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In Memoriam . . .
(Source: Beanfan's Archives)
The In Memoriam Chapter of the Sean Bean Salvation Society provides eulogies for those of Mr. Bean's characters that died in the course of the movie. Members within the In Memoriam Chapter mourn deeply for the dearly (and not so dearly) departed.
Scroll down and discover what characters appear, or use the following links. List is arranged alphabetically by character's first name:
Alec Trevelyan (Goldeneye 1995) - No one at headquarters suspected his plans to avenge himself against the injustices wrought upon him by his government. Unfortunately, those plans ran afoul of James Bond who didn't take too kindly to his colleague's betrayal. He dropped Trevelyan onto an extremely large satellite dish. Crimes against Alec.
Boromir (Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring 2001) - Any evil attributed to this fallen hero must perforce be laid at the feet of the One Ring. Nevertheless, this tragic flaw forshadows his eventual doom: being struck down by a horde of orcs. Boromir redeemed himself, however late, by swearing his fealty to the King with his dying breath. Crimes against Boromir.
Carver Doone (Lorna Doone 1990) - Really, if the Doones hadn't made theivery and looting their business, Carver wouldn't have had such a hard time of it. As it was, their highway robbery and highhanded ways annoyed their neighbor, farmer John Ridd, who had an ax to grind with Carver anyway for killing his father. He took Carver's son, who Carver looks out for and loves in his blustery Doone way, and in the fight to get his son back, Ridd throws Carver into a pool of water. Despite the son's plea to save his father, Ridd just couldn't reach out far enough, and Carver wretchedly sank underwater.
Dr. Merrick (The Island 2005) - In a fast paced, action packed world, the cool and often brutal logic of Dr. Merrick provided a welcome shelter from the hiatus going on about him. It must be noted that whatever else he was, Dr. Merrick was certainly one of those people who preferred to do things his own way. This Society doubts he would have been so successful at his business of providing the newest wave of insurance policies for the World of Tomorrow. To his lasting misfortune, however, Dr. Merrick's approach to his work was, at best, unethical, and that is Bad. Bad people must be stopped. To his credit, Dr. Merrick decided to go his own way even in death. Most people would have been hung by the neck with a noose. Dr. Merrick went out with a grappling hook stuck in his throat, balanced on the other end by a very grateful Lincoln Six Echo over an Extremely Large Abyss. This and the fight sequence before it brings back memories of another feral fight scene on top of an Extremely Large Satelite Dish.
Errol Partridge (Equilibrium 2002) - For someone who had committed the ultimate crime of Feeling, the poetry perusing Partridge behaved with an extreme lack of overt emotion during the moments of highest intensity. He epitomized the nobility of those who can express their feelings in a profound way without giving into the violence of passion. His example allowed his killer and erstwhile heir, Grammaton Cleric John Preston, to accomplish what Partridge could not and liberate the people of Libria from the regulations imposed upon their very natures.
"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths/ Enwrought with golden and silver light/ The blue and the dim and the dark cloths/ Of night and light and the half-light/ I would spread the cloths under your feet/ But I, being poor, have only my dreams/ I have spread my dreams under your feet/ Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
"He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"- 1899
William Butler Yeats
Jason Locke (Essex Boys 2000) - The hedonistic escapades of this highly crude and egotistical individual leave the viewer with a distinct wish to see him dead; however, when the crucial moment arrives at the hands of his wife's jealous lover, one cannot help but feel sorry for the clueless little bugger. Crimes against Jason.
Lord Richard Fenton (Scarlett 1994) - Highly obnoxious in secret, he was quite the charming gentleman in public, making it difficult to completely dismiss him out of hand. Despite the devlish handsome way in which he comported himself, however, Lord Fenton remains quite the nasty piece of work under all that genteel cladding. The Society finds him to be a bounder and a cad of the worst sort, a rotter through and through. Having thus established him for the properly slimey fellow that he is, we feel that this one earned the knife one of his victims saw fit to stick in his belly.
