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=Critism and Reviews of Great Expectations = (Of the book and movie)



//Great Expectations// by Charles Dickens was first known as a series in a magazine called, //All the Year Round//. The magazine was created by Charles Dickens when he realized that his previous company was really being ran by his publisher. Thus//,// he branched off and started another magazine, which he had full control of. Every week another "episode", one might call it, would be released in the magazine of Pip's adventure. Like todays TV series, people would sit down, read it, and then wait anxiously for the next "episode". The difference is with //Great Expectations//, every episode is "to be continued". //Great Expectations// was a very popular read when it first came out and people loved reading it. It was also very surprising and unpredictable, which is one of the reasons why people liked reading each episode. It was said in a review by //[|The Atlantic Monthly]// that "the guesses of his most intellectual readers have been almost as wide of the mark as those of the least apprehensive." The Atlantic Monthly wrote very positive feed supporting the book and even called it a "masterpiece". An english novelist, George Gissing, was around the same time Dickens was, wrote an entire book called //[|Charles Dickens: A Critical Study], which was basically and biography of Charles Dickens. George Gissing once made a remark on Charles Dickens' Great Expectations , // "Observe how finely the narrative is kept in one key. It begins with a mournful impession — the foggy marshes spreading drearily by the seaward Thames— and throughout recurs this effect of cold and damp and dreariness; in that kind Dickens never did anything so good.... No story in the first person was ever better told."

Todays critics aren't the same as they were in the 1800's, but most of them seem to have the same kind of view. John Irving loved the book and was inspired by it. He said, "//Great Expectations// is the first novel I read that made me wish I had written it; it is the novel that made me want to be a novelist — specifically, to move a reader as I was moved then. I believe that //Great Expectations// has the most wonderful and most perfectly worked— out plot for a novel in the English language; at the same time, it never deviates from its intention to move you to laugher and tears."

Really views on the book haven't changed and it is still getting positive feedback and the occasional negative feedback.

//Great Expectations: the movie// is a completely different story, literally. The story has been changed to a modern story line, Pip is now a painter named Finn, and all these random and unexpected scenes, with no relation to the book, pop up. Some critics talk about the bad acting, the lack of relation to the book and others like the movie for they see it as a nice american version of the book. Some people who gave the movie good or alright reviews are [|James Berardinelli], [|Janet Maslin] , [|Sam Adams] , and there are links to more reviews at [|IMDB.com]. Sam Adams ends his review with a paragraph, which perfectly describes who this movie would entertain, ===="Perhaps the only major problem with Great Expectations is its title: anyone going to the movie looking for Dickens is bound to be disappointed, and the title is sure to scare away audiences who are understandably wary of literary rip-offs. Cuarón's adaptation once again proves that the only way to make a good movie out of literature is to ignore the source, but of course that begs the question: Why bother with the source at all?"====

Someone who has read the book can see the change just in this short video clip from the movie. (WARNING: This may be a minor spoil for some, but only if you haven't read past volume one) media type="youtube" key="3cSbCmpzU5I" height="385" width="480"

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Works Cited
 * 1) Adams, Sam. "Great Expectations." Rev. of // Great Expectations: The Movie // . // Philadelphia Citypaper // 29 Jan. 1998. Print.
 * 2) "All the Year Round." // The Victorian Web // . Web. 20 Apr. 2010.
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 * 1) Berardinelli, James. "Great Expectations." Rev. of // Great Expectations: The Movie // . // Reelviews // . Web. 20 Apr. 2010.
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 * 1) Chesterton, Gilbert K. // Charles Dickens; a Critical Study, // . New York: Dodd, Mead &, 1906. // Google Books // . Web. 20 Apr. 2010.
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 * 1) "Great Expectations (1998) - External Reviews." // The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) // . Web. 20 Apr. 2010.
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 * 1) "Great Expectations by Charles Dickens." // Powell's Books // . Web. 20 Apr. 2010.
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 * 1) "Great Expectations." Rev. of // Great Expectations //, by Charles Dickens. // The Atlantic Monthly // Sept. 1861: 380-82. Print.
 * 2) "Great Expectations Reviewed." Rev. of // Great Expectations //, by Charles Dickens. // Fiction // . Web. 20 Apr. 2010.
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 * 1) Maslin, Janet. "'Great Expectations': Tale of Two Stories, This One With a Ms." Rev. of // Great Expectations: The Movie // . // The New York Times // 30 Jan. 1998. Print.
 * 2) Stein, Ruthe. "Modern `Expectations' Anything But Great." Rev. of // Great Expectations: The Movie // . // San Francisco Chronicales // 30 Jan. 1998. Print.