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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 3791269, member: 833"] Being There could have completely gone off the rails if every performance was not perfect. Melvyn Douglas won an Oscar for best supporting actor, but I think Richard Dysart and Shirley MacLaine were really incredible. Dysart's helpless incredulity as he realizes that Gardiner is a simpleton had to be perfect. Someone has to be in on the joke or the movie doesn't work, and Rand's doctor is the right person for that role. On the other hand, if he overdid it then then everyone else's inability to see through Gardiner would have become unbelievable. The scene in the bar with the lawyer that had thrown Chance out was incredible. The lawyer was convinced he had been hustled somehow, and Dysart had to communicate to the audience that he knew the truth without hamming it up. Dysart had to be pitch perfect, and he was. Sellers hated the end credits scene, and I also think it is terrible. Why ruin a perfect movie with stupid outtakes? [/QUOTE]