Robert Lovelace (Clarissa 1991) - His death was a thing of beauty. Never mind the fact that, like his buddy Jack, the veiwer would also want to watch Lovelace get what's coming to him after seeing what this smooth talking popinjay does to Clarissa. The manner in which Lovelace dies is imbued with the natural grace and charm that charactarizes his every action when alive. In the moment of Lovelace's death, Clarissa supporters find vindication. Just before Jack stabs him, one sees the exact moment when Lovelace gives up. Just as Clarissa breaks under his fatally tender attentions, so does Lovelace break at the loss of all the pleasureable pursuits that define his life for him. In this manner the death of Lovelace is in fact the one saving virtue that differntiates this character for Lord Richard Fenton.
Macbeth, Thane of Glamis (onstage 17 October 2002 - 01 March 2003) - Not satisfied with just one castle, this decorated war general embarked on a witch-approved scheme to gain two more, mainly by killing his best friend and his king to take their castles. A crippling guilt denies him the sleep of the just, and an overactive conscience convinces him that he will end his days as a glorified pole decoration. His own murderers do in fact waste no time to stick his head on a pole for the rest of the production. Fellow Society member Seanfan1 reports that Mr. Bean gave an excellent portrayal of Macbeth's torment, guilt, and sorrow.
Patrick Koster (Don't Say a Word 2001) - He was just greedy in the beginning, but bitterness at being double-crossed and jailed burned away whatever inhibitions he had remaining to him. After kidnapping a young girl in order to finally get what he wanted, he got buried alive by the little tyke's father. Mr. Bean provides much more insight on the subject in the DVD commentary, including a passing wish that he hadn't opened his mouth so wide when they buried him. Crimes against Patrick.
Ranuccio Thomasoni (Caravaggio 1986) - Innocence was dripping out of his pores when they took him in for the murder of his former girlfriend. Either he was also acting very well as he bashed his head repeadetly against the walls of his prison, or he truly felt an overwhelming despair at being separated from his true love, Michelangelo de Caravaggio. Ranuccio just didn't understand that you don't kill the object of your lover's artistic obsession in the cause of love and expect him to be grateful to you for the deed. It came as quite a shock to him when Caravaggio casually slit his throat. Even in this final moment of mutual betrayal, they clung to one another in a stirring and tragic embrace that evoked an air of bittersweet loss. Crimes against Ranuccio.
Robert Aske (Henry VIII 2003) - To the King, Aske was a villain bent on undermining his authority. To the people of today, King Henry's trademark facility in obtaining and losing wives allows us to view Aske in a more martyred light. His death was indeed the stuff of which martyrs are made. As far as we were able to determine, he was tortured extensively before he was hung on the castle gate for the crows to peck away at his flesh, leaving his bleached bones as a dire warning to others considering treason.
Sean Miller (Patriot Games 1992) - A battle for Irish freedom turns into a single-minded revenge against Jack Ryan for killing Miller's brother. After shooting all of his colleagues in his attempt to get at Ryan, the two of them take a harrowing boat ride in which Ryan clobbers Miller over the eye, throws him onto a boat hook, and leaves him to explode on an outcropping of rock. The most distressing part comes when Sean Bean (who also plays Sharpe) shoots Hugh Fraser (who also plays the Duke of Wellington), thereby killing Britain's most successful military genius and leaving Sharpe fans aghast at the wrongness of it all. Crimes against Sean (Miller, not Bean).
Tadgh McCabe (The Field 1990) - He seemed like a bad apple at first, terrorizing the widow at night like that and not caring properly for the land. As the whole drama over who will own the infamous field unfolded one finds that Tadgh was really a good, little boy in need of a purpose to his life. His father's obsession with death and its association to that field just wasn't working for Tadgh. Just when he had found his niche and was embarking on the road to happily ever after, his father threw him a final surprise. He attempted to avert the stampede his father had initiated in his insanity and succeeded only in being knocked off the cliff by the leading bovine perpetrator. To quote "The Compleat Sean Bean," it really was death . . . by cow. Crimes against Tadgh.