By Kirk Honeycutt. But the comedy is now crude instead of whimsical and its characters overblown caricatures instead of screwball personalities.
A movie has been reduced to a sketch. As a Russell Brand Show, fans and followers may enjoy his extravagant mugging and nuttiness. The scene from the original in which the grandmother decides that "No Bach will be Poor" and gives him the money was priceless - and it's completely lost in this version.
And all the comedy from Liza Minelli's dad in the original - lost in this one as well. Oh well - they dumbed it down like everything else it seems. Shiira Apr 26, Arthur Bach Dudley Moore is going nowhere fast. In the original version of "Arthur", the millionaire drunk races his Porsche around a circular track, and even though the late filmmaker doesn't overemphasize the point with an extended long take like Sofia Coppola did in "Somewhere", even the most amateur of semiologists can locate the metaphor.
Johnny Marco, the famous film star who makes revolution after revolution on a deserted motorway in the Coppola film, like Bach, the perpetually inebriated heir to a major corporation, is no stranger to melancholy despite all appearances of having it all.
If Johnny only had a snobby butler with a pithy manner of speaking. Hobson John Gielgud won't have none of Arthur's moaning and groaning about being unloved and miserable. Despite being a transplanted Brit, you can never really take the Englishman out of the English, and people from the U. After Arthur removes both his helmet and goggles upon Hobson's request, the longtime manservant and surrogate father promptly slaps him in the face like an anal-retentive mobster, while calling Bach a "selfish bastard" for good measure.
The unhappy playboy catches the customarily stoic old man at his breaking point. He sets Arthur straight, overstepping his bounds as a mere servant by dealing out some light corporal punishment, like a father. That's what the new Arthur Russell Brand needs too, a father figure; a butler instead of a nanny, as suggested by the movie itself in the opening scene where the much taller and less lovable layabout rams his Batmobile into an anatomically correct bull statue.
Considering that the new "Arthur" places the well-heeled millionaire into a personal world dominated by strong women, a pointed juxtaposition presents itself through Arthur's close proximity to the bull's gigantic golden testicles. It's an insinuation of a man, a mama's boy who's been emasculated by the fairer sex.
Recast as a woman, Hobson Helen Mirren treats Arthur as if he was still a boy, reading to him a children's book about a frog and a toad before he's put asleep. The butler, on the other hand, may tend to his employer's needs, but he does so with a sense of irony, by never coddling Arthur to such an unhealthy extent.
In the presence of his father, Stanford Bach, Arthur learns the bargaining terms associated with his upcoming engagement to Susan Johnson Jill Eikenberg. Marry the woman, or lose seven hundred fifty million dollars. In the remake, the conditions are the same, but not the sex of the blackmailer. Bach, working in concert with a completely revamped Susan no longer the doormat who loves Arthur unconditionally in the original , lays the law down to her son, in which his fiancee, Vivienne's top lieutenant in the family company, views marriage as a business partnership.
Susan is ashamed of the stigma tied to "new money", therefore undermining her blue collar father's pride in being a self-made man. She wants the Bach name. Susan doesn't love Arthur. And yet, the unlicensed tour guide hardly seems the right fit for the playboy either. Of all things, she tells bedtime stories. He already has Hobson for that. Russell Brand in "Arthur. Now streaming on:. Powered by JustWatch. Now playing. The Blazing World Monica Castillo. A Cop Movie Glenn Kenny.
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