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Other | Tuesday 18th September 2012 | Osh
Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations is a story that gets told over and over again, the classic tale of the orphan Pip.
Pip’s past is a sad one; having lost his mother and father as well as all his other siblings at the young age of six, he is forced to live with his abusive older sister, and her sweet husband Joe. His life takes an interesting turn when an unknown benefactor provides him with the means to become a gentleman. His journey of self discovery takes him from the dreary, dark marshes of Kent to the world of high society in London.
Pip (Jeremy Irvine) comes across some of Dicken’s most memorable characters, including Miss Havisham (Helena Bonham Carter) the wealthy spinster whom has never recovered from being left at the altar and consequently still wears her bridal gown around her home that she never leaves, and Magwitch (Ralph Fiennes) the escaped convict that scares Pip to within an inch of his life during their first encounter on the marshes.
Classic novels never die; in fact they are constantly being brought back on to our screen. In December 2011 the BBC produced a successful three part drama based on the Dickens’s novel, while the film adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre was in cinemas September 2011. And if having the latest adaptation of Great Expectations coming out in November 2012 wasn’t enough, in 2013 we will be seeing a new version of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet on our silver screens, as well as the film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gaspy.
But with great novels comes great expectations, people have such love for these stories that it is almost a crime for the films not the do them justice. Fingers crossed that this isn’t the case for director Mike Newell’s attempt, check out the trailer below:
By Rebecca Mason
