Jul 31 2010
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Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are my all-time celebrated comedy team. Arising from the “Beyond the Fringe” troupe of the 1950s, they went on to earn some of the wittiest comedy routines of the 1960s. Taking off brilliantly on customary British class divisions, they resembled an Abbott and Costello for members of Mensa, with Cook’s sarcastic, sneering upper-class snob scoring endless points off Moore’s sweet, hapless working-class schlemiel. Unfortunately, they never found a agreeable conceal vehicle for their comical personae-except for Bedazzled, directed by Stanley Donen from Cook’s screenplay. Moore plays a short-order cook on the verge of suicide because of unrequited love; up pops the Devil, played by Cook, who offers Moore seven chances at the girl of his dreams in exchange for his soul. Of course, the Devil being the Devil (and Cook being Cook), he can’t resist skewing each chance unbiased a puny bit…The film is a screamingly humorous yet cohesive string of bits as Cook spoils each of Moore’s attempts at happiness. The physical humor (wait till you peep the nuns on trampolines) is every bit as astounding as the verbal barbs (wait till you hear Cook justify how Mussolini’s soul eluded his seize) . For those who are sufficiently attentive, there is also worthy witty and pointed discussion of obsolete Christian theology and ethics. Eleanor Bron (as the girl of Moore’s dreams) and Raquel Welch (as the living embodiment of Lust) are delightful in more ways than one. Stanley Donen, no stranger to directing films based on tricky screenplays, does fat justice to Cook’s mordant, wildly imaginative vision. Cook’s career floundered in the 70s after the duo split up, and Moore’s solo stardom sagged after a few early successes. Now that Cook is tiring,, far too young, and Moore is desperately ill, we can be grateful for Bedazzled and mourn that it had no successors.
I first saw this film my first semester in college… in English 101 of all places! After reading the Goethe’s “Faust,” we were treated to this drop-dead, split your sides start comedy.
Dudley Moore is perfect as the bumbling, broken-hearted bafoon, Stanley Moon. Peter Cook is the cross, but somehow level-headed loveable George Spiggot aka the Devil. Raquel Welch plays a runt cameo role as “Lust,” one of the seven deadly sins personified.
Moon (Moore) is lovelorn and secretly pining away for the waitress he works with at the local “Wimpy Burger” in London. When Moore realizes that the girl he desires will never discover him, he attempts to pick his life and is rescued by none other than the Prince of Darkness.
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Moore agrees to heed over his soul to Spiggot in return for 7 wishes. The bad sap unprejudiced isn’t street incandescent enough and constantly wishes for something he either didn’t intend to wish for or worse, a wish he hadn’t really plan out properly and thoroughly… exacerbating the meaning of the phrase, “be careful what you wish for… you might fair acquire it!”
Cook does an exemplary job as the wolf in sheeps clothing. Spiggot gains Moon’s confidence by being kind to him… despite his alterior motives, it is probably the first time anyone has been kind to Moon in his whole life and the Devil exploits this to the fullest measure. Lack of street-smarts gets moon in one hilarious predicament after another.
I can’t say mighty more without ruining the dwelling and the hilarity, but suffice to say, you’ll never hear “Julie Andrews” the same contrivance again. I highly recommend this as a clever comedy… and one that’s estimable to reveal to teens.
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