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Actors: Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Al Checco, Jean Carson, Herbert Ellis
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Party |
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Hrundi V. Bakshi (Sellers) is a seemingly nameless and faceless Hindu movie extra in Hollywood who manages to get noticed during the filming of a movie, but for the wrong reasons. He blows up the desert set of the film he is working on, ruining the entire days filming. The director (Ellis) is fit to be tied and wants him canned immediately. He is somehow sent a party invitation rather than a letter of termination. Bakshi is too dense to know anything is amiss when he shows up at the studio executives modern home and stands out like a fish out of water.
As he offers to engage in banter guests and host look on in puzzled confusion. The only one at the party to pay him much notice is the parakeet whom Bakshi talks gibberish to and over feeds “birdy num nums”. He loses his shoe in the pond/stream that flows through the house and wades into the water at one point. Other obstacles for Bakshi include being baffled by intercoms, artwork, toilet paper on a roll, etc. He leaves damaged appliances and havoc wherever he wanders. He chats with a lovely guest named Michele (Longet). The action of the party moves to the pool where a baby elephant covered in 60's protest jargon is washed off. The hippie kids make a nuisance of themselves. The Party is mindless fun from the Blake Edwards/Peter Sellers combination.
--David Fletcher, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Party |
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Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Kind of comedy
- adults acting eccentric
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- actor
Ethnic/Regional/Gender story?
Yes
Main Char. ethnic: (if not US Caucasian)
- Indian Indian
Culture clash?
- visiting a different culture
Culture of surrounding area:
- American Pacific Coast
How much humor v. drama
- Nearly all humor
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- actor
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Dumb?
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Dumb
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
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