Review: FX’s ‘Great Expectations,’ starring Olivia Colman, is a far cry from what Dickens accomplishes.
could forget the first time that Pip, the young orphan and blacksmith’s apprentice, meets the wealthy town recluse Miss Havisham. She’s invited Pip to her mansion uptown to play with her adopted daughter, Estella, and he’s forced to attend by his domineering sister. He observes one particular detail: Miss Havisham “was dressed in rich materials—satins, lace, and silks—all of white. Her shoes were white.
It’s a lot of reverential window-dressing, an abundance of grim atmosphere in search of deeper meaning. The actual storytelling, meanwhile, is a far cry from what Dickens accomplishes. Of course, adaptations of classic books do not need to adhere so closely to their sources to be successful; interpretation breeds creativity.treated Louisa May Alcott’s work with airy reverence too, going through the author’s archives and using lines that weren’t in the book to give it a more contemporary feel. But the changes were spare and subtle enough that they thematically enhanced Alcott’s work.
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