Being There
Mar. 25th, 2006 11:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloMy fascination with Peter Sellers has a lot to do with him looking like my father.
It's something to do with the forehead. And- harder to pin down- with the way he carries himself.
There are shots in Being There where it's definitely my father up there on screen.
Being There is one of my favourite movies. I watched it again last night. Sellers made a lot of cruddy films- many of them cruddier than they need have been because of his appalling behaviour on and off the set (Blake Edwards reckons he was certifiably insane)- but Being There is immaculate.
It's something to do with the forehead. And- harder to pin down- with the way he carries himself.
There are shots in Being There where it's definitely my father up there on screen.
Being There is one of my favourite movies. I watched it again last night. Sellers made a lot of cruddy films- many of them cruddier than they need have been because of his appalling behaviour on and off the set (Blake Edwards reckons he was certifiably insane)- but Being There is immaculate.
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Date: 2006-03-25 08:44 am (UTC)Being There is the one film Sellers really wanted to make and he fought very hard for it. I think he saw it as his testament.