![]() ![]() Stevens is a man of honor and dignity, which become for him, as for the intensely dim-witted Lord Darlington, fatal flaws. In his world he's the equivalent to Lord Darlington, someone who, when the chips are down, is to be trusted. Through a combination of hard work, long hours, denial of his own needs and carefully blinkered intelligence, Stevens has become what his peers would acknowledge to be a great butler. Or, as he says at one point, "It's not my place to have an opinion." ![]() As the members of his staff are expected to serve him, so Stevens serves his master, Lord Darlington (James Fox). He's the supreme commander of a vast staff that includes the housekeeper, the underbutlers, the cooks, the maids, the footmen, the scullery helpers, even those people who work outside the great house. ![]() IN the late 1930's, in a stately home of England called Darlington Hall, Stevens (Anthony Hopkins) is the butler. ![]()
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