Just looking up the movie "Bedazzled" on IMDB, as I was thinking of buying a copy.* I came across this bit of triv there;
An article about Peter Cook that appeared in the New Yorker stated that the filmmakers didn't have a title for Bedazzled when it was being made. Cook suggested calling the film Raquel Welch. The producers didn't understand why Cook would want to name the movie after an actress that only appears for a few minutes in it. Cook explained that movie marquees put the lead actors names over the movie title.
Thus the letters on the marquee would say "Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in Raquel Welch".
The producers ended going for the more ordinary title.
I damn near embarrased myself...
*Yes I bought it Hen, £1.69
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Have a dig through our DVD shellves when your here, and I'll buy a batch of blank DVDs.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
CLIVE: Hello ..... cunt. You, hu-hu, you stupid cunt, you just bought this record, this fucking bit of vinyl, and what you're expecting is ..... comedy, or, you know, something amusing .....
DEREK: Yeah, but, heh .....
CLIVE: A few dirty words. Yeh-heh, heh-heh.
DEREK: But there's, er, ..... I think, u-huh, huy, you don't realise that there's fuck all on this side. (laughs)
CLIVE: Absolutely fuck all. You spent all this fucking money, y-eh-eh, the children are going, going starving, and you've spent - I don't know how much you've spent, it depends on the discount - all you're going to get now is a long fucking pause, you cunt.
DEREK: Here it comes, cunt.
CLIVE: Now:
(long silent pause)
CLIVE: Thought, thought we were joking, didn't you?
DEREK: Yeah, well it's going to go on now, it's going on a bit longer.
CLIVE: Another pause coming up:
(silent pause)
CLIVE: I dare say .....
DEREK: (belches)
CLIVE: ..... by now you've got so ..... you've got so cross .....
DEREK: You've put .....
CLIVE: ..... you, you've thrown the fucking record out the window and smashed it, which means you don't even have the recourse to go back to the record shop and exchange it, you stupid cunt! And what's more, because you've thrown it out the window and broken it you can't hear the fucking playback, you can't even hear what I'm saying, you cunts!
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Lord Jim wrote:I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't even know that this version of the movie existed....
I'm the opposite, I didn't know about the remake* till I looked up the original on IMDB!
*is nothing scared these days!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
It's possible, (though not common) for a movie remake to be not as good as the original but still be a decent movie in its own right....
The Front Page with Walter Mathau and Jack Lemon, which was a remake of the classic Cary Grant-Rosalind Russel movie His Girl Friday would be a good example of this....
