Bedazzled
Bedazzled 1967 film poster
Directed by	Stanley Donen
Produced by	Stanley Donen
Written by	Peter Cook Dudley Moore
Starring	Peter Cook Dudley Moore Eleanor Bron Raquel Welch
Music by	Dudley Moore
Distributed by	Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Release date(s)	December 10 1967 (U.S. release)
Running time	103 min
Language	English
IMDb profile

Bedazzled is a 1967 motion picture retelling of the Faust legend set in the Swinging London of the 1960s. Image File history File links Bedazzled_1967_film. ... Stanley Donen (born April 13, 1924) is an American film director and choreographer hailed by David Quinlan as the King of the Hollywood musicals. His most famous work is Singin In The Rain, which he co-directed with Gene Kelly. ... Stanley Donen (born April 13, 1924) is an American film director and choreographer hailed by David Quinlan as the King of the Hollywood musicals. His most famous work is Singin In The Rain, which he co-directed with Gene Kelly. ... Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937–9 January 1995) was an English satirist, writer and comedian who is widely regarded as the leading figure in the British satire boom of the 1960s. ... Dudley Moore Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002), was a British musician, actor and comedian. ... Eleanor Bron (born 14 March 1938) is a British actress. ... Raquel Welch on the film poster for One Million Years B.C. Raquel Welch (born September 5, 1940) is an American actress. ... Related articles FOX Television Network Fox Searchlight Pictures Fox Entertainment Group List of Hollywood movie studios List of movies Variant of current 20th Century Fox logo External links 20th Century Fox Movies official site Twentieth Century Fox is also the punning title of a song by The Doors on their... December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, 21 days before the next year. ... // Events December 26 - The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour airs on British television. ... // Events December 26 - The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour airs on British television. ... Faust (Latin Faustus) is the protagonist of a popular German tale of a pact with the Devil, assumed to be based on the figure of the German magician and alchemist Dr. Johann Georg Faust (approximately 1480–1540). ... Swinging London is a catchall term applied to a variety of dynamic cultural trends in the United Kingdom (centred in London, as the dominant city) in the 1960s. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ...

Plot

Stanley Moon (Moore) is a dissatisfied introverted young man who works in a fast-food restaurant and admires, from afar, the waitress Margaret (Bron). Despairing of his unrequited infatuation, he is in the process of an incompetent suicide attempt, when he is interrupted by Satan, incarnated as George Spiggott (Cook). Fast food is food which is prepared and served quickly at outlets called fast-food restaurants. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ... Gustave Dorés depiction of Satan from John Miltons Paradise Lost Satan, from the Hebrew word for accuser (Standard Hebrew: , Satan Tiberian Hebrew ; Koine Greek: , Satanás; Aramaic: , ; Arabic: , , Geez: Sāyṭān), is a term with its origins in the Abrahamic faiths which is traditionally applied to...

In return for his soul, Spiggot offers Stanley seven wishes. Stanley consumes these opportunities in trying to satisfy his lust for Margaret, but Spiggott twists his words to frustrate any consummation of desire. On one occasion, he reincarnates Stanley as a nun: whilst being specific about nearly every other aspect of the wish, he had forgotten to specify his gender and vocation. The soul, according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is a self-aware ethereal substance particular to a unique living being. ... Nun in cloister, 1930; photograph by Doris Ulmann In general, a nun is a female ascetic who chooses to voluntarily leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent. ...

Spiggott fills the time between these episodes with acts of minor vandalism and spite, incompetently assisted by the personification of the seven deadly sins, most memorably Lust (Raquel Welch). The seven deadly sins, also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins, are a classification of vices used in early Christian teachings to educate and protect followers from (immoral) fallen mans tendency to sin. ... Raquel Welch on the film poster for One Million Years B.C. Raquel Welch (born September 5, 1940) is an American actress. ...

Ultimately, a surplus of souls spares Stanley eternal damnation, and he returns to his old job, wiser and more clear-sighted. In the closing scene, Spiggott threatens revenge on God by unleashing all the tawdry and shallow technological curses of the modern age: All right, you great git, you've asked for it. I'll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. // Damn and damnation can mean:- The concept of punishment by God: see below. ... This article discusses the term God in the context of monotheism and henotheism. ... Wimpy Logo Wimpy is the brand name of a chain of hamburger restaurants based in the United Kingdom. ...

