Year of release: 1966
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Writers: Bill Naughton
Running Time: 114 mins
Production Companies: Paramount pictures
The film 'Alfie' represents both genders in a negative light, presenting both women and men as their stereotypes. Alfie is seen as the man about town, luring the opposite gender, disguising his disrespect for the sex through his countless charm. By stereotyping men as sex hungry fiends and as sexist, is representing poorly for the male gender as a whole, yet the women within the film have also lived up to their stereotypes in that one had to have an abortion due to a one night stand, a taboo subject within the 1960's.
British stereotypes are used throughout from the excess drinking of tea, to the stereotype of women being the full time housewife as they cook up British specialties like steak and kidney pie. Also faith and religion is represented throughout, as marriage is under Christianity (the main religion of Britain in 1960's). Dogs are also very popular in Britain as they are seen as a mans best friend which the dog in the film returns to Alfie in the end to show loyalty, but also Alfie's loneliness due to his bad decisions throughout the film.
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