You were nothing without Peter Sellers
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Blake Edwards
death_jamm_productions — 16 years ago(April 10, 2009 09:48 AM)
you suck Edwards, you leave Peter out of your honorary speech? you wouldnt even have a career without Peter Sellers; The Party was 80% improv from a basic treatment and half finished script, Sellers single handedly made it watchable. You suck Edwards.
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freudified_n_funkified — 16 years ago(April 22, 2009 09:47 PM)
Like Peter Sellers would have thanked Blake Edwards? Give me a break. They used each other for mutually beneficial ends - almost guaranteed moneymakers that would give them the freedom to do other, non-Panther films. To that end, without Blake Edwards there would be no Being There as we know it. Edwards was successful before Sellers, and had a huge hand in diverting the b68original Pink Panther (and the then planned franchise) away from Niven and over to Sellers and the Clouseau character they created. And almost everything in The Party, including Sellers, owes bigtime to Jacques Tati. Who's thanking him? But for the movies they did, Edwards and Sellers were two halves of a creative whole, each eventually desperately trying to get away from the other and the Clouseau character that seemed to haunt them by the end. Sellers was an immense talent, but Edwards didn't exactly piggyback him for a career. Without a doubt he continued the franchise when he shouldn't have, but it doesn't lessen the credibility of the work they did together, even if it was more business than art by the end.
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ScarletPimpernel64 — 15 years ago(December 16, 2010 12:58 PM)
Edwards was already doing quite well before he met Sellers: OPERATION PETTICOAT, THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES, EXPERIMENT IN TERROR, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, PETER GUNN, MR. LUCKY.
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ScrambledMess — 15 years ago(December 16, 2010 01:50 PM)
I think it's pretty sad for Peter that Blake gets recognized as a genius for coming up with those great lines that came out of Sellers' mouth, while the truth is that Peter and Blake created that character together and most of the dialogue by Clouseau was improvised by Peter. Still, a shda0ame to see he's gone now but he wasn't getting any younger and 88 is one hell of an age.