Singing Oliver

Jeff 2022-01-09 08:01:21

When I was very young, CCTV's Zhengda Variety Show let go of the TV drama version of Orphans in the Fog, one episode a week, and I waited for six weeks. It is very close to the original, we should believe in the level of British adaptation of local masterpieces, not to mention Dickens. So that until now I think of Oliver, Fagin, and Kingsley, what I have reflected in my mind is the image of that play.
I didn't read a book at that time, and it was because of this that I had a lot of fun. For example, Oliver finally broke free from Fagin’s hands and received the gentle love of two old gentlemen, and then fell into the clutches of a book buying process. For the next week, I was anxious and thinking. What will happen to poor Oliver. At that time, it was pure and tight, unlike now when I saw it at the beginning, he hummed his nose and said, ah, the protagonist is not going to die. Later, Kingsley was going to murder, and I was so scared that I was staring at the screen with my ears covered nervously. The excitement is more than the picture), why did my dad say that watching TV makes such a weird look? Later, when King Sri was hanged by his own trap to end his sinful life, he was greatly relieved. Maybe Kingsley’s image in the play is really fierce, so he has been afraid and disgusted. Later, when I read the book and found that he and Nancy’s daring relationship, he would not pretend to be clever to imagine the rough and violent love of unknown robbers.
Here is a 1968 music movie. It is very cute. The gloomy and depressing atmosphere in Dickens's original works has been weakened a lot, and the meaning of black jokes has become stronger.
The children of the hospice walked out of the workshop and entered the hall with their lunch boxes. When they lined up to sing a light but never easy song, when they walked in, they suddenly thought of the camera inside the wall, as if they were about to fall down one after another. The sledgehammer is processed into exactly the same mold.
There is a small flaw. The book says that due to hunger, every child's bowl will be licked to sparkle, and there is no need to clean it. But when Oliver walked up with the bowl and said that I still wanted it, there were a lot of leftovers in it.
Mr. Bank is not as stern as the book, but like a clown with a white nose painted. But the song Boy for sale is really funny and nice. The owner of the coffin shop, the description in the book says that his face and his profession complement each other, and here, the viciousness seems to be an understatement.
Oliver's eyebrows are frowning, but they are not sentimental. Children are not very good-looking, but when they stare at you, they can trigger infinite maternal love. (sweat)

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  • Thalia 2022-03-20 09:02:15

    Not as fun as the movie version, and the picture quality is a bit old. But it's so amazing that this kind of film can be made into a musical. Pay tribute to the novel author and director

  • Christa 2022-03-25 09:01:14

    Reed's camera sense is very good, but the singing and dancing environment always feels incompatible with the sad orphans in London. The comic sketches dilute the sad atmosphere. I don't really like Dickens's "too many coincidences". The way of writing, I don't really like Oliver, who is a little girl in this version.

Oliver! quotes

  • [about Oliver]

    Mr. Bumble: Mother came to us destitute. Brings a child into the world, takes one look at him and promptly dies - -without leaving so much as a forwarding name and address!

  • Nancy: I thieved for you when I was half his age and it's your dirty work I've been doing ever since.

    Bill: Well if you have it's a living ain't it?

    Fagin: Yes, a living is a living.

    Nancy: Some living, Lord help me, some living!