Alexander Walker, "Peter Sellers was mad"
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- The film critic Alexander Walker talks about the peculiar artistic relationship between Peter Sellers and Stanley Kubrick.
This interview is part of the material shot for Stanleyandus, a documentary series whose first three episodes:
- The Pinocchio project.
- Beware perfectionist.
- Writer-writers.
can be viewed on Vimeo: vimeo.com/onde...
My mum worked with Peter in 1946 in Entertainments Unit, Combined Ops in London. She said he was an absolute hoot! He perfected his posh officer drawl on her, by ringing her phone and impersonating some visiting bigwig (in which there were many just after the war). He had done his homework and knew of a high ranking visitor, so would simply 'be him' over the phone. My mum knew it was Peter being daft, they were both corporals btw! But he was SO GOOD that you had to be careful in case it WAS the real person, which it sometimes was! The office clubbed together to buy him a little brown spaniel for his 21st as he loved dogs. Mum and he both gone now and the world is a worse place for it!
lovely story
Thank you for typing about my family in a positive way . I appreciate it .
I think Peter Sellers is your dad...
He was a prick. Great that he was funny but let's not pretend he was a good man.
Awesome story! Thanks!!
*Peter Sellers one liner - **_Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy._*
No, sorry, that's Spike Milligan.
@GrrMeister that's great - I've never heard that before.
@@34hedgehog Definately Milligan.
@Horatio Moonraker sometimes I wish I was that witty. Well all the time.
@Horatio Moonraker 😎 Mine will say, "A lifetime surrounded by idiots; at long last among colleagues." 😂😹
What a well spoken and eloquent man. Just one of those people you could listen to for hours
Absolutely, we no longer have people like him to talk about films, one: such intellect, film knowledge and eloquence no longer exists in this country and two: all our films are either kiddies comic heroes or just crap.
@@wakeupuk3860lol.
It's pretty clear that Sellers had all sorts of psychological, emotional, relational, and mental problems. However, like the family who brought their uncle to the doctor complaining that the uncle thought he was a chicken. "You want me to cure him?" "No!" said the family, "We need the eggs!"
🤣🤣🤣🤣
LMFAO binks
When the time comes we will have you know that toxoplasma is not just a protozoa crowd of visitors, not just a team with a goal of munching on your brain matter and looking out at the view from inside your head, we are genius
Fantastic eggs at that.
So did they all The goon show, which had all of them in it , Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and (the least talented) Michael Bentine ran for years in my, (first), childhood. They wer truly alla bit crazy....funnt but genuinely crazy...it was not an act.
Dr. Strangelove never gets old.
Great film ! Unfortunately it couldn't be made because it's "politically incorrect" by today's standards making it all the more "relevant".
Slim Pickens in Dr Strangelove turned out to be a great piece of casting. I especially enjoy him reading out the contents of the survival pack. "...chewing gum, one issue of prophylactics, three lipsticks, three pair of nylon stockings -- shoot, a fellah could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff...." His dead pan drawl just made it all the more surreal and funny!
AGREED, AND HIS PHYSICAL APPEARANCE ADDED TO THE DICHCOTOMY, ---THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF TECHNOLOGICAL MILITARY PROWESS, AND THE GROSSLY UNFIT MAN AT THE CONTROLS.
@Joseph Lomeo yup..JFK had just been assassinated when the change was made..
... ‘ promotions and personal citations fur evra last one of you, regardless of ur race, colour or creed....’
Sellers was self aware enough to know that character didn’t live inside him. The movie is unimaginable without Pickens in that role.
Actually Pickens says "Dallas" and as JFK was killed before the film was released, they overdubbed "Vegas".
I went to see Spike Milligan’s one man show in London many years ago and Peter Sellers was in the audience. Spike invited Peter up on stage for the second half which was hilarious and completely ad-libbed.
.. "the well known typing error" & inspector cluso (sp?) must have been cathartic for the audience. I imagine not a lot of PC filtering. Lucky you.
Get out!
