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crsmsi
Red In The Morning
Posts : 73
Join date : 2013-01-17
Age : 37
Location : Munich
|  Subject: Great Expectations (book / movies)  Wed Jan 23, 2013 11:56 am | |
| Hey! I never had a real connection to Great Expectations (the song). So finally decided to read the novel it's based on. And I have to say, I loved every word of it. The only thing that bothered me was the ending. - Spoiler:
Why would they get together all of a sudden?
That just doesn't make sense. What do you think about that? And is there a movie that's based on the original ending?Chris
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HolyBreakOfDay
Wooderson
Posts : 325
Join date : 2012-11-06
Age : 37
Location : Switzerland
| | Subject: Re: Great Expectations (book / movies) Wed Jan 23, 2013 12:16 pm | |
| Oh shite, put the end in a spoiler please, I wanted to read it but now I kinda know the end | |
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crsmsi
Red In The Morning
Posts : 73
Join date : 2013-01-17
Age : 37
Location : Munich
| | Subject: Re: Great Expectations (book / movies) Wed Jan 23, 2013 12:20 pm | |
| Done. Sorry about that...  | |
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HolyBreakOfDay
Wooderson
Posts : 325
Join date : 2012-11-06
Age : 37
Location : Switzerland
| | Subject: Re: Great Expectations (book / movies) Wed Jan 23, 2013 12:28 pm | |
| Thanks, sorry too my post was a bit rough. I'm still gonna read it anyway. | |
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sandyangryjohnnyormary?
A Contender
Posts : 106
Join date : 2011-06-03
| | Subject: Re: Great Expectations (book / movies) Wed Jan 23, 2013 7:57 pm | |
| - Cowboys wrote:
- Hey!
I never had a real connection to Great Expectations (the song). So finally decided to read the novel it's based on. And I have to say, I loved every word of it. The only thing that bothered me was the ending. - Spoiler:
Why would they get together all of a sudden?
That just doesn't make sense. What do you think about that? And is there a movie that's based on the original ending?Chris - Spoiler:
In Dickens original draft, they don't get back together, but someone told him that it was too sad so he changed it to the ambiguous sort of sappy ending it is now. I thought it was pretty cheap too. Should've gone with your gut Charles!
It's amazing how much of Brian's style seems pulled straight from that book. Every single scene with Estella reads like a Gaslight song. Him and Pip are kindred souls. | |
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eagles1139
I'da called you Woody
Posts : 721
Join date : 2011-08-22
Age : 30
Location : Connecticut
| | Subject: Re: Great Expectations (book / movies) Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:26 pm | |
| Does anyone know any interviews where Brian has mentioned the book? | |
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crsmsi
Red In The Morning
Posts : 73
Join date : 2013-01-17
Age : 37
Location : Munich
| | Subject: Re: Great Expectations (book / movies) Fri Jan 25, 2013 3:22 am | |
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- Does anyone know any interviews where Brian has mentioned the book?
I've heard him mention it somewhere. I think it was in an old German Interview. I'll see if I can find it... - Quote :
- It's amazing how much of Brian's style seems pulled straight from that book. Every single scene with Estella reads like a Gaslight song. Him and Pip are kindred souls.
That's exactly how I felt! As I said, I never really cared for the song, but now that I understand the story behind it it's one of my favourites. Do you know a movie with the original ending? | |
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loazis
The '59 Sound
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Join date : 2010-01-24
Age : 33
Location : On the flipside, Netherlands
| | Subject: Re: Great Expectations (book / movies) Fri Jan 25, 2013 1:09 pm | |
| One of my favorite novels and the one that convinced me to study English (literature). | |
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