 50 years.
@@pablofromearth he was getting x-rays for a different issue and the doctor spotted it. The doc told him he was lucky to not be paralyzed or dead. I don't think he had any clue he was injured. I think they put some cadaver bone and metal plates in to make sure he didn't end up paralyzed in the future. At some point they nicked his spine so he won't be paralyzed but he does get intense, shooting pains in his hands.
When he start talking about how he built an entire town, got 2 trains, a town, uniforms, props, and military recruits, I started to get hyped for a movie that came out a century ago.
9:07 What!? Why not? When I was little, I would literally pester my dad into picking me up and "helping me fly" through the air and onto my parents king sized bed. I loved it! I also loved being thrown in the water. Considering my dad is 6'8" he could help get some serious air time lol.
"The General" is the only silent film I'd watched at time of typing. I thought it was successful and that's why it was important enough to show everyone, and thought it was quite good despite being spoiled by "color" and "sound".
I've bought three versions of The General, and I still prefer the one I bought first, on video, with sepia overlay to make it match the old Civil War photos. I can't get on with seeing it in actual black-and-white now! This is the only "colorized" film that I not only tolerate, but actually prefer. Also it had the right music - civil-war-era music rather than jazzy orchestrals. The music is mostly piano ,which is how it would have been accompanied at the time.
@@franl155 I know my mom has a book version of the film. It's kinda like a photo album with four stills per page side, and will occasionally have a descriptor or the title card text next to the stills.
@@Ultrox007 - I never knew such existed!!! Now I'm going to have to go on a hunt for it. ps looks like it's not going to be as easy as I thought! "most relevant" items Amazon offered were books on flute and violin playing
My kids LOVED it!! Half the stuff they say not to do now I did - so all 3 of mine should have not have survived according to "the experts" who are SO proud of their legions of ADD ridden snowflakes on psyche meds out there today.
@@kathyflorcruz552 exactly. Unfortunately today if the wrong person sees me and my kids playing I would probably get reported to some government alphabet agency for abuse.
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@CountDankula please do a Absolute Mad Lads episode on
Roy Benavidez: American War Hero and Real Life Rambo
Andrew Joseph Stack: guy harassed by the IRS so bad that he took off in his personal prop plane and 9/11’d it into the IRS’s office building
Miguel Z-40 Treviño Morales: founding leader of the Mexican Los Zetas drug cartel
Zeljko Arkan Raznadovic: Serbian Crime Boss and Paramilitary Leader of Arkan’s Tigers
Alexander “The Superkiller” Solonik: Russian contract killer that had an obsession with becoming “Superhuman”.
Viktor Bout: Russian arms dealer and REAL “Lord Of War”.
Neall Ellis: South African Mercenary that fought off an insurgent force with his attack helicopter
Mid-Night Club: Japanese Street-Racing gang
‘Mad Sam’ DeStefano: American Mobster too crazy for the Mafia
Hiroo Onoda: Japanese Army Officer that surrendered 28 years after WW2 ended
Bielski Partisans: Jewish Resistance Fighters that fought off the Nazis with Guerilla Warfare
Pablo Escobar: No Introduction
No, but please consider doing more mini madlad series ( you could include Manolis Mbikakis)
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@@dawnm9462 maybe
Hunter S Thompson plz
As a person who has devoted 3 years of life almost exclusively to Buster, studying, checking and exploring his life and legacy, I want to thank you very much for this video, and for one of the most error-free stories about Buster's life that I have heard during this time. Very good.
May I ask, is the artwork in your profile picture and banner by yourself?
A real nice comment lad.
….or gal
@busterkeatonvk what were the errors in this one then? You said it was ‘most error-free’.
As a devoted Damfino I'd like to thank you for your high quality uploads of Keaton's work. I often watch your videos and adore your thumbnail art!
Nice to see you here
"Cheesed the ragdoll physics to avoid taking fall damage"
He really glitch tested the universe, huh?
at 9:40 . and yeah, Buster actually checked for the mods if fall damage and object collision had been enabled
9:40 yeap, this lad tested for the mods if fall damage, object collision etc were properly coded XD
Muscle memory from childhood would be a hell of a glitch to the system. That's an oddity of experience of life. I love what people are capable of for the weirdest reasons.
