Line #41 Film/OneWeek


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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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