Great Expectations: a romance?

"Great Expectations" was originally written by Charles Dickens and followed a boy named Pip around as he aspired to be an artist. His romantic life with Estella was just a side plot to the book and it actually revolved more around Estella's evil side. The book was turned into two movies, both with the same title, at different time periods. The screenplay for the 1947 movie version followed the book more accurately than the 1998 version. Ebert even states, "Certainly that's the case with David Lean's `Great Expectations' (1946), which has been called the greatest of all the Dickens films, and which does what few movies based on great books can do: Creates pictures on the screen that do not clash with the images already existing in our minds." Like most Hollywood films, the 1998 screenplay focuses on the romantic relationship between Finn (Pip) and Estella, and completely changes our image in the book. Not only does the plot change, but the majority of the characters's names. In Eberts review of the 1998 film he mentions how it is a romance by saying, "`Great Expectations'' begins as a great movie (I was spellbound by the first 30 minutes) but ends as only a good one, and I think that's because the screenplay, by Mitch Glazer, too closely follows the romantic line." The reason I believe it is a romance is because all of Finn's actions revolve around how they will effect his relationship with Estella. He decides to go to New York becaue Miss Dinsmoor tells him Estella's there. Most of his paintings are of Estella. However, others may disagree. "Great Expectations" isn't the only movie that people debate on whether it falls under the romance genre or not. Try finding other movies that may be in debate on the genre it falls under and if it's similar to "Great Expectations" because it is originally a book or a remake of another movie.