Buster's spirit consulted with Volition how best to do the insurance scam activity in saints row....lol
This was not only a great Mad Lads episode, but it was also one of the best tributes to a man that went above and beyond not just for his craft, but for his heart.
Needed Dank doing a stunt in his honor though.
Quality we g
Buster Keaton was a fucking brick house, with nerves made of steel. No gimmicks, no nets... Broken neck. Lol this dude was a true mad lad.
Love Buster, we watched The General in film class, around 2010. Imagine having 150 millennials all watching this silent film, and laughing at all the good bits. Once that bridge collapses, I heard people gasp. Never underestimate the power of a good story. RIP Buster
In my last history class during my senior year would choose old movies and watch them. The General popped up as well, sadly we never watched it, but we watched his other great works
I spread the good word of The General around VR Chat with some friends, even ended up getting a clip of it in a large VR Chat RUclipsr’s video lol
In Cottage Grove, Oregon where the General was shot, there's still a giant mural of buster on the train
It's worth noting that the John Wick movies are so inspired by Buster Keaton that they include snippets of them.
Action movies of today owe such a debt to those comedies that to this day in the movie industry stunts get called 'gags'.
Buster Keaton’s dad invented “Dwarf Tossing”? Huh,…. How ‘bout that?
Truth be told
I thought that was the "fastball special"
Legend has it his ancestor fought at Helms Deep.
Only Leonardo DiCaprio could get away with that.
Capitalized on its existence.
Buster sounds like a great dude, defending his best friend and helping him stay afloat
Dank looking like he's living in Florida but the outside of his house is basically a set of Macbeth.
@@raiscooper9661 the scottish play
Florida Man is a Mad Lad too.
After he smokes a blunt, he becomes a marsh-mellow.
@@CNNBlackmailSupport lol wtf
Because he is Macbeth. Or maybe McDuff. One of those choad heads from the play.
Damn I’m only halfway thru the video but I never realized how rad Buster Keaton was. You always hear the name much like many old celebrities and you know they were of some significance but jeez Louis..... what an incredible man
My father passed earlier this year from esophageal cancer, but years before I had many fond memories watching Buster Keaton with him. Thanks for bringing those happy memories back friend, and the additional insight to a crazy entertaining man.
One of these days I'll come home to Absolute Mad Lads: John McAfee. It will be a glorious day.
home boi McAfee was whacked
Second
Wasn’t that the politician with a JoJo pfp?
He said in a video that he never does madlads unless their story is over, so that sounds like a good idea
But he’ll probably wait a few months to a year so it isn’t too soon
@@MorbidMindedManiac what about dragonlord
Buster Keaton makes Tom Cruise look like a kid on a jungle Jim.
Jim of the Jungle?
Gym*
Agreed
Jungle Jim sounds like a mad lad video
@@SingerDinger Jungle Jim sounds like a racial slur.
This is further proof of something my dad taught me: "you're an immortal, until God says otherwise"
Your dad is incredibly based
@@frankiepizzurro Thanks for the compliment lol
That's excellent! Time to make a meme with it!
ok Bert Kreischer
I’m stealing that statement
You left out the firing of the mortar in The General...blasting a giant cannonball at another moving train...all the misses until they got the powder charge just right...great stuff!
The most influential stunt-actor in human history. I remember my grandparents talking of his antics, even though they were kids when he was at his prime.
I can see why Jackie Chan has referenced Keaton as an inspiration, even more than Bruce Lee.
A soon as I heard "stunts" and "cinema", I knew that it could only be one of two people.
Buster Keaton, or Jacky Chan.
Same :D
I honesly taught Jackie Chan but I wasnt sure he was the first
Steve o? Lol
@@comradesam3382 everything he knows you taught em?
That's mad, lad.
Lol same
Always a surprise who it’s gonna be
It's going to be Sue shouting at a cake she fucked up for 2 and a half hours and I'm here for it
It's ya boi, Raid Shadow Legends.
This time, Buster Keaton.
Your mother
@Leroid Footlong u mean Queen Elizabeth’s great great granddaddy??
