@TCManiacs Blogs: Peter Sellers The Bobo - The Blue Matador inspires Big Fat Liar

Friday, January 14, 2011

Peter Sellers The Bobo - The Blue Matador inspires Big Fat Liar

The Bobo is a 1967 British comedy film starring Peter Sellers and co-starring his then-wife Britt Ekland. Based on a 1959 novel "Olimpia" by Burt Cole, aka Thomas Dixon, Sellers is featured as the would-be Spanish singing matador, Juan Bautista.
A theater manager offers to give him a big break if he seduces the beautiful Olympia (Ekland) and spends an hour in her apartment with the lights off. In the end Sellers becomes known as the "Blue Matador" after the woman has him dyed blue in act of revenge.

A similar famous scene takes place Big Fat Liar, a 2002 American teen comedy film directed by Shawn Levy, starring Frankie Muniz, Paul Giamatti, and Amanda Bynes. Teenagers, Muniz and Bynes add blue and orange dye to Giamatti's swimming pool and shampoo, giving him blue skin and orange hair.

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