Film Review - 2012 Great Expectations

When finding out this was what our first project is going to be based on I was relatively excited as I'd always wanted to study it as it is such a key piece of literature - I watched the BBC TV series and that really lived up to what I had expected, then I was asked to watch this one. This actually very disappointed, I understand this is one of the modern films that is the most similar to the book but I think that's why the BBC version was so popular because it wasn't like the other versions, so whatever I watched I constantly kept comparing it to that one. Same goes for this film, directed by Mike Newell and starred people such as Helen Bonham Carter. Both 2 respectable people that I actually expected a lot more from.

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In regards to hair and make up and my basic knowledge of the film and the era, I found that some of the hair and make up wasn't actually applicable, for example this image (right). I can understand just from looking at it that Estella is a teenage girl, however the hair that she is wearing is very early Victorian Era and this was based in middle to late, this is the kind of hairstyle we would expect Miss Havisham to be wearing on the day she got married. I think this was done because the of the fact the book matched so well to the actual original script that they felt they could go slightly more artistic on Estella and the other characters hair and make up, there is another example below.

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