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Alfie: Jude Law
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Alfie (Law) is a limousine driver with what appears to be the perfect lifestyle. Claiming to have never made his bed in his life he relies upon the women he surrounds himself with. Sleeping around town more than Colin Farrell, he loathes commitment. But after a series of setbacks to his ego, Alfie begins to realise that his womanising ways will soon lead him to a life of loneliness.
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Alfie was a flop financially, receiving only $13.4 million domestically and $35 million worldwide[1] on a budget of $60 million[2]. It recieved mixed reviews, with a 48% rating on Rotten Tomatoes([3], and only recieved 2 stars on the Rolling Stone website [4], quipping "what's that all about?" However, Roger Ebert was kinder about the film, praising Jude Law and saying that "on its own terms, it's funny at times and finally sad and sweet."[5] Jude Law is known to have denounced the movie since it's release, recently stating in a press conference to promote his newest film, Sleuth (incidentally another Michael Caine remake) that "When I was approached originally to work on the new version of Alfie it seemed like a brilliant idea because the original was so successful, but from my point of view it didn't quite turn out the way I wanted it to."[6]
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From a script by Shyer and Elaine Pope, the film doesn’t breathe new life into the character of Alfie as some of his ruminations on his Lothario ways begin to get tedious after a while. But there is plenty to like from the production if the initial allure begins to fade. The lensing, similar to Law, brightens up Manhattan at night and the Upper East Side, where Liz lives it has a sensual, elegant decor that is complemented by the breezy, vibrant score from John Powell and music by Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart.
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While times, men, women, and relationships have changed since 1966, Law's Alfie follows a very similar storyline to Caine's. From the moment both Alfies come on screen, both men quickly establish themselves as womanizers, ladies' men, players, and men with extreme commitment issues. More than just a picture of a man behaving in a way that would hopefully cause most people to cringe... both movies look deeper into the dysfunctional relationships Alfie creates for himself and push Alfie to figure out what he is actually missing. Alfie does his best to avoid commitment, love, and dependence of any sort, but, in they end, both Caine and Law's Alfie unwittingly seem to find themselves missing and desiring those very things they avoided.
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Like the earlier "Alfie," it's the story of a sexually promiscuous man. Alfie (Law), a chauffeur, lives in a small Manhattan apartment and dedicates his life to seducing women. Talking directly into the camera, and preening with a self-satisfaction so complete as to seem a form of innocence, he expounds on clothes, the proper application of cologne and the various rules he employs in his libidinous pursuits. His goal, it seems, is to have sex with as many women as possible but to get close to none of them. This takes coldness and discipline.
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Alfie (Law) loves women and women adore him. As an English man in Manhattan he has the fairer sex falling at his feet, hardly ever sleeping in his own bed. With a self confessed aversion to commitment and seeing marriage as a dirty woman, Alfie lives his life the way he wants to but as he gets older and as his friends start to find love, he starts to feel he might actually be missing out.
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