Peter Sellers in the movie "The Party" is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. My father had a story about Peter Sellers. We moved from the USA to London around 1974. My father was not used to driving on the left in a huge city. He almost hit a pedestrian who happened to be Peter Sellers and he gave my father a wry smile and tapped on the front of the car as if to say, we don't kill pedestrians in London.
Absolutely brilliant. Oh the hilarity of the party. Birdie num num
The Party was crude, racist crap.
@@sophialewis5474 Nothing hilarious about the Party. Is was offensive, racist crap.
Tarak B : Get off your high horse, Mary.
@@tarakb7606 is this coming from someone who also thinks Don Rickles was racist crap, even though, FOR THE TIMES, it was hilariously funny comedy - before the day when folks could sue because someone "hurt their feelings".....?
The first and second time I saw Dr Strangelove I didn't recognize Sellers as the US president. I have also come to appreciate his performance a Lt Mandrake because it ISN'T played for laughs. It is almost a straight dramatic performance. That is the genius of that film. All of the dramatic moments are true and accurate. The details of the inside of the B-52, the actions of the crew and other military men. All would have worked in a more serious film. The subject and tone of that movie really captures the cold war feeling. It is a great film.
I heard the actors in the B-52 were not told it was a comedy. The book wasn't a comedy.
@@edp2260 Strange love wasn't a comedy it was satire. Of could be if people like Nixon Kissinger evergot into power. Now we have a demented Ripper Trump with his fingers on the button. So satire could become reality.
PS performance in Lolita as Quince was disturbing. Great actor but not sure of the human being behind the performer.
It is continually impressed on me that the British and Irish of that generation spoke so much more beautifully.
Manners, diction, comportment are disappearing the world over because we're being overrun with human rats.
@@moncorp1 People are getting lazy. The internet is not helping.
British and Irish _intellectuals_ still speak like this. Nothing has changed in that respect; however, the ordinary kid in the street has been sandblasted by Rap, The Kardashians, reality TV, and Americas got talent to the point where they are barely able to enunciate their own name without interjecting a curse word.
@TSD TSD grow up.
My father took me for elocution lessons, unfortunately I was bullied at school, and even today people look at me as if I’m something that I’m not. These days I can never understand what they say anymore.
Alexander Walker was himself a writer and film critic of immense talent and reputation, he talks informatively about Kubrick because he wrote a book about him , but more importantly Walker was one of the few film critics Kubrick would let near him or talk to, they had a good mutually respectful relationship. I miss Alexander Walker's film reviews, he wrote for The Evening Standard for more than 40 years, he always seemed to hit the nail on the head in his reviews.
Back in the day when real journalists worked on newspapers
One of the greatest movie critics ever. Who died far far too young. And Peter sellers, was a genius. No doubt about that. He went too young too.
He absolutely adored Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Walker was from the Orange hole that is Portadown (Michael Collins' description) though you wouldn't guess from that accent.
@@HandleGFAnd educated in a state school. I struggled to place his aristocratic accent, very public school, with traces of Scots or American. Who would have thought it.
The fact that Sellers didn't win an Oscar for Dr. Stranglove is a crime...
Or being there!
NO....it's three crimes!
A guy like Peter Sellers only comes along once in a century.
Yes he was a very horrible human being, no one liked him on set, he cheated on his wife's, beat his children and refused to pay for the schooling, a very sexual deviant who would manipulate young woman, a greedy man about money, someone who looked down on others, a guy who often refused to work with actors he didn't like, yes this type of person doesn't come around very often, good riddance
Peter really shone in "Being There" as Chauncey Gardiner
Hugh Bryant-Parsons : He shone, too.
One of my favorite movies... "That's right Ben" LOL OMG so funny.
@@rickobrien1583👍 His best work. Hands down.
@@BigMamaDaveX the best!
@@rickobrien1583 in the spring the trees will bloom
Peter Sellers has been described in a nutshell by Alexander Walker. Mad as a hatter (often in his own world) but a truly gifted film comedian.
So sad that Peter Sellers passed away so soon, we miss him.
