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Great Expectations: Synopsis.

Pip, a poor country orphan, was raised by his sister since he was a child. My sister is vulgar and spicy, and she scolds the whole family at every turn. His brother-in-law, Joe Guggier, was a kind, honest blacksmith and the only one in the family who really cared about Pip.

He initially arranged a hard but fulfilling life path for Pip. Pip also regards being an apprentice to his brother-in-law as his highest ideal, and he is satisfied with it.

But two things happened later that made his life pursuit and destiny fundamentally change. In the swamp, he encounters a fugitive in Pip, and with great reluctance, he steals his family's food and files to save the criminal. This event was a turning point in his attitude towards material life.

Miss Havisham, a local aristocrat, brought a great shock to Pip's spiritual world. Although he was envied by the spacious, wealthy, bleak and solemn atmosphere of the Hao family, it was Miss Havisham's adopted daughter, Miss Estella, who really touched his heart. Estella's caustic, unreasonable and merciless mockery stung Pip's self-esteem, causing him to stop wishing to be a blacksmith and to be satisfied with a simple and honest life, and he was determined to become a cultured gentleman and marry Miss Estella.

With a new ideal of life, Pip desperately cultivates himself, hoping to find a "great future" full of happiness and wealth"。Finally, one day, a lawyer informed him that a benefactor was going to pay for him to study in London and train him to become a decent gentleman. The benefactor did not reveal his true identity, but Pip believed that Miss Hao Xiangwei had deliberately cultivated him in order to make him and Estella happily married.

When he arrived in London, he was fed, idle, and spending, and began to become frivolous, vain, and selfish.

Soon, the mystery in his mind was finally solved, and his great future was hit hard. It turns out that his patron is not Miss Havisham, but an exile named Magwich, whom he loved so much, and Miss Estella, who was born of this criminal and a female murderer. His patron, Miss Havisham, is a ruthless avenger.

She invited him to her home just to cultivate Estella's ability to break men's hearts and settle her grievances.

At this time, with his benefactor**, Miss Estella, marrying someone else, his hopes for a "great future" were completely shattered. So he gradually sobered up, realized the past, regained his good qualities in the past, and started a new life.

At the end of the **, a lonely, elderly and frail Miss Havisham remorsefuls what she did, and she dies from her injuries in a fire. After being sentenced to death by hanging, Magvich died of illness in the prison hospital. Compeson, who had been defrauded of Miss Havisham's money, fell overboard and died in a struggle with Magwich.

After Pip's sister died, Joe married Pip's friend Betty and lived happily ever after. Estella, who had suffered misfortune in her married life, finally realized love and came together with Pip.

The play is set in Shanghai, the "magic capital" of the 20th century, and tells a story about "choice".

Great Expectations" is jointly produced by Mango Film and Television, Xiangshan Wukong Film and Television, and Chengya Film and Television, with Chen Sicheng as the producer and chief screenwriter, directed by Xie Ze, and starring Chen Sicheng, Tong Liya, Yuan Hong, Guo Caijie, Jin Shijie, Ni Dahong, Liu Yijun, Zhao Lixin and others.

Great Expectations Sanyuan (played by Chen Sicheng) and his mother and friend Qi Lin (played by Yuan Hong) went to Shanghai to defect to Yan Hua (played by Fu Dalong) and became involved in the power struggle between the two major companies. Yan Hua was a dock worker at this time, and he was elected as a workers' leader despite the power. Hong Sanyuan relied on his wit to save the day many times in the dangerous Shanghai Beach.

Hong Sanyuan married Jin Lan with the loyal man Shen Dayi, and Lin Yiyi (played by Tong Liya), who came to poster his father's revenge, became Mo Reverse in the battle of wits and courage, and Lin Yiyi, who was dressed as **, fell in love with Hong Sanyuan. Hong Sanyuan approached the rich girl Yu Mengzhu (played by Guo Caijie), and Yu Mengzhu fell in love with Hong Sanyuan. Yan Hua was in distress and was rescued by the communist Li Xinli and joined the Communist Party.

Lin Yiyi took risks for revenge, and Hong Sanyuan ran with him to the end of the world. Lin Yiyi was killed, and Hong Sanyuan returned to Shanghai Tang. Inspired by Yan Hua and Li Xinli's progressive thoughts, Hong Sanyuan gave up his hard-won "good life" and devoted all his life to escort Li Xinli out of Shanghai.

Hong Sanyuan gradually understood that the road led by the Communist Party was the great future he wanted to pursue.

On October 3, 2016, the fan meeting of the TV series "Great Expectations" was held in Xiangshan Film and Television City, and the producer and screenwriter Chen Sicheng brought Tong Liya, Yuan Hong, Zhang Shuangli, Li Ping, Zhang Yu, and Sang Ping to attend the meeting, and talked about the interesting shooting in Xiangshan Film and Television City with fans.

On October 11, 2016, "Great Expectations" first exposed the poster of the "Heng Xingba" version of the four generations of tycoons came to Shanghai Tang, and at the same time ** actor list. The posters of many people are from left to right, and the four generations of tycoons are dressed in robes and gowns to long shirts, to old-style suits, and finally to shirts and trousers. At that time, Shanghai was also a model of modern prosperity, and the mechanical, geometric decorative lines in the background of the poster used elements of Art Deco architecture, conveying a visual experience that was both traditional and innovative.

