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Alfie

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Alfie	label	Alfie
Alfie	page	Alfie
Alfie	comment	Alfie is a 1966 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Michael Caine in the title role. Adapted by Bill Naughton from his own 1963 play of the same name, the film was released by Paramount Pictures.A remake of the film sporting the same title was released in 2004, starring Jude Law as the title character. The movie was written, directed and produced by Charles Shyer and again released by Paramount Pictures.Both incarnations of the film follow the life of the title character – cynical, womanizing Cockney chauffeur Alfie Elkins – over the course of a few years, documenting events that lead to his emotional growth, starting with the birth of his child. Alfie, however, is unable to get together with the mother of his son, who moves on herself. Left unable to see his son, Alfie seeks out emotional aid, leading to a series of misadventures as things derail further and he attempts to recover his life.In 1970 Bill Naughton wrote a sequel novel, Alfie Darling, which five years later received its own film adaptation directed by Ken Hughes and starring former The Animals keyboardist Alan Price as Alfie. However, that film felt more like a remake than a sequel, what with Alfie being played by a younger man and whatnot, and is nowhere near as highly regarded as the original film.Not related to the NSFW webcomic of the same name. Not related at all.
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Alfie / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Alfie / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Alfie is very, very, very detached from people.
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Alfie / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Alfie / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Alfie often talks directly to camera. In the first scene, he even warns the viewers that the film has no opening titles.
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Alfie / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
Alfie / int_2740531a	comment	She Cleans Up Nicely: Alfie is drawn to comment — in his own, inimitable way — about how attractive Gilda looked when she was pregnant. Bear in mind that by his standards, this was probably intended as a compliment...
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Alfie / int_2fc21a19	type	Distaff Counterpart
Alfie / int_2fc21a19	comment	Distaff Counterpart: Although she's older and richer than Alfie, Ruby otherwise turns out to be this to him, as she's carefree, promiscuous, and ultimately abandons him for another conquest, much like he did to all of the women he romanced.
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Alfie / int_389b0e	type	Title Theme Tune
Alfie / int_389b0e	comment	Title Theme Tune: Written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, it became a much-recorded standard, including hit versions by Cilla Black (who recorded it first, and had the highest-charting version in the UK), Cher (whose version plays over the end credits of the original film), and Dionne Warwick (whose version charted the highest in the US). Joss Stone recorded it for the 2004 film.
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Alfie / int_40b98588	type	Adaptational Location Change
Alfie / int_40b98588	comment	Adaptational Location Change: From London (1966 film) to New York City (2004 film).
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Alfie / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Alfie / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: More so in the original, as Alfie is cheated on and winds up alone, though present in both.
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Alfie / int_53d45fa8	type	Back-Alley Doctor
Alfie / int_53d45fa8	comment	Back-Alley Doctor: The abortionist memorably played by a scene-stealing Denholm Elliott is actually an aversion, as he's stated to be a properly-qualified general practitioner who does abortions (illegal in Britain at the time the movie was made) as a sideline.
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Alfie / int_545f8c91	type	Abortion Fallout Drama
Alfie / int_545f8c91	comment	Abortion Fallout Drama: Played very straight and seriously, with the normally amoral and carefree Alfie visibly moved.
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Alfie / int_55232afa	type	Politically Incorrect Hero
Alfie / int_55232afa	comment	Politically Incorrect Hero: Let's just say that almost everything that comes out of Alfie's mouth is incredibly sexist.
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Alfie / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
Alfie / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Alfie. He has sex with married women, single women, any woman that's willing and able.
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Alfie / int_798a9e41	type	Auto Erotica
Alfie / int_798a9e41	comment	Auto Erotica: The film begins with Alfie romancing a married woman and having sex in his car.
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Alfie / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
Alfie / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Played straight and then subverted with the two women who Alfie gets pregnant. The first is Gilda, who decides to have the baby (presumably, initially at least, in the hope that Alfie will fully commit to her). The second is Lily, who decides to have an abortion, presumably because she cannot possibly pass the baby off as her husband's, as he's still in the sanitarium. Since abortion is illegal, Alfie arranges for a doctor to come and do it in his flat. Alfie, who had previously hinted to Gilda that she should get an abortion and was somewhat taken aback when she didn't, is so shocked by the experience of seeing the fully formed fetus that he genuinely shows sympathy for Lily, something he hasn't shown to any other woman.