Peter Sellars was one of a kind. Arguably the best comedian of all times. His roles in Dr. Strangelove is so incredible. I seen him interviewed a couple times, and he could just invent a character instantly. The video mentions that Peter didn’t want to play the role that finally Sims Pinkins did, which I have to think was very smart - which shows that Peter had an intuitive sense of what the character required. And Slim Pinkins, of course was terrific.
You really have no idea how dynamic he was until you hear The Goon Show series.
Dr Strangelove - one of the greatest movies ever made.
If I had to pick only one... yup, this is it!
Er
The Party. The Mouse that Roared. Dr. Strangelove. A Shot in the Dark. The Prisoner of Zenda and oh my oh my....those amazing Pink Panthers. Thank you Peter Sellers
Sophia Lewis Sellers’ favorite personal film was _Being There._ It’s my favorite Sellers role, too.
Being There?
@@ArsPraestigium oh yes.
Vincent Conti It was his last film.
If only all actors were as mad as Peter Sellers!
Demonic for sure
Frowning Angel they, are they are just not as talented .
All geniuses have a dark and sad part of the character, Peter Sellers is no exception, to make people laugh you have to understand sadness and depression.
Spike Milligan is the same a manic depressive due to his war experience and the madness of war, that’s why his humour is so surreal and conceptual and funny, the same sadness was in the life of another great comic Tony Hancock, he could make you cry with laughter and in his own room he would cry with despaire.
Most comics who are at the top of there game walk that line
Absolutely, and sadly, very true.
I loved his performance. And I learned from him, in worst time in your life, try not to take it to seriously, so you survive better, and you don’t take any emotional scars or not too deep scars
I heard a funny story. They went to pick up Slim Pickens at the airport, and when he spoke, they reacted with, "That's PERFECT! That's just the accent we want." And he said, "WHAT accent?" They didn't realize that was just how he talked.
I also loved Picken in "1941", when he's confronted by Toshiro Mifune & Christopher Lee, both of whose performances were accompanied with English subtitles.
😄
As Peter Sellers said to Kermit the frog when he was a guest on the Muppets. " There is no me in here I had him surgically removed."
The part in Dr Strangelove where Sellers was doing his thing in front of all the other actors was hilarious. You can see some of the actors in the background breaking up. Great stuff!
Yes the Russian chap is struggling to hold it together.
There is a narrow margin where insanity and genius merge.
The great man walked that line.
In good company !.
RIP Peter.
bill beare well said
bill beare he was NOT nice...and the nasty way he treated his child!!!!
Naff off with your "narrow margins." We're at least twenty years ahead of the rest that's why no one has a clue whereof we speak. I was a four year old reading at High School, perhaps even college level, so when the teacher left the class she asked me to read a story to the six year olds.. Couldn't discuss Shaw and Wilde and Collodi with them...so no friends.Unpaid remedial teacher age of 12, etc., etc., but no shared interests. So much attention to slower children with special needs, and that IS APPROPRIATE, but the genius child needs special, discrete support, not this "genius is close to madness UTTER B.S." I have the privilege of knowing so many great people, now deceased, who made it on their own merits and they are the sanest, kindest people I know. Peter was exploited - asked to play four characters but paid for one - seriously! Van Gogh exploited! Etc., ad nauseum.
@@DeirdreMcNamara "The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.” - Max Beerbohm
I think this is germane to the genius-madness connection imagined by so many. I on the contrary see madness as allied to stupidity, while a strong mind is the best defence against it.
I agree. Most people that truly change the course of a particular discipline walk the tight rope between genius and madness.
i couldn't imagine anyone other than Slim playing that role!
+1954telecaster Agree 100%
No, now that it's been done no one could dare imitate it.
But that was a priceless Steinway...."Not any more". The greatest scene when interrogating the staff in Pink Panther( always forget which one !?) Cheers.
Glenn Powell
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
@@cha5 Thank you. Superb scene.Cheers!
Telephone technician - still classic. But my all time favorite role was Dr.Strangelove. All rolls.
"Does your dog bite"? "No" He gets bitten "you said it didn't bite" "it's not my dog"
@@chrisneedham5803 The list of one liners and Pink Panther is endless. So silly yet so clever. Brilliant. I have actually revisited some you tube videos of clips following seeing this video.Timeless and never a swear word used.Cheers!
