BBC chief content officer Charlotte Moore defended a sadomasochism scene in the latest adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel “Great Expectations' that recently streamed on Hulu.
In an interview with the BBC, the show’s screenwriter Steven Knight similarly defended the creative choice by claiming that Dickens was restricted by the elements of his time.
An employee at Sothebys holds an 1843 first edition of the classic"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens in London, U.K., Tuesday, December 5, 2006.ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, DEC. 19, 1843, CHARLES DICKENS PUBLISHES ‘A CHRISTMAS CAROL’"So I think if you take a microscope to the text of Dickens – for example, Pumblechook and Mrs Gargery, there are a couple of lines in there where they disappear together," Knight said.
"How can he put himself in Dickens’ place and say what he would have done? I think the scenes would just seem unnecessary. I don’t know if Dickens would have included a spanking scene! …Pumblechook is essentially a comic book character without a hint of sexual deviance…" Graham said to The Daily Mail.
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