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Discussion on Darktrooper Progress Thread 8MAR2011: Getting back to it within the Star Wars Costumes forum, part of the Star Wars Universe category; lookin good, its about time this thread hit 100 posts
lookin good, its about time this thread hit 100 posts
thats gonna way a frackin ton
How durable is vac-formed plastic?
Will the helmet rear be a one piece cast, or a multiple part?
I'm concerned that the sheer size of the helmet rear will be too much for the casting material when you suck the air out.
To answer lloyd, very durable. A lot of people on here prefer it over fiberglass because it won't chip or crack as easily because it has some give upon impact.
Now on to mandolore's comment. I think he will be ablet pull these on a single sheet as long as he has nothing else on the forming table. I know stormtrooper ab plates, back plates, and boba fett backplates are done in single pulls. This is a lot smaller in terms of space on the forming table, it's just more vertical. I think if he heats the plastic well enough it should be fine.
Yeah, I thought about this too, and was afraid of the plastic tearing at the highest point. I realized however, that the heated plastic stretches and in spots of the plastic that arent being used would become thinner because of the stretching. Im sure that it will be fine, I plan to use .80 thick plastic, or should I go for something thicker?
I need a consensus..
I was thinking about the hand guards, and realized that in all the reff pics from the game, the hand guards look like they just put a blob of grey over it. Becuase of that, I was wondering if I should make them standard TK from ANH, or clone hand guards. What do you guys think? Im leaning more towards ANH version only because the DT is from that general era of the empire. Would make more sense, yet, a majority dosnt cause most of it is clone!
My personal (and mostly random opinion) is to stick with the ANH. I would imagine that the game designers, though referencing old dark forces pictures, probably wouldn't have paid attention to the hand guards.
The Dark tropper Phase two in DF was essentially stormie armor (with minor differences), so I would just go with that.
I concur, ANH hand plates.
Lookin good, Chris... Great work...
After looking at the SS a few times and the shape of the gray handguard. I'd go with clone handguards.
Your doing a great job, keep up the good work, the Helmet is looking kick-***......
Thanks guys!
I have been wroking on the guants for awhile now, the hardest part being getting these dang boxes to cut and look good at the same time. I managed to cut out the boxes, all evenly spaced with the accurate amount, 12 boxes in total. I just need to gett some stronger files, instead of my puny, nail files which I still have from my Jango helm project. Thats it for now, im probly gona get some more MDF and start the second half of the guant and start the hands and biceps...
(Who's watching Fox, and still wonder's why Anna Nicole died like 10 minutes away from him...)
Well, heres just a quick blurb.
I havent worked as much as I would have liked to for the past few days, been really busy. Right now, the guant top half boxes are cut and ready to be attached, just trying to figure how to level the boxes so its relatively flat to the guant. I think I may just sand the center portion so that it can just lay there. Im gonna also try to start the second half tonight as well.
Good luck with your Gauntlets, I would not even try to make a set of them just yet. I'm getting mine off another Mando, just waiting for them to arrive.... any how just take your time and i'm sure they will look good. Can't wait to see a pic of them.......
I was down this weekend to go check out TubaChris's suit, its definately turnin out great.
I have been busy yesterday, but managed to work on the top half for a bit. Its pretty much done minus the small areas I need to re-fill with the durhams. I was gonna post pics last night, but wasnt able to. I will though around noon. Gonna start the bottom half later today. I love half-school days.
Well, here it is. From a picture standpoint, its done as far as the look is concern, really, I just need to do a little more durhams work and some sanding. Other then that, I just to drill holes on the inside of the boxes so that the vaccum can pull the plastic into it so it appears better. Its not perfect however, but thats how we get better...
Ah ha! First piece of the hand armor! ANH version of course...
I guess we finally got those rectangles figured out, hehe. How long was it? Dont worry, im not telling. Lookin good dude, be down this weekend to check it out further.
Yes we did, thanks to t_bone9600 for helping me get that squared away. I made up the hand molds, left and right, one is sanded, other is waiting to be. I just need to get some thin wood to elevate the details on them, and they should be ready for casting. I imagine if they are decent enough, I can offer them to some of you guys with TK's if anyone may need them. I also started the 2nd half of the guant, shouldnt be too long before thats done. Thats it for tonight.
Last edited by tubachris85x; Feb 15, 2007 at 7:31 PM.
This is looking awesome!! That helmet turned out perfect!
this project is turnin out great keep up the good work
Lookin' good. If you havent found thin strips of wood for the hands yet, try a hobby shop or craft store. I know the Michael's here has a lot of different thicknesses of wood for use in building model airplanes and pinewood slots.
In my effort to make this project as accurate as possible to the game's, I have realized an inaccuracy with the helmet mod buck. Its not major, but is a significant error. Where I once beleived the edge came to a "point," the outside edge actually resembles more of a duck bill, more rounded out. It wont be an issue to fix, but I'd like to let you guys know.
I have found the harder you work to be more accurate, the more set backs you face. But if your as close as you can, then that also works very fine.. I have had the same problem on another outfit project that im working on apart from my New look mando outfit.... Do what you can, it will turn out great anyway.......
