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Great Expectations, BBC 1, 9pm

  • 27-12-2011 9:43pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,438 ✭✭✭✭


    Anyone else watching?

    So far, am very impressed with the cinematography and the performances, especially young Pip and Estella.

    What do you all think about Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham? A bit OTT perhaps, but then, what other way is there for playing her?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭MsHolloway


    I'm loving it so far! I quite like Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham. Also the guy playing older pip isn't bad looking either which is nice!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,264 ✭✭✭✭Alicat


    Yup, liking it a lot! I don't know anything of the story so I must resist the temptation to look it up! Don't want to ruin it on myself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,438 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    That was great. Hope the next two installments don't dissapoint.

    Yeah, Gillian Anderson has got the ratio of bitter and twisted bitch to silly old bat perfect. (3:2)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭coconut5


    I thought it was great. Pip is nearly too good-looking though. He's way better-looking than Estella.

    I'm looking forward to seeing how he gets on in London tomorrow night.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,527 ✭✭✭Masala


    Really got stuck into it... Sky Plus on for Wed and Thurs.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    It will have a tough time coming any way near Leans version (which I watched again just before Christmas)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Very good. The rest should be fun. Ray Winstone always does tough nuts well.
    Spoiler tags might be advisable as some people haven't read the book, seen the movie.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    As there is some disquiet over the ending - I have opted not to watch it.

    Explanation:
    They have apparently rewritten the ending of the story into a different version altogether. Compared to what Dickens wrote, the people that have created this version has gone far from the written path to say the least. A lot of people are not impressed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    Biggins wrote: »
    As there is some disquiet over the ending - I have opted not to watch it.

    Nope - the ending you're referring to is not this new miniseries, but the 2012 film version starring Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham (which, interestingly, is also funded in part by the BBC) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15779928

    So you're free to watch this one. And you should - it's very good so far.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Nope - the ending you're referring to is not this new miniseries, but the 2012 film version starring Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham (which, interestingly, is also funded in part by the BBC) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15779928

    So you're free to watch this one. And you should - it's very good so far.

    O' good. Thanks for that.
    Will do some catching up then. :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,438 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Well, part two is coming up.

    Let's hope it lives up to last night's potential.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,438 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    So, Pip is now a sh1t :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 346 ✭✭hatful


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    So, Pip is now a sh1t :mad:
    Lolz! As soon as I heard Gillian Anderson was in it I knew it was going to be gold, she was in a great BBC adaptation of Bleak House a few years ago http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0442632/. The guy who plays Pip is almost too dreamy, Estella who? I nearly died when I saw Hercule Poirot in Great Expectations, for a minute there I thought there was no escaping the Belgium detective :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,438 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    As much as I'm loving this I'm hating the way the boot hits the excelerator in the last episode, as always happens in these three parters. I understand that some characters need to be amalgamated and that the plot will need some compression but what's wrong with the old 6-12 parters? I know production values would have to be compromised but I'd take a cardboard set over a gallop through the key plot events with nice lighting and good costumes. Dickens, afterall, was as much about character as about plot.

    It seems everything is style over substance these days.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,661 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    Yeah, the deaths near the end were fairly condensed ('we're stuck for time') alright.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 346 ✭✭hatful


    Agreed, Bleak House by the bbc was 15 episodes. Still it was very pretty. I liked the way Gillian Anderson played Ms Havisham, for the most part just gently mad and deluded.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,438 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Gillian Anderson got her just right. Just when you think she's only a crazy old bat she reveals a malignant streak of bitterness. The portrayal of her death was very chilling.

    Havisham is one of Dickens' most disturbing characters. I first read Great Expectations when I was 10 and had nightmares about her for years. She's inspired partly by a woman known to Dickens in his youth who used to float about London ranting and raving in her wedding dress.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    I watched all of it in one day, had tapped it. I found it great to watch. Very easy to follow and understand what was happening. Understanding the characters and the whole way it was created was very good and gripping. They kept with the story as much as they could despite changing the ending. They have often done that previously in books, films and tv series.

    I found it something great to watch over Christmas a change from the usual!


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