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I think you've drifted quite far from "The General" here, royalcounter.
You "don't see the angle"? Do you have to "root" for the Corleones? Or Jimmy Cagney's gangsters? Or any myriad number of films where there are shades of grey delineating the good guys from bad? What matters is how much you enjoy spending time with the characters, good or bad. I'd rather spend 2 hours with an evil villain if they're charasmatic enough as opposed to some insufferably boring, morally righteous "good guy".
Is it THAT important that Buster have "northern views" on slavery for you to enjoy the film?
Who needs a plot? It's a chase, pure and simple - the purest of storylines.
And getting hung up on the fact that Johnnie is a Confederate is the kind of myopic thinking that prevents one's mind from seeing other points of view or perspective. Do you have problems with Gone with the Wind, too?
Respectfully have to disagree with some of your points here.....there are plenty of competent women in film that are far more "role-model" than Annabelle. Her antics are simply old-fashioned sexism, a good way for the men of the day to have a belly laugh in the theater.
I do agree about the irony of the fact that her pine-tree clothesline did work....Keaton doesn't draw a lot of attention to this, it just IS.
Throwing the piece of wood away with the hole in it, or sticking tiny bits of kindling into a locomotive fire - these are ridiculous moments that are meant to show her as a girl, not a woman. Can you imagine a man doing the same thing? He'd be derided as flamboyantly gay.
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