The thing I dont want to happen is to end up haviing a suit that "kinda" looks like the darktrooper and thats not that great looking. I want it to be as accurate enough so that the average joe who has played battlefront a few times can say "hey, I know what that is!" Granted, everything cannot be perfect, but its a good goal to aim for
*sigh* the sad thing is that your probly right. All of us here will know what it is, but in reality, all everyone really sees of the dartrooper is the back of it and thats it. Maybe the front for like a split second, or the occassional pass by of a CGbot during the game play.
I managed to get up early enough even though I stayed home today, and got somewhere with the bottom half of the guant. I just to bondo the sides to get them even. My mom finnally got fed up of me turning the whole house into the "Ark Hammer," and told me to go to home depot and to not come back in the house until I had a storage container built and filled with all my tools...
I was checking out the 501st site yesterday and I got to thinking, how would they classify your Dark Trooper? Would they lump it in with the specialty armor and call it TX or would they start a new one, maybe DT?
I actually had a discussion with the cloneemperor about this, him being the head membership officer of the legion. Bascially, he says that he may not even know if the battlefront 2 DT would be accepted or not. He says the board would have to decide on it. The biggest issue is what would the board consider to be "canon." Anyone can say that the dark forces is more canon because its the orgininal, yet, there are 3 phases from that game, and only one version from battlefront 2. The thing is, can the battlefront 2 DT be considered a phase 2 DT from dark forces? Upon looking at the phase 3 DT figure from hasbro, there are ALOT of similarities that the BF2 DT has to the phase 3 DT of dark forces, including the Jet Pack, and the protruding helmet. But then comes the liscensing requitement, they are both liscensed by LFL, therefore, both can be considered into the 501st.
So there is alot of cloudy areas. IMO, of what may happen is either:
1) I dont get accepted, and told that it must be a dark forces version, because it is the original, and they have a liscensed figure of it.
2) They decide to accept both, the dark forces and the BF2 DT's, and classify them as special ops.
3) creates arguments and pisses people off
So I dont know what will happen or if it will be accepted or not. I will say though that this matter will not sway me away from building this suit.
Yes, very good point there dude! They'll see our effectivness and realizes who the betters are...
Well, until then, I have managed to finnaly get some time and fix the helmet mod (hopefully for the last time!) to make it more accurate. If you look at the older pics, you can see that it came to a point. Well, upon further review, I found that it was inaccurate to the game, and instead, is more round. Those of you who play regularly, at least in the first battlefront where the DT is a better playable character then the DT in BF2, can see that this correction is much better and alot more accurate. LMK what you guys think!
looks like the back of the head of the Alien in "Alien" what you think? But definately lookin good. Once that plastic is in and such cant wait to check it dude.
you have a nice collection of pots
Alright, heres a status report..
The guant molds are pretty much done, just the bottom half needs one side w/ durham's and sand that, and they are done. The hands are sanded down, i just need to get some thin wood wo elevate the details and they will be done. The helmet mold details are done, just need to go over it one last time with some 120 grit to get it smooth and then that will be done FOR GOOD! Im now preparing the bicep designs. I have a sketch, I will post it later, because I need everyone's input cause its been a pain to realy get good shots of it. Fortunatly, from the schetches, I will only need one set for both arms. Really saves me the time and costs.
I will also need to possibly move my completion date beyond June. The current rate, I wont able to get it done by then. Im reduced to only 3 days a week, sometimes on Sundays. I have orchestra on monday's and now have rehearsals on friday's for the Jamestown event. But Im still working, and by gum, I'll get it done!
It's looking good, keep up the hard work dude......
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Hey ThisIsMyWorld, do you have a costume you're working on? I'm just curious.
Okay, I know this may seem insignificant, but since its been hard getting good reference of the biceps, but i need input. Here are some sketches of what I think they look like, and need help before I go ahead puttin them together tomorrow.
Haha, i just liked the quote thought id throw it in. Ive grown up with TubaChris, just makin it known im checkin up on his progress. When Im down for some extra time I will be assisting him with the building of his suit. There will be a day chris
Aleight, well, here's tonight's work. I went to mcheals, and found some thin wood and cut out the shapes, and attached them to the rest of the hand guards. I just need to add a little durham's and its done. I finnally got over the initial shock that comes with starting any mold, and began the biceps. This is only the first half and I think that it came out very well, as far as its initial shape, and relative size to my biceps on my arms. I did some more finnal sanding of the helmet mold, and I promis I will not show more pics of the dang thing until after its casted just because Im getting sick of hearing about it, as Im sure you guys are too. Anyways, heres what I got.
The penciled line is where I will sand it to an angle. This would be the front of the left bicep if your looking at a DT.
I finnally managed to get up and do work before noon for once, and got down to shaping the bicep for about an hour. Good thing too, cause I also got to get some more "practice" with the sanding/sculpting, and was getting used to working with different grit sand paper for the belt sander.
Well here it is to give you guys a better idea.
I drew the line where it angles to show where its at, cause it didnt show the first time.
Hey!! I want a cookie!
Looking good!
this is commin along very nicely so far keep up the good work
I'm so hungry! GIVE ME COOKIES!!!
