Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWhen Armando Iannucci helmed “The Personal History of David Copperfield,” (opening on 1,000 screens around the country Aug.
28) the one instruction he gave his craftspeople was to go bright.For those familiar with the book and any of the previous iterations, Iannucci’s version is far from bleak and dark — instead, it’s a comedy with Dev Patel in the starring role.While Iannucci keeps the Dickensian themes of loss, poverty and the powerful abusing the weak, he injects humor and focuses on the story as one of “great celebration about neighborliness, community, imagination and optimism.”Below, Iannucci and his craftspeople tell Variety how they infused vibrancy into this much-loved classic and turned it into a.
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