Mr. Bean..the man of infinite laughter and humour. I heard somewhere it only takes a genius to play a fool and Mr.Bean is one hell of an example for that. The tough situations he faces in life and how easily he finds a solution to them are commendable. As I write I am thinking of the church scene in one of the tele-series episodes where he croons...Hallelujiah...drew me to laughter. It is a best example of how we complicate minor things as church going. We are all dressed up and damn serious....crooning worship songs with high degree of complicity...when there is nothing but the same thingy over and over again every week and we end up not enjoying the whole purpose of the situation. Recently I was going through a fellow blogger's blog in the blogosphere and it astounded me with one of the generalisations he made which is that we pretend to be busy, pretend to be serious. Mr.Bean (a personal inspiration to me ) is a slap on the face of those people.
Well this is a funny blog with no intention of getting serious..I dint want to make Mr. Bean cry......! Remember those scenes from the TV series..especially the one in which he was with this damn sick kid and was making all sort of gimmicks to make him smile and laugh...without knowing that the kid was sick. So kid pukes into the sick bag and Mr.Bean unknowingly converts the bag to a balloon and bursts it to make the kid laugh...! We did laugh!. the scene with the queen....all of them are so memorable, so innocent. What do you call a person like Bean? Fool? I will slay the person who calls him a fool...As I said in the beginning, it takes a genius to play a fool!. I am not writing this article as a prelude to watching the latest Bean movie or promoting it...but the gimmicks he does are actually serious in the damn silly, silly world that you and yours truly are part of!!
Somebody has once said...It is very difficult to make someone laugh easier to make him cry..Its true. Humour can be of many forms. It should be short lived and to the point-direct and provoking. We cant be like Mr.Bean, being the fool at all the time.but think of how can we make life so simpler with happiness all the time.
Ok ok this is not turning out to be damn speech n humourless. Think about Mr.Bean as he went around the town playing the golf ball thingy.The visit to the dentist, come on all these are thought provoking. This man is damn selfish, insensitive....he lives in his damn silly crazy world with no idea and bother on how other people feel or think about him! We can't live in today's world too like that...We will end up sooner in a mental asylum without a question.
Think about the scene with the butlers....The man did how he ordered for steak and how he ended up eating it...Or the movie where though accidentally the kid is resuscitated from death....the examples of these man are horrendous..They loiter between the narrow alley of fantasy and reality...Seldom life is luckier like that.
am I overdoing all I said in the beginning...Never..We have is a unique creation of a man with amazing contrasts and since we have so many examples of buffoonery around us its hardly surprising!
Lemme finish this banter with the scene from the movie...he goes around America after getting (finally) into the good books of his (pissed off!!) hosts. Saluting a rash driver on the road with the Englishman's 'hi' only to be replied with a the everyman middle finger fantasy!!
Life ain't getting better!! H-a-l-l-e-l-u-j-i-a-h
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