Vanity Fair
Overall it was fairly robust adaptation, certainly plenty of money was spent on it, however much of the spoken narrative did not root it in the world of the novel. A Jane Austen novel must have Georgian speak and Thackeray must Victorian speak.
The central character of Becky Sharp was misplayed, we were meant to like her, but playing her as a modern fortune hunter with no principles grated terribly, in the novel Becky Sharp was a victim who not of her choosing had to make decisions to her advantage, she made mistakes, but we liked her!
The rewriting of the racism of the time represented in the novel is to cancel the essence of novel and rewrite a history we need to be reminded of. It the adaptor didn't want to adapt Vanity Fair adapt another more woke work. Why meddle when the class wars are vicious and portrayed exactly as in the book.
I hated the modern music and satire is mostly missing and it's seems made for teenage girls. It a 6 outta 10 from me, I enjoyed but the essence of book was missing.
Overall it was fairly robust adaptation, certainly plenty of money was spent on it, however much of the spoken narrative did not root it in the world of the novel. A Jane Austen novel must have Georgian speak and Thackeray must Victorian speak.
The central character of Becky Sharp was misplayed, we were meant to like her, but playing her as a modern fortune hunter with no principles grated terribly, in the novel Becky Sharp was a victim who not of her choosing had to make decisions to her advantage, she made mistakes, but we liked her!
The rewriting of the racism of the time represented in the novel is to cancel the essence of novel and rewrite a history we need to be reminded of. It the adaptor didn't want to adapt Vanity Fair adapt another more woke work. Why meddle when the class wars are vicious and portrayed exactly as in the book.
I hated the modern music and satire is mostly missing and it's seems made for teenage girls. It a 6 outta 10 from me, I enjoyed but the essence of book was missing.