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Post by geode on Feb 11, 2018 15:59:00 GMT
I haven't seen "The Party" in the past 50 years. I found parts of it to be funny back in the day. Apparently now the PC Police wish us to feel guilty if you laugh while watching it. The reviewer in the link seems to have no problem with "Breakfast at Tiffany's" but I think it has a much more questionable racial stereotype in it, Mickey Rooney playing an outrageously over the top fellow of Japanese descent who unlike Sellers in "The Party" is rather nasty. The Party review
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Post by geode on Feb 18, 2018 12:19:29 GMT
Birdie num-num
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Post by geode on Feb 24, 2018 5:51:07 GMT
Films like this need to be put into perspective of when they were made and the current climate and political attitudes. Even if they are racial stereotypes, they were seen as humorous for it's time and perhaps still are, when seen in context. People may need to have thicker skins as well.
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Post by ravi02 on Feb 24, 2018 19:10:51 GMT
While the sight of Peter Sellers in brownface might be a little bothersome in 2018, I still feel the film manages to be a funny, well-intentioned farce. Sellers manages to be make Hrundi V. Bakshi a likable character who's pratfalls aren't due to him being Indian, but being out of place among a group of Hollywood snobs.
The film fizzles out in the final 10 minutes as its just endless scenes of the characters creating a big mess in the mansion, but overall it holds up as a amiable comedy from Sellers and Edwards.
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Post by geode on Mar 25, 2018 18:19:34 GMT
While the sight of Peter Sellers in brownface might be a little bothersome in 2018, I still feel the film manages to be a funny, well-intentioned farce. Sellers manages to be make Hrundi V. Bakshi a likable character who's pratfalls aren't due to him being Indian, but being out of place among a group of Hollywood snobs. The film fizzles out in the final 10 minutes as its just endless scenes of the characters creating a big mess in the mansion, but overall it holds up as a amiable comedy from Sellers and Edwards. Howdy pardener.
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Post by sostie on Mar 26, 2018 10:55:14 GMT
I can see why Sellers' performance would be frowned upon now, and can't imagine it being repeated now.
Having said that, Bakshi is one of his most endearing characters, and the film is damn funny. The endless toilet roll gag never fails to get me. One of my favourite Sellers films, and Edwards films.
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Post by geode on May 15, 2018 18:14:25 GMT
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Post by geode on Jul 29, 2019 6:29:35 GMT
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Post by amyghost on Jul 29, 2019 14:40:02 GMT
Not Sellers' greatest, but it holds a good laugh quotient--and Steve Franken almost steals the show from under Sellers as the tipsy sommelier during his moments onscreen.
Frankly, I have no problem with the 'racial' aspect of this. It's goofy comedy and shouldn't be taken as any sort of affront to anyone, except maybe vapid Hollywood types.
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Post by geode on Jul 30, 2019 19:26:03 GMT
Not Sellers' greatest, but it holds a good laugh quotient--and Steve Franken almost steals the show from under Sellers as the tipsy sommelier during his moments onscreen. Frankly, I have no problem with the 'racial' aspect of this. It's goofy comedy and shouldn't be taken as any sort of affront to anyone, except maybe vapid Hollywood types. And Denny Miller....
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Post by amyghost on Jul 31, 2019 12:08:56 GMT
Not Sellers' greatest, but it holds a good laugh quotient--and Steve Franken almost steals the show from under Sellers as the tipsy sommelier during his moments onscreen. Frankly, I have no problem with the 'racial' aspect of this. It's goofy comedy and shouldn't be taken as any sort of affront to anyone, except maybe vapid Hollywood types. And Denny Miller.... LOL, Miller is great as well. Whatever else can be said about Sellers, he apparently wasn't afraid to allow himself to be surrounded by comic performers who could generate huge laughs themselves--and sometimes almost even upstage him.
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Post by geode on Aug 26, 2019 6:22:53 GMT
LOL, Miller is great as well. Whatever else can be said about Sellers, he apparently wasn't afraid to allow himself to be surrounded by comic performers who could generate huge laughs themselves--and sometimes almost even upstage him. True
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