https://www.themovieblog.com/2004/09/vanity-fair-reviews/ The Correct Opinion Sat, 11 Sep 2004 02:50:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.themovieblog.com/2004/09/vanity-fair-reviews/#comment-8914 Sat, 11 Sep 2004 02:50:29 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/?p=956#comment-8914 i loved Vanity Fair! Previously I was reading a comment posted by someone stating that it was a gone with the wind-rip off please it was no such thing. Although I have to admit Witherspoon’s character was slighlty different and more risky if you want to look at it in a certain way, but in the end no matter how coniving Becky Sharp was you still had a sense of love and attachment to her personality nd character. I do warn those who are not long hour movie goers to refrain from seeing because of the extended length but if you can handle Lord of the Rings then go for it.

]]> https://www.themovieblog.com/2004/09/vanity-fair-reviews/#comment-8913 Sat, 04 Sep 2004 06:48:19 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/?p=956#comment-8913 I just saw it. It is not without merit…for one thing, it’s a visual pleasure, eye candy from start to finish. But the things that are wrong are not subtle. There is a scene at Vauxhall in which the ladies wade barefoot in the mucky little fountain pool with their skirts yanked to midcalf (in 1814!) Unaccountably, this scene is very different from its parallel in the book, and for no reason, as the original is roaringly funny and would film well. There’s a scene of a costume party in which the highborn ladies are in bare-midriff harem girl attire. This is circa-1822-or-so, but still about 140 years before it would have been conceivable in England, in such a setting. One can really tell that the director is an outsider to the culture portrayed. An admiring alien, but an alien, and it shows.

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