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Inspector Dreyfus ?

posted 20 years ago by lionphish
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Ok at the end of this movie he gets killed by the doomstay machine....So how come he's in the next movie...How is that possible?

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[–] allenblank 20 years ago

Even though it's a great film ignore it as part of the continuity. Maybe it's just a nightmare that Dreyfuss has at the mental institution. But after all the continuity in the Pink Panther series really doesn't exist. Just sit back and enjoy them for what they are, really funny films. You don't need to think just laugh.

[–] IsoscelesKramer 20 years ago

Maybe Professor Fassbinder created a machine to bring the castle back and Dreyfus came back with it. I noticed in "Revenge" he also has the tooth Clouseau pulled!

[–] escape-artist 20 years ago

It does have a bit of continuity in it. In Revenge Clouseau is credited with foiling the assassination attempts on himself (my favorite part) that occured in this one.

But, as you said, the continuity doesn't really matter.

[–] cz-11 20 years ago

I think there was a flaw in Fassbenders invention. The doomsday machine doesn't actually destroy anything as it should, but makes things invisible in which case they eventually reappear.

[–] sabalon1 20 years ago

i might go along with that one,

when dreyfus was slowing disappearing at the end, even after he completely disappeared the organ music was playing - as if he was still playing it.

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[–] nebka23 19 years ago

How about this he died and for what he did he was sent back to earth to be near Clouseau again

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[–] dudufrias 18 years ago

When it comes to continuity in the PP movies, this seems to be the most controversial point, the one that confuses everyone.
Well, what more can I say after all that's been said so far? Apparently Blake Edwards didn't care a great deal about continuity, and as great as those films turned out to be, Edwards was trying to profit, so he'd write the script with whatever idea he'd come up with that could end up in a funny film, so it was pretty much a matter of convenience, and that's why sometimes there is continuity and sometimes there isn't.
So, as said before, don't go busting your back trying to figure out what goes where in the Panthers, just watch them and be glad that Sellers and Edwards ever crossed paths.

[–] FabricGal 8 years ago

It's like the Roadrunner; how can the Coyote survive to try again and again?
It's a cartoon; forget reality and enjoy the ride:)