Mr. Bean (character)

Mr. Bean
Mr. Bean character
First appearance "Mr. Bean"
Created by Rowan Atkinson
Portrayed by Rowan Atkinson
Born (1955-09-15) 15 September 1955
Location Flat 2, 12 Arbour Road, Highbury, London, England
Information
Species Human
Gender Male
Nationality British
Relationships Irma Gobb
Enemies Mrs. Wicket
Scrapper
Hair Black

Mr. Bean is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the British comedy television programme, Mr. Bean. He is created and portrayed by Rowan Atkinson and made his first appearance on television in the pilot episode which first aired on January 1, 1990.

Overview

Mr. Bean lives in Flat 2, 12 Arbour Road, Highbury, London, England. His first name (he names himself "Bean" to others) and profession, if any, are never mentioned. In the first film adaptation, Bean, "Mr." appears on his passport in the "first name" field, and he is shown employed as a guard at London's National Gallery.[1]

At the beginning of episode two onwards, Mr. Bean falls from the sky in a beam of light, accompanied by a choir singing Ecce homo qui est faba ("Behold the man who is a bean"), recorded by Southwark Cathedral Choir in 1990. These opening sequences were initially in black and white in episodes two and three, and were intended by the producers to show his status as an "ordinary man cast into the spotlight". However, later episodes showed Mr. Bean dropping from the night sky in a deserted London street against the backdrop of St Paul's Cathedral. At the end of episodes three and six he is also shown being sucked right back up into the sky in the respective background scenes (black scene in episode 3 and street scene in episode 6). Atkinson has acknowledged that Mr Bean "has an alien aspect to him".[2] In the animated series (episode, "Double Trouble") he is taken inside a spacecraft with "aliens" who look exactly like him and even have their own plushy toys. In an obvious homage, the aliens send him back home in a beam of light and music similar to the opening of the original Mr. Bean series.

Clothing

Mr. Bean wears a brown tweed jacket, a white shirt, a thin red tie, brown trousers, black shoes and a black digital calculator watch. He occasionally changes his outfit to suit the scene he is in.[3]

In the episode The Return of Mr. Bean, when Bean is heading to a fancy restaurant to celebrate his birthday he wears a grey suit with a dark red tie. In the same episode Bean wears a tuxedo. In the episode The Curse of Mr. Bean when Bean is heading for the park to make a sandwich for his lunch, he wears a long dark green Overcoat with a light green shirt and a dark green tie. In the same episode when Bean goes to watch a horror film with his girlfriend, he is wearing his trademark clothes but wears a light colored brown sweater instead of his trademark brown tweed jacket.

Personality

Mr. Bean is a childish and selfish buffoon who brings various unusual schemes and contrivances to everyday tasks. He rarely speaks, and when he does, it is generally only a few mumbled words which are in a comically low-pitched voice. He also does not like people taking his things. Mr. Bean often seems unaware of basic aspects of the way the world works, and the programme usually features his attempts at what would normally be considered simple activities, such as going swimming, using a television set, redecorating or going to church. The humour largely comes from his original (and often absurd) solutions to problems - usually self-inflicted - and his total disregard for others when solving them, his pettiness and occasional malevolence.[1]

Appearances

Mr. Bean is the main character of both the titular TV series and its animated spin-off Mr. Bean: The Animated Series as well as of feature films based on the series such as Bean (1997) and Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007). Bean also guest-appeared at the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony and in the 2017 Chinese film Top Funny Comedian: The Movie. Atkinson also portrayed Bean in several sketches for Comic Relief and also in television advertisements throughout the years such as REMA 1000, M&M's, Fujifilm, Nissan Tino and most recently for Snickers in 2014.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Mel Smith, Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, 1997
  2. "The Fine Art of Being Mr. Bean", archive interview in The Buffalo News. Retrieved 15 June 2006.
  3. "Meet the Characters". Mr Bean. Retrieved 2012-01-26.
  4. Snickers UK (2014-10-04), Snickers Mr Bean TV advert - Subtitled, retrieved 2018-04-06
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