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Great Expectations is a 1946 British film which won two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography) and was nominated for three others (Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay). It was directed by David Lean, based on the novel by Charles Dickens and stars John Mills, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Jean Simmons, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness and Valerie Hobson.
The script, a slimmed-down version of Dickens' novel that had been inspired after seeing an abridged stage version of the novel, in which Guinness (responsible for the adaptation) played Herbert Pocket and Martita Hunt was Miss Havisham, was written by David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Cecil McGivern, Ronald Neame and Kay Walsh. Guinness and Hunt reprised their roles in the film, but the film was not a strict adaptation of the stage version. The film was produced by Ronald Neame and photographed by Guy Green. It was the first of two films Lean directed based on Dickens' novels, the other being his 1948 adaptation of Oliver Twist.
Apart from a general compression of time and detail necessary to adopt any novel to film, the major changes from the novel to the screenplay include the following:
The happy ending of the film differs greatly from the novel, which takes place 11 years after most of the events and is slightly more ambiguous.
The characters of Orlick, Matthew and Belinda Pocket, Startop, Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard, Mr. Creppock, Mrs. Wopsle, Mr. Barley, The Society of the Finches and Miss Skiffins are omitted.
The convict who is Magwitch's nemesis is not named in the film. It is revealed in the novel that he is Compeyson, the man who jilted Miss Havisham.
Pip's sister's assault at the hands of Orlick is deleted; instead she dies of illness earlier than she does in the novel.
Biddy is portrayed as being closer to Joe's age than Pip's, and Pip never intends to marry her as he does in the book.
Drummle does not appear until after Estella arrives in London, and he does in fact marry her in the novel.
In the novel, Miss Havisham's immolation happens later, after Estella is married, and is not immediately fatal. She instead passes away during Pip's illness.
Estella's true parentage is never revealed to her in the novel.
John Mills as Pip as an adult
Jean Simmons as Estella as a girl. Simmons later played Miss Havisham in a 1989 miniseries directed by Kevin Connor.
Valerie Hobson as Estella as an adult, and as Molly
Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham
Finlay Currie as Abel Magwitch
Francis L. Sullivan as Mr. Jaggers
Bernard Miles as Joe Gargery
Alec Guinness as Herbert Pocket as an adult
Anthony Wager as Pip as a boy
John Forrest as Herbert Pocket as a boy
Freda Jackson as Mrs. Joe Gargery
Ivor Barnard as Mr. Wemmick
Torin Thatcher as Bentley Drummle
O. B. Clarence as The Aged Parent
The film won critical praise upon release, with many of them hailing it as the finest film yet made from a Dickens novel. In 1999, it came fifth in a BFI poll of the top 100 British films, while in 2004, Total Film named it the fourteenth greatest British film of all time. It was the first British film to win an Oscar for its cinematography.
[edit]Awards
Great Expectations won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (John Bryan, Wilfred Shingleton) and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, and was nominated for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay.
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Today is the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens. He was born in Portsmouth, England on February 7, 1812, the second of eight children. When he was 12 years old his father was sent to debtors’ prison, along with most of his family, and Charles went to live with a friend of the family, an impoverished old lady. He was forced to quit school and work in a blacking factory, where he pasted labels on jars of shoe polish.
Dickens never forgot those early traumas. He incorporated his experiences and observations of social injustice into his works, including David Copperfield, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol. (Find free novels below.) He was the most popular writer of Victorian England, a virtual rock star in the days before recorded music and movies. His stories, published serially in magazines, were eagerly awaited by the public. Most have remained in print ever since.
The Dickens bicentenary is being celebrated with special events around the world, including a wreath-laying ceremony this morning at Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey, where actor and filmmaker Ralph Fiennes, author Claire Tomalin, and two of Dickens’s descendants are scheduled to give readings. For a listing of events today and throughout the year, go to Dickens2012.org. Also take a look at the short retrospective of Dickens-inspired movies (above) from the British Film Institute.
To help celebrate, we have gathered together some of the best Dickens material from across the Web:
Films (see our complete list of Free Movies):
Source:
http://www.openculture.com/2012/02/celebrate_the_200th_birthday_of_charles_dickens_with_free_movies_ebooks_and_audio_books.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29&utm_content=Google+International
ded by trailer710 on Dec 28, 2011
Great Expectations is a 1946 British film which won two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography) and was nominated for three others (Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay). It was directed by David Lean, based on the novel by Charles Dickens and stars John Mills, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Jean Simmons, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness and Valerie Hobson.
The script, a slimmed-down version of Dickens' novel that had been inspired after seeing an abridged stage version of the novel, in which Guinness (responsible for the adaptation) played Herbert Pocket and Martita Hunt was Miss Havisham, was written by David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Cecil McGivern, Ronald Neame and Kay Walsh. Guinness and Hunt reprised their roles in the film, but the film was not a strict adaptation of the stage version. The film was produced by Ronald Neame and photographed by Guy Green. It was the first of two films Lean directed based on Dickens' novels, the other being his 1948 adaptation of Oliver Twist.
Apart from a general compression of time and detail necessary to adopt any novel to film, the major changes from the novel to the screenplay include the following:
The happy ending of the film differs greatly from the novel, which takes place 11 years after most of the events and is slightly more ambiguous.
The characters of Orlick, Matthew and Belinda Pocket, Startop, Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard, Mr. Creppock, Mrs. Wopsle, Mr. Barley, The Society of the Finches and Miss Skiffins are omitted.
The convict who is Magwitch's nemesis is not named in the film. It is revealed in the novel that he is Compeyson, the man who jilted Miss Havisham.
Pip's sister's assault at the hands of Orlick is deleted; instead she dies of illness earlier than she does in the novel.
Biddy is portrayed as being closer to Joe's age than Pip's, and Pip never intends to marry her as he does in the book.
Drummle does not appear until after Estella arrives in London, and he does in fact marry her in the novel.
In the novel, Miss Havisham's immolation happens later, after Estella is married, and is not immediately fatal. She instead passes away during Pip's illness.
Estella's true parentage is never revealed to her in the novel.
John Mills as Pip as an adult
Jean Simmons as Estella as a girl. Simmons later played Miss Havisham in a 1989 miniseries directed by Kevin Connor.
Valerie Hobson as Estella as an adult, and as Molly
Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham
Finlay Currie as Abel Magwitch
Francis L. Sullivan as Mr. Jaggers
Bernard Miles as Joe Gargery
Alec Guinness as Herbert Pocket as an adult
Anthony Wager as Pip as a boy
John Forrest as Herbert Pocket as a boy
Freda Jackson as Mrs. Joe Gargery
Ivor Barnard as Mr. Wemmick
Torin Thatcher as Bentley Drummle
O. B. Clarence as The Aged Parent
The film won critical praise upon release, with many of them hailing it as the finest film yet made from a Dickens novel. In 1999, it came fifth in a BFI poll of the top 100 British films, while in 2004, Total Film named it the fourteenth greatest British film of all time. It was the first British film to win an Oscar for its cinematography.
[edit]Awards
Great Expectations won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (John Bryan, Wilfred Shingleton) and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, and was nominated for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay.
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Dickens never forgot those early traumas. He incorporated his experiences and observations of social injustice into his works, including David Copperfield, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol. (Find free novels below.) He was the most popular writer of Victorian England, a virtual rock star in the days before recorded music and movies. His stories, published serially in magazines, were eagerly awaited by the public. Most have remained in print ever since.
The Dickens bicentenary is being celebrated with special events around the world, including a wreath-laying ceremony this morning at Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey, where actor and filmmaker Ralph Fiennes, author Claire Tomalin, and two of Dickens’s descendants are scheduled to give readings. For a listing of events today and throughout the year, go to Dickens2012.org. Also take a look at the short retrospective of Dickens-inspired movies (above) from the British Film Institute.
To help celebrate, we have gathered together some of the best Dickens material from across the Web:
Films (see our complete list of Free Movies):
- Great Expectations: The classic 1946 version directed by David Lean and starring John Mills, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Jean Simmons, Martita Hunt and Alec Guinness. The film won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography.
- Oliver Twist: Another classic by David Lean, this 1948 film stars John Howard Davies as Oliver and Alec Guinness as Fagin. In 1999 it was ranked 46th on the BFI’s list of the top 100 British films of all time.
- A Tale of Two Cities: The 1958 film by Ralph Thomas, starring Dirk Bogarde as Sydney Carton and Dorothy Tutin as Lucie Manette. The film was shot in France’s Loire Valley, with several thousand U.S. soldiers, posted in nearby Orleans, cast as extras.
- A Christmas Carol: George C. Scott gives an excellent performance as Ebenezer Scrooge in this critically acclaimed 1984 film directed by Clive Donner. It premiered in America on CBS television, and was released theatrically in Great Britain.
- David Copperfield: A 2000 U.S.-Irish television adaptation starring Hugh Dancy as David Copperfield, Michael Richards as Wilkins Micawber and Sally Field as Betsey Trotwood.
- The Pickwick Papers: A 1952 film, adapted and directed by Noel Langley and starring James Hayter as Samuel Pickwick.
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Source:
http://www.openculture.com/2012/02/celebrate_the_200th_birthday_of_charles_dickens_with_free_movies_ebooks_and_audio_books.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29&utm_content=Google+International
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