Just a heads up, there may not be any updates the rest of this week or the weekend, but next week. I was "told" to fix up my room, i.e., completlty revamping everything minus the bed. Just got a whole new desk, cabinets and night stand, which I painstakenly built all bymyself in a matter of around 6+ hours I think though that I have alot more floor space now, and I finnally got to put my Jango Helm. where I wanted to display it, on my un-official "dedication to Jango" glass/silver shelves. Well, thats been it though, my whole room is pretty much a display of everything star wars, and I cant complain
(Who has neck pain from having to sleep on the couch cause the bed had every star wars product he owns on it...)
seriously those cookies look so **** good Im gona have to go out and buy some.
And awesome job so far on the darktrooper, cant wait for more updates and when its finally finsihed
the cookies are distracting, please send them to me with a frozen jug of milk
I don't want to know how much MDF you are getting through!
I finally got back to working today, and I have started the second half of the bicep. I think I might add som flat pieces of thin wood to slightly bring out the change of the surface angles. I messed up a smiget of the hand guards after trying to sand them a bit, but its noticable, so I'll have to bondo that up.
I have been thinking about the time I have and my previously set goal of completion in June. New things have poped up, and I feel that it will not be completed by then. I still have to finish the pieces mentioned, as well as the chest, back, shoulders, belt, belt boxes, thigh and calf pieces. The leg armor alone will require 8 sperate halves.
I have also recieved a letter yesterday, I am offered a 4-year Army ROTC scholarship to FSU, and I will have to begin getting some more solid physical training time put in during the week until I leave. Now im not celebrating completly just yet, I still am waiting to find out if I get accepted to FSU, I wont know until the 28th. Hoping im in though.
lookin good broseph!
Ive been REALLY busy lately, getting ready (physically) for the ROTC and having midterms this week. Fortunatly the midterm days are half days, so I'll have more time to get some work done on this. Dont worry, there will be more progress!
Whoo Hoo. PT is fun and good for you. Run 4-5 miles at least 5 times a week. Do 100 Push ups and situps in a row daily and you will be set.
Keep in mind as an Officer if you cannot outrun and outpush most of your soldiers, especially as a butterbar, you will be a source of amusement for the enlisted guys. Just an FYI.
Here's another update..
Ive spent tonight working on the jet pack because since I started the vacu-form bucks, ive almost totally fogotten about it. The biggest issue I was having was trying to get myself to finish these vents. I have finished 3 of the 6, having to build walls so that it sits at an angle. Those 3 are done and ready to be attached to the other parts. However, I cannot attach anythin until everything on the main body is painted. I wont post many pics of the progress, until near completion.
Thats it so far.
(Who just ran 2 miles and is starving)
*chants* We want pictures...
You'll get them soon enough. I have to build something in order to post it...
lol, imagine wat would happen to your computer if i posted a picture of every last piece right to the shavings from sanding..
More to come, possibly later tonight..
(My backpack's gonna have jets)
Alright, well just to hold you guys up till the nxxt major progress, heres where its at right now. I had to cover that nasty looking line where I glued the halves together, so i added panels to cover it up, and did the same to the other side to make them even in height. I then added some durham's to cover the gaps between pieces. After its done drying sometime soon, I'll go ahead and sand it down, then attach the surface details, once again, put on some durham's for the seems, and then I can paint the base grey. I will have to say, the painter's touch paint is really durable, it hasnt scratched or flaked or anything, and I have put some of it through heck, and nothings happend yet.
Dont laugh at my work bench, despite the fact its only two saw horses and an old cut up shet of MDF....
Well, the vents are done and ready to be attached. Whats left to do, is to paint it all up and put the walls together, and it'l start looking like what it should be. To complete it, I need to finnish the box on the main body, and figure how to make the thrusters
I'll post pics tomorrow, my camera is "D-E-D, dead"
Well, good thing I got batteries early enough. Here are the vents that took forever. Its hard to see, but there are walls that surround the piece so that once its attached to the main body, it will angle inwards as you can see. I also finished one of the side of the boxes witht the circular greebly thing on it. Its smaller then I waned it to be, but I could not find any other object that match it's shape as well as this one.
These are the main vents you first see when you play as the DT on BF
Tried to get a shot of the walls
These are the top and underside vents that are not as easly seen
I really wanted something exactly like this, but with a larger diameter..
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Dude, I've just seen this thread an apologise for not popping in sooner (I don't own any mando so thought this place sacred ground, LOL)
Ace work dude, ace! I need to start doing something 'special' like this too. Loving the hand plates MDF sculpt. I make smaller handplates but are made from clay then plaster, when I got it right. Good thing about plastic is you can form it again if it's pants.
Keep up the great work mate
Quick update for this afternoon. I put on the surface details, and sanded the sides up a bit, and its looking a bit cleaner. The Durham's is drying right now, and I will have to finish sanding that later tonight. I am expecting to finish this tonight as well as begin attaching the vents. Hopefully by this time tomorrow, you'll begin to see it taking more shape. But right now, I have to perform at a concert....
Here's a quick teaser until I finish the rest tonight...
oh great. I drooled on my keyboard
Looks awesome
Sorry guys, something came up while working on the JP. I managed to sattach the front side vents, and the bottom, left side vent, but was unable to finish the rest of it tonight. I will present it when I get them on.
