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Carey's cheerful ham-fistedness turns out to be just what is called for to correct Dickens' lugubriousness.
Suffice it to say that when Carey rewrites Dickens' ending--Maggs, unlike the late lamented Magwitch, does not die a miserable death--it is a perfectly delightful solution.
But if Grant speaks through jaws aristocratically locked, his William Thacker is meant to embody a scruffy, downwardly mobile lifestyle; as a consequence of his integrity, he must share a flat with a cretinously vulgar couch potato called Spike (Rhys Ifans) and face a stream of dim customers who refuse to accept that his bookshop carries neither Dickens nor Grisham.
I've read the Dickens original over and over and seen all the previous adaptations, yet I didn't for an instant yearn for 19 th -century London--at least, not until the movie had ended, when I was scratching my head over why it finally seemed so un-Dickensianly miniature.
And then he mused that he wouldn't call Stephen King a great writer in the same sense but would call him a great storyteller in the Dickens tradition (I am not using quotation marks because I cannot claim to remember verbatim).