![]() ![]() Bartleby explains in his interview that he worked at a dead letter office for eight years until the office moved, but otherwise gives vague answers to the Boss's questions. The Boss decides to advertise for a fourth employee to help with an expected increase in workload, but the only person who applies for the job is the man from the overpass, the titular Bartleby. ![]() The Boss's office is in a building on top of a large hill, completely inaccessible by foot, and he employs three people: Ernest, an overweight and neurotic klutz Rocky, who looks and acts like a stereotypical mobster and Vivian, his verbose, flirtatious, and bluntly honest receptionist. While on his way to work one day, the film's narrator, the unnamed manager of a public records office (hereafter referred to as the Boss), sees a forlorn-looking man standing on an overpass. By the time he died at age 72, almost nobody knew who he was. The film opens with a brief summary of Herman Melville's life his popularity waning after writing "Moby Dick" and "Bartleby, the Scrivener", Melville could no longer make a living as a writer and took a job as a clerk at the New York Custom House. ![]() The film diverges from Melville's story, setting it in a modern office and adding sitcom-style humor, but maintaining an element of surrealism. The film was directed by Jonathan Parker, and stars Crispin Glover as Bartleby, and David Paymer as his boss. Bartleby is a 2001 American comedy-drama film adaptation of Herman Melville's short story " Bartleby, the Scrivener". ![]()
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