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* ''Oliver Twist'' (2005), directed by Creator/RomanPolanski, with Creator/BenKingsley as Fagin
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* AdoptedToTheHouse: A couple of different households attempt this with Oliver, but it's not until the end that they're actually successful (the previous times resulted in Oliver being stolen back by the thieves).
* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: The orphans when they're found are given a name from the next letter of the alphabet (ie. Oliver (Twist) was proceeded by a Swubble and followed by an Unwin, followed by a Vilkins and so on), with their last name related to place they were found.
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* BadassLongcoat: The Artful Dodger has one. To make it more badass, the reason it's so long is that he ''stole it from someone twice his size''.
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* BadassLongcoat: The Artful Dodger has one. To make it more badass, the reason it's so long is BadBoss: Fagin doesn't care at all about members of his gang that he ''stole are hanged for stealing (the fact that most of them were children only made it from someone twice worse), but he'll do anything in his size''.power to silence one who he thinks would rat on him to the authorities.
* BadSamaritan: Fagin takes in homeless street urchins, giving them shelter and food and a sense of family. He also turns them into a band of criminals, and if they don't earn enough money, they are beaten and tossed out.
* BadassLongcoat: The Artful Dodger has one. To make it more badass, the reason it's so long is that he ''stole it from someone twice his size''.
* BadassLongcoat: The Artful Dodger has one. To make it more badass, the reason it's so long is that he ''stole it from someone twice his size''.
* BegTheDog: Before his execution, Fagin begs Oliver, the little boy whom he abducted and forced to become a thief against his will, to save his life.
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* CliffHanger: Since the novel was published as a serial, Dickens was naturally fond of this - how else are you going to make sure the readers buy the next issue?
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* CliffHanger: {{Cliffhanger}}: Since the novel was published as a serial, Dickens was naturally fond of this - how else are you going to make sure the readers buy the next issue?
* CorruptionOfAMinor: Fagin spends his time teaching young boys how to pickpocket and get away with it.
* DeathbedConfession: Old Sally tells Mrs. Corney that she stole some jewelry (namely, a locket and a ring) from Oliver's mother, Agnes Fleeming, right after she died. Sally dies begging Mrs. Corney to give the jewels to Oliver; she instead gives them to his half-brother Edward aka Monks, who throws them to the Thames river.
* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: In this case, the part about not getting enough food is not intended as a punishment, it's just the way the orphanarium is run. The ''actual'' punishment is that Oliver is sold into what amounts to slavery (at least, that's the Workhouse Master's intent; it doesn't work out quite that badly for him).
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* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: In this case, the part about not getting enough food is not intended as a punishment, it's just the way the orphanarium is run. The ''actual'' punishment is that Oliver is sold into what amounts to slavery (at least, that's the Workhouse Master's intent; it doesn't work out quite that badly for him).
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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] (or probably [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]]) with Bill Sikes, who, while he ''technically'' dies by falling off a roof, never hits the ground, because he [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath gets a rope tangled around his neck]] on the way down. Bullseye the dog then gives a straight example.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] (or probably [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]]) with Bill Sikes, who, while Sikes and his dog fall to their deaths. Haunted by Nancy's ghost after murdering her, Sikes attempts to flee, but ultimately comes back to London. Whilst trying to escape from an angry mob, he ''technically'' dies by falling off tries to lower himself down from his hiding place via a roof, never hits rope, loses his balance, falls, and the ground, because he [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath gets a rope tangled around catches his neck]] on the way down. Bullseye the neck and hangs him. His dog then gives jumps at his master, misses, and strikes his head against a straight example.stone, dashing out his brains. Ouch! The dog's death was more gruesome than his master's.
* DrawingStraws: This is how Oliver gets chosen as the one to ask for "more". Although in his case, he gets the lone long straw.
* FearOfThunder: Monks is afraid of thunder, and has a good old rant about it at one point. However, in his case it is a pretty legitimate fear.
* FelonyMisdemeanor: Oliver's famous request for a second pitiful helping of porridge is treated like a high crime by the miserly workhouse staff. "He asked for more?"
