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Watch: Vanity Fair 2004 123movies, Full Movie Online – The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon), the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for twenty years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father’s paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes..
Plot: 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?
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Ratings:

	6.2/10 Votes: 22,781
	51% | RottenTomatoes
	53/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 300 Popularity: 11.855 | TMDB

Reviews:

Great film, if you haven’t read the book
This is an entertaining movie that goes over two hours, but I really don’t understand why it was made. Sprawling stories spanning several decades with several subplots involving dozens of characters are totally defensible on the printed page, where we can always go back and remind ourselves which character is which and how this character is related to that one. But this type of thing makes no sense whatsoever in a film. Unless a viewer has a phenomenal memory, such a story on film invariably leads to confusion and to my asking myself, “now wait a minute, whose brother is this, and whose son?”

So that is one of the principal problems with this film.

There are several other problems as well. Reese Witherspoon is badly miscast. She simply lacks Becky Sharp’s bite. In fact, the whole film lacks Thackeray’s bite. Reese does a good job with the British accent, but it just doesn’t work. She is just too American for the role. Weren’t there any British actresses available, or were the producers just relying on Reese’s star power? Reese is just too nice to play Becky.

It has often been said that Becky Sharp was the model for Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone With the Wind,” although Margaret Mitchell denied this. Even so, I kept visualizing Vivien Leigh in this role and imagining how perfect she would have been. I think Mira Nair was thinking of GWTW as well, because there are several scenes in the film that are obvious homages to it. First there are the battle scenes during the Battle of Waterloo, followed by a panoramic view of the carnage following the battle, complete with corpses strewn all over the battlefield. This was an obvious homage to the crane shot over Atlanta in GWTW. The final fight between Becky and her husband reminded me of the final fight between Scarlett and Rhett in GWTW. I half expected the husband to say “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

Another flaw involves the Indian director Nair’s inability to resist bringing in some Bollywood type scenes, particularly one involving Becky leading an Indian type dance, with Indian music, before the king, no less, and to thunderous applause.

And yet another thing: this film spans at least twenty, maybe twenty-five or thirty, years in Becky’s life after she graduates from finishing school–I am not counting the one scene of her as a child–yet the character never ages. Neither do any of the other characters. Maybe the makeup staff went on strike?

But most of these problems won’t even be noted by someone who hasn’t read the book, so if you haven’t, go ahead and see it; you’ll probably be entertained. And if you are someone like me who loves the book, you may not be able to resist seeing it anyway. But Thackeray was never so soft.

Visually stunning, but lacks conviction
First things off, the book is such a wonderful work, however it is also a mammoth and sprawling one. The film is a valiant attempt but doesn’t work entirely. It does have some good points, especially the luscious cinematography, sets, costumes and location work, and the superb support playing of Bob Hoskins, Eileen Atkins, Rhys Ifans and Jim Broadbent, while most of the music was a delight to listen to and there are moments of well-written dialogue. However, there are other moments of dialogue that don’t ring true, especially with that of the lead character. Reese Witherspoon does try very hard in the role, but, more the fault of the writers, she comes across as too charming and too likable. The story doesn’t seem to have a structure either, if anything it is a series of scenes that succeed one another, while the film at various points feel both rushed and draggy. While I did like the music, there is a dance scene that feels so anachronistic in style(musically and choreographically) and how it was placed in the film it feels like a different movie altogether. All in all, lacks conviction and is disappointing, but at least the film looks good and has a cast that give their all. 4/10 Bethany Cox

Other Information:

Original Language pt
Runtime 2 hr 21 min (141 min)
Budget 23000000
Revenue 16123851
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama
Director Mira Nair
Writer Matthew Faulk, Mark Skeet, Julian Fellowes
Actors Reese Witherspoon, Romola Garai, James Purefoy
Country United States, United Kingdom, India
Awards 2 wins & 5 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arricam LT, Cooke S4 and Angenieux HR Lenses, Arricam ST, Cooke S4 and Angenieux HR Lenses, Arriflex 435, Cooke S4, Angenieux HR and Revolution Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length 3,876 m (Germany)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 500T 5218)
Cinematographic Process Super 35
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic) (Kodak Vision 2383)