NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates compares the new remake of the 1966 British film Alfie to the original, and speaks with Charles Shyer, the new film's director. Shyer says his Alfie, a philandering rogue played by Jude Law, updates the character first brought to the screen by Michael Caine for a contemporary audience. But how will the portrait of a promiscuous sexist play in a post-feminist world?
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