Badass Buster: Why a Silent Film Star was Ballsier Than Modern Action Stars

If I told you that one of those quaint old silent film comedians could top a modern action star for all-out ballsiness, you wouldn't believe me. You'd scoff at the idea that the effete English guy with the derby hat – or even the hanging-off-the-clock dude with the glasses – was anything but a wimpy fop.

Actually, both Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd did a metric buttload (2.2 standard buttloads) of their own stunts, and both were pretty ballsy. Lloyd, for example, got right back to work doing hair-raising stunts as soon as he regained the vision he'd lost after a bomb he was holding blew off a third off his right hand.

He dangled from that clock with a chunk of his hand missing and while weighed down by his enormous steel balls.
Harold Lloyd definitely had enough balls to supply a score of ordinary men. But still, among film greats, the ballsy prize needs to go to the guy who wasn't Charlie Chaplin or Harold Lloyd: Buster Keaton.

Pictured: Jackie Chan's inspiration. Seriously.

Read the rest here: Six Ways Buster Keaton was Ballsier than Modern Action Stars.