In this post I will be looking at different adaptations of Great Expectations, look into the make-up and hair designs they used to depict the great Miss Havisham. I intend that this research will help me develop my final design for the looks of the characters.
Author: Pintrest
Year of publication: Unknown
Title: Miss Havisham, played by Martita Hunt, in the 1946 film.
Viewed: Sunday 2nd February 2015
Available from: https://www.pinterest.com/muirhewitt/the-grande-dames/
This is the first ever Miss Havisham I was introduced to back when I was in secondary school, the sound maybe off and the lighting of the film may be so harsh at times you can't really see much, however, she will always be the best interpretations for me and the one to follow in other adaptations. This is due to her look, it is amazing, she draws all the attention to her especially when speaking you get lost in her firm, well spoken and demanding manner "... come close, look at me, your not afford of a women who has never seen the sun since you where born?"
This link below is a much better quality:
She has an authority over the scene and her look and attitude resembles this; her hair is matted and mangled in with her crazy locks!
When I come to my design for Miss Havisham I will use this look with her hair big and unkempt to show her uncontrollable and disturbed personality.
Author: Charles Moore
Year of publication: 3rd December 2012
Title: Miss Havisham
Viewed: Sunday 2nd February 2015
Available from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/9718097/These-expectations-cant-be-met-on-screen.html
When watching this adaptation of Great expectations of Miss Havisham it is a brilliant way to interpret the character and a very good choice of actress to play this role, however I don't like the fact she look well and her bosoms are on show, Charles dickens descriptions says
"I saw that
everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and
had lost its lustre, and was faded and yellow. I saw that the bride within the
bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no
brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. I saw that the dress had
been put upon the rounded figure of a young woman, and that the figure upon
which it now hung loose, had shrunk to skin and bone.”
Author: Unknown
Year of publication: 2013
Title: Great Expectations Picture 45
Viewed: Sunday 2nd February 2015
Available from: http://www.aceshowbiz.com/still/00006902/great-expecations-omg04.html
I do enjoy the way her hair as be let out into an afro style and I have to say the dress was fabulous and eccentric, but I think they could have done a lot better with Helena as the acting is spot on to the character, but I think they should have made her look more decreed like the 1946 version or the new series on the BBC with Gillian Anderson.
Author: Unknown
Year of publication: Unknown
Title: Miss Havisham
Viewed: Sunday 2nd February 2015
Available from: http://compendiummagazine.com/miss-havisham-de-charles-dickens-fue-un-personaje-real
This is a wonderful television series of Great Expectations, It keeps very much to the book and the way they have dresses and achieved the makeup and hair look for her is amazing!
With Miss Havisham it will always be down to the detail to get it right; as you can see from the image above, her dress is beautiful and dainty with small embroidered plants on it, her dried flowered cracking in her weak grasp, and her pale and dry cracked mouth make, you the sitter, gasp for water or a tub of Vaseline!
Her hair throughout the series starts to deteriorate and fall apart, her lips look so sore and they have given her a nervous tick that entails her to scratch her had and a nasty wound develops.
Author: Unknown
Year of publication: Unknown
Title: Miss Havisham
Viewed: Sunday 2nd February 2015
Available from: http://compendiummagazine.com/miss-havisham-de-charles-dickens-fue-un-personaje-real
When I come to start my designs I will take on board the time frame and where I want my look for Miss Havisham to be and what she will look like to me. I want to maybe pick where she is half way between the too at the brink of her complete deterioration, meaning that I would include her hair to be half up and half down, her lips to be sore and her face to be wrinkled, white with yellow gaunt bulging eyes... but we will have to wait and see where my research take me!
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