Advantages: good props, acting, no singing Disadvantages: the actors look too similiar to the older film version
This new version of Oliver Twist is by far greater than any other version of the orphan boy by Charles Dickens... apart from the BBC televised version produced in 2007 which starred the amazing and most famous Timothy Spall (who plays peter Pettigrew aka Wormtail in the Harry Potter films) and Julian Rhind-Tutt who has since appeared in the BBC televised version of Merlin in episode 6 'a remedy to cure all ills'. Amusingly both in Oliver Twist and ... ...film - The story of Oliver Twist is a well known story, however for the benefit of the few who are not already enlightened I shall endeavour to do so this very moment. Oliver is an orphan from birth; he grew up in a workhouse. Oliver decides to go to MR Bumble and ask for more food and is scolded for cheek and greed and taken before the board of governors where they decide that he should be gotten rid of and thus he is duly put up for sale, a coffin ...
slik321 01.11.2008
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Oliver Twist is the story about a young orphan boy (Barney Clark) who was abandoned early on in his life. The first time i watched this ilm was when i was about 8 in school. I felt sorry for Oliver because he had to work for an undertaker and wasn't paid or fed properly. Oliver then runs away to London and we see him make new friends and get introduced to the Artful Dodger, a pickpocket who looks after children if they rob for him. We can see it's ...
angelic01 17.08.2008
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Advantages: It wasn't to expensive Disadvantages: Its very long
Oliver Twist is a interesting film. It keeps you glued to your seets and its a film for all the family with bits of comedy and emotion. The film is about a young boy which is an orphan called oliver who is moved around to different orphanages regularly. As he grew up he was forced to work and live in a warehouse. Afterwards he ran from the warehouse and ended up in london, here he was found by a man called Fagan who took him him and taught him how ... ...the parts when Oliver is being taught and his character devepment during the movie. He grows in confidence and learns much from Fagan. Oliver twist is a long film and some of the story may be deemed boring for some of the audience. On the whole Oliver Twist is a fantastic production and was well worth the money i payed for it, I would recomend this dvd and the book to anyone. It has a fantastic opening and a fantastic ending and should be watchted ...
thebobfather 24.10.2009
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If Charles Dickens were alive to see Roman Polanski's faithful adaptation ofOliver Twist, ... more
he'd probably give it his stamp of approval. David Lean's celebrated 1948 version of the Dickens classic and Carol Reed's Oscar-winning 1968 musical are more ente...
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