"Bean" first appeared 28 years ago. On 1 January 1990, the BBC drama series Mr. Bean began broadcasting, and the popularity spread from the United Kingdom to Europe and all the way to the East Asian continent. It was the heyday of the bean.
Some people say that this series tells the story of an era in the most absurd way.
But when Bean no longer plays Bean, will the film still be interesting?
Johnny English Strikes Again
Agent Bean 3
2018
Detoxification index: 2.5/10
Director: David Cole
Genre: Comedy/Action/Adventure
Starring: Rowan Atkinson / Ben Miller / Olga CurryLancco / Jack Lacey / Emma Thompson
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Most of the British hits of the 90s were adapted from excellent classic literary works, and there was no such thing as a household comedy star.
Bean's classic expression
In 1990's "Mr. Bean," Rowan Atkinson already had a very characteristic face, and with his unexpected expressions and action performances, he conquered all audiences.
The idea for the series was born during Rowan Atkinson's college days, when he was studying at the University of Edinburgh with Richard Curtis, the screenwriter of "Mr. Bean."] Richard Curtis was tired of writing a script full of dialogue, and Rowan Atkinson was also passionate about visual acting, so the two hit it off, thinking of using visual performances to present jokes.
After the broadcast, people felt that Bean's performance was a tribute to Chaplin and Buster Keaton, while Rowan Atkinson was actually the most influenced by Jacques Tati, especially "Mr. Hulo's Holiday".
In the play, he is confronted with the small things we face in our daily lives, exam cheating, shopping in the mall, swimming by the sea, and it is in this fragment of life that he makes the human body feel his sense of humor in a unique and young way.
The bath towel fell off, so ashamed
The series was 24 minutes on set, and from 1990 to 1995, it only aired 14 episodes in five years. It was this short series that won the 44th British Academy film and television arts awards. It was also the most watched show in the UK throughout the 90s.
Now I can even think of Britain twenty years ago. After dinner, everyone gathered in front of the TV and laughed together as they watched bean's grimace.
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During the promotional period of Agent Bean 2, Rowan Atkinson had already said that he wanted to create a new character and didn't want to play Bean anymore.
He did. In fact, the English name of the [Agent Bean] series was originally called Johnny English, which is also the name of the character in Rowan Ankinson's films, and Mr. Bean. Bean) has nothing to do with it.
But Chinese propagandists, given the name's influence, add to The fact that Rowan Atkinson's face has been labeled "Bean." So he put the hat back on his head.
Although the name was changed to Johnny English, the film's title translated as "Agent Bean" cannot completely blame the Chinese distributor. After all, this role is really much the same as Mr. Bean at that time.
Without novelty, it has completely become a Hollywood assembly line blockbuster, and the rating has naturally dropped.
[Agent Bean] 6.2 points in the first part, 6.3 points in [Agent Bean] 2, and 6.5 points in the third part, all hovering on the edge of the passing line
Looking at "Mr. Bean" that year, it set a good score of 8.5 points
In 2003, the first part of [Agent Bean] was released, and Johnny English completely inherited Bean's personality traits - a child who lived in an adult body. However, "Mr. Bean", which shows jokes from the trivialities of life, has become the "Agent Bean" of hollywood assembly line blockbusters, and the quality of the film has plummeted. The character is still silly, but no longer cute.
The producers only wanted to use Bean's remaining fame and British humor to embellish blockbusters to earn box office.
This way they used it until the third part.
In 2018, hackers attacked the UK's national security system and exposed the identities of all the agents, so the British prime minister needed a retired agent to find out who was behind it. When MI6 supervisors gathered a group of elderly agents in an office, one of them pulled out a fountain pen, saying it was a bomb pen that would explode if it wasn't buckled back 20 seconds after pulling out the cap.
The fate of the other elderly agents who had been killed was already doomed, and Agent Bean became the chosen son, only a few minutes later. There is no suspense.
For audiences who are so familiar with comedy routines, Bean's performance is nothing more than those few expressions and actions, which can be copied infinitely after being cut into GIFs.
What is more insulting to the audience's intelligence than such a simple plot structure? This trick was done once in the first part of [Agent Bean]:
After the death of Agent One on duty, all the agents went to the cemetery to mourn, and Bean appeared as the guard here, reporting to the chief that "this is now the safest place in all of Britain". As soon as the words fell, the cemetery exploded, and all the agents died
Bean can kill with a pen
The pen also appeared in the first part of [Agent Bean], and when Bean was appointed as a secret agent, he went to sign the document with the chief's secretary, and he saw a pen on the table and said, "This is not the kind of pen used before, it looks ordinary, but just press twice", and when he pressed it twice, the poison needle in the pen shot the secretary.
Probably the screenwriter is also poor in words, and can't think of any other way to make Bean an agent.
However, the script written in this way makes the similarity rate between [Agent Bean] and [Agent Bean 3] almost 100%.
If all the jokes made in a movie can be known in advance, the movie can't really make people happy.
The film is full of nostalgia, in which Bean chooses a new car to perform the task. In front of a garage of new energy vehicles, Bean did not hesitate to choose a shiny red Aston Martin.
Handsome is handsome, but when chasing the enemy halfway, this retro car runs out of gas.
The main role of this cool Aston Martin in the movie should be to make Rowan Atkinson, who loves cars, addicted to drag racing
When a British technician asked to give Bean a mobile phone, Bean solemnly refused, on the grounds that it would expose his information and location. But in a critical moment, don't you still have to borrow the mobile phone of a Russian female spy to record a video?
This nostalgia continues until the end of the film, where Bean holds a tablet but doesn't know how to shut down the villain's attack system. The villain laughs at his inability to keep up with technology and his tablet.
Bean smashes the villain with his tablet, smashing his smart machine that controls the attack system to pieces. Others win by fighting, and Bean wins by stupidity.
This seems to be a good play of human primitive instincts overcoming high technology, and if you think about it, the logic is full of loopholes, but it is just the wishful thinking of the director and screenwriter.
If this set had been placed twenty years ago for people who had just watched commercial films, it might have been surprising and surprising. But today, it seems just pitiful and ridiculous.
To borrow a comment from a Rotten Tomatoes film review: [Agent Bean 3] may be able to squeeze some smiles out of the audience through a comical performance, but overall the movie sucks
It's like a script written by a 10-year-old. Boring enough that there is no humor, bad dialogue, awkward plot, obviously funny places to make stupid
Each stem has long been used badly, and after reading the first two parts, you know what this one is going to say
Not only do foreigners not eat this set, but our people also do not eat this set
Once Bean's face was a business card, and he appeared on TV from time to time to tell the stories around him in a childlike way. You think he's the second idiot next door, Wang Laowu, with an IQ that may not be online, but kind and kind.
He was the talk at the dinner table on the weekend and the joke on the couch at night. But now he has thrown away the realism of ordinary people and entered the Hollywood blockbuster. In the blockbuster produced by the commercial assembly line, the characteristics of the bean itself become an out-of-tune element, and No matter how hard Rowan Atkinson performs, he can't save the movie.
Then let Bean stay in the past and let him become a memory, not a tool for money.