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Jim Archer
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The ending, which pushes the robot/man suspension-of-disbelief aspect into the stratosphere, is nevertheless a heart-warmer and itself vaguely reminiscent of a peculiar plot point in director Jean-Pierre Jeunet's charming Amélie , another title in what might be termed the silly but soaring mystical movie canon, albeit without Amélie ’s dazzling soundtrack.
What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Directed by Jemaine Clement
influenced Brian and Charles (2022)
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We’ve been deluged with found-footage horror films ever since The Blair Witch Project , but mockumentary comedies have been largely neglected ever since Christopher Guest left the game, notwithstanding Taika Waititi’s amusing What We Do in the Shadows .
Stylistically similar to 2014’s What We Do In The Shadows , this supposed human-interest documentary follows the exploits of Brian (David Earl), a Welsh recluse who spends his lonely days tinkering with inventions that never quite manifest into something revolutionary.
Archer employs a similar mockumentary style to Clement and Waititi’s 2014 vampire comedy, What We Do in the Shadows , albeit to a less bawdy effect.
The core of Brian and Charles is a story about the importance of friendship, imbued with a real edge of genuine, dry British humor—kind of like Withnail & I if you were to replace Withnail with a robot who was built from a washing machine.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Directed by Steven Spielberg
influenced Brian and Charles (2022)
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence features a robot who yearns for genuine, human motherly love.
Brian and Charles is one of those fundamentally odd movies, like Swiss Army Man or The Lighthouse .