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"VANITY FAIR"

"This excellent 6 part miniseries of WM Thackeray's masterpiece really delivers!". - Amazon Review (5 Stars) 


Marc Munden, BBC TV, 1998

Originally transmitted in the UK: 1/11/98 - 6/12/98 


"I am poor and put upon," concedes Becky Sharp during the first episode of Vanity Fair, but it rapidly becomes clear that she intends to change this situation, scrambling up the social ladder by exploiting her guile, good looks and the gullibility of doting ales. In thelight of her selfish, single-minded resolve to achieve success, Sharp may be viewed as an optimistic dreamer, pragmatic schemer, proto-feminist or a coquettish combination of all three.


Certainly, this lavish adaptation emphasises the anti-heroine's kinship with the beguiling Scarlett O'Hara, and although Margaret Mitchell strenuously denied any connection, the plot-line and characters involved in her epic Gone With the Wind requently resemble those conjured up in William Makepeace Thackeray's first novel, published in 1847.


Responding to claims that the author's characters had been modernised, producer Suzanne Harrison stated that this had been a deliberate decision. The criticism, however, seems to miss the point. Screenwriter Andrew Davies is not looking to replace the original book. As ever, he simply takes the spirit, main plot and characters of a novel in order that a long-standing classic can be introduced to, and enjoyed by, a fresh, contemporary audience.


By 1998, he had achieved considerable success with other period pieces including Pride and Prejudice, Moll Flanders and Emma. Vanity Fair continued their tradition of high production values, if anything upping the ante with filming across England, ales, Belgium and the Rhone Valley, 2000 extras and 75 speaking parts, sumptuous sets, impeccable, Bafta-nominated costumes and director Marc Munden instilling a cinematic feel to the drama, most noticeably in the impressive and brutal battle scenes.


Davies was delighted with the result, citing Vanity Fair as one of his favourite period adaptations, due largely to Munden's success in making the adventures of Miss Sharp sparkle so enjoyably.


Gavin Collinson


Plot Summary



In an England on the brink of bankruptcy and war, only the wily may prosper.  Becky Sharp is a governess, temptress and social climber supreme, a woman who more than compensates in brains and beauty for what she conspicuously lacks in breeding.  To what lengths will she go in order to secure herself a rich and high-born husband?  And how many male hearts will be left broken along the way?


We follow Becky's journey from the elegant salons of Georgian London to the battlefields of Waterloo, from her ill-fated attempts to woo the buffoonish Jos Sedley, to her equally doomed marriage to the aristocratic cad Rawdon Crawley.  The unsinkable Becky's progress is mirrored by that of her fragile best friend Amelia, who is besotted with the raffish George Osborne, but secretly admired by Osborne's staunch ally William Dobbin.  Can both women survive the foibles of love and the catastrophic events unfolding in England and abroad?


The story opens at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies, where the principal protagonists Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley have just completed their studies and are preparing to depart for Amelia's house in Russell Square. Becky is portrayed as a strong-willed and cunning young woman determined to make her way in society, and Amelia Sedley as a good natured, loveable, though simple-minded young girl.


At Russell Square, Miss Sharp is introduced to the dashing and self-obsessed Captain George Osborne (to whom Amelia has been betrothed from a very young age) and to Amelia's brother Joseph Sedley, a clumsy and vainglorious but rich civil-servant fresh from India. Becky entices Sedley, hoping to marry him, but she fails because of warnings from Captain Osborne, Sedley's own native shyness, and his embarrassment over some foolish behavior of his that Becky had witnessed at Vauxhall.


Episode 1 - Duration 50 minutes


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Episode 2 - Duration 55 minutes


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Episode 3 - Duration 55 minutes


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File Info:


This torrent contains a complete and uncompressed copy of the original DVD including chapter structure, etc, and will produce a perfect clone when burned to DVD9.


Size: 7.82 GB

Duration: 02:07:56

Source: PAL DVD, 25 fps

Audio: English 2chn

Region: 4

Res: 720 x 576

AR: 16:9



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