Rebecca

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Summary: great !
Review: A film highly recommended for Diana Rigg friends and fans. I like most. Terrific and great play Dame Diana !!

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Summary: Smashing
Review: Alfred Hitchcock's first American Film was excellent!Joan Fotaine stars as a narrator.although Hitchcock shows no image of Rebecca even in flashback or photo,she is clearly dominant over Fontaine's mousy character, whose name is never mention in the movie.It was a box office smash, it won an oscar as best picture, and another for cinematography and i agree.

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Summary: It is a great Movie.
Review: Greeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatttttttttttttttttttt!!

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Summary: Hideous!
Review: Hideous version of fabulous classic novel by Daphne DuMarier. No one can ever top the David O. Selznick l940 version, which won Best Picture by the Academy Awards in l940. And with good reason. The movie version is ravishing, the cast fantastic, Mrs. de Hopper looked perfect, the franz Waxman musical score a classic, likewise the photography, lighting, costumes, etc. Why can't they just leave the great movie classics alone! One planned re-make that I would definitely have paid to see was in the late sixties, when Liz Taylor and Richard Burton were going to star, with Mike Nichols (who directed them in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf) with Bette Davis set to play Mrs. Danvers. Wow! That would have been something interesting. But Faye Dunaway in anything ruins it. Ignore this yuccky version. Grab the Selznick version (directed by Alfred Hitchcock) where it begins with: "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again..."

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Summary: Good but a bit draggy
Review: I can't really comment on how this movie measures up to either the book or the Hitchcock Movie as I have neither read nor seen either. So I will have to judge this movie on its own merits alone. Though I gather that this film does not exactly stick to the book entirly (BTW: Could some reviewer tell me what happens at the end of the book please?)

First of all, It does tend to be a bit long. Some Scenes drag to much and there are quite a few scenes in which there is hardly any dialouge. Obviously the director believed that 'Actions speak loudervthen words'

I loved the way, that you can see Rebecca in little flash backs. Though it does get slightly annoying how you can never see her entire face at any one time. You can see closeups of her eyes,her mouth, and her figure, but never all at once.

It has a haunting score to it, which grows in intensity as the movie progreses. But again the length of the film keeps it from being too memorable.

It is defiantly a scary portrayle of the story, and not fit for younger children to watch. As the looney Ben and the Housekeeper defiantly cast a distrubing light on the film. As well as certain material in it being slightly 'older'.

On the whole I would give it 3 and a half stars but as it is not possible to give half stars in reviews I am forced to be a bit uncharritable towards it.

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Summary: Must See this
Review: I have always been in love with the movie Rebecca. I never thought I would find another version that I liked better. Who could do better than Laurence Olivier, Charles Dance has done it. To me he is more like the Maxim you think of when you read the book. The movie industry never follow the books. This is worth watching simply to fall in love with all over again.

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Summary: Great Actors
Review: I know that this movie didn't match the book exactly but I feel this is a minor point as we are dealing with two different medias. Charles Dance was superb as Max De Winter. Softer and more vulnerable than Olivier ( who I also loved in this part, for other reasons ). Ms Fox had more going for her than Ms. Fontaine did and one could understand more why a man as distinguished as Max would fall in love with her. Ms. Fontaine was too wishy-washy and too cloying. Faye Dunaway was correctly obnoxious, and Diana Rigg made the part of Mrs. Danvers more understandable. Part of this is due to the time that this movie was shot, psychologically we are not as limited in our outlook as the days of the Olivier,Fontaine, Anderson filming. All in all, a very good film and one worth the viewing.

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Summary: Love this movie but I too wish Hollywood would do a version
Review: I liked this version of the movie much better than the original 1940's version; and it certainly does justice to the book. But I would love it if Hollywood did a version with Ralph Fiennes as Maxim, Jillian Anderson as Mrs. DeWinter (because she has those big doe eyes), Maggie Smith as Mrs. Danvers, and shown as the ghost of Rebecca, Madoline Stowe. The Rebecca in the current version is not mean and brooding enough.

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Summary: Fabulous!
Review: I think it is interesting to read the other reviews here at Amazon.com. In my opinion, I agree with those reviewers who mention that this version of Rebecca is more believable. I can never make it through the first twenty minutes of the old movie because Maxim is a horrible character and so is his new wife. Maxim seemed much too harsh in the old version...and who could love someone like that? Also, the second Mrs. de Winter was too timid and not real at all in the old movie. She let Maxim run all over her.

Now, I know that this recent version of the movie does not follow the book as closely. However, as with all movies made from great books, we should look at this version of Rebecca in a completely new light. I love this version because Maxim is definitely a believable character and has more warmth and expression about him than the character in the older movie. Also, the second Mrs. de Winter had a personality about her in this movie. She was shy, but to a believable extent. She portrayed her character very well. And, yes, as another reviewer pointed out, you can actually understand why Maxim fell in love with her. I could never understand that in the old movie! There was no feeling between Maxim and his wife in that movie. Maybe that can be attributed to the evolution in relationships since the time that the old version of Rebecca was filmed.

So, in short, see this version of Rebecca! You will love it. The scenes are beautiful and the actors are wonderful...it is very well done!

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Summary: Great new version!!!!!!
Review: I thought this newest version of this classic was well done. I know many believe that Alfred Hitchcock's film was the best, but I like this version much better. I always thought the Olivier was stiff and wooden in the original. This version gives you much more feeling for the characters and even if some freedom was taken in the script, especially during the fire and rescue of Mrs. Danvers (reminded me a bit of Jane Eyre) the version was good and fresh. The cast was good especially Charles Dance as Maxim. Emilia Fox did a good job and even added the feeling of being really naive, etc. Diana Rigg was outstanding as Mrs. Danvers!!!!!