The great Alexander Walker. Brilliant and sadly missed.
such pomposity... waiting to be ridiculed...if only there was someone able to do that...hmm
@@alanoneill3065 Yes ... your comment's. Able or willing.
Alexander Walker was kind enough to type and hand sign a letter in response to one I had sent him about the film Barry Lyndon. So I think him a kind man, and a thoughtful one. Not pompous at all.
@@alanoneill3065 How is he pompous?
@@alanoneill3065 You can take a critic from Portadown but never Portydaun from the critic. :-)
Peter Sellers was a genius
all Virgos are..... how old are you, 5 ?
Even so, please, educate yourself.
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TIMOTHY FLOYD
WOW what a GENIUS reply. You are clearly a Virgo. We are all left dumb in the intellectual debris.
A mad genuis 😀
Sellers was an absolute genius - sadly there is no one else like him today
This guy’s diction is to die for.
It sounds Anglo-Irish to me.
Safe travels Peter. Thanks for many hours of laughter. Whatever pain it was that drove you I hope is now long gone.
I think mad is the wrong word for Mr Sellers. Sensitive, vulnerable, quirky but not mad.
The twisted reality created by Peter Sellers was so much more inviting and comfortable than our mundane world that when the Pink Panther theme rolled I was transported. His self assured moronity was the god dammed funniest thing I've ever seen. He was capable of saying simple things and transforming life itself. Do you have a room? When he tried to cross the moat and scale the draw bridge I nearly passed out or died laughing, no one could have ever achieved that level of overall laughing madness.
"...a rheum...?"
To me his asking Chief Insp. Dreyfus for a loan of money moments after the latter angrily suspended him without pay was unbeatably funny.
@@dixonpinfold2582 Every incident was an opportunity for humor!
A true acting genius!
Some very astute observations by Alexander Walker, about one of the most talented actors that this country has ever had. The word “celebrity” meant something in those days. Today... every foul mouthed, thick as two short planks, “Reality TV Star” (😂) gets given that label for the mercifully brief period that the gormless public soak up their every banal, attention seeking utterance. But the standout performances of truly gifted screen actors stand the test of time, and Peter Sellers is undoubtedly one whose talent will continue to be celebrated for many years to come.
So true
Peter Sellers had a lot in common with Robin Williams in this regard as described in this interview.
I miss Alexander. He was great
its a fine line between genius and madness
Sellers roles in Lolita are landmarks in comedic acting and truly 'make' that film
Peter Sellers was totally unique, a one off
Peter Sellers, wish I would of known him, so hilarious, troubled, but what a gift to an audience.
His best film, by far, is "The Party"
Birdy num-nums. Classic 😃
I loved that film too. Especially how it started off so slowly, then built up to utter hilarious, madcap chaos.
Peter was a genius , and so was Stanley:Both of them were geniuses , Peter had genius in acting and Stan's genius was in Directing (and if I may) in Poetry and philosophy...
Maybe they couldn't understand each other...Peter was in love with acting...and what a
brilliant actor he was...Stan wanted him more?! that was a mistake,because that "Mad Man"
was a brilliant actor and no more....God Bless Both of Them.
I remember in "Lolita" one of the scenes in which Sellers, as Quilty, meets James Mason playing Humbert and you could see Mason trying not to crack up although he was supposed to play Quilty's nemesis. I wondered how many times they had to shoot that scene to the point that Mason could even control his laughter to that point.
He should’ve played it.its would’ve been the best movie role ever. He’d probably been nominated for an award.
I don't doubt at all that PS was somewhat .... 'on the edge' but nothing should detract from the fact that few comedians from any era have provided the public with such laughter.
George C Scott was also great and immortal in Dr. Strangelove.
Peter Sellers was simply the best there was...he remains my most loved comedian. RIP Peter, oh how hilarious Heaven must now be.
most brilliant people are mad.
I've got one of them coming over tomorrow. For a favor from me. I guarantee, afterwards...he'll make me feel like he did me a favor.
