"Becky Sharp" seems to have consistently attracted unfair comments.
BECKY SHARP (Pioneer Pictures, released through Radio Pictures, 1935), directed by Rouben Mamoulien, stars Miriam Hopkins in the title role for earned her an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress. Perhaps it's just that the Hays code won't let the screenplay even suggest an exchange of sexual favours for support, and this means that the glossing over of Becky Sharp's vicious streak turns the story into a costume drama featuring a determined and gay (in the old sense) young woman, taking on the snobs for her own advantage. Was this review helpful? A stage play of the classic novel becomes almost a pageant of color, led by the reliable Miriam Hopkins. Miriam Hopkins gives a spirited and possibly career performance in the title role of Becky Sharp based on William Makepeace Thackerey's novel Vanity Fair. Then again, it seems really weird.
0 out of 0 found this helpful. This cuts out a large number of fine novelists, like George Eliot, George Meredith, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Benjamin Disraeli (yes, the Prime Minister), or even William Wilkie Collins, the first great mystery/detective novelist. 2 out of 4 found this helpful. And settling on bumbling Jos Sedley (Nigel Bruce) in the end, to escape with him to India or somewhere. This review is for the UCLA Restoration Print, which is what AMC played the day I recorded it. 16 out of 22 found this helpful. Or perhaps it's just Miriam Hopkins, probably miscast. Years ago, this movie played on American Movie Classics, where I was able to record a VHS copy and put it away for almost 25 years. 3 out of 3 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? BECKY SHARP, historically important as the first feature film in full, three-color TECHNICOLOR, has always fascinated me. Was this review helpful? The cast is fine, but the movie moves with little sense of pace (impressive for a 85 minute movie) and it is neither well observed or funny enough. More damaging to the future of BECKY was that the company never properly stored the original nitrate negatives.
Though Thackeray's Becky Sharp did get produced to the motion picture screen all as "Vanity Fair" in the silent era (1915, 1923), and an early sound modern-dress adaptation for Allied Studios (1932) starring non-other than Myrna Loy of all people, this latest edition may be the best known but one that should have been an another surefire hit to the studio's earlier success of LITTLE WOMEN (1933). Was this review helpful? I also noticed that close-ups were consistently beautiful, so maybe the inconsistent color issues were related to the difficulty in shooting color scenes in long-shot. Was this review helpful? 1 out of 1 found this helpful. If you poled people who like to read classic novels, you would find most people read Dickens, Emily and Charlotte Bronte, and Anthony Trollope most among the "high Victorian" novelists (those from 1830 - 1882).
While going through a box of VHS tapes in my garage recently, this movie surfaced and I watched it again to see what my reaction would be. But, like a cat, she lands on her feet—being taken in by a rich classmate. The first half-hour or so seems very fuzzy and occasionally out of focus, and the colors are so glaring that I often felt as though I was viewing a black and white movie that had been colorized(the yellows are especially off-putting). Thackeray's novel, "Vanity Fair," published during the same period as Dickens' work, runs about 800 pages. Not even her fine, unusual eyes redeem the messy business of this movie. Instead, she does manage to marry a minor member of the gentry—but he cannot afford the rich ways of his new wife. But compared to today, with dialogue now largely dismissed as unnecessary to filmed "entertainment", it was brilliant.
Because of the overwhelming success of his novels, people still read Charles Dickens. 2 out of 2 found this helpful. If you've never seen the film I urge you to give it a look. 0 out of 0 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? After wrangling this invitation to stay with this rich lady, Becky then works hard to snag a rich husband. Becky Sharp, the motion picture, came to be by a convoluted route. Technicolor Corporation was founded in 1917 and the company was supported in its efforts by all the major studios.At this time, the process was a two-color one, but by 1933 Technicolor had advanced to a three-color process. Produced at the time where classic literature from famous British novelists as Charles Dickens were brought to life on the motion picture screen, BECKY SHARP, from the famous novel "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray, is most notable mainly for being the first feature film produced entirely in the new and improved Technicolor process. Was this review helpful? Becky, for her part, feels the same and unlike the demure ladies of the time, she tells the headmistress where she can put her school!!
But it needs to be seen, to fully appreciate the movie miracle created by chemists, not artists. "Vanity Fair" was indeed his greatest work although he's also known for writing "The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon" which Stanley Kubrick brought to the screen in the mid-1970's. Eventually, he tires of her whore-like ways and divorces her.
Before Becky Sharp , three-color Technicolor had been used only for short films, notably by Disney in the animated Flowers and Trees (1932), and The Three Little Pigs (1933). The use of color was striking and surprisingly well considered. I heard nary a chuckle during any the witty ripostes of which Beck Sharp has its(and her) fair share of.
The company chose not to pay the high prices that TECHNICOLOR charged for release prints and had new prints of the film struck in inferior two strip CINECOLOR. The 1935 film "Becky Sharp" remains important chiefly for being the first major movie shot in Technicolor. Was this review helpful?
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