Friday, January 14, 2011

Mike Myers Austin Powers scene taken from Peter Sellers After the Fox

After the Fox  is a 1966 Italian comedy film starring Peter Sellers and directed by Vittorio De Sica. Sellers plays Aldo Vanucci, also known as The Fox, a master criminal with a talent for disguise who accepts the contract for smuggling the gold with Okra (Akim Tamiroff) the mastermind of the heist, Two policemen are constantly on his trail and Aldo has to use many disguises and tricks to throw them off his trail. The scene in the film where Aldo speaks to Okra through his voluptuous accomplice Maria Grazia Buccella inspired a similar scene in Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), in which star Mike Myers as Austin Powers talks to Foxxy Cleopatra through the Nathan Lane character.

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

The BoboImage via Wikipedia
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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