Analysis Of David Lean's 'Great Expectations'

David Lean takes advantages of this story to carry out a film critic and with it; he wants to reveal how England was at post-war times. It remains a vital decisive point in the history of the British cinema. After postwar period the course of doing films changed automatically, from this time onwards filmmaker focus on recreate the atmosphere in which England and its population were living. It raised a national feeling in which America could not take part because it was England the principal victim of this terrible event. Emphasizing how ordinary people lived from this postwar period onwards and reflecting how they behave at work and in leisure activities. It has been established, apart from the nationalism movement, the realism movement because it was evident that at this time the reality was a key factor for all filmmakers and also it was what filmgoers were looking for to find in a new film. “The most critically prized British films of the latter half of the 1940s was the frequency of the literary adaptation” (McFarlane 129)
A new wave of doing films arrived in England. The majority of well-known British film-makers of this period such as Carol Reed, Laurence Olivier have contributed to this new wave arising in England. Lean’s adaptation of Great Expectations is formed by this new pattern in which all techniques

When you read a novel you create your own mental imagine of the story and the characters involved in it. The issue arrives when you watch an adaptation of the novel at the cinema. As a spectator and as a reader, at the same time, you do not want to become disappointed with the film adaptation. We have to be aware that this problem is even bigger when we talk about a classic novel like Great Expectations because the popularity of this novel is unthinkable, the filmmaker has to be conscious of this fact and treats the film with extreme attentiveness and do not take things