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Bean idiot image + shrewd and capable traditional agent image
Jackie 2022-03-23 09:01:43
It is definitely a masterpiece of TV adaptation movies, especially the perfect combination of the existing image of bean and idiot and the shrewd and capable traditional agents, making people laugh everywhere. Bean's acting style is still the best way to act like an idiot: set people up to suspect he's an idiot, and then he has to act in various ways to try and prove he's not an idiot... The film's impressive laughs include : The queen abdicated because of the pet dog's signature, English was never sure about assembling guns, climbed pipes to catch up with the chefs' collective defecation, English was crowned...
Extended Reading
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Pascal Sauvage: English has seen too much. We go to plan B. Get rid of the fake archbishop and greenlight the visit to Her Majesty and then this pathetic country can humiliate itself by crowning me officially.
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Lorna Campbell: Get your car keys. We've got work to do.
Johnny English: Miss Campbell.
Lorna Campbell: Sauvage is heading back to his chateau in France and he's invited 13 of the richest criminal masterminds in the world to meet him there.
Johnny English: I'm sorry, Miss Campbell. I'm off the case. It's been reassigned.
Lorna Campbell: I know. Reassigned to me.