It's also worth saying that Buster's textbook method of filmmaking was that all actors on screen only saw what was in the frame. They literally only 'saw' what was in the shot and visible to the viewer. This gave way to endless gags and slick moves, as well as Buster playing with different camera angles to get different responses and make different messages out of the same shot, which he would choose later which angle was best. Who knew the amazing comedy that would come from shrinking scenes down, and tailoring them around only what the viewer was capable of seeing
The General holds a special place in the hearts of Railfans world wide. The use of the classic American locomotives and the cinematography and stunts with the locomotives was some of the best when people use trains in movies. Some of the more modern movies that use locomotives contemporary to the era they're set, use CGI and not real locomotives.
"Throwing around a 5 year old like he's a Hermes package marked fragile"
As someone who dislikes Hermes about as much as I dislike Herpes, I enjoyed that
Well atleast you can manage herpes eh mate?
@@highclasswhitetrash9027 Innit!? Most cases of herpes are symptomless (I cannot spell to save my life so sorry), but I consistently have problems with Hermes packages.
@@decimal1156 you’re not alone. When I buy anything online, track it and see Hermes my ass falls out
@@Gblonkers I once bought a record player on Ebay, pristine Pioneer Pl-12d all original.
Despite it being incredibly well packaged, Hermes managed to hurl it around enough to smash the £60 dust cover and leave a crack in the corner. Hermes are absolutely awful
The rail tie snipe stunt is fucking unadulterated insanity.
It's a great movie
@@CoalChrome Just think how many ways it could have gone wrong and we are in the universe where it worked
@@azmanabdula yeah it's crazy
@@CoalChrome
How did we become so weak as men?
Look into the past
People sitting on girders 50 stories up
Bare knuckle boxing that goes for 30 rounds
Everyone was armed yet civil
When you think about it we are such let downs
@@azmanabdula uh, yeah, duh?
"Landing right was second nature to him"
Reminds me of an old man I used to know. Dementia was getting to him, but his paratrooper training from WW2 always prevented the worst when he fell.
Tuck and roll! They drill it into your head 24/7.
PLF, Parachute Landing fall, 4 points of contact, pop the riser, stow your chute and unass the DZ. 30 years on, I still instinctively do a PLF when I jump from any height, lol.
@@eloquentsarcasmit literally can save your life
@@eloquentsarcasm I only remember there being three points of contact. Feet. Butt. Head.😂
Let Buster be an inspiration to us all man. He bounced back from his hard ships and found happiness, makes me want to cry, it’s genuinely beautiful.
I really enjoyed this one Dank, thank you. My dad used to talk about Buster, Charlie and Harry when I was little but I never realized what an actual cool guy he was or how he lead the way in movie-making. A very exceptional fellow. Cheers to you, the wifey and baby.
I’m only five minutes in and he’s already given himself tons brain damage
Not a very polite way to talk about Dank mate
Im gonna guess you are swedish.
Heyy I fell down the stairs as a baby also
Want to know what makes Buster Keaton even more awesome?
He was Jackie Chan's biggest inspiration for films and without old Buster then Jackie Chan would never have combined jaw-dropping stunts with great comedy- which means he may never have become a global superstar.
I wonder if he would still have become a traitor? 🤔
ah, Jackie 'traitor' Chan... everybody's favorite
@Joe Becker I think it’s because he wants to join the Chinese communist party and he’s from Hong Kong or something like that.
*& martial arts
Amazin
Oh yeah, the Keatons could fling a dwarf across the stage and get away with it,
but when I fling one across the stage, I'm "a heartless monster"!
Did the dwarf consent to your fling?
@@Saint_nobody that’s not the point!
NO ONE TOSSES A *DWARF*
@@Saint_nobody back in ye olde days you could toss dwarfs left and right and not even get a bad look from the public! What good times they were. Everything was better.
except for polio
I can see Dankula has sat with his mates while drinking and telling tales alot, this due to his outstanding ability to hang on sentences and his timing.
For anyone who hasn't already seen it, I highly recommend checking out the _Twilight Zone_ episode that Buster was in that Dank referenced near the end.
It's titled "Once upon a Time," and it's excellent, with roughly one half of it being done in silent film fashion complete with piano music, and the other half with dialogue, including from Buster himself.
It's one of the finest episodes in a series full of wonderful episodes, and Buster is clearly enjoying himself, including doing a full recreation of his famous building collapsing right over him.
