FREE DAVID COPPERFIELD: PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD: THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD PDF Charles Dickens,H. K. Browne,Chris Barlow,Professor Jeremy Tambling | 1024 pages | 28 Jan 2005 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9780140439441 | English | London, United Kingdom The Personal History of David Copperfield - Wikipedia As IMDb celebrates its 30th birthday, we have six shows to get you ready for those pivotal years of your life Get some streaming picks. A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens' semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive place within it. From his unhappy childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and writer, David's journey is by turns hilarious and tragic, but always full of life, color and humanity. 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Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Fisayo Akinade Markham Nikki Amuka-Bird Mrs Steerforth Albie Atkinson Mealy Potatoes Aneurin Barnard Steerforth Tuwaine Barrett Referee Boy Nigel Betts Creditor Ruby Bentall Janet Darren Boyd Murdstone Peter Capaldi Mr Micawber Gwendoline Christie Jane Murdstone Morfydd Clark Peggotty Matthew Cottle Mr Spenlow Faisal Dacosta Mick Walker Glen Davies Edit Storyline A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens' semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive place within it. Taglines: From rags to riches Edit Did You Know? Trivia Filmed during the hot dry summer ofthe film was finally premiered in Canada in September and theatrically released in the UK in January The reason for the long gap was to avoid the congestion of big box office releases in the Summer and Christmas periods and the fact it was realized the final edit was not going to be ready in time for a mass release in Autumn So it was decided early on to aim to have the film in UK cinemas in that period and to release it in other countries during similar 'quiet periods during the year or when there was some expected screen availability in that territory. Goofs When David is on the cart going to Yarmouth, fading jet contrails are clearly visible in the sky. We're sure? Mr Dick : Pick it up later. Crazy Credits The end credits are supposed to be listed in alphabetical order, however, Paul Whitehouse is billed above Ben Whishaw whereas they should be the other way around. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report this. Add the first question. Language: English. Runtime: min. Color: Color. Edit page. October Streaming Picks. Back to School Picks. Clear your history. “The Personal History of David Copperfield,” Reviewed | The New Yorker The novel first appeared in monthly installments, beginning in the spring of It finally appeared in book form in November,and on January 6, a dramatized and drastically shortened version opened at the Lyceum Theatre in New York. Is it best read alone, read aloud, or acted out? We start in a crowded Victorian theatre, where the adult David Dev Patel sports a brocaded waistcoat and wonders, echoing the famous opening of the novel, whether he will turn out to be the hero of his own life. Without ado, we are lofted back to his origins. We meet his fragile mother, Clara, who is played by Morfydd Clark. Later in the movie, in an Oedipal sleight of hand, the same actress will play Dora Spenlow, the flighty giggler to whom David, not always a good judge of character, plights his troth. Little Red Riding Hood was lucky in her predators. She had nothing worse than a lone wolf. The novel, in fact, is more infested with carnivores than its cheerful reputation might imply. It resounds with feats of cruelty and snarling expressions of contempt. Yet that is not what occurs. To a remarkable extent, the new movie is full of cheer. It feels boisterous, bustling, and, at times, perilously close to a romp. In neither case, however, does the depravity make you blanch. Whishaw, who is famed among recent moviegoers as Q in the Bond franchise, and as the voice of Paddington Bear, is an actor of great tact and reserve, but is he a natural instigator of dread? You could sense his looming presence, and hear the writhing menace in David Copperfield: Personal History of David Copperfield: The Personal History of David Copperfield tone. You could practically smell him. More than any other classic author, Dickens would have got the movies. He was halfway to inventing them. The answer has to be Walt Disney. I must confess to a recurring fantasy, in which Dickens is plucked from his own epoch and flown through time, by the Ghost of Narrative Methods Yet to Come, to a darkened cinema, there to view the alchemy that has been wrought on his works. Dickens, an incurable actor, would no doubt thrill to the troupe of players who throng that splendid film—among them W. Fields as Mr. So how would Dickens greet the latest film? He would, I reckon, be roused by its momentum and proud of its unblushing theatricality. He would understand that the violent compacting of the plot, into a space of less than two hours, is a necessity rather than a wound. And, if he were politely underwhelmed by the wiry and breathless Micawber of Peter Capaldi who should have been one of the villainshe would without question rejoice in other performers—instinctive Dickensians like Tilda Swinton, Gwendoline Christie, and, most endearing of all, Hugh Laurie. With a wild corona of David Copperfield: Personal History of David Copperfield: The Personal History of David Copperfield, flaring and blazing like the sun, Laurie takes the part of Mr. Such, indeed, is the foremost virtue of this movie: it reminds us that almost everyone in the story, whether vicious or mild, is mad. It David Copperfield: Personal History of David Copperfield: The Personal History of David Copperfield not just David who, as the title suggests, is trapped in his personal history. The casting of the film is color-blind. All hail to Dev Patel, then, whose charmingly hapless gusto, in the title role, does much to sweep the tale along. We also have Benedict Wong as Mr. Wickfield, an amiable, gullible, and constantly tipsy lawyer. His daughter, Agnes, one of the few sane characters in the whole cavalcade, is portrayed by the biracial actor Rosalind Eleazar. There is, of course, a countervailing thesis, which proposes that color-blind casting is less of a radical tactic and more of a liberal piety—smoothing over racial divisions as if they barely existed, and thereby erasing a vast chronicle of social and economic oppression. Would an Indian David Copperfield, by this argument, have stood a chance of worldly success? Regardless of our own attitudes, by what right do we export them to an earlier and less tolerant age, in which Mrs. Like Mr. Micawber, it thrives on the ridiculous belief that something, somewhere, will turn up. Will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Anthony Lane has been a film critic for The New Yorker since Read More. The Personal History of David Copperfield () - IMDb Starring Dev Patel of Slumdog Millionaire fame who, after receiving a call from his agent, thought it was about the namesake magicianthe film is not your typical period piece. It was almost psychedelic! Edmunds, was chosen for its historical significance and designs. The scene was filmed at the actual location, notable as one of the last remaining David Copperfield: Personal History of David Copperfield: The Personal History of David Copperfield theaters in Britain. The filmmakers also featured the ivy-covered exterior of the Angel Hotel in Bury St. Edmunds, where Dickens first stayed in and which became popular thanks to his first novel, The Pickwick Papers. The filmmakers found a number of period-perfect locations in the city of Kingston-upon- Hull, from the cobblestone Bowlalley Lane to the narrow street known as the Land of Green Ginger in Old Town, to the Maister House, which viewers might recognize from the PBS series Victoria.