Vanity Fair
All's fair in love & war.
Vanity Fair (2004)
Timing:
2:21 (141 min)
5.777/10
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Country
Production
Genre
Drama, Romance
Budget
$23 000 000
Revenue
$16 123 851
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Donna Gigliotti, Janette Day, Lydia Dean Pilcher, Jane Frazer, Pippa Cross, Jonathan Lynn, Howard Cohen
Operator
Declan Quinn
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Allyson C. Johnson
All team (31)
All team (31)
Short description
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims enable Becky to realise her dreams. But is the ultimate cost too high for her?
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on William Makepeace Thackeray's novel "Vanity Fair" (Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero, 1847-1848).
- Filming of the picture began on May 23, 2003, in the pavilions of Shepperton Studios in London with a budget of $23 million. Initially, work on the film was scheduled to begin in the fall of 2002, but was postponed for several months due to Reese Witherspoon's commitment to filming "Legally Blonde 2".
- The first four adaptations of the novel on which the film is based passed very quietly, then in 1932 there was a film with Myrna Loy, and the last one was released in 1935 under the title "Becky Sharp" starring Miriam Hopkins. There have also been three mini-series, the most recent of which aired on BBC in 1998.
- During rehearsals for the film, Mira Nair jokingly suggested that Reese Witherspoon get pregnant, as the actress's thinness did not quite fit the role. Coincidence or not, but by the time filming began, Reese announced that she was expecting a child.
- Reese Witherspoon was the only American actress on set, which was entirely located in the United Kingdom.
- Notably, Natasha Little, who played Lady Jane in this film, also participated in the 1998 BBC production. There she played the main role, the role of Becky Sharp.
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