Opinion: A heavy book became a light-touch marvel
If we’re talking literary titans, really only William Shakespeare can rival Charles Dickens when it comes to his presence in all our lives, especially if you grow up in the United Kingdom.
It goes beyond the settings though. Dickens’ words have a weight and a heft that seem to pin down screenwriters and directors in the tone they choose. These are dour, dank, cruel dramas about the worst of humanity in many cases, and that’s what we’ve seen on screen. Ianucci’s other feature films, In The Loop, which was basically The Thick Of It goes to Washington, DC, and The Death Of Stalin, which was a black comedy about the final days of Joseph Stalin and the fallout after his sudden demise. Both were great fun, but they were comedies, pure and simple. The Personal History of David Copperfield takes both his writing and directing to a different level.
Born to a widowed mother, Copperfield is sent away to school only to return to find his mother has remarried. Bullied by his new step-father, he’s then packed off to work in a gin factory, which he does up until the day he is informed his mother has died. Desperate, he sets off to find his wealthy aunt Betsey Trotwood, who agrees to fund his education and make a life for himself.
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