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A Comparison of Two Film Openings to Great Expectations
The story "Great Expectations" is based in Victorian times and was
written by Charles Dickens in the 1860s. This novel which Charles
Dickens wrote has been produced as a film one version by David Lean
and another by B.B.C. The B.B.C version is the modern version and the
version produced by David Lean is the traditional version. I will be
comparing these two versions of the openings to "Great Expectations".
These two openings use varying techniques to very different effects.
Both films set out to introduce isolation and vulnerability.
In the David Lean version, straight away we, the audience have the
impressions that the film is old fashioned and will use much more
traditional techniques to create images of isolation and fear in the
audiences mind. We expect the film to be black and white, to have no
special effects, to have a slow pace which would make the scene longer
than the B.B.C version, a lot of old fashioned classical music used as
background sound, the use of Standard English and more archaic
language and we expected the characters to act just like they do in
the book. We also expected the storyline to be exactly the same as the
book so it looks faithful and true.
David Leans version was made in 1946 so it is shot in black and white.
The BBC Version was made in 1997 and was in colour. Lean's version is
very similar to the novel more than the B.B.C version. Lean's was the
most effective at using most of the dialogue than the B.B.C version.
The B.B.C version used a small amount of the dialogue.
At the beginning of Lean's film there is the use of an opening
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... constant and it is first slow and up beat then its jolly music. The
music and sound effects from both films create an eerier kind of mood
and atmosphere but Lean's is more successful.
In my opinion, as a whole, David Lean's version is more effective with
the audience subjected to terror and fear. Even though the BBC version
is more up to date and in colour, I do like the black and white
version better as it is much darker, and the convict seems to appear
out of nowhere just like the original text, whereas in the BBC
version, we gradually see the convict, so we are not as surprised. The
scenery is more effective too because the setting is actually in a
graveyard and Pip is caught by the convict in the graveyard. This
happened in the novel but in the BBC version, this did not happen as
much as in David Lean's version.
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