#convict 13

[busterkeatonsociety]

This Day in Buster…September 18, 1920 

Buster Keaton rocks! His golf/jailhouse short “Convict 13" is released.  Not sure if there’s been a film before or since that covered both those genres ;)

[friendlessghoul]

Buster Keaton and Sybil Seely Convict 13 - 1920

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

convict 13, buster keaton |1920|

[justbusterkeaton]

The Scarecrow (1920)

Convict 13 (1920)

Hard Luck (1921)

Three Ages (1923)

Music: Time To Say Goodbye by Andrea Bocelli

[1001framesofmind]

Watch out for the Captain

Convict 13 (1920) tells the story of a young man, played by Buster Keaton, who accidentally knocks himself unconscious, and meanwhile an escaped prisoner switches his clothes with him. As a result, he is mistaken for the dangerous criminal sentenced to death by hanging.

In this scene, while disguised as a prison guard, Buster is trying to gain mastery over a dangerous bull, who is known as "The captain of the calaboose"!

🎞film: Convict 13 (1920) 🎬director: Buster Keaton 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣

[all-pacas]

thinking suddenly of how chase was forced to be a caregiver and parent and take care of his mother and sister and resented them for it, hated them for it, how 20 years later he clearly is not over it at all, how he tries to deal with his problems alone, shutting people out (cursed. the mistake. the tyrant. chase.) because he doesn't believe people will want to help him, or at least that care and love are finite resources, that he will run out and be left alone.

(thinking also about how cameron views care as something of a necessary burden, how her husband's death made her miserable, how the death of her patient in one day one room left her miserable, how her lung cancer patient in acceptance left her miserable. how she frames it as important, necessary, that people should not die forgotten or alone, but she never takes any pride or joy in this: for all that she might be glad her husband didn't die alone, the grief warped and affected her for years; she never walks away unaffected or proud of her work but miserable, burnt out, terrified. how the only real difference between chase's burnout and cameron's is that she keeps choosing it, as some kind of penance or atonement or something: cameron is a martyr but never a happy one, and yet she, i think, wouldn't understand chase's misery over the same thing. it was always her choice. it was always important.)

and thinking also of thirteen and chase talking in s6. about how when thirteen's mother was dying, her father had an affair. chase commiserates: how heartless of him. thirteen counters: she's glad he wasn't alone. she knows she is dying, too. she knows someone will someday be helping her at that moment, how she hopes whoever is burdened with her care isn't alone. has someone else. isn't in a position like chase had to be. how she doesn't romanticize it, but how when it was her brother, she was alone, she tried to deal with it alone, how it almost broke her and then… she told chase. how it wasn't just about i did a murder, me too, but about that burden. that pain. how even if it was out of love, even if it was something she decided (like cameron decided), it tore thirteen apart. no one should be alone for that, she tells chase, and then a year later is alone for that.

i don't have any real conclusions here but - something about how much chase and thirteen's friendship means to me, i guess. how their lives are on such parallel tracks, how they do things and hate themselves for it and take on familial trauma and hate themselves for it and how they mask with drinking and partying and casual sex (and hate themselves for it). no one should deal with that alone, she says, and eventually they aren't, because they can offer it to one another.

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

time's prophecy to 13 is like whatever, i generally dont really think abt it bc when i do it just feels a little like a contrivance to cut thasmin short, or more specifically to give 13 a reason to formulate why thasmin is getting cut short ie it just feels to me mainly as an in-universe way to say "hey so like we've got 3 episodes left theres not much we can do here"

but the other day i Was thinking abt it, or like it crossed my mind, that scene, that warning, that does little except verbalise to 13, with her own mouth, You Have No More Time

and i was like, thats actually like exactly what trauma does right? like that phenomenon where you are just convinced for no real concrete reason that youre dying within the next 1-5 years? i think i read that thats a ptsd thing once but idk. but you know the feeling, like, where youre stuck in the past and the future refuses to unfold? like it's just stuck. time is not moving forward. like there's a wall right in front of you and youre just like, im gonna walk into the wall. and maybe you feel like the wall is 1 year away or 5 but regardless, that 1 or 5 year can pass but the wall doesnt move. you know what i mean? like youre convinced you wont see your 20th birthday but youre actually already 25. just doesnt sink in.

i think thats what time's warning to 13 is. just the articulation of her own belief that shes running out of time. or that it had already run out before she even started. she starts her relationship with her companions with the assumption that it's temporary, even after they board for real: "you wont come back the same"

and if you look at it that way i think it's easier to deal with the jump from 13 to 14 or 15. not for yaz, obviously, shes still gonna be super upset abt it. but if 13 really genuinely entirely can not imagine the future that 14 has, can not imagine a future at all, like, it makes sense.

maybe she felt like she was dying but instead of the sentiment 10 expressed "some new man goes sauntering away and i am dead" she just stopped after the first sentence like "everything i am dies." stop. theres no After. theres nothing to imagine. theres no keeping yaz with her, theres no going back for her either. theres no continuation. theres no next. everything i am dies. and the world stops.

nightvale voice: death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.

but it's doctor who. she is the universe. what happens after the heat death of the universe? are you imagining settling down with a family who loves you? are you imagining heaven? after the heat death of the universe? the doctor doesnt believe in god.

[lucksea]

for some reason my brain has switched into pokemon mode again lately (i say for some reason. this happens every spring) and im looking at my destinations au stuff.... hm....

[busterkeatonsociety]

This Day in Buster…August 27, 1920

The Akron Evening Times reports that Buster Keaton’s parents come to stay with him in Coronada, California, after he takes a break from filming “Convict 13.” (Pic from a visit a year later)

[friendlessghoul]

Buster Keaton Convict 13 - 1920

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

joe roberts, convict 13 |1920|

[justbusterkeaton]

Convict 13 (1920)

[busterkeatonsociety]

Buster Keaton, rocks.

[tears-that-heal]

“For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son, who purchased our freedom and forgave our sins.”

‭‭Colossians‬ ‭1‬:‭13‬-‭14‬ ‭NLT‬‬

I’ve sincerely been humbled. This past week has arose much conflict and released a ton of emotions. *sigh* I pray I’m walking toward a time of rest and peace. At the moment, I wish to recognize the Lord convicting me of both my pride and fear. I was beginning to fall into the trap of self-righteousness. It was my mother-in-law that lovingly, snapped me out of that one. Then not long after while I was taking a nap, I had a nightmare of one of my worst fears become reality. A fear that can ruin my marriage and family, but then Holy Spirit spoke Truth to me. If I continue to try to fix my problems and problems my loved ones under my own will and strength, this fear will most likely become my reality. BUT……if I choose to continue lay my cares and worries at God’s feet, and keep choosing to place my trust in Him; All my fears will disappear and will never come to pass. I ask God to help me never become complacent or comfortable in my selfishness in any form. While my soul dwells in this human body, it’s great limited and flawed ever seeking to follow it’s own will and not God. That’s the sinful nature of being human, but with Holy Spirit now dwelling inside me too I ‘m able to strive and overcome my rebellious desires that go against God. God is Love, he encompasses every single facet of the meaning of the word. And God loves you and me! That’s the gospel truth!!!!! 🥰

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[drshermaines-wisdomnuggets]

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[kdmiller55]

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