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Neighbors (1920)

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Neighbors is a 1920 short film directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline.In this 1920 two-reeler, Buster Keaton and Virginia Fox are a lower-class Romeo and Juliet who live in neighboring tenements. All they want is to get married, but their parents, and especially the girl's hulking, intimidating father, get in the way.Not to be confused with the 1981 Black Comedy feature of the same name, which starred Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. Also not to be confused with any other film or television series of a similar title.
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Improvised Zipline
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Improvised Zipline: The wash line that stretches between the two buildings.
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Watch Out for That Tree!
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Watch Out for That Tree!: The Human Ladder is eventually caught by the girl's father. As Buster, his buddies, and the girl flee with the father in pursuit, the Human Ladder keeps careening into things, knocking out a rung at a time.
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Cute Kitten
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Cute Kitten: A cop thinks he's found Buster hiding under a bedsheet. He whips off the sheet, only to find a mama cat and her kittens.
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Bedsheet Ghost
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Bedsheet Ghost: An extremely racist gag. A black woman is carrying home laundry in a cart, not knowing that Buster is hiding inside. She gets home, only for the black woman and her entire family to flee in terror when Buster rises up from the sheets and becomes a bedsheet ghost.
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Acme Products
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Acme Products: The girl's wedding ring comes from the Acme Five-and-Dime store. Her father squishes it in his hand, and is so offended that he calls the wedding off and drags his daughter out.
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Girl Next Door
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Girl Next Door: Or at least in the building across the alley.
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Improvised Weapon
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Improvised Weapon: Specifically, a broomstick quarterstaff.
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Human Ladder
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Human Ladder: Buster and two of his buddies do this so Buster can get access to the girl on the third floor of the opposite tenement. Specifically, there's a sight gag in which one guy comes out of the first floor, another comes out of the second floor, Buster comes out of the third floor, and they stride across the courtyard together.
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Parental Marriage Veto
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Parental Marriage Veto: Their parents certainly believe they have the right to exercise it.
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Amusing Injuries
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Amusing Injuries: Throughout, like when Buster gets slammed into a telephone pole while he's being dragged by a cop, or said cop gets knocked out when, while standing outside a baseball stadium, he's conked on the head by a home run ball.
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Separated by the Wall
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Separated by the Wall: There's a wall dividing the courtyard between the tenements, through which Buster and his girl pass notes. Subverted when Buster reveals there's a door in the wall.
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Sarcasm Mode
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Sarcasm Mode: The opening intertitle (see above) is followed by an iris open to a bare dirt lot bisected by a wooden fence.
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Dysfunctional Family
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Dysfunctional Family: "Her father's abused her long enough; Now I want to marry her and take her home to my father."
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Literal Ass-Kicking
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Literal Ass-Kicking: It's a silent slapstick film. How could there not be?
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Leet Lingo
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Leet Lingo: An Older Than Television example — Buster replies to a note that says "I love you" by scrawling "2" at the end and returning it.
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Iris Out
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Iris Out: The movie ends with one.
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Mistaken Message
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Mistaken Message: The fathers intercept messages passed through the wall between Buster and the girl—causing their wives to think that the fathers have girlfriends.
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Unwilling Suspension
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Unwilling Suspension: Buster is briefly pinned to a clothesline by his shoes.
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Feuding Families
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Feuding Families: Why the families are feuding is not explained.
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Blackface
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Blackface: Invoked by mud in the face, with some social satire involved, as the local cop is quick to arrest Buster when Buster looks like a black man due to being covered in mud, but lets Buster go when Buster washes his face off.
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Wall Crawl
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Wall Crawl: Buster makes it up to the third floor of his girl's building by hoisting himself up from one window to the next.
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Dragged by the Collar
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Dragged by the Collar: See the page illustration. The girl's giant of a father yanks Buster around.
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