Alright, I spent my morning working on the boxes that I wasnt able to finish last time. Took me awhile to get this one side done, but im still not done with it, still need to bondo and re-paint the grey around it so it will look cleaner than it is. Im also getting concerned about the accuracy of the jp now. I spent countless hours trying to get the right look to everything as much as possible, but im starting to wonder if the box looks "stubby" or too short. Let me know what you guys think.
lookin good chris
Awesome bro!! That jet pack is coming along VERY nicely! This thing is going to kick some major bootay when done!
that JP is sweet! I can't wait to see the whole suit, it will be Uber
Thanks guys!
Im a bit ticked cause I have been trying to upload the ref pics of the JP that I have, and its just not working! There is one inaccuracy which concerns the trapazoid box details, but if I decide to try and fix it, I would have to redo the whole jp, so I'll make sure to keep note of that when I do a version 2 vacu-form version.
Alrighty then!
I managed to get the pic scanned finnally. I wish I could have made it a bit larger, but my photoshop skills arent all there yet. LMK what you think in comparison!
Mate that looks outstanding! I think you've captured it really really well.
Keep up the great work
Looking good really good dude!!!!!!!
I finnally got off my rear and did something productive and got most of the biceps done. The only thing left is I want to add a thin pice of flat wood, just like the stuff I got for the hand guards. On the trapzoid (outside trapazoidal box where the two pieces will meet) and the front rectangular section between the angled section and the curve of the inside, is where I will add the wood to raise the details and make it cleaner looking. That'll be it for the biceps once I do that. Next up, the shoulder armor!
Thats lookin sweet dude. Definatly lookin like pic, i can just picture it
Well, just as a side note, you could actually make quite a bit of money selling these pieces to 501st guys looking to make a dark trooper. It looks like your pretty much just making all of your own vacu-molds, so you could just do tons of castings.


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Mr. Bean's Holiday
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Directed by | Steve Bendelack |
Produced by | Peter Bennett-Jones Tim Bevan Eric Fellner Rowan Atkinson |
Screenplay by | Hamish McColl Robin Driscoll |
Story by | Simon McBurney |
Starring | Rowan Atkinson Emma de Caunes Max Baldry Willem Dafoe Karel Roden Jean Rochefort |
Music by | Howard Goodall |
Cinematography | Baz Irvine |
Editing by | Tony Cranstoun |
Studio | Working Title Films StudioCanal Tiger Aspect Productions |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release dates |
Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom France Russia United States |
Language | English French Russian Italian[1] |
Budget | $25 million[2] |
Box office | $229,736,344 (worldwide)[3] |
Mr. Bean's Holiday is a 2007 British comedy film starring Rowan Atkinson, which was released in the United Kingdom and Australia on 24 March 2007 and on 24 August 2007 in the United States and Canada. It is the second film based on the television series Mr. Bean, and a sequel to 1997's Bean.
Apart from Atkinson, none of the other cast from the previous film appear in this sequel.
Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) is attending a raffle. Mr. Bean wins the raffle and claims his prize. The prize is a holiday involving a train journey to Cannes, a Sony video camera, and €200. Bean proceeds to film his trip to the French Riviera beach on the video camera.
Accidentally taking a taxi from the Gare du Nord railway station to the arch at La Defense in Paris, Bean is forced to make his way on foot, literally walking through Paris (with disastrous effects) towards Gare de Lyon from La Défense to board his next train towards Cannes. He misses his train when his necktie gets stuck while trying to buy a sandwich from a vending machine. Discovering that a back-up train wont leave for 1 hour, he has time to try some French food at Le Train Bleu restaurant. Not knowing how to speak in French and not understanding the waiter's suggestion, he accidentally orders oysters and langoustines, which he cannot bring himself to eat. He pours the oysters into a nearby lady's handbag and eats a whole lobster without removing the shell.
Back on the platform, Bean asks a man, who happens to be a Cannes Film Festival jury member and Russian movie critic Emil Dachevsky (Roden), to use his camcorder to film his walking onto the train. By the time they are done, the TGV is about to leave. Although Bean manages to get onto the train, the doors close before Dachevsky can get on. Dachevsky's son, Stephan (Max Baldry) is left on board by himself. Bean attempts to befriend Stepan, who gets off at the next stop to meet his father. While confronting a threatening stranger who approaches Stepan, Bean accidentally misses the train's departure, leaving his bag aboard. The train that Stepan's father has boarded does not stop at the station, and he holds up a mobile number which reads 06–08–08–07–97, but the last two digits are covered by his fingers. When their efforts at calling the number prove fruitless, they board the next train, accidentally leaving Bean's ticket, passport and money behind which results in the duo being forced off the train. They ask a lady for money to try and contact Stepan's father, but still, they are unable to reach him. Then a security camera takes a picture of Bean and Stepan. The station master falsely sees Bean and Stepan vandalising the phones and chases them out of the station.