On October 13, 2016, the producer of the TV series "Great Expectations" released the "Floating and Troubled Times" version of the character poster, and poster shooting footage**. Focusing on the prosperity of Shanghai in the twenties of the twentieth century, the upper class chased the fashion and enjoyed the luxurious life, showing the other side of the tycoons. On October 20, 2016, the TV series "Great Expectations" held a press conference in Xiangshan, and Chen Sicheng, Yuan Hong, Tong Liya, and Guo Caijie brought more than 40 actors in the play to appear collectively with makeup.

For the first time at the press conference, there was a double female protagonist lineup, Tong Liya's mustache on the scene, and Guo Caijie's retro orange dress.

Great Expectations is one of Dickens's most mature works, and it is his more recent work. After experiencing a rich human life, Dickens had a deep understanding of people, his surroundings, and his own life experience, and all his mature thoughts and understandings were summarized in the book "Great Expectations". The original title of the work was "Great Expectations", which means a legacy, and the Chinese translate it as "Great Expectations."

This translation gives the reader the impression that the protagonist of the work has a great future. In fact, this "great expectations" is ironic, and it should be said that the theme of this work is not just the story of the disillusionment of the orphan Pip who wants to be a superior human being, and if you understand it this way, you will misunderstand the meaning of Dickens's creation of this work. Pip lives in his sister's house and has a hard life, his dream is to be a blacksmith like his brother-in-law, he has no intention of being a high-class person.

Later, the reason why he wanted to be a superior person was because of the change of environment. One of Dickens's philosophical ideas is the influence of environment on human thought. Different environments can create different human curves.

Pip's entire development process is in line with the general theory of human nature. This work is not arbitrary, but is based on more than a dozen previous works of Dickens, and is a summary of his thoughts. Dickens summed up his views on life, philosophy, and morality in this work.

The development of the story can be roughly divided into three parts. The first part recounts Pip's rustic childhood in the countryside. By chance, he met a fugitive. and stole things from the house to help him.

Soon, Pip is invited to play at Miss Harveysham's Saddis compound, and his heart changes. He falls in love with the beautiful but cold Estella and begins to feel ashamed of his origins and his loved ones.

One day, Pip is suddenly sponsored by an unnamed person. He was overjoyed to be sent to London to receive an education of the superior people. The second part of the story focuses on Pip's education in London.

Infected by the snobbery of the upper class, Pip leads a life of extravagance and depravity, and his moral character has become low. He had always thought that it was Miss Harveysham who anonymously financed his noble education, however, the appearance of a real "benefactor" forced him to face reality again.

The final section recounts Pip's efforts to protect the exiled Magwich who had absconded back home. Although Magwich could not escape the fate of ** in the end, in a series of changes, Pip finally returned to the beauty of human nature and deeply realized the value of friendship and family affection.

The wealthy Miss Havising sends for her to find a boy to carry out her plan of vicious love games in the name of serving the elderly, and Pip is chosen to endure the humiliation of the moody and proud Estella and the ridicule of Miss Havising every day. In order to maintain his self-esteem, which was hurt by Miss Havisin and Estella, Pip is secretly determined to learn to read and write, and hopes to have a good future, and hopes to marry the proud El Stella in the end, and he finds not only a woman named Beatty, but also an old nun in the village.

But he knew that he would not be able to surpass Estella in this way, so he became a blacksmith, but one day Miss Havising's royal lawyer came and said that a mysterious man was going to leave all his fortune to Pip and took him to London to be educated in etiquette, and Pip was glad that he finally had a good future.

That's the beauty of literature.

The writer deliberately leaves people in suspense. The ending of "Great Expectations" is completely a matter of opinion.

Personally, I think Pip and Estella are together.

Pip has always been in love with Estella.

Estella is also a hard-working person, she actually loves Pip dearly, and by the end of the day, her situation also needs a man to rely on.

Dickens illustrates this theme through Pip's quest for what he calls "great expectations." Therefore, ambition and the pursuit of personal development have become a central theme of this **, and it has also become a psychological mechanism that promotes Pip's development. At heart, Pip is an idealist,—— and when he realizes that there is something better than what he already has, he immediately wants it.

When he saw Miss Havisham's Satis Manor, he looked forward to becoming a rich gentleman; When he discovers his moral flaws, he wants to be a good person; When he realized that he couldn't read, he longed to know how to read. Pip's desire for self-pursuit is the main reason for determining this ** title. It is precisely because Pip believes that life can be improved, so he feels that he has a "great future" in the future.

2] In Great Expectations, ambition and self-pursuit manifest themselves in three forms: moral, social, and educational. It's these motivations that drive Pip to perform at his best or worst.

First, Pip craves moral self-improvement. When he does something immoral, he will severely convict himself; This intense sense of guilt motivates him to get things done in the future. For example, when he left home for London, he experienced a fierce struggle in his heart, and he always felt sorry for Joe and Beatty.

Secondly, Pip is eager to improve his social status. Out of love for Estella, Pip longs to become a member of Estella's class. At the instigation of his sister and Pamperquk, Pip indulges in gentlemanly dreams.

Realizing Pip's gentleman's dream has become the basic plot of this **. This gave Dickens the opportunity to satirize the class system of his time and reveal its unpredictable nature. Clearly, compared to his life as an apprentice blacksmith, Pip's Gentry "is not so good and morally depraved."

Thirdly, Pip's desire to get a good education is inevitably linked to Pip's desire to improve his social status and marry Estella. To be a gentleman, a good education is essential. If he were just an ignorant hillbilly, he would have no hope of breaking into high society.

However, through the examples of Joe, Beatty, and Magwech, Pip understands that a person's true worth is not necessarily related to social status and education, and that love and conscience are far more important than erudition and high social status.

Social class.

The brother above said it very clearly.

I'll just say that I've seen great promises.

In the human body, this is a book worth reading!