* FelonyMisdemeanor: Oliver's famous request for a second pitiful helping of porridge is treated like a high crime by the miserly workhouse staff. "He asked for more?"
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* FilmOfTheBook: Multiple.FisticuffProvokingComment: Oliver endures a lot of verbal abuse from Noah Claypole, but when Noah insults his mother, Oliver responds with his fists.
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* FisticuffProvokingComment: Oliver endures a lot of verbal abuse from Noah Claypole, but when Noah insults his mother, Oliver responds with his fists.
* HighHeelFaceTurn: Nancy is the only female in the group of villains, and the only one to do help Oliver. Although she turns, she cannot abandon her criminal friends because AllGirlsWantBadBoys.
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* LondonGangster: Bill Sykes, a thoroughly reprehensible London criminal who Fagin makes bargains with, and Nancy's abusive boyfriend.
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* LondonGangster: Bill Sykes, Sikes is one of the most depraved criminals in the book. Murderously violent, has a thoroughly reprehensible London criminal who HairTriggerTemper and a RightHandAttackDog, carries a cudgel, and does business with Fagin makes bargains with, and Nancy's abusive boyfriend.Monk. And that's not even getting into what he does to Nancy...
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* SignatureLine: "Please, sir, I want some more."
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* SignatureLine: Oliver's "Please, sir, I want some more."more" is likely the most quoted line of the book and its adaptation, being the inciting incident for Oliver's troubles, though it is often slightly misquoted as "Please, sir, may I have some more?"
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** Nancy's best friend bet Bet is also omitted.
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A novel by Creator/CharlesDickens, originally published as a serial in ''Bentley's Miscellany'' between 1837 and 1839. Oliver Twist is born an orphan and raised to a young age in a cruel workhouse that exploits the poor. Eventually he escapes the workhouse, only to run afoul of the London underworld. He's recruited into a pickpocket gang, but rescued by a kindly gentlemen who discovers Oliver's real identity and finally finds him a happy home.
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A novel by Creator/CharlesDickens, originally published as a serial in ''Bentley's Miscellany'' between 1837 and 1839. Oliver Twist is born an orphan and raised to a young age in a cruel workhouse that exploits the poor. Eventually he escapes the workhouse, only to run afoul of the London UsefulNotes/{{London}} underworld. He's recruited into a pickpocket gang, but rescued by a kindly gentlemen gentleman who discovers Oliver's real identity and finally finds him a happy home.
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The original [[EitherOrTitle subtitle]] was "The Parish Boy's Progress," an obvious nod to John Bunyan's ''Literature/PilgrimsProgress''. It also follows the pattern of Hogarth's series of paintings "The Rake's Progress" and "The Harlot's Progress" about people who fell into lives of dissolution.
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* ''Oliver Twist'' (2005), directed by Creator/RomanPolanski, with Creator/BenKingsley as Fagin
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* BittersweetEnding: Oliver is happy and living with his wealthy family, but he has to deal with a lot of trauma and among everything else his newfould happiness is soured by the news of his friend Dick's death. Meanwhile, Dodger is caught and deported to Australia, Fagin is caught and executed, and both Sikes and Nancy are dead. Make of that what you will.
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* BittersweetEnding: Oliver is happy and living with his wealthy family, but he has to deal with a lot of trauma and among everything else his newfould newfound happiness is soured by the news of his friend Dick's death. Meanwhile, Dodger is caught and deported to Australia, Fagin is caught and executed, and both Sikes and Nancy are dead. Make of that what you will.
* CanonWelding: The gentleman in the white waistcoat, who runs the oppressive workhouse and abuses Oliver, appears later in ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', of all places. Scrooge is shown a ghost in a white waistcoat being tormented in the afterlife for being cruel to the poor; apparently he and Scrooge had been "quite familiar."
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Nancy. Charles Dickens stated in a preface written for the full novel that "the girl is a prostitute."
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Nancy. Charles Dickens stated in a preface written for the full novel that "the girl is a prostitute."prostitute", although in the story itself her occupation is only hinted at through innuendo.
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* PersonWithTheClothing: The person who runs the board of governors of the workhouse is identified only as "the gentleman in the white waistcoat".
