As I worked in the garden today, something kept creeping in and making me laugh. It wasn't a bug or worm or even some nosy neighbor. Maybe it was the fact that I was gardening, but the movie "Being There" with Peter Sellers, his last movie, who played a simple minded gardener, was giving me the giggles as I repotted plants and watered. It wasn't so much the entire movie, which is hysterical in it's own low key way, but more so it was the end credits.
There's a scene in which Peter Sellers is in the hospital after a mild altercation with some street thugs. He's on a gurney and is trying to relay a message that one of the toughs gave him to give to some guy named Raphael. Thing is, the scene never made it into the movie because both Sellers and the other cast members kept cracking up. According to director Hal Ashby, they spent almost 2 days shooting the scene and were never able to get through it correctly. Peter Sellers could barely get through a sentence without busting up.
What's great is that they edited together some of the funniest parts of that scene and put it under the end credits. After a very good and very funny movie, we are treated to absolute hilarity. It's one of the funniest things I've seen (in my opinion) in a movie and I just wanted to share.
I mean, I'm sure you've seen it but still. After I washed off the dirt, I just had to go to YouTube to see if that scene was there.
It was.
Enjoy!
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