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I'm not absolutely sure but I'm probably the MOST avid fan of the Goon Show here at AA, having an abiding affection for Eccles (Spike's alter ego and MINE) and Neddie Seagoon mainly.
I was also firmly imprinted by the characters/sayings that Sellers played - especially *Bluebottle and Major Bloodnok! All of his chars - in TGS - are dirty-minded selfish gits! I was once a *dirty-minded pre-pubertal (and very 'british!') boy, and Australia copped it's fair share of purple-nosed Indian-Army-ret'd types post partition.
I deeply respect what Peter Sellers did achieve given his serail destructiveness, and poor choices of films.
Personally, having avidly read every Sellers biography, and met Spike, I can affirm that the film was FAR too kind to Pete.
Who was an immature, if not perennially childish, double-dyed shit, arsehole, and psychopath. Should have been spayed at birth!
His mother and his childhood are often blamed, but we all can make choices, can't we!?
Funny, brilliant, scary creepily so ......... !? ohh yes!
Rush did a very good job.
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
http://www.theanalogdept.com/tim_bailey.htm
After what I read about PS a bit there and there I thought that too, that the film was kind to him, but then I recognize that every one must have a good side...
And he left us some pleasure so as good mannered persons we should polish his chocolate side.
That is what has done that film.
Maybe...
he didn't have a 'good side', in his life.
didn't know how to and, never bothered trying! And then Peg was gone, and it was all straight down hill.
Sad isn't it!?
Major Bloodnok in the Goon Show (written almost entirely by Spike) would often respond - when thanked for some slight / momentary kindness, with ......
"My dear CHAP, it was the LEAST I could do! ........ A quantity I specialise in, don't you know!"
It is to me at least, deliciously funny in it's own right, as it is a very apt truism about life.
BUT Spike wrote it for Sellers.
Milligan was a wonderfully acute observer of us, and an acute writer for performers - just that one catch-phrase proves it.
Spike was Sellers ONLY true friend, and knew him all too well!
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
http://www.theanalogdept.com/tim_bailey.htm
bulk up for the role led to Sean Connery's chance.
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""In 1965, Feldman had just come off of his successful sex romp What’s New, Pussycat? with Peter Sellers. Determined to have Sellers perform in Casino Royale, Feldman hired screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz to pick up where the late Ben Hecht left off and create a new role, croupier Nigel Force.
With a starring salary of $1 million and a white Rolls-Royce, Peter Sellers said, "You’re asking me to play James Bond? You must be out of your bloody mind. Offering me a king’s ransom, and don’t think I couldn’t use a king’s ransom. But I think the Bond image is too fixed. I don’t want to touch it."
But what really sold Sellers was the idea of a little man being asked to play Bond for a day. Sellers went to work re-writing his scenes and changing his character’s name to Evelyn Tremble. He worked closely with Feldman, writer John Law, and his personal friend, director Joe McGrath by trying to inject more humor such as the scene where he impersonates Hitler, Napoleon and Toulouse-Lautrec. Sellers was reportedly proud of his input and boasted, "I will be getting an author’s screen credit.""
Unlike Hoffman in Capote. or Cate Blanchett in The Aviator, Mirren in The Queen, Rush bring a three D dimension, a soul in his composition of Peter S.-Not just a perfect imitator.
For that his is just outstanding.
Tucci is also a hell of a second actor, but that is nothing new.
Hardly.
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Grins
Rickman, Jeremy Irons... a darn good lineup of English this past twenty years, or so.
and lives in Melbourne
I'm a New Zealander and will admit to being British; but English: *Never*
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where he repeated a line in the film; that "watching Sellers ( on a movie set ), was not unlike watching a Cobra"
Edwards went on to say that Sellers was quite possibly seriously mentally ill, and "too weird to have a relationship with"
I think the film succeeds in showing Sellers darker side; the scene where he's meant to be meeting Edwards in a restaurant and just stands outside in the snow; this film is a gem if you're a fan of Peter Sellers
Grins
I am absolutely not a fan of his.
Still the film shine on its own.
And the cast...Ah the cast!
Look at Watson!
And the music is cool..That little Kinks final...
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