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| Year: 2004 |
| Director: Charles Shyer |
| Cast: Jude Law, Jane Krakowski,Jeff Harding, Marisa Tomei |
| Genres: Drama, Comedy |
| Runtime: 103 min. |
| IMDB: This film on IMDB |
| Subtitles: OpenSubtitles.org |
| Soundtrack: available |
In Manhattan, the British limousine driver Alfie (Jude Law) is surrounded by beautiful women, most of them clients, and he lives as a Don Juan, having one night stands with all of them and without any sort of commitment. His girl-friend and single-mother Julie (Marisa Tomei) is quite upset with the situation and his best friends are his colleague Marlon (Omar Epps) and his girl-friend Lonette (Nia Long). Alfie has a brief affair with Lonette, and the consequences of his act forces Alfie to reflect and wonder about his life style. |
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| Date: 2007-10-04 01:24:30 |
User: James Shields |
One problem with a remake is that it will always be compared with the superior original, which after all is the reason for the remake as who would remake a flop? The film had to be updated and relocated, but otherwise follows the storyline of the original with some of the dialogue preserved intact. Although many viewers have complained that the speaking to the camera device is cheesy, I enjoyed it and feel that the film would not have worked without it. We needed to know what Alfie was thinking and this was better than a voice over.
Does it stand alone as a film worth watching if you had never seen the original? My answer would be yes. Jude Law plays Alfie as a slightly better class and more likable character than Michael Caine, the working class Cockney who does not know that he has a chip on his shoulder when it comes to the rest of Britain's class ridden society. The new Alfie may be selfish and conceited, but he is also handsome, charming and funny, and uses that charm to bend women regardless of age, to his will. The scene where he cajoles his middle aged landlady, Mrs. Schnitman to clean his room for him, and probably do his washing as well, shows how manipulative he can be, but in a nice way. The landlady knows he is manipulating her, but he is doing it in such a charming way that she is eating out of his hands - after all when was the last time a handsome young man held her hand, looked into her eyes and flattered her like that? Michael Caine's Alfie was a cold heartless cad.
In many ways Alfie has not outgrown adolescence. He has lots of nice threads, goes out every night, rarely sleeps in his own bed and has women galore for uncommitted sex. His good looks have attracted women with a minimum of effort on his part and if one goes out of his life there is another one right there. He feels entitled to sex without commitment, but one day he wakes up to find that the others have all moved on and he is left alone with nothing to show for it. He is incapable of understanding that relationships, like careers, require some commitment. He is like a man who changes jobs and relocates throughout his life, then in middle age wonders why all his friends have all moved up the ladder and have comfortable homes and families, while he is still living in cheap lodgings, working at low paid jobs while getting passed over in favour of younger workers.
Despite the problem of constant comparison with the original, I preferred Jude Law's cheeky charm, for a start he is much more handsome than Michael Caine and did not display the coldness. The main thing I missed was the intoxicating atmosphere of 1960's swinging London, despite Mick Jagger's contribution to the soundtrack. The only other jarring note was casting Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter in a cameo role, which distracted me by diverting attention from the interplay with Susan Sarandon. I also missed the bar fight at the Bag o' Nails with Queenie Watts belting out a jazzed up "Goodbye Dolly Gray" without flinching, as if bar fights were part of the nightly entertainment, which in that part of London they probably were.
I would recommend this film if you have NOT seen the original, or wish to watch both for comparison. |
| Date: 2008-03-19 16:42:09 |
User: Elmer |
| Film remakes always represent a problem when you try to evaluate them, because they usually ride on the tail of a material that was already filmed in a successful manner. These films simply come with a baggage; no matter how much one tries, the ghost of the original film haunts the new take on the story. I liked this film, but no matter how much I tried, I still could never stopped thinking of the original 1966 film, which starred Michael Caine as Alfie, the film's anti-hero. This movie (starring Jude Law) rearranges and reshapes the material in order to make it more palatable to modern audiences, but in doing so, the filmmakers took the guts out of the material. This is an entertaining and inoffensive piece of fluff, minus the gut-wrenching self-revelation that made the original film so interesting. This is time around the story comes across as superficial as the main character. Jude Law is excellent and he is certainly well cast, but he still cannot match Michael Caine's cold-blooded cad. It is an enjoyable movie, but I think the material was slightly misinterpreted by the makers of this movie. |
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