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The Affair of the Gilded Lobster

Reception:

The film was a critical and commercial failure (13% on Rotten Tomatoes). Critics panned the broad, slapstick humor and Depp’s exaggerated accent. However, it has gained a small cult following for its deliberately silly tone and production design.

Cornwall, I discovered, is damp. It is also full of people who say “me ‘ansome” and mean something vaguely threatening. Tremayne’s casino was a rotting paddle-steamer painted gold, moored in a foggy estuary. Inside, the air smelled of desperation, cheap perfume, and slightly-off scallops. mortdecai

If you want to live or think like Mortdecai, follow these principles: The Affair of the Gilded Lobster Reception: The

Annabel needed a replica—a perfect, undetectable fake—to swap back before Algernon’s mother, the Dowager Duchess, noticed the lobster’s absence during the annual “Crustacean Gala” (a real event, I assure you, as tedious as it sounds). Read Don’t Point That Thing at Me (first

1. Read Don’t Point That Thing at Me (first 10 pages will hook you).
2. Skip the film unless you’re a completionist.
3. Adopt one Mortdecai rule: “Never do today what you can plausibly deny tomorrow.”

• "The name is Mortdecai. Chas. Mortdecai."
• "The art world, the spy world; it's all just one big mess, if you ask me."

• "Art. Espionage. Mayhem."
• "The art of war...and everything else."