Thanks. Huge fan of both but never knew
Buster's first act ever: Yeetin' Keaton
"The Evel Knievel of cinema"
More like the Buster Keaton of motocycles
*Harold Lloyd
Best comment yet!!
Buster sounds like more of a human crash test dummy the more I hear of his backstory. Definitely the kinda guy who earned my respect several times over back when I watched his films with my dear old dad who was a classic movie buff in addition to his hobby of being an amateur historian. Ah, those were the days. 🥲
@@MrNecryptic it was still fucked mate, we just didnt have 24hr world wide media coverage and internet access to every egomaniacal psudogenious. Did lots of world travel, pre2010, and i can say not much has changed other than the fact you can watch it all on the telly.
Funny, it was the same name of the crash test dummy from Mythbusters.
Steevo but smarter
The Keystone Cops, Charlie Chaplan and Buster Keaton were staples of my childhood. Thank you Dank for shining a light on this brilliant entertainer.
When I was a kid I'd never heard of Buster Keaton: tv only seemed to show Chaplin or Laurel & Hardy. It wasn't until the brilliant British TV series "The Golden Silents" hosted by Michael Bentine that I heard of Keaton, Harry Langdon, Harold Lloyd, and so many others.
Wow you're old af lol
Dankula is THE most underrated RUclips ever.
His diversity of topics and study is incredible. Never stale with Dankula.
Hush
The Alex Jones outro kills me every time. Great story Dank! You're one hell of a storyteller!
Dankula's fans: Give us Christopher Lee!
Dank: Buster Keaton.
Fans: This is fine too.
As another Mad Lad in movies, I wouldn't mind seeing one about Audie Murphy. I don't know if he is the only actor who scared a director enough that the director quit on the spot.
@@cp1cupcake Wait what? He scared a director? Tell me more
He has a video on Christopher Lee
" Taking most of his money with her" x2 . Some things never change...
The marriages were his deadliest stunts.
For those who want to check out his filmography:
The essentials are Sherlock Jr., The General, and Steamboat Bill Jr.
(All of which are found on RUclips, in HD!)
Every Frame a Painting also made a great episode about him you should see!
No joke, Buster Keaton was one of my heroes when it came to silent era cinema.
3 Ages and The Cameraman are also great
@@theactualTVB damn I didnt know older people watched Dank, good for you man, and anyone else older, we accept you as long as you can take the comedy
love that channel!
Seven Chances is my favourite, just for the car gag alone
wait were those hats $3.50 before or after conversion please dank i need to know how much 1000s of hats were
Either way it’s a lot of money.
@@TommyCrosby Though keep in mind that inflation is not a great way to understand the real cost of something in the past, it needs to be compared to average earnings to better fit the bill because inflation doesn't happen in a bubble. Right now we live in an era of not only hyper inflation (and boy oh boy, the after birth of those "15 days to flatten small businesses and rights... I mean the curve" are going to hit *HARD* in the near future) but average earnings have moved at a crawl. Money has lost almost half it's value in the US in the past decade but wages have barely moved so not only did things cost less 10 years ago, you made more relieve to the price of good. So basically while inflation had effectively doubled prices on paper, you're also not making any more money relative to this so it's more like things cost four times as much. This is why you'll heard people call inflation a hidden tax.
@@TheRyujinLP I wouldn't worry too much about it. Biden can just hand out free money to everyone which will totally solve the problem. Deficit spending ad infinitum couldn't possibly have any negative consequences.
@@Sophistry0001 I come here for memes not reality sir
@@TheRyujinLP I don't think most people realize how fucked our economy is and what the end result could be.
"cheese the ragdoll physics of our current reality in order to avoid fall damage" you get a gold star for that line lmao
Buster: *throws brick at tree*
Brick: *bounced back and hits him*
Tree: "THAT'S WHAT YOU GET YOU LITTLE SH*T"
This made me chuckle
@@LostPr3acherglad I could give you a bit of happiness in this otherwise awful existence
How does one write in bold like that please?
@@joshuagibson2520 you place a symbol at the beginning and end:
* for *bold*
_ for _italic_
- for -strikethroughs-
@@Fisthammet thank you very much. Easy!
me and my brothers grew up watching Buster Keaton and we always loved "the general" best since it had guns, adventure and trains. We've continued to show these movies to our children who now also love them.