Bean attempts at busking by miming to Puccini's O mio babbino caro (sung by Rita Streich) and other music prove successful in a shopping area. Bean buys two bus tickets to Cannes, and some food to eat on the way, but loses his ticket when it gets caught in the breeze and then snagged in the talon of a chicken, which is subsequently loaded into a farm pick-up. Bean steals a nearby bicycle and follows the pick-up, only to be in the path of a tour de France bicycle race in the process to reach a large chicken pen with no hope of finding the ticket. While he is on the farm, the bicycle is destroyed by a passing tank. Ironically, a VW van with Stepan in it passes by when Bean accidentally locks himself in a public loo. After attempting to steal a moped and almost getting killed by a passing truck, Bean falls asleep in a village but wakes up to realise that he has stumbled onto a set for a 1940s film. His video camera battery dies but while recharging it, he accidentally blows up the set, injuring the director Carson Clay (Willem Dafoe).
Hitchhiking, Bean is picked up by actress Sabine (Emma de Caunes), whom Bean encountered at the commercial filming, driving the same car as Bean. She is on her way to the 59th Cannes Film Festival where Carson Clay's film in which she makes her debut is going to be presented. When they stop at a service station, Bean finds Stepan in a café. Continuing to drive to Cannes, Bean finds Sabine's cell phone, which gives him an idea to try and contact Stepan's father, but yet again, they still are unable to reach him. When Sabine falls deeply asleep on the way due to Bean accidentally activating a lullaby on her cellphone, he drives the car himself happily, finally reaching Cannes.
When Sabine goes into a fuel station to change for the premiere, she watches TV news depicting Bean as Stepan's kidnapper and Sabine as an accomplice. On their way, they pass a billboard saying that Stepan was missing and Bean was wanted with the picture of Bean and Stepan the security camera at the train station took. Confronting Bean, he explains he is "going to the beach". Not wanting to miss the premiere, the three plan to get into Cannes without being identified. Stepan dresses up as Sabine's daughter, while Bean dresses up as Sabine's mother. They manage to get past the police and Sabine arrives at the premiere on time.
The three sneak into the premiere, "Playback Time", a shameless vanity production written by, produced by, directed by, and starring Clay himself. From the first few moments, the audience is horribly bored. Sabine tells Bean that her big scene is coming up, but is disappointed to see that her role has been cut from the film. Hoping to cheer up Sabine, Bean goes to the projection room and plugs his video camera into the projector. The ensuing scenes, heavily featuring Sabine, fit director Clay's narration. Emil then sees footage of his son and claims that Bean stole Stepan despite not seeing that he is enjoying the videos. Bean walks on stage nearly arrested as Stepan is finally reunited with his father. The audience gives a standing ovation for what they believe to be part of Clay's movie. Clay's initial anger fades and he embraces Bean and takes credit for the film's success. After the screening, Bean leaves the building and goes to the beach, encountering many of the other characters including Sabine and Stepan. The film ends with Bean and all the other characters of the film miming a large French musical finale, lip-syncing the famous song by Charles Trenet, "La Mer" (Beyond the Sea).
In a post-credits scene, Bean writes "FIN" on the wet sand using his foot. He films it until the camera says "low battery" again, then the sea washes the words away and the camera turns off.
- Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean, the protagonist.
- Emma de Caunes as Sabine
- Max Baldry as Stepan Dachevsky, Emil's son
- Willem Dafoe as Carson Clay, the director of the premiere.
- Jean Rochefort as waiter in Le Train Bleu restaurant
- Karel Roden as Emil Dachevsky, a Russian film critic.
- Steve Pemberton as Vicar
- Lily Atkinson as Lily at the Stereo
The film music was written by Howard Goodall. It has a symphonic orchestration, a sophisticated score instead of the show's tendency to simple musical repetitions and features catchy leitmotifs for particular characters or scenes.
Official Soundtrack[edit]
The film official soundtrack was Crash by Matt Willis.
News of the second film first broke in early 2005, suggesting that it would be written by Simon McBurney, although in December 2005, Atkinson stated that the screenplay was being written by himself and his long-time collaborator Richard Curtis.[4] The screenplay was finally confirmed to have been written by Robin Driscoll, Simon McBurney and Hamish McColl.[5]
Unlike the 1997 Mel Smith film, Mr. Bean's Holiday was directed by Steve Bendelack.[6] The film began shooting on 15 May 2006. Its working title was "French Bean".
It was the official film for Red Nose Day 2007, with money from the film going towards the charity Comic Relief.[7] Prior to the film's release, a new and exclusive Mr. Bean sketch was broadcast on the Comic Relief telethon on BBC One on 16 March 2007.
The movie's official premiere took place at the Odeon, Leicester Square, in London on Sunday, 25 March, and helped to raise money for both Comic Relief and the Oxford Children's Hospital Appeal charity.
