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2 | [[caption-width-right:350: Where's ''Series/ExtremeMakeoverHomeEdition'' when you need them?]] |
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4 | ->''"The wedding bells have such a sweet sound but such a sour echo."'' |
5 | -->-- '''Opening intertitle''' |
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7 | ''One Week'' is a 1920 short film starring Creator/BusterKeaton and Creator/SybilSeely as newlyweds who receive a DIY portable house as a wedding gift. They spend a week assembling it with disastrous results thanks to sabotage by a rejected suitor, as well as their own hilarious ineptness. |
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10 | !!"One Week" provides examples of: |
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12 | * SixIsNine: |
13 | ** After all their labor building the house, they find out that the Lot 99 sign actually meant Lot 66, so they have to move the house. |
14 | ** The malicious character Handy Hank repaints the numbers on the crates (3 becomes 8, 1 becomes 4) so the home building would result in an EpicFail. |
15 | * ThirteenIsUnlucky: The housewarming party is on Friday the 13th. |
16 | * AgonyOfTheFeet: Sybil stamps her foot ... onto her other foot, and makes the classic one-foot hopping exit. |
17 | * TheAllegedHouse: What the do-it-yourself home becomes thanks to Handy Hank's sabotage and the newlyweds' bumbling. |
18 | * AngryFistShake: Handy Hank performs one after Buster's chair pulling prank. |
19 | * AmusingInjuries: As one would expect from slapstick comedy involving hand tools. |
20 | * AnvilOnHead: Buster is repeatedly flattened by a piano. |
21 | * ArtisticLicensePhysics: |
22 | ** What Buster [[LadderPhysics can do on a ladder]] is not ''impossible'', but it's clearly [[DontTryThisAtHome ill advised]]. |
23 | ** The piano possesses {{Hollywood density}}. |
24 | * {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The weird, twisted house that Buster builds after the numbers are changed. |
25 | * BookcasePassage |
26 | ** An entire wall of the house pivots around a horizontal beam, causing Buster, who'd been perched above a second-story window, and Sybil, who was seated on the sill of a first-story window, to exchange places. |
27 | ** The kitchen sink is on a rotating wall. |
28 | * BreakingTheFourthWall / FilmTheHand: Buster's wife is taking a bath when she drops the soap out of the bathtub. A hand then [[SceneryCensor covers the camera]] while she retrieves the soap. After she's back in the tub, the hand goes away, and she grins at the camera. |
29 | * ByWallThatIsHoley: Preceded by a vertical {{bookcase passage}} (see above). |
30 | * CarMeetsHouse: The final scene... or rather ''Train'' Meets House. |
31 | * ChaseScene: Unusually brief for a Keaton film. Handy Hank is chasing Buster through the house after the chair pulling prank. It culminates in Buster pulling a DoorJudo prank. |
32 | * DoomItYourself: Any halfway competent architect or construction foreman would have realized there was a problem. |
33 | * DoorJudo: Applied by Buster to get rid of Handy Hank. |
34 | * ExplodingCalendar: Counting the days in the single week that Buster spends building the house. |
35 | * {{Foreshadowing}} |
36 | ** "I'll be right down!" |
37 | ** The date of the housewarming party (see ThirteenIsUnlucky, above). |
38 | * FromBadToWorse: On top of everything else, they '''built the house on the wrong lot'''. |
39 | * GreenEyedMonster: Hank, who changes the numbers on their crates and thus sabotages the house, because he wanted Buster's girl. |
40 | * IrisOut: Each chapter starts and ends with an Iris In/Out. |
41 | * {{Irony}}: The title on the sheet music placed on the piano, which has just made a crater in the floor? "The End of a Perfect Day." |
42 | * LookBothWays: The train hitting the house was coming from the other direction. |
43 | * MomentKiller: The newlyweds' attempts to kiss in the backseat of a car are thwarted because the driver, Hank, keeps leering at them. |
44 | * OutsideRide: To get away from {{moment killer}} Hank, the newlyweds switch cars -- in mid-drive. Buster has a little trouble. |
45 | * RailroadTracksOfDoom: At the end, Buster finds out that he built the house on the wrong lot and has to move it. It ends up getting stuck on railroad tracks while a train is coming. |
46 | ** DoubleSubversion: The oncoming train takes a parallel track and narrowly misses their house. Buster and Sybil sigh with relief... and then [[LookBothWays a different train comes from the other direction]] and smashes the house to kindling. |
47 | * ShoutOut: Keaton claimed the title was a reference to the 1907 novel ''Literature/ThreeWeeks,'' by Creator/ElinorGlyn. |
48 | * TrashTheSet: The house is demolished by a train in the last scene. |
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