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Alfie / int_87ab7f69	type	Sharp-Dressed Man
Alfie / int_87ab7f69	comment	Sharp-Dressed Man: Alfie is never not in his suit and tie, making him all the more appealing. At one point, he even shags the woman who does his dry-cleaning — and leaves wearing a different suit, he having gone there to pick it up (and it being implied that this happens every time he drops one of his suits off to be cleaned).
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Alfie / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Alfie / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of The Casanova trope that Alfie embodies. He goes about using women in whatever manner pleases him, referring to them as "birds" and sometimes even as "it", until his behavior eventually blows up in his face.
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Alfie / int_8b442f50	type	Did Not Get the Girl
Alfie / int_8b442f50	comment	Did Not Get the Girl: Alfie has many love interests in the 1966 movie, but ends up alone.
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Alfie / int_93bd8608	type	Cuckold
Alfie / int_93bd8608	comment	Cuckold: Harry, the man Alfie befriends in the sanitarium (and whose wife he later gets pregnant, leading to the abortion scene). Whether he realises that he is one is not known.
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Alfie / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
Alfie / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: Annie, the Northern redhead who Alfie steals from the trucker when she's trying to hitch-hike to London, seems to want to embody this trope, leading Alfie to wonder what she was running away from.
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Alfie / int_9e622f84	type	Stealing from the Till
Alfie / int_9e622f84	comment	Stealing from the Till: Alfie not only engages in this, he's proud of the fact that he has had a "fiddle" on the go everywhere he's worked, and even claims that this makes his work more interesting for him. He encourages Gilda to do likewise with her employers, although she declines. Alfie's supervisor is actually well aware that he's on the take, but rather than discipline him he merely warns him not to be too greedy, in addition to pointing out that Alfie's relatively cheerful demeanour at work makes it all too obvious that he's up to something nefarious.
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Alfie / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Alfie / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Alfie surmises that the husband of one of his conquests (who thinks that his wife is out with some friends) is probably a Chelsea fan.
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Alfie / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
Alfie / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Annie can give as good as she gets when Alfie provokes an argument with her for no good reason.
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Alfie / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Alfie / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Alfie has this attitude in spades. He even thinks that he is doing his chiropodist a favour by having sex with her even though she isn't a looker (although we have to take his word for that, as we don't see her face).
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Alfie / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Alfie / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Alfie, who will go with anything that is female and has a pulse. The most outrageous instance is when he has sex with the wife of the man he meets and befriends while they are both in the sanitarium.
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Alfie / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Alfie / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Humphrey, Gilda's neighbour, who unlike Alfie seems to genuinely love her. With Alfie unwilling to marry her after she gives birth to Malcolm, Gilda settles for Humphrey, who has no qualms about marrying a woman who has had a child out of wedlock by another man. When Alfie sees them from afar towards the end of the film, they have a baby daughter and are to all intents and purposes a happy family, with Humphrey having become a father-figure to young Malcolm.
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Alfie / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
Alfie / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: Written by Bill Naughton and published concurrently with the 1966 film.
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Alfie / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Alfie / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: The camera focuses entirely on Alfie's horrified reaction to seeing Lily's aborted foetus. Though it's later revealed that the truly scary thing is that it looked just like a normal baby.
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Alfie / int_ee7fca3d	type	Silver Fox
Alfie / int_ee7fca3d	comment	Silver Fox: Ruby, the older woman Alfie dates, who he remarks is in "beautiful condition."
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Alfie / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Alfie / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Alfie teases Harry by theorising that, were he to die, his wife Lily would take up with another man who would be initially introduced to the kids as "Uncle Bill". Later, after the abortion, he gives Lily a toy to give to her youngest, telling her to tell him that it's from "Uncle Alfie".
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Alfie / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Alfie / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: One of Alfie's good points is his genuine love for his son, Malcolm. He also realises that he's gone too far when he upsets Harry by telling him that if he were to die, his wife would quickly remarry and his kids would soon forget about him (although this partial Heel Realisation does not stop him from having sex with the guy's wife).
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