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* StockholmSyndrome: Fagin uses this when attempting to groom Oliver to be in his gang, first keeping Oliver in solitary confinement but gradually allowing him to socialize with the pickpockets. It doesn't take thanks to Oliver's IncorruptiblePurePureness.
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* ThinSkinnedBully: Several characters, most notably Mr. Bumble, Noah Claypole, and Monks, make it a point to only pick on weaker or lower status people and are quickly exposed as {{Dirty Coward}}s when anybody attempts to fight back.
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* {{Hypoctite}}: While Mr Bumble preaches Christian principle he himself fails to live up to these lofty ideals by behaving without compassion or mercy toward the paupers under his charge. For example, in Chapter 3 Bumble calls Oliver a "naughty orphan which nobody can't love."
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* {{Hypoctite}}: {{Hypocrite}}: While Mr Bumble preaches Christian principle he himself fails to live up to these lofty ideals by behaving without compassion or mercy toward the paupers under his charge. For example, in Chapter 3 Bumble calls Oliver a "naughty orphan which nobody can't love."
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* FisticuffProvokingComment: Oliver endures a lot of verbal abuse from Noah Claypole, but when Noah insults his mother, Oliver responds with his fists.
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* CorneredRattlesnake: Fagin is, by nature, cowardly, and he avoids direct confontations with both the law and more violent criminals, such as Sikes. But when his back is to the wall and he's facing execution, his fits of violent, frantic madness horrify even his jailers. He has to be dragged to the gallows kicking and screaming.
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** Rose Maylie, a virtuous, pure, innocent, beloved seventeen-year-old ingenue to Nancy, a miserable, alcoholic, unloved, hardened prostitute who happens to be seventeen years old.
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** [[MadonnaWhoreComplex Rose Maylie, a virtuous, pure, innocent, beloved seventeen-year-old ingenue to Nancy, a miserable, alcoholic, unloved, hardened prostitute who happens to be seventeen years old.]]
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* UncattyResemblance: Bill Sikes' bulldog, Bull's-eye, resembles him both physically (they possess similar facial scars and markings) and temperamentally. [[spoiler: Bull's-eye also follows his master in death.]]
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* BastardBastard: Oliver is revealed to be the illegitimate son of a rich man named Edwin Leeford SR. and his young mistress, a girl named Agnes Fleming.
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* HeroicBastard: Oliver is revealed to be the illegitimate son of a rich man named Edwin Leeford SR. and his young mistress, a girl named Agnes Fleming.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Charley Bates, who is always going around with his hands and is prone to fits of laughter, is frequently referred to as "Master Bates." This might be interpreted as simply an instance of HaveAGayOldTime, but as the term "masturbate" was already in use when Dickens wrote Oliver Twist, and had the same meaning then as it does today, it seems more likely it was completely intentional.
** In one scene, Nancy rages at Fagin for corrupting her when she was a child. While Fagin explicitly employs several individuals in different illegal activities (pickpockets, housebreakers, spies), Dickens has separately confirmed that, yes, he's also a pimp, and Nancy (and probably Bet) are prostitutes.
** Charley Bates, who is always going around with his hands and is prone to fits of laughter, is frequently referred to as "Master Bates." This might be interpreted as simply an instance of HaveAGayOldTime, but as the term "masturbate" was already in use when Dickens wrote Oliver Twist, and had the same meaning then as it does today, it seems more likely it was completely intentional.
** In one scene, Nancy rages at Fagin for corrupting her when she was a child. While Fagin explicitly employs several individuals in different illegal activities (pickpockets, housebreakers, spies), Dickens has separately confirmed that, yes, he's also a pimp, and Nancy (and probably Bet) are prostitutes.
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** Charley Bates, who is always going around with his handsGettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is prone on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits of laughter, is frequently referred to as "Master Bates." This might be interpreted as simply an instance of HaveAGayOldTime, but as the term "masturbate" was already in use when Dickens wrote Oliver Twist, and had the same meaning then as it does today, it seems more likely it was completely intentional.
** In one scene, Nancy rages at Fagin for corrupting her when she was a child. While Fagin explicitly employs several individuals in different illegal activities (pickpockets, housebreakers, spies), Dickens has separately confirmed that, yes, he's also a pimp, and Nancy (and probably Bet) are prostitutes.current definition.
