Analyzing The Silent Film 'The Navigator'

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That night at the silent film I really enjoyed the way you carried yourself in front of the audience Donald. You introduced into the gateway community college silent film with grace and in a very elegance manner. The Theater organist was such a beautiful peice of artistic attribution to the silent film. the clean sound flowed with tranquility throughout the presentation from inception to ending.
In the beggining of the film the “The Navigator” (1924), starring Buster keaton,Betsy O’Brien (kathy McGuire), and feature award winning Organist Rhon Rhode was amazing. I really enjoyed the movement of the scenes and how the characters showed a great deal of emotional appeal with the facial expressions, displayed throughout the movie and the era of time when the film was being shown. The acting style was melodramatic with exaggerated gestures because the
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The movement is subtle at first, but can also display a great deal of importance refined and dramatic movement to help bring drama to the scenes. I noticed it seemed as if some scenes where three to four second clips then dramatically change by the slowing or speeding up of the character's movement. The uniqueness upon the acting styles varied with the characters.For instance, I understand the way the movements displayed the characters differently Betsy O’Brien (kathy McGuire) walks with a very dull and feminine, fragile type of character with her movements. Rollo Treadway (buster Keaton)had more of a unsure,unaware form of lackluster movement and could be shown throughout the film not to change his posture to remember that was him as a main character. The

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