Review of Vanity Fair (2004) by Elinor I — 19 Apr 2008
This is totally, totally weird. In an effort to make Vanity Fair more feminist and multiculturally sensitive, they did EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE. The movie, unlike the novel, makes imperialism and colonialism look like good clean fun.
It also chickens out on Becky Sharp, making her not only sympathetic in general (wtf?), but a loving wife and a distant but not unkind mother, because heaven forbid a female protagonist (even one of the most famously nasty women in English literature!) not be kind and maternal.
In their inexplicable effort to redeem Becky Sharp, the filmmakers changed just enough plot details to turn the rest of the story into a mass of non sequiturs.
This review of Vanity Fair (2004) was written by Elinor I on 19 Apr 2008.
Vanity Fair has generally received mixed reviews.
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