** Charley Bates, who is always going around with his hands
** In one scene, Nancy rages at Fagin for corrupting her when she was a child. While Fagin explicitly employs several individuals in different illegal activities (pickpockets, housebreakers, spies), Dickens has separately confirmed that, yes, he's also a pimp, and Nancy (and probably Bet) are prostitutes.
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* HaveAGayOldTime: Charley Bates is frequently called "Master Bates." Unless you view that as a deliberate attempt at GettingCrapPastTheRadar, it might be an instance of this trope. The intended humor then lies in the fact that Charley is a street urchin unlikely to deserve such an honorific.
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* HaveAGayOldTime: Charley Bates is frequently called "Master Bates." Unless you view that as a deliberate attempt at GettingCrapPastTheRadar, {{double entendre}}, it might be an instance of this trope. The intended humor then lies in the fact that Charley is a street urchin unlikely to deserve such an honorific.
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* AnimalMotifs: Bill Sikes' dog, Bull's-eye, has "faults of temper in common with his owner" and is an emblem of his owner's character. The dog's viciousness represents Sikes's animal-like brutality while Sikes's self-destructiveness is evident in the dog's many scars. The dog, with its willingness to harm anyone on Sikes's whim, shows the mindless brutality of the master. Sikes himself senses that the dog is a reflection of himself and that is why he tries to drown the dog. He is really trying to run away from who he is. This is also illustrated when Sikes dies and the dog immediately dies as well. After Sikes murders Nancy, Bull's-eye also comes to represent Sikes's guilt. The dog leaves bloody footprints on the floor of the room where the murder is committed. Not long after, Sikes becomes desperate to get rid of the dog, convinced that the dog's presence will give him away. Yet, just as Sikes cannot shake off his guilt, he cannot shake off Bull's-eye, who arrives at the house of Sikes's demise before Sikes himself does. Bull's-eye's name also conjures up the image of Nancy's eyes, which haunt Sikes until the bitter end and eventually cause him to hang himself accidentally.
* BastardBastard: Oliver is revealed to be the illegitimate son of a rich man named Edwin Leeford SR. and his young mistress, a girl named Agnes Fleming.
* EnvironmentalSymbolism: The London slums have a suffocating, infernal aspect; the dark deeds and dark passions are concretely characterised by dim rooms and pitch-black nights, while the governing mood of terror and brutality may be identified with uncommonly cold weather. In contrast, the countryside where the Maylies take Oliver is a bucolic heaven.
* EyeMotifs: Toward the end of the novel, the gaze of knowing eyes becomes a potent symbol. For years, Fagin avoids daylight, crowds, and open spaces, concealing himself most of the time in a dark lair. When his luck runs out at last, he squirms in the "living light" of too many eyes as he stands in the dock, awaiting sentence. Similarly, after Sikes kills Nancy at dawn, he flees the bright sunlight in their room, out to the countryside, but is unable to escape the memory of her dead eyes. In addition, Charley Bates turns his back on crime when he sees the murderous cruelty of the man who has been held up to him as a model.
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* {{Foil}}[=/=]GoodCounterpart:{{Foil}}: Dickens employs polarised sets of characters to explore various dual themes throughout the novel. Mr Brownlow and Fagin, for example, personify "good vs. evil".
** Dickens also juxtaposes honest, law-abiding characters such as Oliver himself with those who, like the Artful Dodger, seem more comfortable on the wrong side of the law.
** Dickens also juxtaposes honest, law-abiding characters such as Oliver himself with those who, like the Artful Dodger, seem more comfortable on the wrong side of the law.
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* {{Hypoctite}}: While Mr Bumble preaches Christian principle he himself fails to live up to these lofty ideals by behaving without compassion or mercy toward the paupers under his charge. For example, in Chapter 3 Bumble calls Oliver a "naughty orphan which nobody can't love."