Or at the very least ' at a slight angle to the universe '.
That's so True!
The big fat bio on Peter is an incredible read. Forget the skinny ones...
You mean deplorable behavior like considering everyone but you a half-wit?
Where are your boundaries Mr starquant?
I remember Spike Milligan saying of Peter that he was not a genius, he was a freak. I've never known _exactly_ what Spike meant in saying that, but I get the feeling that Spike meant it as an endearment.
One time on _The Goon Show_ , Sellers was sick. They had to bring in *two* other people to do the voices for all his parts.
One other time, Milligan was sick. So Sellers did all his voices as well as his own regular ones ... and nobody noticed.
I’ve noticed whenever Sellers was interviewed and was asked a question that called for a straight answer, to say something matter of fact about himself, he was almost mute - to the point where it was uncomfortable. And when he did give an answer, he was completely colorless, drained of all personality.
I don’t know what was wrong, but I truly felt bad for the guy. The world’s acclaim means little when you have to go home and live with yourself, and you find that unbearable. Just ask Marilyn Monroe.
He said so about himself, that he was empty as a human being. There simply wasn't anything "there" , that's why he could engulf himself completely in those roles. There are other actors talking about their personal emptiness, their lack of private character. People like Alec Guinness and Jim Carrey.
Mr Walker grew up in Portadown, Northern Ireland - a mere eight miles from my own hometown.
spike milligan was also mad and suffered from depression. the price of genius.
Spike was bipolar, Peter was insecure. Spike also had a bomb go off a little too close to him during the war. Harry Secombe was the only “normal” one of the three Goons.
Spike told the story of how he met Harry during the war: Harry’s group were firing a Howitzer a little too close to the edge of a cliff, and the recoil pushed it over, crashing down to where Spike’s group were bivouacked, missing his tent by (metaphorical) inches.
Cue the rotund private being sent down to retrieve said weapon.
“Anybody seen a gun?”
“What colour was it?”
Lawrence D’Oliveiro read that in spike Milligan’s memoirs, what it doesn’t mention in any of them is spike had a mental break and went to kill sellers with a kitchen knife at one point
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Suffering from depression and being insecure is what makes a comedian, a comedian. The need to feel good by making others happy. Nothing sadder then the tears of a clown, when no one is around.
@@Peorhum That’s a generalization. Comedians (and other artistic types) come in many different varieties of personality. Yes, there is a higher-than-average incidence of what we might call “mental illness” among creatives. But they’re not all the same.
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 But it is a generalization, that is generally true.
Don’t forget Blake Edwards. He and Peter worked wonderfully together as well: the _Pink Panther_ series, obviously (at least the first two), but also _The Party_ is a classic, much of which was improvised.
Someone mentioned Sellers had a dark side. According to his children he was a sadistic monster. I think that goes a bit beyond "dark".
Agreed. I read his sons book, which was serialised in a National newspaper. Having been a great admirer of Seller's, even before the Goons radio series. I was deeply disappointed in his MANY serious character flaws. Among which where his terrible selfish mistreatment of his family, and many wives. Unforgiveable.
proof? link?
proof? link?
Inge Fossen Good point. He never pretended to be a choir boy. Plus, those tell all books have to be spicy or they won’t sell, and are generally filled with horseshit. Anyone that would air their dirty family laundry in public has no credibility to begin with.
@@waterhead1029 There are no lack of accounts of his bizarre, selfish and outright hostile behavior. Blake Edwards, who worked with him more than any other director, thought him crazy bastard, but in exchange for Sellers loonie behavior he got some amazing comedic performances.
Of The Goons. Sellers was indeed mad; so was Milligan. But then there was Harry Secombe, an equal wit to the two, but I thought was quite normal after working (filming) hours. who else feels the same?
Ever watched Highway?
HARRY WAS THE NORMAL ONE. HE READ OUT SPIKES SCRIPTS, AND WAS SWEPT ALONG WITH THE OTHER TWOS INTERPRETATION OF THEIR NUTTY CHARACTERS. HARRY WAS THE 'HEROIC' NEDDY SEAGOON, OF WHICH, THE ''STORYLINE'' ? WAS WRITTEN.
