The Life and Death of Peter Sellers 2004 123movies

Watch: The Life and Death of Peter Sellers 2004 123movies, Full Movie Online – The professional and personal life of actor and comedian Peter Sellers was a turbulent one. His early movie fame was based primarily on his comic characterizations, often of bumbling and foreign-accented persons, characters which he embodied. As his movie fame rose, he began to lose his own personal identity to his movie characters, leading to self-doubt of himself as a person and a constant need for reassurance and acceptance of his work. This self-doubt manifested itself in fits of anger and what was deemed as arrogance by many. In turn, his personal relationships began to deteriorate as his characterizations were continually used to mask his problems. His first wife, Anne Howe, left/divorced him and his relationships with his parents and children became increasingly distant. His relationship with his second wife, Swedish actress Britt Ekland, was based on this mask. In his later life, he tried to rediscover himself and his career with what would become his penultimate film role, that of Chance in Being There (1979)..
Plot: The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge success as one of the greatest film comedians of all time; an obsessive artist so dedicated to his work that neglected his loved ones and sacrificed part of his own personality to convincingly create that of his many memorable characters.
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	6.9/10 Votes: 14,967
	69% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 143 Popularity: 8.31 | TMDB

Reviews:

I thought Geoffrey Rush’s performance was fantastic and makes the movie totally worth watching.
The story begins with the Goons and ends just after his role in the movie, Being There, thirty years later. A lot of the film features recreations of famous moments in Seller’s acting life, such as appearing on “The Goons” or in “The Pink Panther”. There are some particularly hilarious insights into his development of the “Inspector Clouseau” character, including an explanation of why he ended up hating the character so much.

As such, it really only touches the surface of his life story, but it does give you an intense understanding of the character. A character which, in the style of Greek tragedy, had a major flaw. For me, the flaw was Seller’s total lack of confidence, perhaps due to his appearance, which he appears constantly to have overcompensated for.

Curiously enough, since Sellers is shown portraying great emotions, I was never actually moved myself, except perhaps for the occasion when he is violent towards Britt Ekland and in a particularly galling moment with his children.

The movie reaches its crescendo with Sellers’ performance in “Being There” in which it’s suggested the reason why Sellers so wanted to play the man without a personality was because he, himself, had no personality.

A few people at my workplace commented they thought the movie was far too stylized. Although I can see their point, and I agree I was never really touched by the movie, I thought Geoffrey Rush’s performance more than made up for this. Rush plays not only Sellers, but several other characters in a Sellers-like “Dr Strangelove” kind of way, and achieves all of it with gusto. I also really enjoyed the performance of Miriam Margoyles as Sellers’ mother, Peg, with whom he seems to have enjoyed an intense, almost Oedipal relationship.

I thought Geoffrey Rush’s performance was fantastic and makes the movie totally worth watching.

Difficult to watch
I am both a fan of the talents of Geoffrey Rush and of Peter Sellers, but I am afraid that I found this film extremely difficult to watch.

Firstly, the film depicts Sellers as a man without empathy, compassion, affection or indeed any humanity. Excepting perhaps the first moments of the film when he is looking after his baby daughter, he cares for no-one except himself. This may or may not be the case, but it means that ultimately you just don’t care about him. You don’t care that he ends up lonely and alone. Once I started to feel this about him, I just found it hard going.

Secondly, it was a bit too smarty pants for me, the way he kept merging into the characters of his family. I wondered what the point of that was, it just annoyed me.

Did Rush do a good job? It’s a hard call. In the end I felt he was impersonating someone impersonating others. He couldn’t capture the inner Sellers, because there was none. According to the film, at least.

In some ways, mainly this film disturbed me, because I do love Sellers’ work and perhaps I don’t want to think of him as an awful, empty, shallow shambles of a person.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 2 min (122 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated TV-MA
Genre Biography, Comedy, Drama
Director Stephen Hopkins
Writer Roger Lewis, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Actors Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, Emily Watson
Country United Kingdom, United States
Awards Won 9 Primetime Emmys. 31 wins & 35 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Gold II, Panavision Primo Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 3,447 m (Italy)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman Double-X 5222, Kodak Vision2 500T 5218, Vision 250D 5246)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Spherical (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm