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  • No Mercy: David Lean, the Law and Great Expectations

    09/16/2023 7:22:58 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 21 replies
    Steyn Online ^ | 16 Sep 2023 | Rick McGinnis
    My grandfather, who was born when Charles Dickens was still alive and writing, left me his books, including copies of David Copperfield, Bleak House and Barnaby Rudge, which is good because at no point in either grade school or high school did Dickens appear on any reading list. Dickens was – and still is – one of the most famous novelists ever, but like Mark Twain and Tolstoy, I have no sense whatever that he's being read. Back at the end of World War Two, when David Lean was a young director presented with Dickens' Great Expectations as his next...
  • Harry and Meghan's new Netflix Great Expectations project 'is nothing new': Charles Dickens expert says Sussexes' attempt to make a feminist TV hit will end up being a 'voyeuristic misery'

    06/27/2023 9:01:38 AM PDT · by C19fan · 45 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | Martin Robinson
    Harry and Meghan's plan to make a Great Expectations prequel about Miss Havisham is not new and could be more 'voyeuristic misery' than feminist TV hit, a world-leading Dickens expert told MailOnline today. Dr Emily Bell, an English professor and editor of The Dickensian, the journal of the prestigious Dickens Fellowship, told MailOnline that Miss Havisham's backstory was already explored in the 2015 series Dickensian and Ronald Frame's novel 'Havisham' in 2012.
  • Low expectations: BBC’s woke adaptation of Dickens classic loses nearly 3m viewers

    04/28/2023 3:51:46 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 16 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 4-28-23 | EMMA POWELL
    The BBC’s modern reworking of Great Expectations has suffered a ratings flop, losing nearly 3 million viewers since the first episode aired last month. Steven Knight’s adaptation, which stars Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham and Fionn Whitehead as Pip, has been mired in controversy over accusations of wokery and the inclusion of opium addiction and sadomasochism. Episode one pulled in 4.4 million viewers, reaching a peak of 5.5 million, but 1.8 million had switched off by episode two. Last week’s penultimate episode only managed to draw in 1.5 million, some 2.9 million down on the first instalment.
  • Great Expectations 2023 (Not a Spoiler Alert)

    04/03/2023 3:03:28 AM PDT · by nikos1121 · 11 replies
    Roger Ebert.com ^ | March 24, 2023 | Nandini Balial
    I beg of you, writers, enough with the gritty remakes. The single star which I have awarded FX’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations” belongs to the following people: Olivia Colman, reliably excellent as Miss Havisham; Matthew Needham, having an absolute ball playing a demented spice baron; Matt Berry, given too little screen time as a local fixer; Owen McDonnell, whom I’d watch in just about anything, as a kindly blacksmith; and Ashley Thomas as the supremely confident, gnarly solicitor. Those five actors are carrying a production so badly written and so tritely directed (and photographed and scored) that viewers...
  • What the Dickens! Spanking sessions, lectures on Empire and Miss Havisham’s an opium addict.. it’s BBC1’s new Great Expectations as you've never seen it before

    03/21/2023 2:27:06 AM PDT · by C19fan · 17 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | March 20, 2023 | Emma Powell and Owen Tonks
    His adaptation of A Christmas Carol portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge as a molested schoolboy who grew up to force Tiny Tim’s mother into prostitution. So perhaps it’s no surprise that Steven Knight’s BBC1 version of Great Expectations turns Miss Havisham, played by Olivia Colman, into an opium addict and shows an ecstatic Mr Pumblechook being spanked in a dingy bedroom. He has also included references to the British Empire’s connections to the slave trade, with several characters hammering home an anti-colonial message.
  • Now BBC rewrites DICKENS to make British Empire more objectionable in new TV adaptation of Great Expectations staring Olivia Colman

    03/18/2023 6:18:12 AM PDT · by C19fan · 22 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | March 18, 2023 | Elena Salvoni
    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.
  • UNRECOGNISABLE with white hair and yellow teeth as she transforms into Miss Havisham for BBC adaptation trailer

    02/06/2023 11:16:44 AM PST · by C19fan · 30 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | February 6, 2023 | Callum Wells
    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.
  • A Christian Carol-- The Subtle Christianity of Charles Dickens

