Funny Film Hollywood Party With Peter Seller
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My very favorite among many Peter Sellers greats. This movie, though very much a product of '60s culture and style, has stood the test of time well. Peter Sellers is flawlessly funny as Indian actor Hrundi V. Bakshi, who emigrates to Hollywood in hopes of making it big on the silver screen. Mr. Bakshi, however, is a colossal screwup, and manages to destroy every scene in which he participates. The clincher, however, is when he inadvertently blows up an expensive movie prop, scheduled to be destroyed on film minutes later; while tying his shoe. This immense goof gets him blacklisted by a powerful Hollywood producer, but due to a clerical foulup by the producer's secretary, Mr. Bakshi instead ends up on a different list.... party guests at the producer's home!
Peter Sellers excelled at playing awkward, fish-out-of-water characters. He nails it once again here, and is surrounded by a cast that supports his antics perfectly. Especially hilarious is his interaction with movie character "Wyoming Bill Kelso", and a naïve, sweet starlet played by Claudine Longet. His trademark physical comedy is woven in and out of the story line, to hilarious effect. The feeling of the movie overall is gut-busting funny, but also for the most part; very good-natured. An exception is Gavin McLeod playing a cliche' Hollywood predator.
I recommend "The Party" most highly for any Peter Sellers fan; and any lover of absurd comedy.
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One of the funniest movies ever. It is a deliberate put down of the Hollywood establishment by the director Blake Edwards. Sellers plays a good natured outsider you stumbles in to high-roller glamorous Hollywood party and manages to innocently create havoc. There is a lot more to tell but that would spoil the fun. Put this on your list of movies to see soon.
PS: There maybe an eyebrow raised about Sellers' "brownface" and silly accent but Indira Gandhi was reported to praise the performance.
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Peter Sellers has gone unmatched in the acting world in my opinion. But this was not the best vehicle for his crazy, laugh-until-you-wet-your-pants humor. He gets away with not murder, but the social bumbles we all makec especially the party scene. I liked Claudine Longet's performance. She looked like she was having a great time in this role. This movie could have been shorter. There were sections that were a bit slow. Overall, I'm glad that I viewed this film because for its time, it was a , physical comedy, and Sellers is always entertaining.
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Typical Peters Sellers being as brilliant as can be! I've watched this movie (and all his movies) over and over throughout the years and can picture no one else coming close to being able to pull off being a total bumbling character as Sellers. Getting to a party, he starts off in almost an innocuous way. The Edwards magic is taking something from incipience to radiant (lovable) insanity! Here's an oxymoron for you: serious humor!
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Brilliant set piece and perhaps Peter Seller's funniest.
Following a hilarious opening scene on a desert film location where Sellers plays a hapless Indian actor overplaying a Gunga Din type character in a Hollywood production, the rest of the film takes place at a swingin' industry party at a producer's modern pad. Sellers' sweet dispositioned Eastern Indian is the quintessential bumbling innocent, a fish out of water mistakenly invited to a film mogul's bash. Pink Panther director Blake Edwards nails the late 60s LA groove and allows Sellers to work his magic of improvization in speech and physical comedy. Long sequences of little or no dialogue are reminiscent of Jacques Tati films with a particular nod to Playtime.
An Indian friend of mine told me this film was once banned in his home country for its unflattering portrayal of a native. Political incorrectness aside, Sellers manages to turn his portrayal of an inept aspiring Indian actor on its ear. He uses the accent for brilliant comic timing, and other than the fact that he is a British comedian wearing comically over-the-top dark makeup while playing a buffoon he is the film's most likeable and redeeming character. All satire, all good fun.
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Released 45 years ago, in 1968, and still laugh out loud funny. Mostly takes place at a Hollywood party in a modern private home. I am not a party person, and to see the awkwardness of Peter Sellers at this party where he knows no one and plays a socially awkward person of another culture who is the opposite of a smooth operator is so so funny. Every step is a funny disaster, from the way he is invited to the party, to how he parks his three-wheeled Morgan and blocks himself from being able to leave his car to how he enters the home with mud on his shoe and then loses and tries to regain the shoe....all of this portrayed by the master of awkward situations, Peter Sellers. And yes, the fancy homes back then did also have some fancy controls and what Sellers does by flipping a few switches will make you want to add a security code to your panel. Blake Edwards knew how to collaborate well with Sellers, and many of the other actors give fine performances also. I know the next time I am at a party and feeling uncomfortable, I will be smiling thinking of how Sellers would handle it.
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This is one heck of a funny movie. I have seen it a few times and it always cracks me up. Peter Sellers plays an character by the name of Hrundi V. Bakshi, an Indian actor, who accidentally gets invited to a posh, exclusive, Hollywood party and proceeds to inadvertantly make a shambles of the entire affair. There are so many gags in this movie, you really have to watch it more than once to appreciate it. One interesting fact about this movie I recently read..."The Party" was improvised from a 40-page outline. Each scene was shot in sequence, and built upon the previous scene. To aid in this experiment, the film's producers had a video-camera tube attached to the Panavision camera and connected to an Ampex studio videotape machine - allowing the actors and crew to review what they had just filmed. Thus, "The Party" was the first movie ever shot with the now-standard "video assist" system.
If you enjoy the Pink Panther movies, then you will most likely enjoy this. Instead of a bumbling French detective, Sellers portrays a bumbling Indian actor, and look for a great performance by Steve Franken as Levinson, a waiter at the party who likes the drink a bit too much. Also, I though Denny Miller was great as 'Wyoming Bill' Kelso. This was directed by Blake Edwards, and is the only non Pink Panther movie he and Peter Sellers made together. Original music by the Great Henry Mancini. Just a whole lot of fun!
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It would be easy to dismiss Peter Sellers' character here, bumbling Indian actor Hrundi V. Bakshi, as a Hindu Clouseau. There is a certain sweetness and innocence to Bakshi as opposed to the pompously deluded Clouseau. What these two characters do share is an inspired sense for physical comedy. Bakshi is definitely one of Sellers' more inspired creations. Director Blake Edwards creates a sumptuous comic confection, a sedate Hollywood dinner party that escalates into outright mayhem. The sight gags come at you fast and furious and they make sense. At first I was taken aback by Edwards' use of Merv Griffin "B" listers in his cast (Claudine Longet, Andy Williams' ex-wife, Gavin McLeod of "Love Boat" fame, Carol Wayne, the weathergirl from the Carson show) though Steve Franken does an amusing turn as a besotted waiter as does Denny Miller as a movie cowboy. But then it dawned on me that real Hollywood types wouldn't take part in such an enterprise that tweaks their vanity. I can't see why because this is such a good-natured affair. Highly recommended for fans of good visual comedy.
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