By Cody M. Quanbeck, guest blogger
Adaptations can be very divisive. Two people can both be fans of a work and disagree with what an adaptation of it should be like. Some people want an adaptation to capture the feeling of its source. Others want it to be its own thing.
Armando Iannucci’s new cinematic adaptation of David Copperfield, Charles Dickens’s beloved novel about friendship, marriage, parenthood, and life in general, is an adaptation of the second kind. That isn’t to say that it’s a completely different animal from the book. Both Dickens and Iannucci (and Iannucci’s cowriter, Simon Blackwell—a good name for a Dickens character, actually) indulge in elaborate sarcasm, satiric caricatures, and florid, enjoyably artificial dialogue.
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