Talk:Oliver Twist (1982 TV film)

Plot problems
The 1982 version of the film is not 100% in line with the book; the plot section of this Wikipedia page says that Oliver was forced to rob a home. In the book, it was not the same home as the Brownlow's, but in this film, it was! In fact, that was how Mr. Brownlow came to know Oliver. Rock8591 (talk) 03:06, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Not Charles Dickens´"Oliver Twist"
The movie divertes brutally from Charles Dickens´ book except from the crude storyline and the names.

Fagin is portrayed as semi-welfaring selfaware underclass gentleman instead of a cunning, pure egoistic, devote, lewd gangster.

Oliver is not portrayed as the pure good-hearded boy like in the roman.

The mischief society circumstances (class vs class / gangster vs ganster / etc.) ~19th century aren't displayed in the nearly- dystopian way from the roman. Andre-Voigt-HH (talk) 23:22, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

The movie politizises the arrest of Fagin as (partial) antisemitic by inventing a mob scene with the following words:

Bystander : Filthy Jew!

Fagin : Who calls me that?

Bystander : I do! [throwing rock in Fagin's face]

Fagin : Here! You want the other cheek?[reference to Jesus Christ] I know your faces! Yes! We've done business together! If you need money, I'm the clever Jew! If you don't know the answers, I'm the wise Jew![mayby reference to Nathan the Wise by Lessing] If you need my help, I'm the kind Jew! Yeah, you can all go to blazes! YOU SICKEN ME!

The intension (and later downscaling) to characterise Fagin not as benevolent "jew" by Charles Dickens was already clarified by the author himself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andre-Voigt-HH (talk • contribs) 00:11, 23 November 2022 (UTC)