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Mar 13, 2014 · The relationship between Steamboat Bill, Sr. and Jr. is central to the film’s narrative and is the reason for the cyclone climax. Buster must prove himself in order to gain his father’s respect but he appears to already have his acceptance, however begrudging.
Both Canfield and King are determined to break up the developing relationship between Bill Jr. and Kitty, but Bill Jr. slips off and boards the King at night. Canfield sees Bill Jr.'s clumsy and rebellious effort and buys him a ticket back to Boston.
Feb 18, 2017 · Yet in Steamboat Bill Jr. unlike any other Keaton movie, the protagonist’s family is a source of conflict. In Keaton’s short work, Torrance may have been purely the heavy with his scowling face and towering build, but here that function is complicated: he is the bullying heavy, but he is also Willie’s perplexed father.
There’s also the developing father and son bond between Bills Sr and Jr, as well as the steamboat rivalry. Of course, it’s foolish to wish away the incredible stunts of the storm sequence. As Peter Bradshaw notes in his review for the Guardian “The final storm sequence is a breathtaking apocalypse.”
Jun 29, 2017 · Steamboat Bill Jr. is also about fathers and sons taking divergent paths in life, though handled in a much different manner. William Canfield Sr. (Ernest Torrence) is a gruff man of the sea, or at least the river, running an old steamboat called the Stonewall Jackson.
Jan 1, 2021 · The scene where Bill Jr. and Kitty jump between their fathers' boats moored next to each other, trying to get together while their fathers want to prevent it, is a good example of the camera movements used in the film with horizontal, vertical and diagonal panning to follow the characters.
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Steamboat Bill, Jr. may be Keaton’s most mature film, a fitting if too early farewell to the era of creative independence he had just lived through. Its relationship to the rest of its creator’s work has been compared to that of Shakespeare’s last play, The Tempest.
