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Items tagged "great expectations":

  1. Holliday Grainger as Estella and Jeremy Irvine as Pip in Mike Newell’s adaptation of Dickens’ Great Expectations 

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  2. Behind the scenes of Mike Newell’s Great Expectations - from Nail and Rockett blog

    http://www.nailandrockett.com/Nail-and-rockett-blog.html

    “The director Mike Newell was visionary in his concepts, and Beatrix [Beatrix Pasztor, costume designer] was interested in exploring the idea that Miss Havisham while remaining caged inside her house and her own mind, she was also caged inside the dress which was disintegrating and revealing the bones and corsets beneath that were holding it together. The dress is a metaphor for the emotional graveyard that inhabits her mind.”

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  3. Detail from Mike Newell’s adaptation of Great Expectations: Miss Havisham’s feathered shoes.

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  4. Great Expectations - Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham, wearing her old and tattered wedding dress.

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  5. Great Expectations - Justine Waddell as Estella, wearing a red moiré outfit with fitted jacket and a frilled white blouse.

    This tv show, directed by Julian Jarrold, aired in 1999.

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  6. Since I first visited Vienna in 1998 I was fascinated by Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s portrait of Empress Elizabeth of Austria at the Kunsthistorisches Museum. This painting has inspired not only film and TV versions of Sissi’s life, but also other movies like Luchino Visconti’s Senso, or the BBC miniseries Great Expectations.

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  7. Great Expectations - Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham, wearing her tattered wedding dress.

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  8. Great Expectations - Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham, wearing her tattered wedding dress.

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  9. Great Expectations - Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham.

    “So she sat, corpse-like, as we played at cards; the frillings and trimming on her bridal dress looked like earthly paper.”

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