Being There (1979)
Chance, a simple gardener, has never left the estate until his employer dies. His simple TV-informed utterances are mistaken for profundity. (imdb)
Country: USA
Directed By: Hal Ashby
Written By: Jerzy Kosinski
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Peter Sellers, Richard Dysart, Richard Venture, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Basehart, David Clennon, Denise DuBarry, Ruth Attaway, Fran Brill, Basil Hoffman
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This movie could never be made today. Audiences now need to be beaten over the head for a plot to make an impact with them. Being There is a supremely funny movie about a bumbling idiot who just keeps getting the world thrown in his lap. The irony is that he would be perfectly happy just sitting on his butt watching TV or gardening. The subplot that laces the film is that white people can bumble their way through life and everything will just be presented to them on a platter. Perfection.
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The story is simplistic and a bit silly, so this could easily have turned into a terrible movie. In Ashby's and Deschanel's hands (and with Sellers) , however, it is imbued with substance that make it a joy to watch.
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Few film adaptations surpass the one that you visualize in your head while you read the book... but still, it's a bad idea to stretch a novella into a two-hour movie.
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This is a very quirky and quite subtle film. Its a comedy of sorts - a very dry comedy, not a visual, big belly laugh type of a comedy but I enjoyed it for being a little different. Sellers does well portraying a slightly confused and unsure person, someone is just...well, there, although he is also seemingly quite knowledgable, someone who it appears knows more than perhaps he realises himself.
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