Universal Pictures released a teaser trailer in November 2006,[8] and in December 2006 launched an official website online.[9]
On 18 November 2012, the film had a score of 56 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 26 reviews.[10] On Rotten Tomatoes, 50% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 110 reviews (55 "fresh", 55 "rotten") and the critical consensus stating "Mr. Bean's Holiday means well, but good intentions can't withstand the 90 minutes of monotonous slapstick and tired, obvious gags."[11]
The film was met with mixed reviews by critics. Matthew Turner of View London gave the film 3 out of 5 stars and said "Crucially, the film-makers have decided to make Bean more of a bumbling innocent, than the obnoxious and frequently mean-spirited character of the TV show", and that the film is a "surprisingly sweet comedy" with inspired gags and is much better than the previous film.[12] BBC film critic Paul Arendt gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, saying "It's hard to explain the appeal of Mr Bean. At first glance, he seems to be moulded from the primordial clay of nightmares: a leering man-child with a body like a tangle of tweed-coated pipe cleaners and the gurning, window-licking countenance of a suburban sex offender. It's a testament to Rowan Atkinson's skill that, by the end of the film he seems almost cuddly."[13] Philip French of The Observer referred to the character of Mr. Bean as a "dim-witted sub-Hulot loner" and said the plot involves Atkinson "getting in touch with his retarded inner child". French also said "the best joke is taken directly from Tati's Jour de Fete."[14] Wendy Ide of The Times gave the film 2 out of 5 stars and said "It has long been a mystery to the British, who consider Bean to be, at best, an ignoble secret weakness, that Rowan Atkinson's repellent creation is absolutely massive on the Continent." Ide said parts of the film are reminiscent of City of God, The Straight Story, and said two scenes are "clumsily borrowed" from Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Ide also wrote that the jokes are weak and one gag "was past its sell-by date ten years ago".[15] Steve Rose of The Guardian gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, said the film was full of awfully weak gags, and "In a post-Borat world, surely there's no place for Bean's antiquated fusion of Jacques Tati, Pee-Wee Herman and John Major?",[16] while Colm Andrew of the Manx Independent said "the flimsiness of the character, who is essentially a one-trick pony, starts to show" and his "continual close-up gurning into the camera" becomes tiresome.[17]
Peter Rainer of The Christian Science Monitor gave the film a "B" and said, "Since Mr. Bean rarely speaks a complete sentence, the effect is of watching a silent movie with sound effects. This was also the dramatic ploy of the great French director-performer Jacques Tati, who is clearly the big influence here."[18] Amy Biancolli of the Houston Chronicle gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, saying "Don't mistake this simpleton hero, or the movie's own simplicity, for a lack of smarts. Mr. Bean's Holiday is quite savvy about filmmaking, landing a few blows for satire." Biancolli said the humour is "all elementally British and more than a touch French. What it isn't, wasn't, should never attempt to be, is American. That's the mistake made by Mel Smith and the ill-advised forces behind 1997's Bean: The Movie."[19] Ty Burr of the Boston Globe said "Either you'll find [Atkinson] hilarious—or he'll seem like one of those awful, tedious comedians who only thinks he's hilarious." Burr also said "There are also a few gags stolen outright from Tati", but concluded "Somewhere, Jacques Tati is smiling."[20] Tom Long of The Detroit News said "Watching 90 minutes of this stuff—we're talking broad, broad comedy here—may seem a bit much, but this film actually picks up steam as it rolls along, becoming ever more absurd." and also "Mr. Bean offers a refreshingly blunt reminder of the simple roots of comedy in these grim, overly manufactured times."[21]
Suzanne Condie Lambert of The Arizona Republic said, "Atkinson is a gifted physical comedian. And the film is a rarity: a kid-friendly movie that was clearly not produced as a vehicle for selling toys and video games", but also said, "It's hard to laugh at a character I'm 95 percent sure is autistic."[22] Lawrence Toppman of The Charlotte Observer gave the film 2½ stars out of 4 and said "If you like [the character], you will certainly like Mr. Bean's Holiday, a 10-years-later sequel to Bean. I found him intermittently funny yet almost unrelentingly creepy", and also "Atkinson doesn't have the deadpan elegance of a Buster Keaton or the wry, gentle physicality of a Jacques Tati (whose Mr. Hulot's Holiday inspired the title). He's funniest when mugging shamelessly..."[23]
Ruthe Stein of the San Francisco Chronicle said that "the disasters instigated by Bean's haplessness quickly become tiresome and predictable" but said that one scene later in the film is worth sticking around for.[24] Elizabeth Weitzman of the New York Daily News gave the film 2 out of 4 stars and said "If you've never been particularly fond of Atkinson's brand of slapstick, you certainly won't be converted by this trifle." and also "If the title sounds familiar, it's because Atkinson intends his movie to be an homage to the 1953 French classic Mr. Hulot's Holiday. Mr. Hulot was played by one of the all-time great physical comedians, Jacques Tati, and that movie is a genuine delight from start to finish. This version offers a few laughs and an admirable commitment to old-fashioned fun."[25] Phil Villarreal of the Arizona Daily Star gave the film 2 stars and said "If you've seen 10 minutes of Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean routine, you've seen it all", and "The Nazi stuff is a bit out of place in a G-rated movie. Or any movie, really", later calling Atkinson "a has-Bean".[26] Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film 1½ stars out of 4 and said "If you've been lobotomised or have the mental age of a kindergartener, Mr. Bean's Holiday is viable comic entertainment" and also, "The film, set mostly in France, pays homage to Jacques Tati, but the mostly silent gags feel like watered-down Bean."[27]
In the UK, it was classified by the British Board of Film Classification as PG for containing "irresponsible behaviour".
