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The Pink Panther
1963 · Film · 115 min
Part of The Pink Panther (Original) Collection
Directed by Blake Edwards
The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for the Tyrolean Alps, where the famous Lugashi jewel 'The Pink Panther' is going to be. However, he does not know who The Phantom really is, or for that matter who anyone else really is...
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we’re living in a Pink Panther movie
One of the Peter Sellers films (Pink Panther?), he goes to prison to visit an inmate only to have the inmate take his identity, fake beard, moustache and clothes, and walks out of jail. This happens several times. In the very last scene, he's walking out of the jail, a smirk on his face, and tries to pull off his fake beard and moustache but it doesn't come off. "Good heavens! The wrong man has escaped!!"
> trying to get 12 year old me into old junk like pink panther or whatever cartoons were watched in the boomer era
I caught a few of them in reruns in the 80's, and for a long time, I assumed those were what the Pink Panther was.
It wasn't until college that I learned about the live-action Inspector Clouseau movies that the cartoons came from. They're amusing farces, and still hold up pretty well. (Though honestly, the Marx Brothers hold up better.)
Imagine Microsoft puts ChatGPT into Microsoft 365. You're a Fortune 500 company, you have zillions of SharePoint sites over many departments. Your employees can now ask ChatGPT about them. To find documents by vague search terms, to summarize them, to write in the style of one. Remember how it used to be a thing where non-technical people would ask Google queries as if it was a person, and technical people would say 'no no, think about the keywords'. Imagine you can do this chatty back and forth narrowing down with vague terms, searching your work's SharePoint:
Prompt: What was the film with the silly detective and like a Purple Lion or whatever?
ChatGPT: The film you're thinking of might be "Scooby-Doo," which features a silly detective named Shaggy and his talking Great Dane named Scooby-Doo, who often dress up in costumes to solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures.
Prompt: no with real actors
ChatGPT: You might be referring to "Scooby-Doo" (2002) starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Linda Cardellini, Matthew Lillard and Rowan Atkinson, which was a live-action adaptation of the classic cartoon.
Prompt: no the coloured animal was in the name
ChatGPT: The movie you're thinking of might be "The Pink Panther" (1963) starring Peter Sellers as the bumbling French police detective Jacques Clouseau.
Only it's about "What was that report from someone in the sales team, with the white paper about plants?" or "Where's that HR document about the training website with the health and safety stuff?" or "Who manages the team who deal with XYZ customer?" or etc.
The Pink Panther series of movies ("live action", not animated) is among the most hilarious creation I have ever consumed.
I highly recommend them if you want to laugh hysterically.
(Note: I watched them a long time ago, and there is wee chance that I am remembering them differently.)
I am waiting for the Prime Video catalogue to include them!
"Peter Sellers, in the Pink Panther movies, wasn’t so much a clown as a man lost in the monotone wonk-wonk-wonk of spoken English. “Do you have a lee-sawnse for your minky,” is in fact a much more interesting way to say it. For me, in French class in college, it was a license to slip through a linguistic trapdoor into something fabulous. Why do I love French? Let me compte the ways."
Back in the 1960's when road construction was underway and diversion of lanes was necessary, at night the spherical black kerosine lamps the size of bowling balls were still everywhere the traffic cones were during the day.
Modern rechargeable electricial markers that could last all night were not common at all.
Rows of bombs with a few inches of raw sooty flame coming from a wick where the fuse would be.
Drive your Model T or Edsel carefully between the lines of flickering fire.
Plus the Pink Panther cartoons had an associated subject line occasionally featuring a mad French terrorist bomber often carrying one of the round black bombs.
This was basically ridiculing the bombers that had been in the news terrorizing them.
Both were enjoyed by American kids as much as domestic cartoons, even though they were basically like silent movies, intentionally featuring no actual dialog, intended for international consumption without need for translation.
All the American villians had the same kind of bombs anyway.
The Pink Panther films are also hilarious parodies of this genre. Peter Sellers as inspector Jacques Clouseau is a blast
"If you need to meet people, the first thing to do is make sure you can be where they are."
Or, you can work to put the right people where you need them to be. I recall an interview, from long ago, with Peter Sellers, the actor who played Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series. I don't remember the exact words, but he said something to the effect that when he needed a job, he didn't go about finding one in the usual manner. Instead, he would manipulate events such that an opportunity would spring into existence, one which would be made just for him.
EDIT: I note that this is my first HN comment of the new year. I should take this as a sign, and maybe try to be more like Peter Sellers, at least in regard to what I said above.
EDIT: I also note that he has a website, even though he's been dead for more than three decades.
http://PeterSellers.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sellers
EDIT: "I feel ghostly unreal until I become someone else again on the screen."
This quote, from his website, makes me wonder if that's one of the things which is at the root of an entrepreneur, because it's almost as if many of the people who create startups do it partly for the purpose of becoming someone or something else, as an actor would in a new role, especially if, like Peter Sellers, they tailor the role to themselves, rather than stepping into one which is prêt-à-porter.
Perfect! It just so happens that I am available for the newly-formed C3PO position at your company. My comment was actually BOTH a means of creating a position specifically tailored for myself, AND my application for said position. If you hire me, your proofs shall always be read, your pudding shall always be warm, and your panties shall always be clean and pressed.
I remember an interview, from long ago, with Peter Sellers, who played Chief Inspector Clouseau in "The Pink Panther" film series. He said something to the effect (<--!!!) that he didn't wait around for jobs in Hollywood to become available. Instead, he created situations out of which roles tailor-made for him would come into existence. In other words, he did what it took to make jobs for which he was the best choice. From that, I now have the philosophy of "One Job, One Applicant".