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A Comparison of the opening sequence in two film versions of the novel Great Expectations  

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Hashim Hafeez 10B 23/10/2002 A Comparison of the opening sequence in two film versions of the novel Great Expectations I am going to compare the first 20 minutes of two film versions of the novel, Great Expectations. One version is by David Lean 1946. The other version is by Alfonzo Cuaron 1999. In Lean's version and Cuaron's there is one big difference and that is that Lean's version is in black and white, while Cuaron's is in full colour. The colour projects a better effect because it is clearer and more understandable whereas the black and white version is less effective in my opinion. In 1946 black and white effects such as shadow and lightning was used and this was brilliant at that time, which is why it is not used nowadays because we have better visual effects, but in some films, it is still used today. In David Lean's version, the title...

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