Panopticist: Best End-Credits Blooper Reel Ever

April 29, 2008

Best End-Credits Blooper Reel Ever

Posted by Andrew Hearst

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Here is Peter Sellers in the hilarious outtakes sequence at the end of Being There, the 1979 Hal Ashby film that was the second-to-last film Sellers made. When I was a kid I thought this was the funniest thing ever. Blooper reels were rare in major Hollywood films back then, so I’d never seen anything like it. I remember feeling amazed that I got to see secret scenes that weren’t in the movie. Quaint, I know.

According to the Wikipedia page for the film, Sellers supposedly didn’t want the outtakes to be included in the movie, “since, by all accounts, it was his attempt to show his skills as an actual actor as opposed to just a comedian. The inclusion of the blooper reel is sometimes blamed for Sellers’ failure to win that year’s Academy Award for Best Actor.” I find that last sentence hard to believe, but who knows.

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Tags: 1970s, blooper, comedy, outtakes, Peter Sellers, video

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comments (3)

Ricardo Cordoba

May 13, 2008

9:14 PM

Wow, I was 17 when I saw this film, but I do not remember this end-credits-with-bloopers at all… I saw it in Argentina, though — maybe the bloopers didn’t make it to international distribution… Or maybe local film censors had something to do with it. Whatever the reason, thanks for posting this. I do remember that after I saw the film, I found a copy of Jerzy Kosinski’s book, and liked it as much as the movie. Perhaps it’s time I saw this film again.

Andrew Hearst

May 13, 2008

9:16 PM

You really should! It’s an excellent film. The book’s great too.

Martin

August 28, 2008

9:03 PM

There is a different American version of the movie intended for TV broadcast, in which the end credits are simply a loud pastiche of the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner visuals and sound effects (think explosions, puffs of smoke, beep-beeps). My father saw the movie in the theater and I remember him talking about the outtakes, but I never saw them until today! Thanks!

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