"i Remember What Their Time Together Meant. My Mothers Life Was Brighter Than It Ever Would Have Been,

"i remember what their time together meant. my mother’s life was brighter than it ever would have been, had jean not shown her the way. and my mother’s love gave jean the strength to stop running. to be proud."

Tell It to the Bees (Annabel Jankel, 2018)

Ruri Hanaka as Estella in Rays of Dawn (Great Expectations)

Great Expectations (1934), dir. Stuart Walker

Great Expectations 1934 produced by the Universal Studios, the first sound film adapted from the Dickens novel. I watched it yesterday and found it not as bad as the reviews had it. One of the reason for their distaste might have been the actors' American accent which is of little relevance for me. F. L. Sullivan played Mr. Jaggers in this 1934 adaptation and he would give it an equally laudable reprise 12 years later in David Lean's Great Expectations 1946. The backstory of Magwitch, played by Henry Hull, is given much weight in this version that a flashback is inserted in his narration showing his love story with Molly. The conventional happy ending is relatively hasty: Miss Havisham repents herself of all she has done before her death and tells Estella to marry for the sake of love.

ESTELLA HAVISHAM

Estella Havisham (best known in literature simply as Estella) is a significant character in the famous Charles Dickens novel, Great Expectations. Like the protagonist, Pip, Estella is introduced as an orphan, but where Pip was raised by his sister and her husband to become a blacksmith, Estella was adopted and raised by the wealthy and eccentric Miss Havisham to become a lady - but with a devious mission.

As above played by Vanessa Kirby.

As played by Yorkshire actress Jean Simmons in 1946.

An also as played by Holliday Grainger, above an below…

“To Make a Long Story Short”

Stephen Andrade’s wonderful pulp-style tribute to Clue (1985)

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CHICAGO (2002) dir. Rob Marshall