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Post by Dreyfus on Sept 25, 2006 17:44:37 GMT
We all know Clouseau is played by Steve Martin currently but if a Martin decided to stop playing the role who could take the part as the new Clouseau? I think Geoffrey Rush would be fantatsic. After watching The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, he looks like the old Peter Sellers Clouseau. He does the accent perfectly and is a fantastic actor.
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Post by Clouseau on Sept 25, 2006 22:57:26 GMT
well, personally, while i liked Rush's performance, he still wasn't Peter Sellers... he was just someone doing an impersonation of Peter Sellers... a very good impersonation, but an impersonation, nonetheless... but one of the biggest things i liked about Martin's Clouseau was that he made the role his own, and he really wasn't just impersonating Sellers impersonating Clouseau, you know? as unhappy as so many ppeople seem to be with Martin's performance, i honestly can't think of anyone else i would rather see in the role right now, and i think audiences would have been just as negative about the new film if Rush or someone had done a dead-on impersonation of Sellers, either...
just my two cents, at least...
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Post by georgelytton on Sept 26, 2006 10:21:12 GMT
No one should do Clouseau. I want Steve Martin to quit playing right now! And burn all copies of the film (except one for Clouseau, who likes it so much).
I hate Martin as Clouseau.... Oh my.
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Post by Charla Dreyfus on Sept 27, 2006 2:19:57 GMT
Hmm. I don't really like the idea of someone other than Peter Sellers as Clouseau. But if the person looked and acted similar, then I might not mind it so much. I've never seen the Steve Martin remake, so I can't have a true opinion of it right now, but I don't like the looks of it.
I also can't see how anyone but Herbert Lom could be Chief Inspector Dreyfus. I know that he is going to be 90 next year and probably couldn't do the role anymore, but the fact that they've replaced him is what bugs me. I could be wrong, but from what I've heard, this new Dreyfus doesn't even act as insane as his predecessor.
But anyway, I think that the story they had for Son of the Pink Panther was a nicer way to keep the series going (without Clouseau's being there), and it's a shame they haven't expanded that idea to its full potential.
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Post by georgelytton on Sept 27, 2006 10:40:02 GMT
Agreed, Charla. I always felt that, too.
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Post by SportzStoogeOO7 on Oct 2, 2006 22:42:20 GMT
How about Dana Carvey?
I think he'd be great.
Or, like others have said, Geoffrey Rush! He was superb in THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PETER SELLERS.
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Post by Clouseau on Oct 3, 2006 3:04:12 GMT
Dana Carvey annoys me to no end... my wife thinks he's hilarious, but a few months ago, we sat and watched Master of Disguise, and i couldn't WAIT for it to end! it was horrible! unfortunately for me, she loved it so much, she even wants the DVD...
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Post by yannickthejoker on Dec 11, 2006 18:18:50 GMT
Dana Carvey annoys me to no end... my wife thinks he's hilarious, but a few months ago, we sat and watched Master of Disguise, and i couldn't WAIT for it to end! it was horrible! unfortunately for me, she loved it so much, she even wants the DVD... Oh, that's such a terrible movie. I feel sorry for you! I'm one of the die hard fans who will say that nobody is able to fill up Peter's shoes. He created the character and should be the only one to play it. But I understand, as time goes on, the time would come that someone else would play it: Steve Martin. While I liked the guy in some other movies, he just felt wrong for the part. Not to say he screwed up, but it just didn't feel right. But all in all I enjoyed the movie and had a nice time. I see everyone praises Geoffrey Rush for his excellent performance in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. My opinions on how they portrayed Sellers (as a mean-spirited man) aside, he was wonderful. His Clouseau imitation was a very good one, but would he be able to do that a whole film?
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Post by Clouseau on Dec 12, 2006 16:50:30 GMT
i think Rush did an excellent impersonation of Peter Sellers, but maybe this will surprise you: i didn't think Rush's impersonation of Sellers' Clouseau was all that wonderful... his voice, IMO, was too rough... i don't know how else to put that, but Sellers always had a sort of smooth voice, and Rush's was too rough... it just didn't sound right, is all i'm saying... that said, the scenes where rush played Clouseau were all very amusing scenes... it's just that those were the scenes where the illusion that i was actually watching Peter Sellers was broken... in the non-Clouseau scenes, Rush's performance was almost spot-on enough that you forget it's somebody else, but in the Clouseau scenes, it just more or less stuck out to me more that this was only an inferior copy of the real thing...
don't get me wrong... Rush did an excellent job, but he was still just more obviously not the same as Sellers at those times, to me...
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Post by Dreyfus on Dec 12, 2006 16:56:21 GMT
I think Rush could pull it off. How about Pierce Brosnan as the new Clouseau?
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Post by Clouseau on Dec 12, 2006 18:43:26 GMT
I think Rush could pull it off. How about Pierce Brosnan as the new Clouseau? [glow=red,2,300]NO![/glow]i already couldn't stand him as James Bond... i don't even want to IMAGINE the damage he could do to the Panther series!!!
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Post by yannickthejoker on Dec 12, 2006 21:13:15 GMT
I think Rush could pull it off. How about Pierce Brosnan as the new Clouseau? [glow=red,2,300]NO![/glow]i already couldn't stand him as James Bond... i don't even want to IMAGINE the damage he could do to the Panther series!!! I rather liked him as Bond. But to say he could play Clouseau...a huge 'NO' to that one! I didn't even like Roger Moore as Clouseau, I thought he was awful. Give Geoffrey Rush some dialect coaches or something like that to teach him the Clouseau speech and he could do it. I rather wouldn't even have new Panthers without Sellers, but if it HAS to be done he would be the best, not to take anything away from Steve Martin though.
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Post by Clouseau on Dec 13, 2006 0:09:37 GMT
i dunno... i still maintain that i prefer Martin's version because he made it his own and added some originality to the character, rather than just doing an imitation of Sellers... i think even if we got Rush a dialect coach and put him in the role, i think if all he does is an impersonation of Sellers, that's no good... there needs to be something new brought to the table to make it interesting and worthwhile... Sellers, himself, was getting tired of the role by the time Revenge came along, because they'd basically done all they could do with the character the way he played him... by making a few changes, it just makes it all a bit more fresh, which is what you need if you want viewers to keep coming back...
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Post by yannickthejoker on Dec 13, 2006 13:56:45 GMT
i dunno... i still maintain that i prefer Martin's version because he made it his own and added some originality to the character, rather than just doing an imitation of Sellers... i think even if we got Rush a dialect coach and put him in the role, i think if all he does is an impersonation of Sellers, that's no good... there needs to be something new brought to the table to make it interesting and worthwhile... Sellers, himself, was getting tired of the role by the time Revenge came along, because they'd basically done all they could do with the character the way he played him... by making a few changes, it just makes it all a bit more fresh, which is what you need if you want viewers to keep coming back... I'm not sure if Sellers was getting tired from the part: he wrote the screenplay for Romance by himself (along with Jim Moloney but that doesn't matter now), which would have begin shooting in 1981 so I don't know for sure if he was getting tired of the part. Anyway, a good point about the imitation: after all it would only be a imitation if Rush did it. What always bothered me about Martin is that he didn't dye his hair. Now it's just Martin with a moustache and an accent. He did his best but I only saw Martin doing Clouseau and not Clouseau on it's own. But I wonder, if this filmseries would stop when Martin dies, are they going to continue it without him? That's something to think about.
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Post by thecolonel93 on Dec 13, 2006 20:09:16 GMT
In the event of Mr. Martin's untimely passing, I presume they would get a hot young sitcom star to play Clifton Sleigh...
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