This film was originally given a PG rating by the Motion Picture Association of America for brief mild language, but Universal cut out most of the language (leaving Stepan saying "damn" in Russian in one shot and the same word in French in a later shot) so the film was rated G by the MPAA.[28][29] It was one of the few Universal theatrically released films to be rated G. The first film, by contrast, was rated PG-13. It is much cleaner in content than the original film.
DVD release[edit]
Mr. Bean's Holiday was released on DVD and HD DVD on 27 November 2007. The DVD version is in separate widescreen and pan and scan for the US markets formats. The DVD charted at No. 1 on the UK DVD Chart on its week of release.[citation needed]
There are 15 deleted scenes in the film. In a 2007 TV commercial, there was a scene where Mr Bean spills coffee on a laptop. Mr. Bean is seen by Stepan for the very first time in other scene. In another scene, Mr. Bean tricks a man to get a train ticket and stay with Stepan on the train. In another, Mr. Bean carries Stepan all the way through a plaza. In other scenes, Sabine goes off with her emotions and is almost run over by a truck, Mr. Bean does silly moves along the road (which are later seen in Carson Clay's "Playback Time"), plays with the shadows of the morning, mimes his journey to Stepan at the cafeteria, is menaced by a projectionist at the Cannes Film Festival (at the playing of Clay's movie), accidentally cuts the film roll and tries to stick it again, and Carson Clay discovers the film roll accumulating at the projector's room. Finally, Mr Bean is seen dancing at the beach, a scene that was replaced by the characters singing "La Mer".
- ^ For the song O mio babbino caro
- ^ "Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) — Box office / business". Retrieved 21 June 2012.
- ^ "Mr Bean's Holiday (2007)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
- ^ Moviehole.net. Retrieved 25 February 2007
- ^ Paramount Comedy. Retrieved 25 February 2007
- ^ Movies Online. Retrieved 25 February 2007
- ^ Comic Relief site. Retrieved 25 February 2007
- ^ http://video.uk.msn.com/v/en-gb/v.htm?g=8AAB9DF9-B14D-4DEB-9112-58FAD6DE1EA4&f=&fg=copy
- ^ http://www.beansholiday.com
- ^ Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007): Reviews. Metacritic. Retrieved 24 August 2007
- ^ Mr. Bean's Holiday – Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 24 August 2007
- ^ Matthew Turner (28 March 2007). "Mr Bean's Holiday – London Movie Review". ViewLondon. Retrieved 25 August 2007.
- ^ Paul Arendt (29 March 2007). "BBC – Movies – review – Mr Bean's Holiday". BBC. Retrieved 25 August 2007.
- ^ Philip French (1 April 2007). "Mr Bean's Holiday". The Observer. UK. Retrieved 25 August 2007.
- ^ Wendy Ide (29 March 2007). "Mr Bean's Holiday". The Times. UK. Retrieved 25 August 2007.
- ^ Steve Rose (30 March 2007). "Mr Bean's Holiday". The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 25 August 2007.
- ^ Review by Colm Andrew, IOM Today
- ^ Peter Rainer (24 August 2007). "New in theaters". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
- ^ Amy Biancolli (23 August 2007). "Savvy satire on filmmaking". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
- ^ Ty Burr (24 August 2007). "Clowning around is all in good fun". Boston Globe. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
- ^ Tom Long (24 August 2007). "Broad comedy hits its marks". The Detroit News. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
- ^ Suzanne Condie Lambert (24 August 2007). "Mr. Bean's Holiday". The Arizona Republic. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
- ^ Lawrence Toppman (23 August 2007). "After 12 years, Atkinson's 'Bean' act still child's play". The Charlotte Observer. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
- ^ Ruthe Stein (24 August 2007). "Look out, France – here comes Mr. Bean". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
- ^ Elizabeth Weitzman (24 August 2007). "This Bean dish isn't for all tastes". Daily News. New York. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
- ^ Phil Villarreal (23 August 2007). "Mr. Bean's reverse Midas touch getting old". Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
- ^ Claudia Puig (23 August 2007). "Humor in 'Holiday' isn't worth a hill of Bean". USA Today. Retrieved 24 August 2007.
- ^ Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
- ^ Latest MPAA Ratings: No. 59 | Movie News | RopeofSilicon.com Entertainment News
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My mind settled on apple pies, and as I assembled the ingredients I wondered how many housewives still make pies from scratch. (One of my long-ago neighbors asked me once what making something from scratch meant. He asked, "Does it mean you scratch while you make it?" He wasn't raised in the country.)
I hope that pie-making isn't one of the arts that get lost by the wayside in our fast, modern world. I was always under the impression that most every woman in my age group knew how to make pies. I was flabbergasted some time ago when we planned a party for our youth group, and decided to have each lady in the congregation make a fruit pie so we could serve pie and ice cream.
One of the older ladies (well, older than me, anyway) came up to me and confessed, "I've never made a pie in my life!" I might have expected that out of the younger wives, but this woman was a grandmother!
I was mulling over this as I went about making my pies, just as my mother taught me. I peeled and sliced the apples, added sugar, spices and tapioca, and let it set while I made the crusts. Mom used lard while I use Crisco, but I will have to admit that lard makes the best pie crust.
