Great Expectations
            
            
             Let desire be your destiny ...
            
             Director:
             Alfonso Cuarón
            
             Producer:
             Art Linson
            
             Cinematography:
             Emmanuel Lubezki
            
             Production Designer:
             Tony Burrough
            
             Music (score & soundtrack):
             Patrick Doyle
            
             Artworks:
             Francesco Clemente
            
             Writing Credits:
             Mitch Glazer (screenplay); Charles Dickens (novel)
            
             Genre:
             Drama Romance
            
             Style:
             • Breathtaking visual imagery
             • Classic Orchestral Emotional soundtrack
             • Utilizes green as a re-occurring theme colour
             • Efficiently portrays time and place
             • Gothic Romance
            
             Themes:
             Love Loneliness
             Boy meets girl Beauty
             Art Success
             Manipulation Fate
             Social class division
            
            
            
            
             Overview
            
             "Narrative involves the viewer in making sense of what is seen, asking questions of what is we see and anticipating the answers. In particular, narrative invites us to ask both what is going to happen next and when and how will it all end. Narrative operates on the tension between our anticipation of likely outcomes drawn from genre conventions and the capacity to surprise or frustrate our expectations."
             (Allan Rowe: Film Form and Narrative)
            
            
            
             Exposition
            
            
             Great Expectations, the screenplay, (which has also been made into stage plays) has been composed and inspired by the Charles Dickens' novel 'Great Expectations'. Although, most of the original 19th Century England details (settings, names and occupations) have been adjusted to accommodate the contemporary 20th Century Florida and New York settings, the narrative still has a firm standing in the screenplay.
            
             The film can be identified as very simplistic mainstream cinema, and has a transitive narrative, which basically follows the classic parad...