The orphan Pip becomes a gentleman when his life is transformed by a mystery benefactor.The orphan Pip becomes a gentleman when his life is transformed by a mystery benefactor.The orphan Pip becomes a gentleman when his life is transformed by a mystery benefactor.
- Won 4 Primetime Emmys
- 14 wins & 17 nominations total
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- TriviaHarry Lloyd (Herbert Pocket) is the great-great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens, on whose 1861 novel this production is based.
- GoofsWhen Pip and Magwitch are in the boat, trees and bushes are visible in the near background through the mist. Nothing like this would be seen from the middle of the lower reaches of the Thames.
- Crazy creditsThe opening titles feature a butterfly hatching from its cocoon, and slowly covered in dark beautiful designs until it turns fully black and dead.
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As a Dickens tragic I am well aware that adapting his novels for dramatic performance, whether on stage, TV or on film, will always pose problems, but there have been some triumphant successes. David Lean's being notable, but also the more recent examples: Bleak House -(sublime) and Little Dorrit (brilliant - twice). I have a set of earlier BBC attempts at other Dickens novels on DVD and some of them are toe-curlingly embarrassing - and prove that a good screenwriter is the most important ingredient for success. This production of Great Expectations was good - just. Ray Wintone was born to play Abel Magwitch, and whilst I initially stepped back in amazement at Gillian Anderson's performance as Miss Havisham, I was finally convinced that she was right; her child-like approach fits in with the psychology of a young bride jilted and bitter - excellent. My problems were not particularly with the cast, most of whom were very good, but with the liberties taken with Dicken's plot. The "brothel" scene was unnecessary - why insert "new stuff" when you have left out some old stuff. Much of the dialogue lacked 19th Century authenticity - why tinker about with an aspect of Dicken's writing which has always been seen as one of his greatest strengths? Do the producers think that we are not clever enough to understand? I hope the production of Edwin Drood is better.
- dave_r_savage
- Mar 10, 2012
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- 孤星血淚 2011
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- Tollesbury Wick Marshes, Tollesbury, Essex, UK(Joe's Forge Exterior/Marshes)
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- Runtime1 hour
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- 1.78 : 1
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