Movie Review: Vanity Fair

Good, but not as good as the book. Granted, when you try to fit 800 pages into two and a half hours, you can't have the character development you do in a book, but I felt like they didn't do enough to show who Rebecca Sharp really was. They made her too innocent. And they completely glossed over the other characters. The book spends a lot of time developing who these people are, so the movie just seemed abrupt.

As for casting, I liked Rebecca and Rawdon (Reese Witherspoon and James Purefoy), but the rest of the cast just didn't look how I had pictured the characters (especially George and Dobbin). I don't feel they did them justice. But seeing as Rebecca and Rawdon are the main characters in the movie, it's okay.

I do like the movie. It's what got me to read the book in the first place. It was a long time between seeing the movie and reading the book, which I'm glad about, though, cuz I had forgotten a lot, so I could see things as I wanted to when I read it, not how someone else had portrayed it. But I did have Reese in mind when I read about Becky, and I really do think she fits. (Her hair is way too big in the movie, though.)

Anyway, so that's my rambling movie review. I recommend it, but I think if you want to read it, I would read it first, just so you can get things in your mind how you want them.