English coursework: Great expectations.
"The American version of " Great Expectations" presents the same basic story as the older film but is made for a different audience"
In class I have recently been watching two films, both "Great Expectations". In this piece of coursework I am going to discuss the two different versions on the film . The 1998 American version; staring high profiled actors, Ethan Hawke , Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert De Niro. Also the 2000 British version of the Charles Dickens book staring Ioan Gruffudd .
The American film is a more modern, simpler version, created for a modern and less concentrated audience. It uses high profiled actors to attract a audience which would not be interested otherwise. Also It uses modern locations such as New York and Florida, which are classed and very popular places to be , Florida is a favourite holiday spot for Americans as New York is the countries business capital . It also uses references to modern day US law and modern day events , which the film uses to relate topics that effect the country.
However the BBC British film is a lot more complicated version which relates to a more intelligent and concentrated audience with a longer attention span . The film is set in Victorian England, the time when the book was published. Locations like Kent and London were used, Kent at the time would have been a very grim, vulgar looking landscape, as London would have been very busy and dirty, but a place where the higher class wealthy gentlemen would have been. Also this version doesn't use high profiled actors, as the film is more about the story line rather than the people that star in the film, this also shows how the film is intended for a more intellectual audience.
The storyline is the same in both films. A mad, old , rich women manipulates a young female, to become a heart breaker , as a revenge weapon to all men in general, because of a bad experience in the past which managed to effect the rest of her life. In the American version "Miss Dinsmore" is a past actress or some type of celebrity, someone in the past who has officially "made it" . She constantly tries to make her self young with the aid of make- up; many layers of it, intending to remain young and artificial as a reminder of the best days of her life and also to remember why she was so evil to men. However the British versions "Miss Havisham" is played as an aristocrat, she stays in her weeding dress throughout the film, reminding herself that she must punish men because of what her fiancé did to her.
"The American version of " Great Expectations" presents the same basic story as the older film but is made for a different audience"
In class I have recently been watching two films, both "Great Expectations". In this piece of coursework I am going to discuss the two different versions on the film . The 1998 American version; staring high profiled actors, Ethan Hawke , Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert De Niro. Also the 2000 British version of the Charles Dickens book staring Ioan Gruffudd .
The American film is a more modern, simpler version, created for a modern and less concentrated audience. It uses high profiled actors to attract a audience which would not be interested otherwise. Also It uses modern locations such as New York and Florida, which are classed and very popular places to be , Florida is a favourite holiday spot for Americans as New York is the countries business capital . It also uses references to modern day US law and modern day events , which the film uses to relate topics that effect the country.
However the BBC British film is a lot more complicated version which relates to a more intelligent and concentrated audience with a longer attention span . The film is set in Victorian England, the time when the book was published. Locations like Kent and London were used, Kent at the time would have been a very grim, vulgar looking landscape, as London would have been very busy and dirty, but a place where the higher class wealthy gentlemen would have been. Also this version doesn't use high profiled actors, as the film is more about the story line rather than the people that star in the film, this also shows how the film is intended for a more intellectual audience.
The storyline is the same in both films. A mad, old , rich women manipulates a young female, to become a heart breaker , as a revenge weapon to all men in general, because of a bad experience in the past which managed to effect the rest of her life. In the American version "Miss Dinsmore" is a past actress or some type of celebrity, someone in the past who has officially "made it" . She constantly tries to make her self young with the aid of make- up; many layers of it, intending to remain young and artificial as a reminder of the best days of her life and also to remember why she was so evil to men. However the British versions "Miss Havisham" is played as an aristocrat, she stays in her weeding dress throughout the film, reminding herself that she must punish men because of what her fiancé did to her.
