{"id":19392,"date":"2012-01-28T08:15:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T16:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seamheads.com\/?p=19392"},"modified":"2012-01-28T08:15:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T16:15:23","slug":"buster-keaton-versus-adalberto-martnez-resortes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/28\/buster-keaton-versus-adalberto-martnez-resortes\/","title":{"rendered":"Buster Keaton versus Adalberto Mart&#237;nez (Resortes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ambos destacaron como excelsos actores c&#243;micos. Uno a principios del siglo veinte en plena &#233;poca del cine mudo, el otro en la famosa edad dorada del cine mexicano. Sus cualidades sobre el escenario dejaban sin est&#243;mago a m&#225;s de uno, m&#225;s all&#225; de eso pudiera hablarse de un relativo punto com&#250;n que comprob&#233; hace unos d&#237;as mientras le&#237;a el bolet&#237;n dela SociedadAmericanade Investigadores de B&#233;isbol (SABR). En el ejemplar titulado Endless Seasons, editado por Jean Hastings Ardell y Andy McCue, Rob Edelman escribi&#243; el art&#237;culo: Buster Keaton, Baseball Player. Me sorprendi&#243; mucho que el atleticismo desarrollado por Keaton desde sus tempranas pr&#225;cticas beisboleras le permiti&#243; resistir las exigencias f&#237;sicas del acto de vaudeville que protagonizaba con su padre. Deb&#237;a resistir los empellones de su progenitor por todo el escenario para condimentar la comicidad del acto.<\/p>\n<p>De Resortes desconozco su afici&#243;n por el deporte de las cuatro bases, s&#243;lo que fue inevitable recordar las escenas de &#8220;El beisbolista fen&#243;meno&#8221;, pel&#237;cula de mediados del siglo veinte donde mientras encarnaba a un mendigo recibi&#243; un pelotazo mientras dorm&#237;a detr&#225;s de un estadio y empez&#243; a escuchar voces de un pelotero difunto. La manera como estira los brazos y entabla conversaci&#243;n con el fantasma hace pensar en que al menos algo de pasi&#243;n deb&#237;a sentir Resortes por el juego.<\/p>\n<p>Como actor principal en las pel&#237;culas siempre les preguntaba a los potenciales miembros del reparto actoral si eran capaces de actuar y de jugar b&#233;isbol. Cuando lleg&#243; a tenerla Keaton ProductionCompany, esta tambi&#233;n era un equipo de b&#233;isbol listo para jugar en cualquier parte. Por eso cuando ocurr&#237;a cualquier imprevisto en las grabaciones, Keaton anunciaba oficialmente que se iban a jugar b&#233;isbol. Cuando se resolv&#237;a el imprevisto y deb&#237;an reanudar la grabaci&#243;n era dif&#237;cil traer de vuelta al elenco al set.<\/p>\n<p>Resortes agarr&#243; la pelota que lo golpe&#243; y la lanz&#243; de vuelta al estadio y golpe&#243; al due&#241;o del equipo. De inmediato ordenaron buscar al autor del lanzamiento. Al llevar a Resortes al estadio le pidieron que hiciera unos env&#237;os y decidieron contratarlo para jugar enla LigaMexicanade B&#233;isbol Profesional. Entonces empez&#243; un di&#225;logo con el pelotero fallecido. Acordaron que el pelotero jugar&#237;a a trav&#233;s de Resortes para alcanzar el campeonato que nunca logr&#243; en vida. Empez&#243; a realizar unos lanzamientos que dejaban paralizados a los bateadores. Pronto se convirti&#243; en la estrella del equipo y de la liga. En la pel&#237;cula hacen sonar una guaracha que dec&#237;a m&#225;s o menos as&#237;: &#8220;Bola de humo&#8230; Bola de humo&#8230; Pone la bola mamita, como ninguno..&#8221; En la pantalla desplegaban im&#225;genes de Resortes en el mont&#237;culo enfrentando a los bateadores m&#225;s peligrosos.<\/p>\n<p>Keaton tambi&#233;n film&#243; dos pel&#237;culas relacionadas con el b&#233;isbol. &#8220;College&#8221;, donde ofrece una explicaci&#243;n humor&#237;stica de los fundamentos del juego y &#8220;The Cameraman&#8221;, aqu&#237; hace una pantomima del sue&#241;o de cada aficionado al b&#233;isbol de montarse en un mont&#237;culo o entrar en el caj&#243;n de bateo de un estadio de Grandes Ligas.<\/p>\n<p>En el momento cumbre de la pel&#237;cula Resortes se enoja con el fantasma porque este le reclama su afici&#243;n por el alcohol. Su ascenso al estrellato se derrumba y cuando est&#225; casi ido pide una &#250;ltima oportunidad que coincide con el juego por el campeonato. Empieza a rogar y a llamar al fantasma y hasta promete que dejar&#225; la bebida. Entonces reaparece el fantasma y juntos empiezan a dominar a los contrarios hasta ganar el campeonato.<\/p>\n<p>Keaton escribi&#243; en su autobiograf&#237;a que cada septiembre apuraba la filmaci&#243;n de su pel&#237;cula de oto&#241;o para poder asistir ala SerieMundialen octubre.