Posted on 03/18/2023 6:18:12 AM PDT by C19fan
The BBC has injected a strong anti-colonial message into its adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel Great Expectations, it has been revealed.
Written by Peaky Blinders creator Stephen Knight, the beloved novel has been given a new twist, referencing the evils of Empire which were not present in the original Victorian book.
In one scene, criminal Magwitch, one of the central characters, describes the British Empire as having been 'built on the lies of privileged white men', The Telegraph reports.
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I watch quite a bit on BritBox. Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett is a keeper.
Even Ho Chi Minh said he’d rather smell French crap than Chinese crap.
Of course the other thing they like to do is to make the good characters out to be homos.
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