Monday, April 18, 2011

Is Barroso Peter Sellars in disguise?

I only ask because I came across this great pile of steaming platitudes, and I thought of the magnificent Party Political Speech created by Peter Sellars in 1958,



Barroso
"Future belongs to those who prepare for it today. The future is now."
Sellars
"Does this mean, I hear you cry, that we can no longer look forward to the future that is to come?"
Update
Somebody has questioned Sellars own politics, and I checked and was impressed to discover this defence of free speech and opposition to a no platform policy,
In January 1960, the British Film Institute announced a film lecture series; among the guest speakers were Sellers, the leftist film gadfly Ivor Montagu and Leni Riefenstahl, director of the Hitler documentary "Triumph of the Will" a quarter-century before. Montagu denounced Riefenstahl, the BFI revoked her invitation, and Sellers, the half-Jewish comic, issued this modest, brave statement in defense of Hitler's favorite director: "Miss Riefenstahl has presumably been invited to lecture because of her outstanding talents as a filmmaker. Alongside her contributions to the art of filmmaking, our efforts, if I may say so, Mr Montagu, appear very puny indeed." And Sellers' gesture appears both brave and gallant.





2 comments:

Whistle said...

On hearing that Sellars track,I remembered the rest of the LP I haven't heard it now for over 40yrs,so,I searched on Amazon and bought it.Thank you very much,England Expects.

Suhat said...

thank for information.
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