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In Reply to: RE: The Life of Peter Sellers--- posted by patrickU on December 17, 2007 at 11:59:47
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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