film is adapted from the original work of the same name by Roger Lewis. It tells the story of the British comedy star Peter Cyrus from debut to fame and then to death. It records in detail the tragic life of this legendary comedian.
Jeffrey Rush has an excellent interpretation of Peter. It is simply that not only the appearance, but also the subtle aspects of the voice, the movements and even the laughter, etc., are vividly expressed, including every role played by Peter, and he has become Peter Say. Les. It can be seen that he observed and imitated Peter Sellers very carefully before taking this film, and entered his inner world. Regarding Jeffrey Rush’s performance, for a Peter Sellers fan (me), I gave him full marks, the highest level! Well-deservedly won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in the TV category.
The film started with the voice of Sellers for the BBC radio drama "The Fool's Show" in the 1950s, interspersed with the happy time between him and his first wife Anne Howe and their two children. He loves his family very much, and shoots a family movie for them. The family life is very harmonious. His parents are also the motivation to support him, especially his mother who wants to make her child stand out, and constantly encourages him to give him confidence. Cyrus went to compete for his first film role but failed because the age of the role was an elderly person. Because of his innate genius to imitate, Cyrus, under the encouragement of his mother, dressed up as an old man to participate in the interview and passed the interview smoothly. His acting talent has just begun.
Cyrus then starred in a number of comedies that are popular in the UK. Among them, his outstanding performance in the 1959 movie "My Very Good Man" won him a British Academy of Film Arts Award for Best Actor. In 1960, when he starred in the movie "Millionaires" with the popular Italian actress Sophia Roland, he fell in love with Roland and expressed his love. Roland rejected him, and the family conflict between him and his wife began to deteriorate. There is a scene in the movie that is not known whether it is true or not. Peter Sellers, who is deeply shocked, finds Sophia Roland's stand-in and has sex with her. His wife Anne also had an affair with their interior decorator at this time, and the two divorced in 1961. Cyrus wanted to keep his wife, but he had no reason to keep her.
The next Cyrus began to change his image, lost weight and became more graceful, and began to look for women everywhere and people became overwhelmed. In 1964, he got the film "Pink Panther" that changed his future. The director was Blake Edwards, who made him famous and also made him a fate. In order to show him
the film's French detective who mentally, on a flight from Paris began to change the image, no, totally different person, even the stewardess said the sentence: "The French ridiculous!." Cyrus successfully performed this supporting role to a big hit. Then he played three roles in Stanley Kubrick's "Doctor Strange Love".
This is interspersed with a story about him and a Hollywood fortuneteller. I don't know if it is true or not. The appearance of this fortuneteller completely symbolizes the lustful side of Hollywood. In order to get Peter Cyrus to star in the second "Pink Panther" movie, they asked the fortuneteller to trick Cyrus into performing this movie. The fortuneteller revealed to Sellers that a BE will appear in his life (BE is the abbreviation of Blake Edwards), and this BE can make him popular. Believing that it was true, Cyrus later discovered another BE in his life-Swedish actress Bryke Ekland, and the two fell in love and got married quickly. In the sixth week of their marriage, Peter Cyrus had a heart attack and stopped beating for a minute and a half, and he miraculously woke up again. The scene in which he enters the dreamland when his heart is stationary is very spectacular, and the director is also paying tribute to Kubrick, imitating the opening scene of "2001: A Space Odyssey", and then the scene of the atomic bomb in "Dr. Strange Love". Luss saw his character approaching him and detonated the atomic bomb. Peter Cyrus is alive again... This scene is very shocking with the music. It is said that Cyrus' real dream at the time was that his mother was calling him to come back from the grave.
Since then, he and his second wife, Blake Ekland, lived a sweet life and reached the peak of their careers. But the good times didn't last long. In 1968, the two divorced because of the increasingly irritable character of Cyrus who was subjugated by Bric. Since then, Cyrus' film career has also gone downhill. Entering the 70s, Cyrus's acting career has been at a trough, he is addicted to alcohol and drugs. But he still wanted to put a script called "Miracle" on the screen, but for the money he had to continue to shoot a lot of bad movies. In 1979, he finally realized his dream, performed "Wonderful Miracle" and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. He died of illness the following year at the age of 54.
This is a very successful biographical film. The character of Peter Cyrus is definitely worth making into a movie. It takes the audience into his lonely and gloomy inner world. The end of the movie also shows that kind of sad atmosphere. To express Cyrus’s different personalities in different periods: In the early years, he only wanted to step into the movie circle and be a person who loves family and respects his parents. Later, he came up with extramarital affair and his wife divorced. The character began to be withdrawn, and then he changed his face and regained his heart. The film career has reached its peak, the remarriage life has entered a period of relaxation, the divorce career has not gone smoothly, and the last kind old man. The movie also reveals the dark side of the entertainment industry's greed and disgrace. In the film, Jeffrey Rush is often used to interpret his friends' views of him in the role of his friends around him.
"Men are fickle"-Peter Cyrus verified this old saying that his personality in each period is completely different, which also led to his decline step by step. The director tried to express the weaknesses of men through Cyrus.
When filming "Dr. Strange Ai", the mother went to the studio to visit, but the son turned into Dr. Strange Ai and did not say a normal word to his mother, but showed his mother the lines in the film. When the mother drove in, the driver asked her: "Did you see your son?" The mother's answer was surprising, "He didn't show up." Cyrus supported him from the beginning to the end of his life. However, in his mother's life At the last moment in the movie, Sellers couldn't help but couldn't visit his mother until his death because of the filming. Cyrus is a complete drama fan. He is already a superstar. There is no way to delay the set to visit his mother. His mother also understands him. His mother has always been the person who knows and loves him best.
All the characters in the film can be regarded as special actors. Needless to say, Jeffrey Rush, Blake Ekland played by Shaliz Salen also looks like a god, even Amy, who plays Cyrus’s mother. Li Watson is like an archetype. Even some details of Cyrus's life are shown in the film one by one: for example, his percussion, making small family movies and so on.
I believe Peter Sellers’ fans will love this movie, including myself (I am also his loyal fan). However, I don't think I can fully believe some of the small details in the film (for example, he has a relationship with Sophia Rowland's substitute). But this is definitely a very good biopic.
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