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Alfie
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The most significant relationship in the original Alfie's life was Julia Foster's Gilda, a shy girl so in love with Alfie that she tries to overlook his callousness towards her. She bears Alfie a son, but soon realizes that Alfie will never change and decides to marry a sweet male friend named Humphrey, who's just as in love with her as she is with Alfie. In this new Alfie, Marisa Tomei plays the Gilda equivalent, but true to the times she's a much stronger woman. Instead of getting pregnant by Alfie, she's already got a son who Alfie likes even more than her. And almost immediately, she dismisses Alfie from her romantic life after she busts him cheating on her. In the earliest scenes, Marisa has an equivalent lovesick Humphrey-type circling around her to pluck her away from Alfie, but after the early scenes this guy just vanishes, and Marisa turns up near the end with some other strange guy we've never met.
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This Alfie (Jude Law) is a limo driver. This occupation offers him access to the rich and famous without the necessity for Alfie to actual work to be in that social stratum. Alfie is glib, socially graceful and employs his excess in charm with an extreme in accuracy to be envied by many men. The current term that would be applied to Alfie is commitment phobic, like the proverbial bee Alfie prefers to flit from flower to flower in his quest for personal satisfaction. While a socially well balanced man would look for a woman that can satisfy the many complexities of a committed relationship, Alfie typically finds one characteristic in each woman he becomes involved with. The need for a family is met by Julie (Marisa Tomei) a single mother and ostensibly Alfie’s girlfriend.
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The new Alfie has a slew of sex partners. One is Julie (Marisa Tomei)—whom he refers to as his “semi-permanent girlfriend” —a single mother of a son that Alfie loves. In the course of the movie Alfie seduces (that’s an imprecise term) several other women, including Nia Long who is Marlon’s (his best friend’ s!) girl.
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Classically trained, Alfie had the benefit of musically-accomplished parents and many relatives who encouraged his love of the arts. Along with his teachers, Alfie credits jazz giants McCoy Tyner and John Coltrane as artists who have helped shape his distinctive and evocative playing style.
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While developed in a different manner, the parallel relationship in Law's Alfie ... seems to cause Alfie to contemplate his life the most and feel his deepest sense of loss. The set up for this relationship is a drunken night with his best friend/co-worker's girlfriend during a temporary split. While Lonette (Nia Long) and Marlon (Omar Epps) quickly reconcile, Lonette soon finds out she is pregnant, goes to a clinic for a legal abortion, and immediately moves away with Marlon. Later, however, Alfie finds out that Lonette did not have the abortion.
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While Alfie ostensibly centers on the male lead the film has held together all these years due to the incredible well painted women in his life. For Alfie the female gender is there to please him in all their myriads of incarnations. Siddie (Millicent Martin) provides no strings sex for Alfie usually anywhere handy such as a parked car. There is no emotional commitment existing here, just immediate gratification. Gilda (Julia Foster), a mousey young woman with absolutely no self esteem. She thinks so little of herself that she patiently waits at home for Alfie, for any crumb of attention he might bestow upon her lackluster existence.
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