#and brendan frasier looked to buster's work for inspiration for his physicality in the mummy (1999)

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I really recommend checking out some old silent films! The medium was very new, but the language of film that we still use today was already developing. Comedy especially holds up really well. Buster Keaton films, in particular his short films such as One Week (1920), or Cops (1922), are a great place to start.

i really can’t stress enough how much i recommend regularly engaging with older art– movies, books, whatever. like, “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it” and all that, but also, there’s just something really fascinating and kind of beautiful about reading something written by someone who lived so long ago and really connecting with it, recognizing the humanity of people who once seemed like abstract concepts to you