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I love Peter Cook!

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 1:52 am
by Gob
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 :D

Re: I love Peter Cook!

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 1:58 am
by Sean
Great movie! Peter Cook is a comedy genius.

Have you seen Rhys Ifans play him in his biopic? Scarily good!

Re: I love Peter Cook!

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 2:00 am
by Gob
Yep, seen that, brilliant!

Have a dig through our DVD shellves when your here, and I'll buy a batch of blank DVDs.

Re: I love Peter Cook!

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 2:04 am
by Gob
Damn, you would remind me of that...
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Re: I love Peter Cook!

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 2:06 am
by Sean
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!

Re: I love Peter Cook!

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 2:08 am
by Gob
Genius! Oscar Wilde eat your heart out!

Re: I love Peter Cook!

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 2:52 am
by Lord Jim
I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't even know that this version of the movie existed....

I saw the one made a few years ago with Brendan Frasier and Elizabeth Hurley, and I thought it was pretty funny....

Re: I love Peter Cook!

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 2:56 am
by Sean
Wait till you see the far superior original Jim!

Re: I love Peter Cook!

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 3:17 am
by Gob
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!

Re: I love Peter Cook!

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 4:19 am
by The Hen
Gob wrote:*is nothing scared these days!
I'm scared.

:?

Re: I love Peter Cook!

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 12:04 pm
by Lord Jim
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....

Re: I love Peter Cook!

Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 3:08 am
by loCAtek
I thought 'Bedazzled' the re-make was cute, but what with Brendan Fraser isn't?