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Safety Last! (1923)

Safety Last! is approaching its centennial. Its influence and fandom are so big I know you've seen references to it somewhere. If you haven't had the delight to sit down and view it in full, you don't know what you're missing. I can’t remember the last time I laughed this hard and this loud. It’s a masterpiece of physical comedy.

Harold Lloyd (played by Harold Lloyd) has moved to the big city and wants to impress his visiting girlfriend (Mildred Davis) by making her believe he's the manager at the textile shop where he works. His efforts lead to a series of inventive and increasingly amusing gags featuring mistaken identities, Harold outsmarting or tricking everyone around him and impressive stunts.

I’ve seen stories where someone pretends to be their own boss to impress someone and even if you combine them all, they pale in comparison to the hilarity of Safety Last!. Harold is continuously using his sharp wits to get himself out of a jam, only to land into another. Anyone else would have quickly been exposed as a hack once the girlfriend shows up at the office. This guy is too smart, too fast on his feet and too inventive. A scene where he devises a way to avoid ever meeting his landlady will leave you floored from the sheer imagination and effort put into the stunt. Its 73-minute running time blitzes by like it's nothing.

There’s something pure about the comedy found in Safety Last! because everything is for real. They didn’t have computers to green-screen stuntmen onto locations and everything was shot on actual film. It was expensive to reshoot anything. Every stunt had to be practiced until it could be performed impeccably and what was shown had to be something worth seeing. During every second, Lloyd delivers. This film is like a great martial arts action movie. It's physical comedy boiled down until you have only what is absolutely necessary. The dialogue (through title cards) is kept at the barest of minimums. Everything you need to know is told through cinematography, facial expressions and body movement. Nothing stands in the way between the situation and your funny bone.

You have no idea, but you’ve seen this movie imitated and ripped off time and time again. That guy with the glasses hanging off the hands of a clock while traffic zooms beneath his feet? It's from Safety Last!. You would think the innumerable homages would lessen the impact of the real thing, but that’s not the case at all. If anything, it makes the movie that much funnier because you’ve seen people try and imitate this movie by adding their twists, and none hold up to the original. It’s so full of surprises, so clever and so universal I can't think of a single second in the entire thing that isn’t wonderful. To watch Safety Last! is to discover a new favorite. (On Blu-ray, May 21, 2015)

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By Matt Curzon, done at Empire Melbourne, Melbourne. http://ttoo.co/p/34485

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Por Matt Curzon, hecho en Empire Melbourne, Melbourne. http://ttoo.co/p/34485

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🚲 IS THERE SUCH A THING AS THE BEST BIKE? 🏅🚴‍♀️ new #illustration in the latest issue of Bicycling Magazine 🌐 out now 🚴 🌍

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here are some SpongeBob concepts I made for Nickelodeon/SB himself 🐛🧽 always a pleasure

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Ronin Walker Cobain Hawk

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Spike Runner from the archive

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🔥💀🎃💀🔥 who remembers when this happened to Groundskeeper Willie?

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🐟 under 🪼 da 🐠 sea 🐡 from my children’s book

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Circus illustration from my children's book.

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🌍 who are you in this? 💀 do not tell anyone 🤫 drawing from today in between a contractual agreement that I cannot mention 🐬

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illustration for a pitch with Golden Wolf

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🐛🧩🌿 Garden Party 🌿🧩🐛 my new 1000 piece puzzle for @greatgames.com.au and @samuelmilham 🪱 it launches on January 7th on Kickstarter, check the link in their bio and get notified for launch day!