The Playhouse (Il Teatro) - Buster Keaton - Billi Brass Quintet

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The Playhouse (Il Teatro) è un cortometraggio del 1921 diretto da Buster Keaton e Eddie Cline.

Tra i cortometraggi più celebri di Keaton, spicca per l'uso degli effetti speciali che moltiplicano il protagonista in decine di ruoli. L'attore compare in molti di essi contemporaneamente sullo schermo, ben 9 nella sequenza dell'orchestra.

Buster entra in un teatro e appare un'orchestra dove tutti i componenti, il direttore e persino il pubblico, ha il volto di Buster stesso. È un sogno, da cui si risveglia quando due uomini entrano nella sua stanza per portar via dei mobili: la stanza è però il retro di un teatro. Qui incontra due gemelle, che vede in quattro perché riflesse su due specchi. S'innamora di una delle due, ma non sa riconoscere quale...

The Playhouse is a 1921 American two-reel silent comedy film written by, directed by, and starring Buster Keaton. It runs for 22 minutes, and is most famous for an opening sequence where Keaton plays every role.

The film is set up as a series of humorous tricks on the audience, with constant doubling, and in which things are rarely what they at first seem to be. It opens with Keaton attending a variety show. Keaton plays the conductor and every member of the orchestra, the actors, dancers, stagehands, minstrels, and every member of the audience, male and female. As an audience member, Keaton turns to the "woman" sitting beside him and remarks, "This fellow Keaton seems to be the whole show". This was a jibe at one of Keaton's contemporaries, Thomas Ince, who credited himself generously in his film productions.In interviews with Kevin Brownlow, Keaton claims he gave the director's credit to Cline mainly because he did not want to appear too Ince-like himself: "Having kidded things like that, I hesitated to put my own name on as a director and writer".

This elaborate trick-photography sequence turns out to be only a dream when Joe Roberts rouses Keaton from bed. The bedroom then turns out to be not a bedroom, but a set on a stage.

The second half of the film finds Keaton's character falling for a girl who happens to be a twin. He has difficulty telling the twin who likes him from the one who does not...

Original music by David Short

Billi Brass Quintet

Trumpets: Gabriele Paggi, Davide Bartoni
Horn: Gabriele Ricci
Trombone: Flavio Pannacci
Tuba: Guglielmo Pastorelli
Drums: Lorenzo Brilli

Musical direction: Massimo Bartoletti

Recorded at "Al Fondino Studio" (Gubbio, Italy)
Editing, Mix & Sound engineer: Walter Lanzara

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