Great Expectations
Faith R. Sims
Eng3010
11/24/2005
Great Expectations
Hollywood and the movie industry have made many bold attempts over the past decade in bringing to life old classics. None however in my opinion have been done more boldly than the remoulding of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. This compelling piece is a rebirth storyline of the past retold in Modern times. Any attempt at bringing a Dickens work to the screen would be an awesome task to accomplish. I’ve found his writing to be so rich with description and imaging that one would definitely have to have read the original novel to get the full effect of the motion picture. It seems that many authors kind of lean themselves to the screen more aggressively but Dickens in my opinion left a difficult task to complete, which was very commending. In this paper I will attempt to compare and contrast the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens to two of the remakes of the novel on screenplay, one written by Mitch......
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