Great Expectations (1998) Trivia

1. What was the last name of Finn's character?

From Quiz "Great Expectations" (1998)

Answer: Bell

His full name was Finnegan Bell. His nickname was Finn and his sister was Maggie Bell. She was raising him at the beginning of the movie but we never did find out anything about where Mr. and Mrs. Bell were.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: Robert deNiro

Arthur Lustig is a convict on the run, who meets ten-year-old Finn and forces the boy to help him.

From Quiz "Great Expectations" (1998)

Answer: Dancing

This was near the beginning of the movie, before Finn moved to New York. As a young child he came once a week to Ms. Dinsmoor's home (age 10), where she taught Estella and Finn to dance. She seemed to feed off of them while they where dancing. In this particular scene she was trying to get them to smile while dancing, but both of their faces were without expression.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: Her fiancé left her right before the wedding

That is why she taught Estella that love is a dangerous and painful thing, and should be avoided if at all possible.

From Quiz "Great Expectations" (1998)

Answer: Francesco Clement

Clement was well traveled and created watercolors wherever he went. According to his biography at the Guggenheim Museum website, he created 200 works for this movie.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: 10 years

Finn mentions it in his voice-over lines. He has not seen Estella for ten years, and then one day he returns to "Paradiso Perduto" and encounters Estella and her little daughter. She tells him she's divorced. It seems as if they finally manage to get together.

From Quiz "Great Expectations" (1998)

Answer: Green

According to the "Great Expectations" web site, designer "Donna Karan (the queen of black), designed Gwyneth Paltrow's wardrobe all in shades of green". Also over one hundred extras where asked to dress in green and black. Alfonso had no real reason for the color he just really liked it.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: memory

This refers to Finn's words in the beginning of the movie. He says he is going to tell the story not the way it happened, but the way he remembers it.

From Quiz "Great Expectations" (1998)

Answer: Arthur Lustig

Arthur was the escaped prison inmate who Finn (at age ten) helped escape from the police that were looking for him. He only found out about Arthur's part in his success after his big show in New York. Lustig died in his arms on a subway in New York the very same night.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: Paradise Lost

The old house looks abandoned; parts of it are even caved in, and the huge garden looks almost like a jungle. Yet the area has some touch of magic - almost like a "lost paradise."

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: Kiri Te Kanawa

In the movie, a different version of the aria is played. A soprano sings it during Finn's vernissage. The lyrics are actually the last few lines in Dickens' novel.

From Quiz "Great Expectations" (1998)

Answer: Paradiso Perduto

When Finn first saw Paradiso Perduto he was on a job with his Uncle Joe but Ms. Dinsmoor did not allow them to work and just slipped a check under the door. Finn looked around on the grounds and saw the remnants of the wedding that never took place because Ms. Dinsmoor's fiancé never showed up. This garden is where Finn saw Estelle for the first time, when he was ten. When they got home that day Maggie informed them that Ms. Dinsmoor wanted Finn to come over on Saturday to play with her niece. Joe was confused because she never even saw either of them.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: Iggy Pop

"Iggster's" song is played when Finn stands on the rooftop with his bottle of champagne, thinking he finally made it.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: Maggie

She disappears one night and never returns. She was married to Joe, whom Finn keeps calling "uncle," although he's actually his brother-in-law.

From Quiz "Great Expectations" (1998)

Answer: Paris

Arthur was stabbed in the subway by one of his former colleagues and died in Finn's arms before he could even convince him to go. Finn ended up going to Paris with the tickets Arthur bought because he felt as an artist he should go and also because he wanted to spend time with the one person who showed him kindness.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: Arthur Lustig

Lustig helped the only person who ever helped him. He dies on the subway the night Finn finds out about his benefactor.

From Quiz "Great Expectations" (1998)

Answer: Ms. Nora Dinsmoor

This was what drove him to prove himself worthy of Estella. He said "What were her plans for me (meaning Ms. Dinsmoor)? Why was she protecting and promoting me? What could her reasons be if not to make me equal with Estella?" He felt that Ms. Dinsmoor wanted him to prove his love to her by making them equal in social standings of society.

From Quiz Great Expectations

Answer: spider

Jerry Ragno is Finn's lawyer. Mrs. Dinnsmore tells FInn that "ragno" means "spider" in Italian. Finn then calls his lawyer "Spider-Man".

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