The Magic Christian

The Magic Christian (1969)

Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought.

Data lansării
1969-12-12
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (52)
Durată
1 h 32 min
Genuri
Comedie
Regizor
Joseph McGrath

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The Magic Christian is a 1969 British satirical farce black comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, with appearances by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Raquel Welch, Spike Milligan, Christopher Lee, Richard Attenborough and Roman Polanski. The film, telling the story of an eccentric billionaire who spends his money orchestrating elaborate practical jokes, was loosely adapted from the 1959 comic novel The Magic Christian by the American author Terry Southern, who co-wrote the screenplay adaptation with McGrath.

Production

Although Joseph McGrath co-wrote the adaptation with the American author Terry Southern, who wrote the original 1959 comic novel The Magic Christian, the screenplay differs considerably in content from the novel such as moving the story from America to London in the Swinging Sixties.

Peter Sellers, who was cast as Sir Guy Grand, was known to have liked the book; he had given a copy to filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, who subsequently hired Southern as co-writer for Dr. Strangelove (1964), having decided to make the film as a black comedy/satire, rather than a straightforward thriller. The role of the orphan was played by Ringo Starr; it was written with John Lennon in mind. Starr and Sellers became good friends during the shoot.

The British actor and dancer Lionel Blair was responsible for the film's choreography.

The scene involving the vat containing animal blood, urine and excrement was filmed at London's South Bank on a stretch of waste ground on which the National Theatre was later built. It was originally planned to film this climactic scene at the Statue of Liberty in New York, and (remarkably) the U.S. National Park Service agreed to a request to permit this.

The film features the song "Come and Get It" written and produced by Paul McCartney and performed by Badfinger, a Welsh rock band promoted by Apple Records. The lyrics refer to Grand's schemes of bribing people to act according to his whims ("If you want it, here it is, come and get it"). Badfinger also performed two of their own compositions for the soundtrack, "Carry on Till Tomorrow" and "Rock of All Ages".

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