And I always thought Sellers really had broken his ankle. But I would never contradict Alex Walker!
I think the situation was quite comical. Did Kubrick believe it?
Peter Sellers is the best ever.
Pity Stanley Kubrick wasn't filming this interview..he might of got the bloody focus on Alexander Walker sharp!
Mad And Funny! Most comedians are a little mad!!! 😂
Watch the parkinson interview(s) with Peter Sellers. He's a brilliant story teller. I'd listen to him reminisce all day long
funniest scene he ever did was in maybe the 2nd pink panther movie where he interviews the rich family near the grand piano. he absolutely DESTROYS the room . f***ing HILARIOUS.
bystander: "that was a priceless xxxx piano"
clousou : "not anymore"
That's a priceless Steinway! said Ms." Loveliver".😂😂
@@jeffduncan9140 right on, that's it. I love how he destroys everyone's property everywhere he goes without the slightest apologetic attitude. funniest guy, funniest movies ever!! I had them all, then my hard drive crashed. mr. livelover.
Favorite Sellars scene. Does your dog bite. I thought you said your dog does not bite. Zat is not my dog!
"I am professor Gigadois, Mediaval Castle Authority, Marseille" About to be savaged by that shaggy terrier dog. Brings a smile to my face, every time.
i love this guy talks...
A psychiatrist once said: "Normal is slightly mad"
Normal..... What's that?
MKu MKu Can you cite this psychiatrist and name them, otherwise it's merely an empty statement.
MKu MKu ........I actually said " Everone is normal, untill you get to know them. "
+GoteeDevotee
Quotations can be of interest in and of themselves. One can dismiss their appropriateness, but they do not necessarily require being authored by persons of erudition to merit our consideration.
Kubrick found his muse in sellers they both shared a brilliance in there fields and generally misunderstood by the public as misfits
They say a genius has a method to their madness. Peter had this all right.
coming to you from Covent Gardens - Transport museum within earshot
As much as we loved Peter, I think many of us would agree that Slim was perfect in the role of Major Kong.
absolutely!
Two of my favorites, Peter Sellers & Stanley Kubrick! 🤙👏👏👏
I’m glad Peter faked his broken ankle because Slim Pickens was perfect for his role. And when the film was released, Pickens was very well known for his multiple cowboy movie roles, few of which had been serious or dramatic. For him to appear in this black comedy was a very different setting, which made his familiar voice and look all the more unsettling.
Mad,may be? But he must have been a hoot to have in your company. Died to young, he wasn't even supposed to be a comic,brilliant actor.
My wife doesn't speak English, but when I showed her "The inspector strikes again" she died laughing
Sorry for your loss x
An absolute genius; a very hard act to follow from the Goons to the multiple characters in Dr Strangelove.
Gift of the Gab as they say but so much more.Genius
George Harrison said that right at the end after or during 'Being There' , Sellers was starting to recognise his 'self' through the foggy delusion of his Chameleon persona.RIP Peter, whoever you were.
"Spent so much tiime being others, that he never knew how to be Peter Sellers"
My dad was a great fan of th goon show, on th wireless in th 50,s, spike Milligan, Peter sellers, Michael Bentine, and Harry Seacome, so early childhood memories are of a great surreal comedy show, later to be on th TV ( th telly goons) Peter as we all know went on to conquer th world, he made me laugh for about 25 yrs before his untimely end, and still today he can have me in stitches, I watched th mouse that roared th others day again, yup he still got it, RIP Mr Sellers,
He was a mad genius, but of course had a dark side.
Silver Surfer A very dark side.
One of the great injustices in Academy Award history is that Rex Harrison beat Peter Sellers for best actor in 1964. Almost as unjust as Dustin Hoffman beating him in 1979.
The 'establishment' picks it's own people
We’re all mad.
Peter Sellars used to call Omar Sharif Cairo Fred.
Not just Sellers, Cairo Fred was a very common nickname for Omar Sharif in the 60s & 70s.
