A brief introduction to Vanity Fair movies?

Vanity Fair, adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name, tells the story of an ordinary girl Becky Sharp conquering the world with her beauty and wisdom. The following is what I arranged for you for your reference!

Basic information of Vanity Fair movies

Vanity Fair is a feature film directed by mira nair and starring reese witherspoon, Romola Calais and james purefoy. It was released in the United States on September 1 2004.

Adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name, the film tells the story of an ordinary girl, Becky Sharp, conquering the world with her beauty and wisdom. In 2004, the film was nominated for the Golden Lion Award at the 6 1 Venice Film Festival.

Brief Introduction of Vanity Fair Movie Plot

Becky Sharpless Witherspoon was born in the lower class. Her father was a poor English artist and her mother was a young lady in the French choir. Becky was orphaned when she was very young, and since then she has been eager to enter the upper class. Later, Becky began to be a tutor. She teaches the daughter of a country gentleman named Peter Cowley. Becky quickly won the goodwill and trust of this family by virtue of her beauty, wit and wit. In order to truly enter the British upper class, Becky accepted Matilda's invitation without hesitation and left the country to live in London. There, Becky met Amelia Sedley, a childhood friend and well-off family.

Amelia fell in love with the charming officer George and married him despite her family's opposition, while Becky secretly married Lawton Cowley, the prospective heir of the Cowley family. The angry Matilda drove them out of the house. At this time, Napoleon launched a war against European countries, George and Lawton were enlisted, and pregnant Becky and Amelia lived alone. After the war, Becky and Lawton finally lived together. They have a boy and three people live in poverty.

Behind-the-scenes highlights of Vanity Fair movies

In order not to make the film into a solemn costume film, the crew used a super 35 camera.

During filming in Bath, England, the crew hired 350 local people as extras.

On the streets of Putney, Bath, England, the crew installed 65,438+street lamps at the beginning of 2009.

In order to shoot this film, reese witherspoon specially practiced her pronunciation with a strong British accent.

Behind-the-scenes production of Vanity Fair movies

Creation background

Director mira nair was inspired by William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair. After reading the conclusion of the novel, the director thinks that the novel is suitable for shooting. Just as mira nair mira nair and the novelist Thackeray spent their childhood in India, mira nair's personal experience can supplement and recreate Thackeray's novels.

View shooting

In May 2003, Vanity Fair officially started shooting, and the whole shooting process lasted for 55 days. Except a few scenes were shot in India, most of the scenes in the film were shot in Britain. The film crew chose to shoot the location of London in Bath, a city in the south of England, because there are well-preserved Regency buildings there. The Geben Museum in Bath, beaufort Square and Grand Putney Street also appear in the film. In order to take a panoramic shot in Bath, the film crew closed all roads, took away various signs and arranged horses and carriages on a large scale.

The film evaluation of Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair explains male chauvinism and the image of women centered on money interests for the audience. The film criticizes the darkness and chaos of British society in the19th century, and shows the Victorian society in Britain to the fullest. The two heroines in the film, Becky Sharp and Amelia Szeitli, are in sharp contrast. Becky Sharp, in particular, left a deep impression on the audience with her unique charm of neither evil nor evil. In addition, Vanity Fair also expounds the importance of mentality to women.

The success of Vanity Fair is inseparable from the originality of fashion design. The costume design of this film is perfectly combined with the lens language and narrative subject like a bond, which plays a role in strengthening contradictions and conflicts and promoting the development of the plot. In Vanity Fair, because clothing is the representative of vanity, fashion design occupies an extremely important position in this film. With the ups and downs of the characters' fate, the changing clothing styles are sometimes dazzling and sometimes gloomy. The costumes in the film are like a gambling game, which brings high visual enjoyment to the audience.