Bean has always been such a "British image", he is the personification of the country's strong conservative nationalism. The British standard film and television image is not only bean, but bean is a classic evergreen tree. But perhaps some people have discovered that the British emotion represented by bean has gradually changed from a self-deprecating sense of superiority in the self-deprecation of "you are strong and you are strong, and dead pigs are not afraid of boiling water" to a kind of self-inflicted panic. mentality. This panic is concentrated on the hysterical and stupid female Prime Minister (theresa May, of course) in the film, amplifying the anxiety of DIGNITY, which has completely lost the pace of "development" and "progress" in the United Kingdom. And Bean showed no way in the film. He had to use a very far-fetched and hard-boiled comedy coincidence in order to forcibly create a happy ending and not lose face. But this face, after being ridiculed by the old submarine and the old-fashioned female captain in the film, is actually very little left.
Now the core of this bean image is anti-globalization, and the essence of anti-globalization is the fear that the upstart countries will use globalization to occupy the high ground of a new round of technological and commercial revolution and establish a new order and hegemony. Dilute Britain's own voice to nothing. Britain fears that its old-fashioned commercial financial hegemony will give way to a new technological financial hegemony. Its number one imaginary enemy, the villain established in the film, has been very clear, that is the United States.
The United Kingdom used to love and hate the United States, but in a short while it became fear and hate. Because the power structure is starting to become overwhelmingly skewed. When the United Kingdom is in the EU, the British have a kind of self-goodness that can compete with the United States across the border, which is mostly due to the political backing given by the European Union, but the British do not know it. And when they "don't know what to do" about to leave the European Union, at this juncture, they suddenly found that their strength was no longer enough to be sandwiched between the two powers. Like themselves in the 18th century, they used diplomatic means to freely and happily. Manipulate world politics. First, it has long been the British Empire that never sets; second, he is not facing a few European powers inferior to himself, but a US that is far from a size and an EU that is bigger than a dead camel.
In this context, the panic of the British was split into two aspects in the film. One, like Bean, was stubbornly conservative, despised the Internet, despised smartphones, despised AI technology, and despised pure electric cars— - It is worth noting that Bean is not an anti-technologist. He is against the most cutting-edge information technology and intelligent technology, but he is by no means against the industrial technology and mechanical technology of the previous generation. We see that he is obsessed with the technological sequence of the previous generation. The most cutting-edge "strange tricks", advanced pistols, explosive gummies, pen bombs, high-horsepower muscle cars... These are enough to prove that Bean doesn't hate modernization and industrial revolution, he just hates modernization and industrial revolution that are not under his control. The Industrial Revolution, that's all - and secondly, like the British female prime minister in the film, she has to hysterically long for and need what they despise, even if there is an unwillingness to become a vassal because of it.
Under such a separation, the film is destined to become very irritating, and it is difficult to achieve the effect of a real comedy - the relief of self-admitment and self-joking, but the effect of self-deception - Bean relies on Medieval armor and brick phones—let’s just make it a little bit more backwards—defeated the most advanced science and technology in the hands of conspirators, and came home with beauty.
Interestingly, there is also a British movie that is similar to and counterpoint to this "Beansman 3", called "Kingsman". Same type, but the latter is clearly much more positive. In essence, the agents in "Ace Agent" truly integrate the cultural character of the British with all kinds of bizarre future technologies, bravely embrace progress and the future, and dominate the fate of the world. It has more cultural self-confidence and national self-confidence, and therefore has the potential of a good movie. The year the film was released coincided with a strong pound and a crisis in the European Union.
A year or two later, in Kingsman 2, the Brits inexplicably started to feel less confident, and the successor to our good spy was a disaster in the first place. Had to defect to the American uncle. But fortunately, by forging a solid Anglo-American alliance, with the help of big relatives, he can always regain his power.
I didn't expect it to be so fast. When it comes to today's "Agent Bean", the mentality of the British has simply plummeted. While hysterical, while the emperor's new clothes. I think the reality after this is probably that at this time and another, the Empire on the Sun has completely lost its self-knowledge, and it has to leave the European Union. The result of the play is probably as revealed in the film, after the self-isolation of a cocoon, either more thoroughly accepts the exploitation and domination of a certain power, or opposes this fate like a fool, and believes that a fool can will believe that their opposition will succeed.
In this way, it can be regarded as the next qualified political fable.
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