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No Mercy: David Lean, the Law and Great Expectations
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| 16 Sep 2023
| Rick McGinnis
Posted on 09/16/2023 7:22:58 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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My favorite Dickens adaptation... And always loved this guy:
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posted on
09/16/2023 7:22:58 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
Terrific movie. They don't get any better, "Eh, Pip?"
To: Governor Dinwiddie
Abel Magwitch confronts Pip in the graveyard.
To: Rummyfan; SunkenCiv
Bob Huke, camera operator on the film, recalled to Brownlow that "he said, for instance, when we shot the children, we would use 35mm lenses, and 24mm, which was the widest lens in those days. Even on close-ups we'd use the 35mm, so the set around them would seem so much bigger. But when we shot them when they're grown-ups, we'd use longer lenses. 50mm and 75mm. So it was exactly the same set, but it was a vast, cavernous shadowy place when they were kids, and it was a dreary, dirty, run-down house when they were adults."Cool post. ping
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posted on
09/16/2023 8:03:00 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Our side must NOT work with democrats. Or we'll Bud Light them...)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
Joe the blacksmith (Bernard Miles), has stuck with me. lo these many years. He is the quintessence of honest friendship that Pip comprehends before it is too late. That we should all have a Joe the blacksmith in our lives.
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posted on
09/16/2023 8:05:31 PM PDT
by
Bookshelf
To: Bookshelf
I couldn't agree more with your comment! You nailed it: Joe Gargery.
To: Rummyfan
It’s such a tragedy that children don’t read more, especially the classics. But then not enough of them learn how to read proficiently in school nowadays. And David Lean is my all time favorite Director.
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posted on
09/16/2023 8:26:55 PM PDT
by
Rowdyone
(Vigilence)
To: Rummyfan
Well, Dickens was certainly read in my Austen-Dickens seminar at Yale Grad School. Every book of both authors in one semester! Plus extensive critical and biographical material, and three term papers.
To: Rummyfan
I was assigned “Emma” and “Great Expectations”in high school, but as an adult I went a Dickens kick and read “Pickwick Papers”, “Tale of Two Cities”, “Nicholas Nickleby”, “Bleak House”, “Hard Times”, “Martin Chuzzlewit”. My wife has read the Austen canon several times.
Dickens writes long form, but some of them are well worth it. “Bleak House” was great, “Martin Chuzzlewit” very under-rated, “Tale of Two Cities” very important. “Hard Times”, on the other hand, was a little too much, even for Dickens, and halfway through the book he seems to be presenting an apology for easy divorce the motivation for which might stem from his own bad behaviour.
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posted on
09/16/2023 10:10:23 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
To: GOPJ
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posted on
09/17/2023 3:08:01 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: Rummyfan
Recently in conversation with a young attorney (35-ish) I made a reference to Jarndyce and Jarndyce. He wasn’t familiar with it. “Bleak House,” I explained. He’d never heard of that. At which point I decided not to mention Dickens.
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posted on
09/17/2023 3:29:17 AM PDT
by
Buttons12
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To: Rummyfan
To: Dr. Sivana; proxy_user
Either of you ever read A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh? I’m thinking of the chapter in which Tony is lost in the Amazon bush and rescued by Mr. Todd, who is fond of Dickens.
I really like Waugh. He had a savage sense of humor.
To: Dr. Sivana
“Tale of Two Cities” is one of my favorite books...
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posted on
09/17/2023 6:35:49 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
To: Dr. Sivana
Last year I went on a Dickens binge.
He wrote for publication is magazines in segments. He apparently needed to meet a word quota..
At the end my conclusion was that so far as Charles Dickens is concerned, neber write 10 or even 20 words when you can write a hundred.
The Tale of Two Cities is not so word as some others.
Aside:
My grand father was from Knox county Tennessee where there are lots of Mynatt’s. The last time I read, actually watced, A Tale of Two Cities I wondered. Is Mynatt an Americanization of Doctor Manette
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posted on
09/17/2023 6:48:15 AM PDT
by
bert
( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
To: bert
Dickenson sounds like a commie ...
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posted on
09/17/2023 7:01:52 AM PDT
by
bankwalker
(Repeal the 19th ...)
To: bert
neber write 10 or even 20 words when you can write a hundred.
They are mostly really good words, though. You will find this style in many British 19th Century authors.
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posted on
09/17/2023 8:22:01 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
To: Rummyfan
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posted on
09/17/2023 8:43:53 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
To: Dr. Sivana
Yep.......
But reading sometimes gets pretty tiring
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posted on
09/17/2023 9:00:18 AM PDT
by
bert
( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
To: Bookshelf
Joe the blacksmith (Bernard Miles), has stuck with me. lo these many years. He is the quintessence of honest friendship that Pip comprehends before it is too late. That we should all have a Joe the blacksmith in our lives.Also that when we're older we work at being a "Joe the blacksmith"...
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posted on
09/17/2023 9:22:23 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Our side must NOT work with democrats. Or we'll Bud Light them...)
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