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This 5 page report discusses and compares the 1993 movie version (directed by Martin Scorsese) of “The Age of Innocence” with Edith Wharton’s original 1920 novel. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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least interwoven with the characters of the actors portraying them. In the case of the 1993 movie version of Edith Whartons 1920 novel "The Age of Innocence" (directed by the
venerable Martin Scorsese), Michelle Pfeiffer as Countess Ellen Olenska and Winona Ryder as May Welland/Archer will forever shift the mental images readers of the novel may have held of the
two women. Of course, audiences seeing the 1934 movie version of the novel are certain to think of Irene Dunne as Countess Olenska. However, the fact remains that the novel
is so much more than any singular interpretation by one actor or director. Both the readers and the members of the audience seeing the movie understand that much more passion
and life exists beneath the Victorian repression of the social elite in 1870s Manhattan. Edith Whartons novel is a sophisticated literary work (for which she won a Pulitzer Prize
-- the first woman to ever be awarded one), a great deal of the nuance of the story and its characters are lost to the lush romanticism, cinematography, musical
scoring, and costuming of the movie. This does not mean that the movie is diminished as a movie. It is actually something of a visual masterpiece that demonstrates that Scorsese
is an artist who understands the tone of the original work from which he creates his own unique variation on a theme. The colors and the opulence of the settings
are almost as much of a character as the actual actors. It is a stunningly beautiful movie and should be judged as such. As a direct rendering of Whartons
novel, a great deal of the whispering and not-so-silent disapproval are masked by the "eye-candy" of the movie are lost. Literature to Film to Consciousness As movies have evolved
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