Cultural effects

Films exploiting and celebrating the social and economic freedoms of the so-called swinging 60s were common, but Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's comedy attempted to both amuse and to reassert the Faust legend's caveats about greed and sexual passion. Eleanor Bron also stars. It was very loosely remade under the same title in 2000. The film is loosely based on Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan. Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937–9 January 1995) was an English satirist, writer and comedian who is widely regarded as the leading figure in the British satire boom of the 1960s. ... Dudley Moore Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002), was a British musician, actor and comedian. ... Faust (Latin Faustus) is the protagonist of a popular German tale of a pact with the Devil, assumed to be based on the figure of the German magician and alchemist Dr. Johann Georg Faust (approximately 1480–1540). ... Eleanor Bron (born 14 March 1938) is a British actress. ... Bedazzled is a 2000 motion picture, and is a remake of the original Bedazzled (1967). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Marie Corelli (May 1, 1855 - April 21, 1924), was a British novelist. ... The Sorrows of Satan is an 1896 faustian novel by Marie Corelli. ...

Trivia

At least one sequence didn't make it into the final film, and it's unclear as to whether it even went before the cameras, although it was scripted. Before the opening titles, Stanley Donen was to sit in a director's chair and addresses the audience. The general tenor of his speech was that he was angered at having been signed-up to direct such a trivial piece, and as a result has had a change of heart and is about to present us with a more worthy piece. At which point, Spiggott would rise from behind the chair, lean forward, and murmur in his ear, "Just think of the money, Stanley..." Following which, the opening credits for the film would have started rolling. (A script for the film is held in the British Film Institute Library which features this introductory scene.) The British Film Institute (BFI) is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and...

Pop culture references

In his 1993-1994 comic strip "Diabolical Liberty", which appeared in five instalments in the magazine Deadline, Roger Langridge apparently based the appearance of his Satan character Jack Schitt closely on Peter Cook's George Spiggott - certainly as regards the dress sense. Langridge confirmed this in a conversation at the 2004 British Comics Convention in Bristol.^{[citation needed]} Deadline can refer to several things: A deadline is a point in time at which something must be completed. ... Example of the world of Fred The Clown Roger Langridge is a British comics writer/artist/letterer. ...

Quotes

• George Spiggott:
  • "Do hope this isn't an awkward moment." (After walking in on someone who has performed a failed suicide attempt)
  • "You fill me with inertia." (spoken as musical perfomer Dremble Wedge)
  • "What terrible sins I have working for me. I suppose it's the wages."
  • [to Lust] "Pick your clothes up. You're due down at the Foreign Office."
  • [offering anything in exchange for Stanley's soul ] "What would you like to be? Prime Minister? Oh no, wait, I've already signed that deal."
  • "There was a time when I used to get lots of ideas... I thought up the Seven Deadly Sins in one afternoon. The only thing I've come up with recently is advertising."
  • "It's the standard contract. Gives you seven wishes in accordance with the mystic rules of life. Seven Days of the Week, Seven Deadly Sins, Seven Seas, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers..." (also directed by Donen)
  • [To a pigeon about to fly over a man] "Release your doo-dahs"
  • "You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times, they'd have hung you for it."
  • "Suicide, really — that's the last thing you should try."
  • [During a conversation about politics, a character with a severe speech impediment struggles to express a thought. Spiggot replies dismissively...] "Well, that's easy for you to say."
  • In the words of Marcel Proust — and this applies to any woman in the world — if you can stay up and listen with a fair degree of attention to whatever garbage, no matter how stupid it is, that they're coming out with, till ten minutes past four in the morning... you're in!
  • "I lost Mussolini that way, all that work, then right at the end with his last breath he says, 'Scusi. Mille regretti,' and up he goes!"

• Stanley Moon:
  • [reading Faustian contract] "I, Stanley Moon, hereinafter and in the hereafter to be known as 'The Damned' — The damned?!"

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External link

• Bedazzled at the Internet Movie Database