The people of Orson Welles days: “Citizen Kane is the greatest movie ever”
Orson Welles: “Fools! I am nothing compared to the old masters.”
The old masters:
actually, citizen kane was not liked in its day.
@@randomtology2173 and now people name drop it without having watched it
genius!
@@randomtology2173 maybe not when it came out, but it was very popular with film students in later 50’s and 60’s and the constant praise for it bothered Welles
@@Edge_Boye yeah. but not right when it came out....
I really like the lighting and framing here dank,
my mom and I used to wait for these to come out before she passed, last one we got to watch together was the Saxon king stronk lad. Lots of great memories, all thanks to u Dank!
Hope you're doing well.
Buster is such a legend, thank you for helping to highlight some amazing classic cinema!
Papa Keaton was the daddest dad to ever dad.
"Hey honey, look! I put a suitcase handle on him, now I can throw him easier! It'll be a riot, the crowd'll love it."
"Do not throw your children through the air"
-New Father.
I bet if he gets to a third kid it will be
"Check out the curve I can get on this one"
(Spinning) fssfssfssfssfssBONK
"OW! Hey! Careful where you throw those things!" [Tosses back]
“How can you possibly expect to hold me at gunpoint if I can just snipe you with one of my children???”
9:42 "Buster had learned to cheese the ragdoll physics of our reality to avoid taking fall damage". Count Dankula - 2021.
I can confirm his story in terms of him not being injured when falling down stairs. As the same happened to me, and when my parents came up to me, freaked out; I apparently laughed at them, as well.
You lucky bastard
Ive seen people fall down stairs and break their fingers sideways, smashed their teeth, etc
One of old man friends has a big scar on his chin because of stairs :P
Again you lucky bastard
@@azmanabdula Believe me, I know it. Recently I survived a 5-Roll car wreck, due to a tire popping at 70MPH. My "injures" consisted of some seatbelt burn on my left shoulder and an inch & 1/2 long scratch on my right forearm.
@@RockorSomething83
Dude you were made for being shot out of a cannon
: P
Image you 100 years ago
*Puts on glasses*
*Gets in cannon*
You sure about this?
Do it!
I once fell from the top bunk of a bunk bed and broke our fishtank with my forehead. I was perfectly fine. Sometimes children just become immune to damage for a time.
This man really shows how incredibly resilient the human body is
My Dad showed me the classic films, with Charlie Chaplin, Audrey Hepburn, and then he showed me The General. Buster Keaton was probably the first stuntman and actor, not to mention so many of his stunts became tropes because of how great they were.
"Alleged" child abuse. Very different times, that shit would never fly by todays standards, pun absolutely intended.
Im sorry but you aren’t seeing Heaven
@@jrrnottolk9402 Well it's like they say, spare the flight, spoil the child.
Ah but you see, if the kid *"identifies"* as a grown consenting dwarf man, then who are we to say otherwise. 21st century loophole!
@@TyrDrum well played
@@jrrnottolk9402 Meh, I've been there, it's hugely overrated.
Buster Keaton, one of the Chadliest Chads to ever Chad.
This was so wonderfully done! He truly was an enormous influence with not only people in front of the camera and behind it, but also stuntmen and stuntwomen who put their own lives at risk just for the sake of getting the shot, and for the sake of entertaining the audience. I've always had respect for Buster Keaton, but the way you've portrayed his life, that respect is even more pronounced and more profound than ever. I have to say, this is probably my favorite Mad Lads episode to date!
Buster wanted out of that marriage so bad he went train hopping
He didn't really want to. He loved her very much, and he really did not want a divorce even in 1932 - it was her initiative.
i am just glad he found some peace around the end of his life. he got used and thrown around alot it seems like from the people who should have been supporting him so its nice to know he found a women who actually loved him and got his life back together.
"We got Dark Souls, Death Stranding...... don't worry about that one."
sounds like my search history
"TOTSUGEKI?"
All i see is dark souls
"Don't throw your children thru the air"
Don't tell me how to parent my kid🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's how I was raised, thrown around and given a steady course of beatings.
I turned out fine.