<\/p>\n<p>La pasi&#243;n con que Resortes hac&#237;a en wind up y las encendidas conversaciones de b&#233;isbol que sosten&#237;a con el fantasma demuestran que sent&#237;a alguna simpat&#237;a por el juego.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alfonso L. Tusa C.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>English translation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Both were great comedians. One at the beginning of the twentieth century, during the mute movies era. The other in the famous golden age of the mexican cinema. Their qualities on the stage meant plenty of laughter for the spectators. Beyond this, we could talk about a relative common point between them that I proved some days ago while reading the SABR bulletin. In the issue titled Endless Seasons, edited by Jean Hastings Ardell and Andy McCue, Rob Edelman wrote the article: Buster Keaton, Baseball Player. I got very surprised that the athleticism Keaton &#160;achieved from his early baseball practices allowed him to survive the physical exigencies in his father&#8217;s vaudeville act. He should resist all the pushings and pullings his father made on him to increase the comicity in the act.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know anything about Resortes&#8217; interest for baseball. I just recalled some scenes from &#8220;El beisbolista fen&#243;meno&#8221;, a film from the 1950&#8217;s where a vagabond gets hit by a baseball while he slept under a tree behind the stadium. He started to listen the voices of a passed away ballplayer. The way he moved his arms and kept the dialogue with the ghost shows at least some of the passion Resortes should feel for the game.<\/p>\n<p>As the main actor in the film, Keaton always asked the potential members of the cast if they were able of acting and playing baseball. When he owned the Keaton Production Company, it also was a baseball team ready to play anywhere. That&#8217;s why anytime the filming had to be stopped for any reason, Keaton announced officially they were going to play baseball. When the trouble got solved and they should resume the filming it was very difficult to bring the actors back to the set.<\/p>\n<p>Resortes took the ball that hit him and threw it back to the stadium hitting the owner of the team. They ordered to find the author of the shooting. After catching him they asked Resortes to make some deliveries and decided to sign him for playing in the Mexican Baseball&#160; League. Then it began a dialogue between Resortes and the passed away ballplayer. They agreed that the ghost would play through Resortes to reach the championship he never got in his life as a ballplayer. Resortes began to throw some deliveries that paralyzed the hitters. Soon he became the star of the team. In the film they play a guaracha music that goes like this: &#8220;Bola de humo&#8230; Bola de humo&#8230; Pone la bola mamita, como ninguno..&#8221; On the screen appeared images of Resortes on the mound facing the most dangerous hitters.<\/p>\n<p>Keaton also made two films related to baseball. &#8220;College&#8221;, where he offers a comic explanation about the game&#8217;s fundamentals and &#8220;The Cameraman&#8221;, here he performs a pantomime about the dream each baseball fan has for climbing a mound or entering the batter box in a Major League Baseball park.<\/p>\n<p>In the crucial moment of the movie, Resortes gets mad with the ghost because of his love for alcohol. His stardom disappears. When he&#8217;s almost done, he asks for a last chance in the game for the championship. Resortes begins to beg and call the ghost and promises he&#8217;ll quit drinking alcohol. Then the ghost reappears and together they begin to get the hitters out until winning the championship.<\/p>\n<p>Keaton wrote in his autobiography that every September he rushed the filming of his autumn movie in order to attend the World Series in October.<\/p>\n<p>Resortes&#8217; passion for performing the wind up and the burning baseball talks he had with the ghost, show that he felt some love for the game.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alfonso L. Tusa C.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Alfonso&#8217;s work has been featured in Venezuel&#8217;s daily newspaper, El Nacional and in the magazine Gente en Ambiente, and he has collaborated on several articles for newspapers, including the daily paper Tal Cual. He has also written four books and biographies for SABR&#8217;s BioProject.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambos destacaron como excelsos actores c&#243;micos. Uno a principios del siglo veinte en plena &#233;poca del cine mudo, el otro en la famosa edad dorada del cine mexicano. 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