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Great Expectations
2023 · TV series · 1 season
Created by Steven Knight
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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It's not just films, a lot of TV programmes are heading that way too.
One example is the recently released adaptation of Great Expectations[1]. It's not just the overall darkness, but general lack of colour which is striking to me. I think this is just an artistic style and the next stage of colour grading from the Teal & Orange[2] trends of a few years ago.
You get used to it when watching a programme and forget what full colour actually looks like. Watching old films, something like the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia[3] highlighted it for me, really shows how much colour has been drained from modern film & TV productions.
[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/great-expectations-air-date-confirmed-trailer
[2] https://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html
[3] I think the recent remasters release may have some colour grading in too though, just looking at some scenes they are darker!