![]() ![]() Don’t be fooled by the period duds and tasteful production design, all lushly shot by by cinematographer Zac Nicholson. And though Iannucci and co-writer Simon Blackwell nod toward the book’s depictions of child abuse, social status, rampant greed and personal tragedy, there’s no question that their film favors the funny stuff. It proves Iannucci’s theory that the Victorian-era author had a comic side, with a twist of Monty Python-level absurdity.ĭickens’ fanatics know that Copperfield was the author’s favorite child among his 15 books, a semi-autobiographical tale echoed in the character’s famous opening lines: “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.” Cramming over 600 pages of Dickens prose into a two-hour movie is no easy task. And, presto, here’s Armando Iannucci, the political satirist behind the profanity-filled delights of Veep, In the Loop and The Death of Stalin, cutting this literary doorstop into pieces. The trick to crafting a don’t-miss film out of Charles Dickens’ 1850 novel David Copperfield is to get someone who isn’t afraid to be irreverent in the director’s chair. ![]()
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