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| http://web.montgomerybell.com/battenw/great-expectations-jean-simmons-1946.jpg Jean Simmons as Estella in the 1946 Great Expectations |
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| https://conunvasodewhisky.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/bbc_estella.jpg Young and older Estella. BBC mini series Great Expectations 2011 |
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| http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/2f/95/db/2f95db7f15bac82d1cc6f177f8ce4bcf.jpg Holliday Grainger as Estella in the 2012 film Great Expectations |
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| http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02063/Florence-Reed_2063026b.jpg Jane Wyatt, left, as Estella. 1934 film |
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| https://perioddramavictoriana.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/great_expect_estella.jpg
Justine Waddell as Estella in the 1999 Tv Movie of Great Expectations
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Above I have selected a few image of different films/TV series interpretation of Estella. I have looked at a range between 1934-2012 which shows the variety of the difference in portrayals throughout the years. Each Estella has been characterised completely different and each film/TV series creates the make-up, costume and hair in difference ways of how they want to portray Estella to the audience. I think the slight difference even between the 2011 TV series and the 2012 film has multiple differences in Estella. For one Estella in the 2011 mini series I found her hair was always quite loose and and not very elaborate, the curls were loose throughout the hair her dresses were always very light colours and she wore a bonnet quite a lot outside. In the 2012 film I though Holliday Grainger was perfect for the role as she naturally so beautiful and her features are amazing. When I first watched the 2012 Great Expectations I was quite shocked she had red hair I I imagined her to have brown hair like most interpretations. Her dress sense was quite different she tended to wear darker colour such as black and purple quite a lot. I definitely preferred the hairstyles in this interpretation as each style was very unique and very elaborate that it look much higher class as the upper class could afford better stylists and more time which suited Estella much better. In the 1999 Tv movie starring Justine Waddell as Estella working wonderfully, I really liked the overall look they created for Estella and Justine Waddell is very beautiful. I have not watched this 1999 interpretation however I have looked into the film and looked at a variety of photos of Waddell playing Estella. I really enjoy the costumes in the film and even though the hairstyles aren't as elaborate as the 2012 film they are very persise and work well with the character and represent the Victorian period well.
Quotes about Estella-
'" I think she is very pretty."
"Anything else?"
"I think she is very insulting." (She was looking at me then, with a look of supreme aversion.)
"Anything else?"
"I think I should like to go home."
"And never see her again, though she is so pretty?"
"I am not sure that I shouldn't like to see her again, but I should like to go home now." pg 61
'"Am I pretty?"
"Yes; I think you are very pretty."'pg 82
'"I love- I adore Estella."...
When you told me your story, you told me plainly that you began adoring her the first time you saw her, when you were very young indeed."' pg 247
'"She lived and found powerful friends. She is living now. She is a lady and very beautiful. And I love her!"' pg 460
'But she was so much changed, was so much more beautiful, so much more womanly, in all things winning admiration had made such a wonderful advance, that I seemed to have made none. I fancied, as I looked at her, that I slipped hopelessly back into the coarse common boy again.' pg 235
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