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100 éves a The General.

Hihetetlen, mennyire komoly film ez:

- mozdonyos üldözés!!!

- égő fedett fahíron keresztül zakatolás, felgyújtott összeeső fahídról vízbe zuhanó gőzmozdony!!!

For the scene in which Johnnie sets fire to a bridge to prevent the North’s engine from crossing the river, Keaton had Gabourie construct a stunt trestle designed to collapse under the train’s weight. It was the only sequence that did not use existing track and it has been called the most expensive single shot in silent film history (Keaton biographies put the cost at $42,000). It is certainly the most expensive that Keaton ever executed. He had only one shot at the scene and ran six cameras to capture the spectacle. The engine that plunged into the river was one of the doubles used to stand in for the working engines and it rested there in the water, rusting away for 15 years until it was hauled out for salvage in the scrap drives of World War II.

- az összes trükköt Keaton játszotta, dublőr nélkül: több tonnás gőzmozdonyok előtt bohockódásról, azokon sétálásról, mozgó vonaton favágásról beszélünk, meg persze hídról vízbeurhásról

Keaton learned to drive the engine himself and before long, according to the publicity of the time, he could stop the train on a dime.

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- polgárháború

- a polgári értékrend kifigurázása, a háborús hősök kifigurázása

- a délieknek “szurkolunk” a polgárháborúban

- ez egy megtörtént eseményt dolgoz fel:

“The story of The General comes from a chapter of Civil War history, a true tale of Union spies who infiltrated the South, stole a passenger train in Georgia, and drove it north pursued by Southern conductors who eventually captured the raiders. According to Keaton, Clyde Bruckman, his reliable collaborator and gag man, handed him William A. Pittenger’s account of the incident as a potential project. Keaton streamlined the story to a deceptively simple structure of two mirrored chases—one north to recapture the stolen engine and another back south—as well as added a love interest and a kidnapping to make the rescue personal. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, he took on the perspective of the South. Pittenger was a Union soldier who participated in the operation, and his book describes an ambitious failure that ended with the Union heroes captured and hanged. In Keaton’s version, the underdog Southern railroad engineer Johnnie Gray is the hero and the story ends with the Confederates triumphant.

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