@@NateVHVT was going to say something along those line.... but you "beat" me to it lol
I would have given this comment a like but the emoji spam is giving me an aneurysm
@@gearyt2355 Thank you
I used to watch "The General" with my grandfather many times when I was a kid. It was one of his favorite movies. Needless to say that both the General and Buster Keaton are very close to my heart.
Nice one dank, You mention his cohorts in 52:00, I'm the age where Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton and Fatty Arbuckle were on BBC2 in the evenings of the 70's. I loved it all.
You don't get to know.
As someone who got his ass whopped periodically by his parents, I can tell you that the body gets used to pain, it's not like if I get stabbed I won't feel it, but I can probably take a punch better than most untrained people
truly worth of the title 'madlad'
@@yaboikiba4302 what about breaking your neck?
Ithink this is one case where the cringey saying fits corectly. This man truly was built different.
Bert Trautmann has joined the chat.
While researching Buster Keaton a few years ago watching his films, I remember thinking about how much the comedy still worked (And is arguably funnier than a lot of "Comedians" today) despite coming out almost 100 years ago..
It's because as much as some tossers might scoff at slapstick, it's a form of comedy that doesn't date itself with historical and political context and plays at very basic notions of comedy that some of the modern "talents" insist of forgetting about.
Because slapstick, done right, is the only comedy that will always be funny since the target is the comedian themselves and nobody else. Every other form makes fun of another person, society/era, or the meta of comedy itself which always changes and shifts.
@@mykaruest3620 And, slapstick involves no talking, which means that it’s funny no matter what language you speak!
@@the4tierbridge The cross-cultural and non-language barrier abilities of slapstick are a major plus!
@@mykaruest3620 I know. It’s almost the ultimate form of humor.
Nothing elevates a scene quite like seeing the fear of death in the actor's face.
But buster was stone faced everytime!
Classic (pre-Talkie) cinema is so under-rated and misunderstood by modern audiences, and such a time capsule of a completely different time in the world. I unironically love it all.
That grabbing onto a moving vehicle was actually insane, it looked so cartoonish.
"Cheesed the ragdoll physics of our reality to avoid taking fall damage"
Buster Keaton is my Dad's favorite silent film actor and I have liked Buster Keaton since my Dad and I watched a whole day of his films on television including The General when I was 6 years old. Buster Keaton was a true genius of comedy, stunts, and cinema. Keaton was truly an impressive man.
Keaton and Chaplin are my two picks.
That was a surprisingly wholesome absolute mad lad episode
yeah fatty arbuckle was really wholesome wasnt he
@@mefipulate yes? Lol read about his life and get some info on the scandal/trial. The guy most likely got thrown under the bus
Awesome episode, I knew next to nothing about Buster Keaton and now have a great appreciation for him!
He knew what he was doing, absolutely. That scene of him grabbing the car makes me laugh, and it's been almost 100 years!
He dismantled a camera and put it back together at age 21 to figure out how it worked. I’m 21 and can’t even finish building my Lego millennium falcon. IT HAS INSTRUCTIONS. Some men are just destined for greatness I suppose.
Dammm you suck, and you publicly let everyone know this? How nice of you.
Are you perhaps inbred?
Yeah, thank God for speech to text, or the illiterate couldn't tell us of their exploits like this
This is what's generally referred to as "Posting you L's online"
Buster didn’t have a cell phone to distract him.
Seems that tossing your kid around is sound parenting advice.
The Spartans were on to something.
Well, the Spartans took it a step farther. Like tossing kids with ailments off of cliffs. But still, this day in age, I could see the benefit sometimes. Jk, ofc.
@@rukus9585 isnt that a myth I heard they only found adult skeletons no babys
@@jimbomclimbo7467 probably. Nowadays it seems every story, no matter which side, is saturated in disingenuous unauthenticity. So we're left guessing at history, as well as current events.
@@rukus9585 we're all biased as fuck in our every day life why would our recording of history be any different. Look at various Roman emperors being outright demonized just because the biggest writers/chroniclers of their time were also their political enemies or simply hated their guts. We always need to read between the lines, look for as many points of view as we can find on any event and always take things with a grain of salt.
@@xKinjax well sir, that's very biased of you to say.
Lol. I'm kidding. I know, you're right.
Absolute Mad Lads - John Paul Jones
The Scottish man that fought for America, not the artist.