Out came the dough board and rolling pin, and then came the shaping and patting the crusts into the pie pans. The apple slices were dumped into the bottom crusts, pats of butter added, and the top crust put in place. Into the oven they went to bake. Then came the fun part -- cleaning up the mess. As I was washing the utensils and wiping flour off all the surfaces, it came to me that there must be an easier way.
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The opening on Monday of the California State legislature should strike fear into friends of liberty. While it is true that this particular legislature will be more inclined than previous ones to regulate and tax, and encourage moral license, similar fears have moved Californians going back to the Gold Rush days.
Unfortunately, the cure for those early fears has finally proven to be much worse than the original vices. What we see today in Sacramento is the logic of the Progressive reformers of the early twentieth century. To fight the corruption of earlier governments, this reform movement sought to regulate industry, in particular the railroads, and minimize partisanship. Politics would be more "professional," deferring to "experts" in the universities. Through politicians such as Woodrow Wilson, thinkers such as John Dewey, and magazines like the New Republic, Progressivism inaugurated the liberalism of modern government. The Progressive "box" in which we act and think today seems to confine us to ever more regulation and higher taxes.
In the recently published Democracy in California, professor Brian Janiskee of California State University, San Bernardino, and I elaborate this Progressive domination of California government. Our introduction to California politics and government emphasizes the threats to limited, constitutional government from a source many of us take for granted — the desire for reform, whose criterion has become unlimited centralized regulation and high-budget programs from Sacramento. Hence the outrageous budget deficit we face today.
In particular, we take as our greatest hope for liberty such basic constitutional principles as the separation of powers — the need for free governments to respect separate functions of passing, enforcing, and interpreting the law. We note the problems, as well as the merits, of going outside the legislature to pass laws or even amend the Constitution by a simple majority of the popular vote through initiatives and referendum.
Above all, we question the fundamental assumption that our liberties are made greater if partisanship is reduced — that is, if we give up on politics. A good sign of this surrender is the impulse to regulate campaign financing — a clear violation of the most basic freedoms of association and speech. Other disturbing evidence is apparent in the cowardice encouraged by "political correctness." This squeamishness reduces debate on serious issues like racial and ethnic preferences, gay rights, and uncontrolled multicultural immigration to mouthing of approved slogans. This is another assault on politics itself and quite in keeping with the Progressive spirit.
By calling to mind these fundamental issues, Democracy in California would have its readers revive the American political tradition, against Progressivism. The Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and books such as Alexis de Tocqueville's classic Democracy in America, inspire our goal, which is to revive manly political spirit in the arena of political struggle. Abraham Lincoln declared that the two sources of political will are "moral sense and self-interest." Californians who want to enjoy liberty need to be guided by Lincoln's wisdom. We need to embrace America's first and highest principles and turn our justified fears into determined political action. Fostering this attitude, through example, word, and accomplishment, is the highest duty of liberty-loving legislators. How many will embrace this duty as they begin the new legislative term?
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- New disclosures by a nonprofit journalism organization provide more evidence that the federal government needs to move more quickly to force the coal industry to eliminate black lung disease, mine safety advocates said this week.United Mine Workers union spokesman Phil Smith said the reports from the Center for Public Integrity underscore the need for the Obama administration to finalize new black lung protection rules.
"We know what causes black lung and we know how to prevent it," Smith said. "That people are still getting black lung means that either the respirable dust standards are too low or the companies aren't abiding by those standards -- or both."
Smith and some other mine safety advocates spoke after publication this week of a three-part black lung series by Center for Public Integrity investigative reporter Chris Hamby.
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On Friday, the latest story detailed the coal industry's efforts to discredit science linking coal dust exposure to a range of lung ailments. It focused on Ted Latusek, a miner who has been fighting for 19 years to win benefits because of the abnormal scarring that has consumed large portions of his lungs.
The company where Latusek worked, Consol Energy, insists that coal dust isn't the cause of his disease. However, medical evidence has increasingly shown the pattern of scarring Latusek has to be a previously unrecognized type of black lung.
"The fight over the answer to that question goes to the heart of the newest battle in a longstanding war between companies and miners," the Center for Public Integrity said. "Latusek's legal tussle is the signal case in the latest effort by the coal industry to deny emerging scientific evidence and contain its liabilities, a strategy that has played out repeatedly over more than a century and locked multitudes of miners out of the benefits system."
Celeste Monforton, a former federal Mine Safety and Health Administration staffer and public health researcher, called it "shameful" for the industry to argue that a miner's dust-related lung disease is not related to his work.
"Let's not forget that, for years, the coal operators -- and the physicians who manufactured uncertainty about health effects -- insisted that breathing coal dust was not dangerous and black lung was not a disease," Monforton said.
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Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The story relates the life of Moses, from the time he was discovered in the bullrushes as an infant by the pharoah's daughter, to his long, hard struggle to free the Hebrews from their slavery at the hands of the Egyptians. Moses (Charlton Heston) starts out "in solid" as Pharoah's adopted son (and a whiz at designing pyramids, dispensing such...more
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