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- Keaton’s best films, like Chaplin’s, balance comedy and drama.
- Keaton’s dry, abstract humor “stone face” differs from Chaplin’s vulnerability.
- Keaton’s character is hard-working, earnest, and unable to assimilate the world around him. He is not, however, as much of an outsider as Chaplin’s Tramp.
- Keaton believed comedy must be funny but credible.
- The General lost money and Keaton soon lost control of his own work.