I comment this every time
John Paul Jones was a badass
LMAO the John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin was anything but a singer, he did backing vocals on a couple of live performances and sucked pretty badly 😂 he can play around half a dozen instruments though
@@ThinWhiteAxe his Bass playing is some impressive shit and i will remain by that for as long as i live. He is a big inspiration to me
@@DiscreetHobo indeed. His bass tone is absolutely fire, his keyboard and mandolin playing are magnificent, and he played bass with his feet while taking care of the keys or mando. He is good at pretty much everything except singing, so it's funny to see someone refer to him as a singer 😆
Soo happy you have done one about buster. All time hero of my own. My perents nicknamed me buster for my toddler antics of falling down stares and being unfazed. when I was a kid I used to play a game in the back garden of climbing a ladder in the middle of the lorn leaning against nothing and using it as stilts trying to climb to the top rung. I have a nack for landing on my feet and walking away. After in later life watching all the buster Keaton films I know why I earned the name. His stunts even today are recreated in Hollywood but no body can do it with the skill and humour of The great stone face.
Buster Keaton is the definition of once in a species.
"Cheese the ragdoll-physics of our reality to avoid taking fall damage"
Buster Keaton AI Learning cheat bent reality.
Well they’re pretty balanced, and not buggy at all, itd be pretty insane if someone-
*BUSTER KEATON INVINCIBLE TITLE CARD*
Have to say how cool it is that Dankula has turned this channel so legitimate and popular in a massive middle finger to RUclips. The shows are entertaining, informative, and funny. There is obviously considerable time and care put into the research and preparation. Thanks for the great content.
Buster is an absolute legend. So glad you gave him his due.
I just want to say that me and my girlfriend have been watching your channel since around the 100k mark and it's honestly very heartwarming to have seen the production of these videos take leaps and bounds, I'll forever be reminiscent of the days when the audio levels of your intro music so fucking loud in comparison to your commentary and we'd have to dash around the room looking for the remote to save the life span of our ear drums
Big up our boy Dankula for coming so far :')
This guy is rarely featured on doing his own stunt montages. Idk if he invented it, but he perfected it. To this day his stunts are still jaw dropping
If Buster was around today he’d be considered a savant.
If he was around today he would have been cancelled.
@Jack nguyen Yeah, it really depresses me and makes me further recluse knowing how people are.
I had a vague idea of who Buster Keaton was, just from some of the films he made and all the crazy stunts he did, but I had no idea what a wholesome and inspiring story his life was. Thank you Dank for making such great content, I was look forward to every Mad Lad you make. Take good care of yourself Dank and keep up the good work.
Do one on Robert smalls!!!!! Mad lad for the ages. A slave who frees himself by stealing a ship, fought the confederates as a private citizen, and bought the house his master lived in
That sounds absolutely based.
a slave who fought for the confederates? Nigga what
@@duderitoz6953 I think you should go reread it.... It says fought the confederates.
@@padraig5335
Would’ve been even more based if he did.
I grew up on Buster Keaton and as I have gotten older the risks and skills involved in his stunts amaze me. Having ridden in steam train cabs, the amount of skill involved to operate one of those properly takes a lot of time, not to mention the time involved to prep them for filming. The cool part is how legends like Jackie Chan have paid honor to his scenes in their movies. That is some dang respect!
I remember being a little kid and my Great Grandmother going to the movies with me and my family, she sat there and watched the movie silently and did enjoy it but as we were leaving she says to my grandmother “I miss Buster Keaton he knew how to make a movie, because everything you saw, was real” and that quote stuck with me forever, and after doing an A/V class where an assignment was to analyze one of Buster Keatons movies, I grew to appreciate what my Grandmother had said
"He had a beginning and an end but he just liked to make up the middle as he went along"
Don't we all?
How quaint.
Haha, good point.
It's all about what you do with your dash. 1967 - 2040
Gotta be honest, this might be one of your best! (nothing will top St. Heemeyer)
Never knew Buster Keaton was so hard core. Thank you for putting this together ❤
Holy fuck I love Buster so much, I tried to exclaim about his glory but no one can relate or even recognize the legend now days except for an elite few
I can relate. Been through some tough shit and keaton is the real deal.
