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Ask expert for help. Enter your email below and we'll send you the sample you need right away. By clicking Send Me The Sample you agree on the terms and conditions of our service. Please indicate where to send you the sample. In every aspect this is a brilliantly made movie for its time. Most especially it's a triumph of condensing genius. It is truly amazing how much of the Dickens novel is compacted into its short timeframe, and yet the film never seems rushed.
The main characters are fleshed out and memorable. The story seems to be told in its own time. This compactness works to exaggerate Dickens's already exaggerated sensibility a little further. The climax is a realistic and exciting river chase scene involving a packet-steamer, more or less as Dickens descibed it in the novel.
Joe's sister's sudden demise seem arbitrary. It's announced in a voice-over that she got sick and died. Also the role of Pip's confidante Biddy is greatly reduced. Reading is in essence the pursuit of knowledge exercising the human mind, whereas watching is thought to remove any need for brain activity altogether, since the worlds are already created for us, rather than in our imaginations. What this initial observation does not take into account however is the quality of the moving picture and to what extent it adheres to the basic plot or message of the book.
In the case of Great Expectations at least, I beg to differ. What I believe is the major factor towards everyone not reading Dickens is the myth that his stories are for the culturally refined and the academic elite. Personally I think that everyone should endeavour to become exposed to the canon and a mediator between the academically acclaimed novel and popular culture, I believe, is the movie. Although Helena Bonham-Carter interprets the role of the cantankerous Miss Havisham with a beautifully sad elegance, the maniacal hysteria of the woman who Dickens portrays is lost, subjugating her into more of a sympathetic character rather than the obsessive and abhorrent skeletal figure which I had always imagined.
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