    12/21/2022 4:46:49 PM PST · by Roman_War_Criminal · 11 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 12/20/22 | William Kevin Stoos
    Some say that Dickens is the father of the modern Christmas celebration—a tradition that was disappearing at the time he wrote the story. His portrayal of a Victorian snow-filled holiday celebrated with wassail, caroling, and families gathered around the table to eat the Christmas goose, perpetuated the secular Christmas celebration, which many Americans now enjoy. Yet, it was far more than a holiday tale. A Christmas Carol was a powerful, almost subliminal, message of Christian values and morality—though Jesus, God and the New Testament are barely alluded to in the story. How many readers knew that Dickens was an unconventional...
  • A man in Australia just returned a book to a school library that his grandfather checked out 120 years ago

    12/10/2022 12:56:52 PM PST · by DFG · 24 replies
    Not the Bee ^ | 12/10/2022 | Harriet Rigby
    In 1903, a student named Arthur Lamb checked out "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens from the Toowoomba Grammar School library in Queensland, Australia. In December 2022, his grandson, John Lamb, returned the book to the library. Only 119 years after it was first checked out! The school, which has been around since 1875, shared on its Instagram: Dr Lamb kindly returned it to the School for display - 120 years overdue!!! A huge thank you to the Lamb family. The book was in a box of things belonging to the Lamb family. At least they thought they belonged to them...
  • Can that be write? Jane Austen tops list of Britain's greatest authors with JK Rowling in SECOND place... and Shakespeare a lowly FOURTH

    11/30/2022 2:46:18 AM PST · by C19fan · 44 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | November 29, 2022 | Staff
    She has won the good opinion of countless readers with her sparklingly witty prose. And now – in something of a snub to the Bard – Jane Austen has been voted the greatest British author of all time. The Georgian-era novelist beat Shakespeare to take top spot, with 44 per cent of the vote.
  • We've Made A Rendering Of The 40-yard Shot That Took Down The Indiana Mall Shooter - This Guy Is Jason Freaking Bourne (Photos)

    07/23/2022 5:32:43 AM PDT · by Macky Cracklins · 107 replies
    Right Journalism ^ | 07.23.2022 | Mark Van der Veen
    As we reported previously three people were killed and two others injured after a shooter opened fire in the food court of a Greenwood, Indiana, shopping mall Sunday evening, police say. Around 6:00 p.m. local time, multiple people called 911 to report an active shooter at the Greenwood Park Mall, Greenwood Police Department Chief Jim Ison told reporters. During a media briefing Sunday, police said the shooter was armed with a rifle and several magazines of ammunition. The type was weapon was not described beyond being a long gun. “It appears that he had a rifle with several magazines of...
  • BEHIND THE SONG BEHIND THE SONG: “THE BEST OF TIMES” BY STYX

    04/19/2021 9:00:58 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 8 replies
    American Songwriter ^ | 4/19/2021 | Jim Beviglia
    “‘The best of times, the worst of times,’ that’s me stealing from Dickens,” Dennis DeYoung explains about the dichotomy at play with “The Best of Times,” the ever-resonant 1981 hit he wrote for Styx. “And, really, aren’t all times that way?” In 1981, Styx, a blue-collar Chicago band that steadily rose to elite rock status by mixing progressive-style album cuts with savvy pop sense, were looking to switch things up. “There will always be fans that will be miffed that you make any changes,” DeYoung tells American Songwriter. “A lot of fans lock into one thing. They like it, and...
  • Vanity: Period Drama Review – Dombey and Son (2007)

    03/17/2021 5:50:41 AM PDT · by C19fan · 2 replies
    YouTube ^ | March 17, 2021 | Me
    I finished Dickens’ “Dombey and Son” as part of a group read on the Goodreads site. I found the novel a classic. I blew ahead of the schedule of the group read as I could not put the novel down. As I am wont to do, I enjoy seeing adaptations of the 19th century novels I read. I found this French adaptation from 2007 free for Amazon Prime members. Of course, the dialogue is in French so I followed via the subtitles. The adaptation is broken up into two parts with a little over a 3 hour run time. As...
  • Vanity: Period Drama Review - BBC Dickensian 2015

