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Post by georgelytton on Dec 18, 2010 0:12:11 GMT
Even though I like his scenes in the film, I do think they're not as good as they should've, and could've been. The problem with Moore playing Clouseau playing Moore, is that this was the only take on the scene. Edwards did not have time to film more takes on the scene due to budget cuts and what have you. Curse almost didn't get made, after all.
Still, it was a decent way of making bringing Clouseau to a close in the same way Sellers intended him to have gone out, had he lived to do ROMANCE OF THE PINK PANTHER.
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Post by georgelytton on Dec 18, 2010 0:06:23 GMT
In a sense, Curse is what Trail was supposed to be if it were filmed not as a tribute but as a film. In a sense, Trail bet on the sentimentality of Selllers' loss whereas Curse presented the story as a standard film.
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Post by georgelytton on Dec 17, 2010 23:56:49 GMT
Well, there goes Clouseau's other half.
Peter Sellers might have been the heart and body of the chaacter, but Edwards was the brain. Without him, there'd be no part for Sellers to shape.
RIP.
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Post by georgelytton on Aug 10, 2008 10:37:15 GMT
He thinks he's met Roger Moore. They avoided him naming any films, because the studio asked so - given how a Bond movie came out at the very same year.
Sleigh even asks him for his autograph - for his grandfather. Its pretty lcear, methinks.
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Post by georgelytton on Jun 30, 2008 16:52:55 GMT
I thought he was horrible, and still think he's a terrible miscast.
But others may disagree.
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Post by georgelytton on Jun 30, 2008 16:51:47 GMT
well it's an interesting film, at least, whether you believe it's grounded in truth or not... Oh, I agree. I just think that Rush could've played Sellers in any film about him, and the material in which he eventually did, didn't match the effort from Rush nor did it represent a valid and accurate recollection of Peter Sellers's life.
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Post by georgelytton on Jun 30, 2008 16:45:12 GMT
it just makes no sense to me how someone can like Gambrelli and then dislike Martin's Clouseau... Its easy. Gambrelli is not Clouseau - he's his son. Totally different. Martin passes off as the man himself. Yeah, right... but then, i'm sure you're having trouble understanding people who like Martin's Clouseau and dislike Gambrelli, eh? Sorta. I mean, Martin's Clouseau has no redeeming qualities. He's not funny, or sympathetic. Clouseau HAS to be both.
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Post by georgelytton on Jun 30, 2008 15:48:05 GMT
The closing credits of TRAIL are the best, and funniest, closing credits in the history of cinema.
Period!
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Post by georgelytton on Jun 30, 2008 15:44:47 GMT
I think making Dreyfus the all-out terrorist villain was a brilliant idea that gave this film the edge the other PANTHERS ever since lacked. A villain with a history with Clouseau, and a great character while at that.
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Post by georgelytton on Jun 30, 2008 15:42:14 GMT
I disagree. While CURSE is by no means good, the 2006 film is ever worse.
If anything, this film tried to move on without Sellers, as Edwards best of all, that as long as Sellers was dead, there would be no real Clouseau. Period.
Of course, they failed terribly while at that, but that, is another story.
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Post by georgelytton on Jun 30, 2008 15:38:31 GMT
I vote for Steven Martin's Clouseau rendition.. It was embarassing, to say the least.
Next would be Alan Arkin, while not terrible, just wasn't Sellers, especially in a series that continued with him before and after Arkin.
Sleigh was... Meh, so third choice.
I actually quite liked Gambrelli, so no probs there.
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Post by georgelytton on Apr 14, 2008 12:34:37 GMT
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Post by georgelytton on Apr 14, 2008 12:24:31 GMT
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Post by georgelytton on Jul 30, 2006 16:56:28 GMT
I think STRIKES AGAIN wins it for me. PANTHER is right after, but STRIKES AGAIN is so memorable, and its got one of my favorite themes ever - The Inspector Clouseau Theme. Nice, heartwarming and sweet. No wonder it was reused in the elevator scene in TRAIL and incorporated in that film's end title's music. It describes Clouseau, but also Sellers and his character.
I love that theme, I love that soundtrack!
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Post by georgelytton on Jul 24, 2007 12:58:32 GMT
Can't we find it on a bootleg DVD or something?
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