Bean Page #3

Synopsis: At the Royal National Gallery in London, the bumbling Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) is a guard with good intentions who always seems to destroy anything he touches. Unless, of course, he's sleeping on the job. With the chairman (John Mills) blocking Bean's firing, the board decides to send him to a Los Angeles art gallery under false credentials. When Bean arrives, his chaos-causing ways are as sharp as ever, and curator David Langley (Peter MacNicol) has the unenviable task of keeping Bean in line.
Production: Universal Pictures
  2 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
41%
PG-13
Year:
1997
89 min
846 Views


VINCENT:

I'm sorry I'm late.

GARETH:

Why can't we just give him the boot for crying out loud?!

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VINCENT:

Steady on, old man. I only ...

GARETH:

Not you, you idiot.

CUT TO:

INT. NATIONAL GALLERY. CORRIDOR - DAY

BEAN, with cup of tea, walks along a corridor. He can't not interfere

for tidiness sake. One empty room he switches off the light. Another

he shuts the door.

He passes a computer room, with an open door where a big man is busily

typing in a programme - BEAN looks at him snootily and heads on.

He approaches the door to his office. A sign reads: 'STORAGE &

CATALOGUE'. There is a huge padlock on the door. BEAN takes out a big

key and enters his domain.

CUT TO:

INT. NATIONAL GALLERY. STORAGE OFFICE - DAY.

BEAN enters. He's been here for years and made it his own. It's an

odd little world. There's a framed picture of Shirley Bassey on his

desk and Airfix planes hang from the ceiling. Also a large cosy

armchair and a T.V.

A pleasant Man in a suit, around 40, breezes in.

SUIT MAN:

Ah Bean, I'm looking for a painting by Van Hocht. Still Life. Circa

1670. Can do?

BEAN nods. This is what BEAN likes to do best. The camera follows as

he turns sees the extraordinary sight behind him...

His office is just a tiny corner of a massive storage room, hundreds of

feet high and long, the walls completely full of rack after rack of

stored paintings. At the end of the room, we can see hundreds of

sculptures:
busts, modern abstracts, men on horses, classical maidens,

Rodins, the lot. It's like the giant storehouse at the end of 'Raiders

of the Lost Ark.

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BEAN sets off into it in his own eccentric way. He knows exactly where

heels going. He climbs a ladder, like you find in a library - then

pushes himself off, and whizzes the entire length of the room on

slippery wooden runners.

He has now reached the sculpture area, but the painting heels looking

for is on the other side. He crosses the room by using the sculptures

as a kind of artistic obstacle course. In front of him is the Burghers

of Calais, a Rodin statue of 5 prisoners in chains. He simply walks

across their 5 heads, like stones in a stream.

He then comes to an abstract modern piece, which he uses as a slide and

at the end of which, he crawls through the hole in the next modern

thing. He then begins to climb up various famous ancient statues,

using the mouths as footholes, breasts as support, codpieces as steps

and empty eyes as finger holes.

After a problem getting his. foot caught in the jaw of a sculptured

dog, he walks flat along a modern sculpture, then uses a sequence of

classic sculptures as stairs - on the head of a little Degas ballerina,

one step on to the bottom of a horse, two steps onto the head of the

person riding the horse, three steps and now he's on the other side of

the hall.

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Richard Curtis

Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, CBE (born 8 November 1956) is a New Zealand-born English screenwriter, producer and film director. One of Britain's most successful comedy screenwriters, he is known primarily for romantic comedy films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones's Diary, Notting Hill, and Love Actually, as well as the hit sitcoms Blackadder, Mr. Bean and The Vicar of Dibley. He is also the co-founder of the British charity Comic Relief along with Lenny Henry. more…

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