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Post by Maria Gambrelli on Sept 16, 2006 15:02:33 GMT
I was wondering how well are you people acquainted with the scenes from the old movies Blake and Peter liked to pay tribute to? They would usually redefine the PP scene according to the original they were referring onto.
For example, I know that one of the last scenes in "The Pink Panther" (1963) was taken from "The Idle Class" (1921) by Charles Chaplin. Like Clouseau, Tramp came to the masquerade in a knight's armour. It was clearly a tribute to Charlie Chaplin.
Others?
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Post by pinkadilly on Sept 16, 2006 19:38:15 GMT
i dont know of any others, but thats really interesting!
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Post by Clouseau on Sept 28, 2006 6:22:13 GMT
well it's been said before that Clouseau's slapstick approach was widely based on Sellers' and Edwards' love for the old Chaplin movies... i'd have a hard time pinpointing any specific scenes to compare to other films, though...
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Post by Clouseau on May 17, 2007 5:58:06 GMT
reviving an old thread with something mentioned in another thread, but maybe this'll spark something for this thread, i dunno... but according to Blake Edwards in the commentary for TPP63, the scene with the old man trying to cross the street at the end of the film was a direct homage to Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Theif...
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Post by benjaminballon on May 21, 2007 12:45:28 GMT
It is also said that Peter Sellers was a great fan of the slapstick by Stan Laurel and Edwards introduced him into the world of him and Oliver Hardy.
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Post by thecolonel93 on Sept 11, 2007 14:18:48 GMT
RETURN contains tributes/references to TO CATCH A THIEF, CASABLANCA, and THE MALTESE FALCON. The bit where Clouseau cracks a safe that turns out to be a radio is lifted from DUCK SOUP.
STRIKES AGAIN references the Bond films and real-life incidents from Blake Edwards' life. THE MOUSE THAT ROARED and DR. STRANGELOVE are also referenced. The names Fassbinder and Jean Tournier are jokes for movie buffs.
REVENGE also references DR. STRANGELOVE as well as THE FRENCH CONNECTION and THE GODFATHER.
TRAIL references CITIZEN KANE as well as Blake Edwards' non-PANTHER work (particularly VICTOR/VICTORIA and 10).
CURSE also has a few VICTOR/VICTORIA references as well as more in-jokes for the cast and crew. The most obscure I've found is Gino Rossi being a character Herbert Lom played early in his career. My favorite obscure in-joke has to be Sellers' frequent alias of Guy Gadbois who was a prominent Hollywood financial advisor. Another would be Robert Wagner's photographer friend Pierre Luigi in the original...a nod to acclaimed Hollywood still photographer, Pier-Luigi.
SON references Benigni's JOHNNY STECCHINO which was itself PANTHEResque (and also borrowed wholesale from DUCK SOUP while we're at it). I'm sure there's a great deal more to be found. We haven't even broached the topic of cameos...my favorite of which was Herb Tanney, a famed Hollywood physician who appears in most of Blake Edwards' films and frequently turns up in PANTHER trailers. He plays the Nice Police Chief in RETURN, the transvestite assassin at the Oktoberfest in STRIKES AGAIN, the Hong Kong Police Chief in REVENGE, a Lugash assassin in CURSE, and the police assistant who does the great spit-take in SON. Of course, his crowning achievement was as a surrogate Clouseau in VICTOR/VICTORIA. Quite an impressive career for a non-actor.
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