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UNRECOGNISABLE with white hair and yellow teeth as she transforms into Miss Havisham for BBC adaptation trailer
UK Daily Mail ^
| February 6, 2023
| Callum Wells
Posted on 02/06/2023 11:16:44 AM PST by C19fan
Olivia Colman looks unrecognisable with white hair and yellow teeth in the first teaser trailer for BBC's upcoming adaptation of Great Expectations.
The actress, 49, who plays Miss Havisham in the Charles Dickens classic, welcomes a young Pip (Tom Sweet) to Satis House for the first time in the footage.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Books/Literature; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: dickens; drama; period; victorian
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I wonder which Victorian work has had the most adaptations. My top 3 guest would be "Great Expectations", "A Christmas Carol", and "Jane Eyre". My favorite adaptations of perhaps Dickens' greatest novel would be:
1:1946 film directed by David Lean. 2: 2011 film with Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes as Miss Havisham and Magwitch 3: 1989 series with Anthony Hopkins and Jean Simmons as Magwitch and Miss Havisham. Simmons played young Estella in the Lean version. 4: 1999 series with Charlotte Rampling as Miss Havisham. The absolute worst adaptation was the Americanized movie from 1998 set in a contemporary setting.
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posted on
02/06/2023 11:16:44 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: All
Bitterly disppointing but not surprising a black actress has been given the role of Estella.
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posted on
02/06/2023 11:20:01 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
She looks like an older Queen Anne from her role in “The Favorite.”
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posted on
02/06/2023 11:20:33 AM PST
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
To: C19fan
To: Robert DeLong
She has been on Midsomer Murders a few times.
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posted on
02/06/2023 11:23:08 AM PST
by
mware
To: C19fan
You have got to be sh*****g me.
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posted on
02/06/2023 11:26:19 AM PST
by
rlmorel
("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
To: C19fan
Gillian Anderson was an AWFUL Miss Havisham, playing the part in a wispy manner. She couldn’t even bring herself to wear only one shoe, as is essential and required of the character.
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posted on
02/06/2023 11:26:22 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8))
To: C19fan
The black Anne Boleyn from that 2001 TV series was so, so historically accurate, and totally believable... sarc.
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posted on
02/06/2023 11:30:22 AM PST
by
jerod
(Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
To: C19fan
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posted on
02/06/2023 11:31:36 AM PST
by
jerod
(Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
How woke will it be? Will Magwitch be black? Will Herbert Pocket be gay? Estella a lesbian?
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posted on
02/06/2023 11:32:16 AM PST
by
rxh4n1
To: C19fan
I never much liked
Great Expectations. I don't know why they keep making movies of it.
Dickens' stories tend to be good, but he's too wordy. The Victorians tended to be, but, on top of all that, he got paid by the world.
I don't think Dickens is nearly as good as Jane Austen. Or Victor Hugo, Leo Tolstoy, or Fyodor Dostoevsky. Some outstanding flicks, serialized for TV, have been made of Jane Austen's and Tolstoy's tales, but I've never seen a good one of Hugo's or Dostoevsky's.
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posted on
02/06/2023 11:33:38 AM PST
by
Savage Beast
("Truth never comes to the closed mind.")
To: rxh4n1
That’s what I get for not reading the article. Sure enough, they did it.
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posted on
02/06/2023 11:33:54 AM PST
by
rxh4n1
To: Savage Beast
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posted on
02/06/2023 11:34:56 AM PST
by
Savage Beast
("Truth never comes to the closed mind.")
To: Savage Beast
I’ve been reading James Joyce’s Ulysses for 50 years off and on, I just can’t seem to stay interested. Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is so much more interesting both grammatically and in content.
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posted on
02/06/2023 11:45:15 AM PST
by
Clutch Martin
("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
To: Robert DeLong
I think I would recognize her even with a mustache and funny hat.
To: Savage Beast
What?
No Mark Twain?
How very positively continental of you.
/said in jest
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posted on
02/06/2023 12:19:29 PM PST
by
Right Brigade
(It was better before they voted for whats his name,this must be the New World)
To: Savage Beast
Leo Tolstoy was quite “wordy” FWIW.
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posted on
02/06/2023 12:43:47 PM PST
by
MD Expat in PA
(No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
To: Savage Beast
Leo Tolstoy was quite “wordy” FWIW.
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posted on
02/06/2023 12:43:47 PM PST
by
MD Expat in PA
(No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
To: Savage Beast
There was a not-awful French version of Les Miserables that I had back in the VHS days. The dubbed English not quite ruined it.
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posted on
02/06/2023 3:29:09 PM PST
by
ExGeeEye
(For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
To: C19fan
Her cheek implants are too high for this role.
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posted on
02/06/2023 3:30:59 PM PST
by
Albion Wilde
("There is no good government at all & none possible."--Mark Twain)
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