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Bean
and his film
"Mr. Bean's Holiday"
By Iryna Petrashchuk, Group 34-E
He was born on January 6, 1955. Atkinson first appeared on television in an entertaining show
«Not the Nine O'Clock News».He became famous when he started to play in comic serials «Mr.
Bean» and «Thin Blue Line Brought Him»He loves motor races. He is married and has two
children.
Left: Here is Rowan Atkinson (not Mr. Bean) with his wife
(Mr. Bean is not married).
On his holiday Mr. Bean travels to the south of France, leaving vivid traces of his adventures
everywhere. A comical poor fellow, Mr. Bean takes an amateur video film about his adventures
on the way, which he later manages to show on the grand screen of the Cannes film festival.
Many people say that it is an excellent and extremely funny comedy. However, they are sorry
that it is supposed to be the last film of the Mr. Bean series.
Apparently, Mr. Bean does all those things, but that is not the point. He looks like an
Englishman. He is dressed like an Englishman. He speaks English. He lives in England. But he
does not behave like an Englishman.
A stereotypical Englishman is well-bred and very reserved. He always wears his “stiff upper lip”
and is definitely NOT supposed to show ANY emotions. Mr. Bean shows plenty of them! More,
he emphasizes every bit of emotion to extreme exaggeration. He displays them bright, loud and
clear. On top of that, he demonstrates every weakness, which everybody has. Normally, each of
us can fight those negative features back, and control them. But not Mr. Bean! He always
follows them: greed, envy, selfishness, cheating, irresponsibility, whatever. He does what each
of us thinks is worth doing (somewhere there in the deep, dark and filthy bottom of our souls,
well cleaned up sometime between the junior and high school) but does not dare to let those
little monsters out of control. Mr. Bean behaves like a naughty schoolboy. Of course we laugh!