it’d have to be a real big woman
The problem with Arthur is that he is not a realistic drunk. Roger describes it well: You might be tempted to think that "Arthur" would be a bore, because it is about a drunk who is always trying to tell you stories. You would be right if "Arthur" we're a party and you were attending it. But "Arthur" is a movie. And so its drunk, unlike real drunks, is more entertaining, more witty, more human, and more poignant than you are. He embodies, in fact, all the wonderful human qualities that drunks fondly, mistakenly believe the booze brings out in them. Bob Mondello from All Things Considered , compares Arthur the lovable drunk to Shakespeare's Falstaff, or some vaudevillian. But, the movie warns us right away--not just with Arthur's obnoxious behavior while picking up then taking to a fancy restaurant the hooker Gloria (Anne de Salvo)--that Arthur is not a good guy. He may be funny, but, when the other hooker asks Arthur's driver Bitterman ...