Michael Gurvitz 😂😂😂
And Omar Sharif was billed in the end credits of 'The Pink Panther Strikes Again' as 'Cairo Fred's for his cameo.
No question: "Priceless"!
I'm still upset about Peter Seller's dying such an untimely death. My friends and I were always excited about the arrival of a new panther movie. Being There was a surprise but it was still classic Seller's.
Yes the script had Inspector Closeau stealing the pink panther for himself with a female accomplice from memory.
Unfortunately Blake Edwards decided to make those two posthumous panther films using out takes of Peter
Always had beautiful women in his life , Great Comedy In His filmmaking
Walker says Peter was mad ,,,i.e. insane, crazy. I think not. First of all he was a comic genius who influenced everyone in his decade. Second of all, Peter was completely logical and analytic in his characters and speech ,including regional dialects in the UK and the US. He was not crazy because,,, he KNEW exactly what he was doing and trying to accomplish, and he succeeded. Sadly , many people of average intelligence and will look on at Peters work and conclude "that guys nuts". Sorry folks,, that's not the case. That man walked the beat of a "different drummer" and walked his way home.
Of course he was mad. He was also one of those rare talents that become their role. Getting back to your real self always takes a toll.
There was 'me' in Peter Sellers and he had it surgically removed. He himself said it.
I dont care what anyone says Peter Sellers was the master of hid craft and was
very unique" no one like him
and working under pressure
can bring the worst out in all
of us. Im a huge fan,
Dr Strangelove and Im All
Wright Jack are my top
favorite's.
Paul Bacchus esq
respect for upload!
Never seen another like sellers simply amazing the greatest!!!!
Kubrick got the best out of George C Scott, brilliant performance
He most certainly did.
Scott accepted a risk... just let it all out and went with it. Additional brilliance for that.
@@emansnas Actually I've read that Scott wanted to have the General be more conventional, straight laced, So Kubrick would do a few takes and then ask Scott to do one really over the top take for all his scenes ..... And those are the ones he used in the Film! .... Scott later admitted Kubrick was right!
@@jamesalexander5623 Yes, seems I remember reading something to that effect also. Hard to know with certainty in an industry rampant with rumor/innuendo. Frankly, given Scott's rather high intellect it's a bit hard to believe he wouldn't understand the nature of the film. But even if true, and Kubrick was certainly not above deception, it would not appear to invalidate my statement. It did seem that in every scene Scott was in he appeared to be enjoying himself immensely. Still have a visual from one of the 'War Room' scene re that 'I've been a bad school boy' look on Scott's face after taking that call from his squeeze (Tracy Reed I believe). Priceless. Well, too many priceless scenes to list.
If one reads about Scott's life it's clear where the depth of character comes from. He had the chops to play about anything... well, anything he believed in and wanted to do. One of my favorite films of his, for particular reasons, is 'The Last Run', not well known and generally panned by critics. Scott does an exemplary job with the mindset of his character. He also demonstrates impeccable realism credibility (shall we say unusual for Hollywood) in some of the action scenes (specifically a gun fight following a road crash. Man knew how to think about things).
But to the general point, Kubrick was ever so good at getting the best out of things, actors included.
He never once said that she’d forgotten about what she did and how much she was doing it with all of those beautiful things and she did not want to be with her until the end of January.
Great. Thank you.
You're welcome.
I don't believe Sellers would have appeared in Eyes Wide Shut, he abhorred all the "gritty" films of the period and was publicly very critical of Kubrick for making Clockwork Orange.
You only have to listen to Bob Monkhouse, who knew Sellers very well, to know just how mad and unpleasant he was when not on show.
Tony Potts PS was a good mate of Spike Milligan, so he would find it hard to be close to anyone else.
How mean to say "I regret that Peter died because I would have loved to have worked with him again" and let him make more money for me.
They say genius borders madness!
Sellers was a genius but the divide between that and madness is thin. His private life showed the dark side. He was cruel in the truest sense of the word. His son has disassociated himself completely.
genius and madness are 2 completely independent attributes. A person may have one or the other, both or neither.
yup.