Mr Bean

Mr. Bean is a British sitcom created by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, and starring Atkinson in the title role. Atkinson co-wrote all fifteen episodes with either Curtis, Robin Driscoll, or both, with Ben Elton co-writing the pilot. Thirteen of the episodes were broadcast on ITV, from the pilot on 1 January 1990,^[1] until "Goodnight Mr. Bean" on 31 October 1995.^[1] A clip show, "The Best Bits of Mr. Bean", was broadcast on 15 December 1995, and one episode, "Hair by Mr. Bean of London", was not broadcast until 2006 on Nickelodeon.(Wikipedia)


Rowan Atkinson is similar to Chaplin, they are focus on comedy.

Chaplin is likely to use comedy to narrative  the sadness.
Mr Bean,  it is more close to the humorous.

Rowan Atkinson like using exaggerated facial expressions, his movie is rely on the storyboard.
Chaplin use many body language to communicate, his film use a lot of music to narrate.

Mr Bean we are introduced to the comic tradition of physical comedy. Physical comedy is a distinctive form of comedy that plays on the assumed predictability and regularity of social reality.

Such an exaggeration of the knees and arms helps to convey the idea that the character of Mr Bean is a string puppet responding to the desires and intentions of Rowan Atkinson.


Mr. Bean (2015) in Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bean (Accessed: 9 December 2015)

Neville, P. (2015) ‘Side-splitting masculinity: Comedy, Mr bean and the representation of masculinities in contemporary society’, .