5/18/2023 0 Comments Oliver twist65 years on, his version of Oliver Twist remains both interesting and impressive, particularly in its narrative and visual decisions. Carol Reed's Oscar-winning musical features in this happy few, as do several versions of A Christmas Carol, but perhaps no director has come closer to making Dickens cinematic than David Lean. This means that while there are many fine TV adaptations of Dickens (including the brilliant version of Bleak House from 2005), there are very few big-screen Dickens adaptations that can truly be considered cinematic. He paints a vivid introductory picture of a character, including the elaborately grotesque name, and then introduces other aspects in small episodes or bites of information until the story has run its course. Throughout his novels Dickens tells his stories like a journalist, having a great eye for human behaviour and social injustice. Having cut his teeth as a journalist and shorthand writer, he carried over this approach into his works of fiction, which was itself consolidated by their serialisation in newspapers. Charles Dickens as a storyteller is inherently episodic.
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