Vanity Fair (Widescreen)
by Mira Nair
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Actor: Gabriel Byrne, James Purefoy, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Reese Witherspoon, Romola GaraiDirector: Mira Nair
Brand: WITHERSPOON,REESE
Producer: Dinaz Stafford
Producer: Donna Gigliotti
Producer: Howard Cohen
Writer: Julian Fellowes
Writer: Mark Skeet
Writer: Matthew Faulk
Writer: William Makepeace Thackeray
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language); German (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 141 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-01
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Vanity Fair (Widescreen)
DVD Review: Fantastic Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I love Reese Witherspoon, she is a splendid actress. This movie is great, it should have been up for movie of the year. Realistic acting by all the cast. It should have won best picture and Reese should have gotten an Academy Award for it by far this is her best work.DVD Review: Wonderful!
Summary: 5 Stars
This was a great movie and I enjoyed it a great deal!
Thank you!
DVD Review: Becky Dull : The Castration of Vanity Fair
Summary: 1 Stars
I know it is very very late to critique this film. The horse has long since left the barn and the farm but when a film is this atrocious an additional warning cannot be amiss. The performances, cinematography, etc. are exactly as you expect them to be for a film this expensive. But it is all for naught. The screenplay and the idea behind it are so awful that no amount of technical excellence could salvage it. A collection of morons decided to extract the heart of Becky Sharp. The very thing that has kept people reading her adventures for 200+ years was judged as inadequately upbeat for the American public. It is a deeply insulting film. Their Becky is sweet. Vanity Fair is a cinematic hatchet job; they gut Becky.DVD Review: Vanity Fair
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie looks beautful, acting is fantatic, screenplay..sucks. It's long, boring and somewhat confusing.
I only bought it for Robert Pattinson. He is only in the extra's the alternate ending.Vanity Fair (Widescreen)
DVD Review: Rendition of Famous Novel Undeserving of Vanity Fair Title
Summary: 1 Stars
Thackeray entitled his book Vanity Fair in reference to the Vanity Fair from another famous book, Pilgrim's Progress where the travelers encountered a fair that indulged one's vanity thereby becoming distracted & losing sight of their ultimate destination. This movie doesn't match the title nor the novel.
First off, I was instantly turned off by the cast of characters. George Osborne looked like a spiked-hair surfer dude in Victorian covering. Amelia was too peppy and flamboyant to be the sedate,soft-spoken, shy, and very serious girl we know as Amelia. Rawdon's actor could somewhat fit the part except he did not develop from the charming, obnoxious rake into the reformed husband and loving father that made his character so enduring and tragic. And finally, Rebecca Sharp was supposed to be a crafty, devious, deceptive, yet charming, talented little actress that leaves the audience second guessing her true intensions, making you loving her, yet despising her. She was a snake, selfish and self-indulgent. No matter how talented Reese Witherspoon is or becomes, her sweet, button-nosed, baby-doll face cannot represent the Rebecca Sharp of William Thackeray's novel. Who's great idea was it to have Reese play this part anyway? Do these people put any thought into casting such a great and formidable novel?
Reese as Becky was charactered as a poor little nobody who was struggling against her station against the harsh, arrogant, excusiveness of the upper-middle to the upper echelon's of there society. Portrayed (inaccurately) as the poor victim who eventually becomes prey to the omnious, powerful, almost vampiric manipulation of Lord Styne, then falsely accused by her husband, Rawdon, of adultery to Lord Styne when he was portrayed more as forcing himself and his will upon her. Lord Styne was supposed to be a buck-teethed, extremely bored, almost baffoonish man with a long ancestrial history of aristocracy, who was bewitched by a very captivating Becky, who was able to acquire a whole lot of money, in which she hid from Rawdon, purposefully, and failed to bail him out of debtor's prison intentionally so as to have alone-time with her Lord Styne.
And what is with the mystical, sultry exotic portrayal of India? First with the park Becky, Amelia attended with Jos Sedley (Amelia's brother) which was adorned to mimic India with their Indian scarfs & animals & decors? Then with showing Major Dobbin during his tenure in India, how he became almost wild in look and behavior, almost as though he became one with the beasts of India. What has THAT have to do with the story? Nor was such a thing alluded to in the book because that was probably not a typical experience of a British military man stationed in India. They were there to manage the colony not have some kind of mystic spiritual experience.
During the entire movie, I squirmed, sighed, groaned, got up and did chores because I just couldn't stand it anymore! I watched the entire movie even though I wanted to abandon it during the first 15 minutes, solely so I could give this negative review. I recommend the A&E version of this movie. That movie was true to the book, characters fit perfectly, and the movie stood on its own in story and plot.
Description of Vanity Fair (Widescreen)
In a culture obsessed with status, Becky Sharp, beautiful, clever and poor, is determined to earn her place in society. While the wickedly amoral Becky manipulates the men around her, the vagaries of fate leave her innocent childhood friend, Amelia SedleyGenre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 31-MAY-2005
Media Type: DVD
The corsets and high waists of the 19th century meet the lush colors and visual splendor of India in Vanity Fair, a classic novel translated into modern celluloid by Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding). The very contemporary Reese Witherspoon (Legally Blonde, Election) at first seems to hit the wrong note as Becky Sharp, an orphaned girl who rises to the heights of society using her quick wits and feminine wiles. But as Vanity Fair unfolds, the movie's tone embraces both period decor and modern attitudes, searching for a bridge that will carry us more deeply into a different time. It isn't wholly successful--the movie's end wraps things up awkwardly--but some scenes achieve a surprising and vivid immediacy, in particular one in which Becky's gambler husband (elegant James Purefoy) catalogues his worth for her before going off to the Napoleonic battlefields; love and pragmatism fuse with heartbreaking results. --Bret Fetzer
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