Johnny Depp is a huge fan of Buster Keaton and does some great renditions of his work in the movie "Benny and Joon". He's actually really really good too.
This was fantastic. One of the best Mad Lads yet.
Lol and they arrested you for teaching a pug to wave! Imagine what they'd do to ya if you threw your wee one around on camera
😆 public execution!
I mean they celebrate mutilating children so may be his redemption arc to get the left of his back.
If they throw the child into a crowd of nonces they probably say "stunning and brave! "
I thought throwing your wee one around on camera meant something else.
@@thechannelwithnoname4713 finally someone got it!
I'm still fucking praying it's Lemmy
that would be sick
That's a great idea!!! I vote Lemmy!
LEMMY
I also vote Lemmy.
We should comment on the main page in force to influence the chubby one
Wow--that doctor asked Buster the exact same thing my grandfather was asked by his doctor. My grandfather broke his neck in a car accident when he was 18~ and didn't find out about it for 40 or 50 years.
How did he notice? And did it still need to be treated?
@@pablofromearth he was getting x-rays for a different issue and the doctor spotted it. The doc told him he was lucky to not be paralyzed or dead. I don't think he had any clue he was injured.
I think they put some cadaver bone and metal plates in to make sure he didn't end up paralyzed in the future. At some point they nicked his spine so he won't be paralyzed but he does get intense, shooting pains in his hands.
@@MrBingogogo "Well we noticed absolutely nothing wrong with you in this x-ray, so how about we fix that up right quick?"
@@Dmayrion2 well yeah, how else would they make money?
When he start talking about how he built an entire town, got 2 trains, a town, uniforms, props, and military recruits, I started to get hyped for a movie that came out a century ago.
9:07 What!? Why not? When I was little, I would literally pester my dad into picking me up and "helping me fly" through the air and onto my parents king sized bed. I loved it! I also loved being thrown in the water. Considering my dad is 6'8" he could help get some serious air time lol.
Do one on Judge Roy Bean. He survived being hung, and generally was a total badass in the old west.
*hanged. Humans get hanged, pictures get hung. With one exception. 🍆
@@spiritmatter1553 you're fuckin be fun at parties
@@joemoment-o1275 He is, I can vouch.
Was going to make a similar joke.. like “I’m hung all the time and surviving just fine, what’s the big deal?”
does he eat beans?
"The General" is the only silent film I'd watched at time of typing.
I thought it was successful and that's why it was important enough to show everyone, and thought it was quite good despite being spoiled by "color" and "sound".
"The General" is one of the greatest movies ever made.
I've bought three versions of The General, and I still prefer the one I bought first, on video, with sepia overlay to make it match the old Civil War photos. I can't get on with seeing it in actual black-and-white now! This is the only "colorized" film that I not only tolerate, but actually prefer.
Also it had the right music - civil-war-era music rather than jazzy orchestrals. The music is mostly piano ,which is how it would have been accompanied at the time.
@@franl155 I know my mom has a book version of the film. It's kinda like a photo album with four stills per page side, and will occasionally have a descriptor or the title card text next to the stills.
@@Ultrox007 - I never knew such existed!!! Now I'm going to have to go on a hunt for it.
ps looks like it's not going to be as easy as I thought! "most relevant" items Amazon offered were books on flute and violin playing
I was just thinking, "I could really use a blast of yellow and orange".
It's so... citrus-y. 🍊🍋
Nice Summertime Vibes 🧡💛😎🌞🏖🌅💛🧡
its Loraxian
If you’re in need of some more, boot up Portal 2 Multiplayer and play as P-body.
My son heard you say “do not throw your children through the air” and he vehemently disagrees.
My kids LOVED it!! Half the stuff they say not to do now I did - so all 3 of mine should have not have survived according to "the experts" who are SO proud of their legions of ADD ridden snowflakes on psyche meds out there today.
@@kathyflorcruz552 exactly. Unfortunately today if the wrong person sees me and my kids playing I would probably get reported to some government alphabet agency for abuse.
@@kathyflorcruz552 you can’t even have fun today without the proper permits.
@@justinwhitsitt7072 I know. Sad indeed.
I toss my kids through the air routinely. I mean I am throwing them onto something soft or to their mom of catching them but kids love to be thrown.