    01/08/2021 5:08:14 AM PST · by C19fan · 8 replies
    YouTube ^ | January 8, 2021 | Me
    I checked out this BBC mini-series free for Amazon Prime members. It is a mish-mash of characters from various Dickens novels, especially "A Christmas Carol", "Great Expectations", "Bleak House", and "Oliver Twist", thrown in together with a murder mystery as the pivot point. Besides the murder of Jacob Marley, the other main storyline is why Miss Havisham became the old woman before her time reckloose decaying at Satis House. I really enjoyed Stephen Rea as Inspector Bucket, the first detective portrayed in a fictional work. He has this bloodhound quality about him. For me, I could not stop ogling at...
  • Vanity: Period Drama Review - Great Expectations Movie 2012

    01/04/2021 2:34:27 AM PST · by C19fan · 2 replies
    YouTube ^ | January 4, 2020 | Me
    This movie is my fourth adaptation I have watched of perhaps Dickens' greatest novel. The other are: the 1946 David Lean movie, a 1989 mini-series produced for Disney Channel, and a BBC mini-series from 1999. The movie versions in order to keep the run time at or below 2 hours takes a butcher's cleaver to the novel. This has involved the elimination of subplots and minimizing secondary characters, for example, Orlick being written out. I fell in love with this adaptation. There is almost a dream like quality about this movie perhaps due to the cinematography and soundtrack. The two...
  • Vanity: Period Drama Review - BBC Little Dorrit Mini-Series 2008

    01/03/2021 5:18:57 AM PST · by C19fan · 4 replies
    YouTube ^ | January 3, 2020 | Me
    I have watched this wonderful adaptation of the Dickens novel free for Amazon Prime members many times. You know this is going to be an experience from the opening sequence; one of the most well done I have ever seen. This was going to top notch as the screenplay was written by the King of the Period Drama Andrew Davies. As I mentioned before in regards to Dickens, you go on an emotional roller coaster. The Amazon version is seven episodes with a total run length of around 6 hours. The extended length allows the wide plethora of secondary characters...
  • Vanity: Brief Movie Review: The Man Who Invented Christmas

    12/25/2020 5:18:29 AM PST · by C19fan · 21 replies
    Amazon Prime ^ | December 25, 2020 | Me
    The family and I watched this movie on Christmas Eve night based on a book "The Man Who Invented Christmas" released in 2017 via Amazon Prime. It is the story of how Charles Dickens saved his career as a novelist by writing "A Christmas Carol". As with a Dickens novel, one experiences the whole range of emotions from joy to sadness. The movie goes into detail about the personal demons Dickens was suffering from when his father went into debtors prison and Dickens was forced to work in a boot blackening factory at the age of 12. How this experienced...
  • Vanity: Anyone Interested in a Freeper Book Club for "Great Expectations" via the Weekly Harper's Weekly Posting from Freeper Mr. Homer Simpson?

    11/25/2020 9:17:19 AM PST · by C19fan · 20 replies
    Free Republic ^ | November 25, 2020 | Me
    I thought I would give this a shot. As perhaps some Freepers with historical interest notice a certain Mr. Homer Simpson posts scanned copies of Harper's Weekly magazine form 150 years ago as the United States was headed to Civil War. Staring this week Harper's Weekly will be publishing as a serial Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations". Some would argue "Great Expectations" is Mr. Dickens' greatest work and it is my Dickens; novel. I have seen various movie and TV adaptations. Some of my favorites are the David Lean 1946 version with a young Jean Simmons as young Estella, the gritty...
  • Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (for your watching pleasure)

    12/24/2019 12:46:40 PM PST · by Ge0ffrey · 29 replies
    Remember when you could watch TV like this during the Christmas season? Here it is in its entirety. God bless us, everyone.
  • Terrific Victorian-Gothic Mystery & Historical Film-Noir - The Woman in White

    01/18/2019 7:50:44 AM PST · by CharlesOConnell · 24 replies
    Project Gutenberg ^ | 1859 | Wilkie Collins
    Charles Dickens commissioned the author of The Woman in White to write the book for his literary magazine, this proto-mystery, before Miss Marple, Father Brown or Inspector Hercule Poirot.Do yourself a favor, the book is a cliff-hanger (I'm losing sleep over it), read the book before seeing the movie.Send to Kindle http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/583The Woman in White (1948) 1:48:57 Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet, Agnes Moorehead, Gig Young https://ok.ru/video/310903900814