Oliver Twist ....again

Good cast though.

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Indeed, yet another television version.

Why do they bother? The 1948 film can never be bettered, nor even approached in all round quality.

I have seen brief tv trailers for this series, they have been shown incessantly, and for once I was glad of them because they have saved me the trouble of watching.

Slightly OT I know, but David, I find it slightly odd that a sixty year old man feels the need to watch a show just to admire pretty boys.

Bit on the yuck side actually.

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I tend to think of numerous film remakes of literary classics like a revival of a play. A new cast/crew always has a different take and I enjoy the little differences in each one. When you consider how long and detailed the books are, there is always something new to add or something else that's left out. I really enjoyed reading Oliver Twist and I always look forward to a new version. The same goes for Huckleberry Finn, Treasure Island, other Dickens, Jane Austen, & King Arthur. I wish someone would remake Willa Cather's My Antonia. While I can say my preferred versions of Huckleberry Finn & Treasure Island, it is very difficult to say which versions of Oliver Twist I prefer because I really have enjoyed each of them for very different reasons. (Treasure Island's best would have to be the early '90s Charlton Heston/Christian Bale version and of Huckleberry Finn, I'm partial to the 1985 TV version and the '93 Disney version)
I'm looking forward to finally getting to see this Oliver Twist.

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And why does a screenwriter think she needs to write whole new hunks of dialog on behalf of one of the greatest writers in the English language? And put in fart and buttock jokes?

And what's with the electric guitar and banjo in the music?

A poorly conceived and weakly executed adaptation from the director who gave us the recent misbegotten version of WUTHERING HEIGHTS.

Bring back the version from the late 90s. Even Polanski was OK, for a shortened version.

There is a lot of money to be made in selling boxed sets.

This is the most often dramatized of Dickens' novels. I thought it would be "A Christmas Carol," but that's what I read somewhere. When "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published it sold 5M copies. But there were only 25M people in the North and 20M in the South at the beginning of the Civil War, and the book was banned in the South. So if there are five people per household, every house had one. I think they could hardly believe what people were experiencing right under their noses, but in a separate world, and it's the same thing in London at the time people believed in "the criminal class."

You would think this version would be better, rather than just grinding them out to make money. It's interesting to compare the Fagin characters. The Nancy character was very well written and/or acted.