We had to watch this at school, and I thought it was really good, if a bit dated in parts. I thought it was shot beautifully, and that John Mills, and Alec Guiness were very good, and especially Bernard Miles who was amazing in this film!
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I wish we did! We were forced to watch some bad TV version with no famous actors. It was bad, full of anachronisms and boring... It only made others hate GE more.
shareI did and I didn't like it for it took away Dickes gothic feel and the tinny edge of insanity and sickness that many of his book have. And make them great.
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saw it in 9th grade. great movie.
sharein my skool, im from the uk and we r starting 2 watch it and learn the book.
sharein my skool, im from the uk and we r starting 2 watch it and learn the book.
sharei did. it was ok but the modern versions are better. anyone else think the acting was melodramatic and overdone?
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I watched 3 versions in school these past 2 weeks: 1946, Modern BBC, and the 1998 version. This one was by far the best, and the scene where Miss Havisham gets caught on fire had our class in hysterics for half the afternoon. Then again, the homosexual innuendo between Wopsle and that other dude in the BBC version also had the same effect, but this verion wins hands down.
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I'm watching it at school at the moment and it think it is very good. Although the language is hard to understand beacuse they use different words to what we use today, overall its a really good book and film.
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No...I'm reading the book for school right now though...I can't really say that I like it or that I'm looking forward to ever seeing the movie.
shareI watched this in school back when I was a freshman in high school. That is when we read the story.
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I feel so honoured that so many people were touched by this topic,
(Dickens, young love, schooldays, looonggevity) even the guy who gave it foouur!
It was a beautiful crafted movie of it's time, an English masterpiece,
clearly loved by lots of people including S.Africans, Indians, Aussies, Chinese,
You name it, those many people who later built North America so wonderfully.
I remember it everso vividly for so many years, probably because it was one of the few
that I watched during my school years in a beastly British boarding school Oop North,
where we got a movie once a fortnight in the Main Hall, but missing it was the first
punishment of choice, so being a rebellious wolly I got to see very few in my career.
Perhaps La Plume de ma Tante goes to the guy with the French Name (Le Camargue?) who
wrote with such passion that you coulda sworn he were there .. is that you Crabtree?
It is you, isn't it?
I do hope he went on to a major career in pictures, the world needs a new James Bond.
In any event, it evidently made a major mark on his life, as it did mine..
Pip pip, B
I, too, saw it in 9th grade English class... 1963. Growing up in the 1950's, I was exposed to many classic films on local television, but GE blew me away. As I enter this I'm watching it for the fifth time. It is as wonderful as the first time I saw it. Francis L. Sullivan, Bernard Miles, Alec Guiness, et al -what a cast.
Interestingly, the 1998 version was shown last week. I couldn't understand why Finn's (Pip's) haircut was so unflattering; now I think it just honored Lean's Pip.
yeah..in english class when i was in 8th grade.
shareYes...just today we finished.
I enjoyed it, as it was relatively faithful to the book. However, I thought the ending departed from the book quite drastically, with a rather cliché and cheesy ending.
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i just had to watch it...also read the book, which i havent done (i hate the book)
shareYep. I saw it, I really should be getting on with the coursework right about now though...
To be a fan is a proud and lonely thing, especially when you're a browncoat.
"Why Pip, what a rather gay figure!" Best line of that entire movie. Alsdo, Best scene= Fight between young Pip and Herbert Pocket.
shareNo... but we still had to READ it.
Ugh. Trash.
We have not watched it yet but we are going to. We are also going to read the book-we have a choice of reading the whole thing or not. We also watched the first 5minutes of it a couple days ago because we had some extra time in English. I am exctied to read it and watch it, too.
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