where was the pink panther born
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bee-bop-1 — 18 years ago(April 30, 2007 01:00 PM)
ok i wanted to know where officially the pink panther was born i thought it was france but i'm being told its actually in england somewhere, he can't remember where but is still disputing this fact, can you lot help me? thanks xxx
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bill-708 — 18 years ago(May 02, 2007 10:59 AM)
I'm not quite sure what your question is, but The Pink Panther was first written by Maurice Richlin and Blake Edwards in Los Angeles, July 1962. Preliminary shooting started in Los Angeles in November 1962. A revised script was delivered by Richlin and Edwards the end of January 1963 at which point Peter Sellers joined the production in Rome. The film was test screened in Los Angeles in September 1963, opened in parts of Europe in December 1963, the UK in January 1964, and the US in April 1964. Alternatively, if you mean where is the fictional diamond fromthe answer is the mythical Middle Eastern kingdom of Lugash. This backstory was created by Frank Waldman and Blake Edwards in 1973.
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bill-708 — 18 years ago(August 23, 2007 06:16 PM)
Fantomas is a stylish, but deranged serial killer operating with no rationale. Inspector Juve is hardly an idiot. The French films with Jean Marias came several years after THE PINK PANTHER and portrayed the material as camp, something that went against the grain of the Fantomas of WWI-era French pulp fiction. THE PINK PANTHER is a nice mix of Raffles, Monsieur Hulot, and To Catch a Thief. The Phantom's moniker is really the only direct nod to Allain and Souvestre's characters.
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bill-708 — 18 years ago(September 04, 2007 07:39 AM)
The two films you mean are from the 1940s. I've not seen them, but from everything I've been able to find, they were faithful to the original works. Apart from arguing that Edwards derived The Phantom from Fantomas, I fail to see a correlation. I am a Fantomas fan, at least of the novels I've read (the original, The Silent Executioner, Daughter of Fantomas, and The Lord of Terror). The character seems to have been more of an influence on V For Vendetta and Vincent Price's Dr. Phibes character than the Panthers. If the films you mention from the 40's are really Pantheresque, please provide more i5b4nfo as I would be interested in hunting them down.
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wagnerian — 18 years ago(November 25, 2007 06:35 AM)
In the jungle of course!!
According to an interview with Blake Edwards, the Panther's refined, aristocratic personality resulted in him not fitting in with the other animals, so he became a wanderer, hence his cartoon adventures. -
mikeoak840 — 16 years ago(August 27, 2009 11:08 PM)
If you'll all recall correctly, the Pink Panther was a diamond with a tiny flaw in it that resembled, you've got it, a pink panther. Sellers wasn't the Pink Panther, the Pink Panther was never a living thing - a diamond.