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* MamaBear: Nancy, who is fiercely protective of Oliver and harbors a great deal of motherly affection and pity for him, tries to prevent him from being kidnapped a second time, after Oliver has finally managed to find safety in the household of the Maylie family, whom Sikes tried unsuccessfully to rob. She gives Rose Maylie and Mr. Brownlow, Oliver's benefactor, information about Oliver's evil half-brother Monks, who is in league with Fagin.
* MeaningfulName:Many, as In the tradition of Restoration Comedy and Henry Fielding, Dickens fits his characters with appropriate names. Oliver himself, though "badged and ticketed" as a lowly orphan and named according to an alphabetical system, is, in fact, "all of a twist." However, Oliver and his name may have been based on a young workhouse boy named Peter Tolliver whom Dickens knew while growing up. Mr Grimwig is known so called because his seemingly "grim", pessimistic outlook is actually a protective cover for this. The his kind, sentimental soul. Other character names mark their bearers as semi-monstrous caricatures. Mrs Mann, who has charge of the infant Oliver, is not the most obvious include motherly of women; Mr Bumble, Crackit, Grimwig despite his impressive sense of his own dignity, continually mangles the King's English he tries to use; and Fang. the Sowerberries are, of course, "sour berries", a reference to Mrs Sowerberry's perpetual scowl, to Mr Sowerberry's profession as an undertaker, and to the poor provender Oliver receives from them. Rose Maylie's name echoes her association with flowers and springtime, youth and beauty while Toby Crackit's is a reference to his chosen profession of housebreaking.
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* PetTheDog: Dickens briefly reveals Bumble's human side when he escorts Oliver to the premises of Mr Sowerberry, the undertaker. When Oliver bursts into tears and expresses his fears, Bumble "regarded Oliver's piteous and helpless look, with some astonishment, for a few seconds; hemmed three or four times in a husky manner, and, after muttering something about 'that troublesome cough', bade Oliver dry his eyes and be a good boy. Then, once more taking his hand, he walked on with him in silence." However, Bumble does not act on this finer feeling.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Nancy, who goes from kidnapping crook Nancy commits one of the most noble acts of kindness in the story when she ultimately defies Bill, in order to martyr through her death.help Oliver to a better life, and she is subsequently martyred for it. Her character represented Dickens' view that a person, however tainted by society, could still retain a sense of good and redeem for past crimes but will surely be paid back for their bad deeds committed before.
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* SatanicArchetype: Fagin has satanic characteristics: he is a veteran corrupter of young boys who presides over his own corner of the criminal world; he makes his first appearance standing over a fire holding a toasting-fork, and he refuses to pray on the night before his execution.
* TheScrooge: Fagin is a confessed miser who, despite the wealth that he has acquired, does very little to improve the squalid lives of the children he guards, or his own.
* TheScrooge: Fagin is a confessed miser who, despite the wealth that he has acquired, does very little to improve the squalid lives of the children he guards, or his own.
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* VagueAge: Nancy was tainted and played at a young age by Fagin to do his bidding. Her exact age is not mentioned in the book, although she says she has been a thief for 12 years (and began working for Fagin when she was half Oliver's age). From this it can be deduced that she is probably around seventeen. She is typically depicted in her teens or mid-20s in film versions of the novel. She apparently looks older than her years, as she tells Rose Maylie "I am younger than you would think, to look at me, but I am well used to it."
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* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: Although the film includes Monks, Oliver's half-brother, it is never explained in the script that Monks ''is'' the half-brother at all. He seems to be merely a mysterious stranger who turns up to make trouble for Oliver. The one clue to his identity is furnished when he says to Brownlow, "Is this a trick to deprive me of my inheritance?", and Brownlow replies "You have no inheritance, for as you know, my daughter had the child!" The terms of the will left by Oliver's father—that Oliver would be disinherited if he ever committed a criminal act—are also left unexplained.
* AdaptedOut:
** The boy dying of consumption and malnourishment in the workhouse, Dick, never appears in the film.
** Oliver's father is never mentioned at all in the film, while in the book he was Mr. Brownlow's best friend.
** Nancy's best friend bet is also omitted.
* ArtImitatesArt: Creator/AlecGuinness wore heavy make-up, including a large prosthetic nose, to make him look like Fagin as he appeared in George Cruikshank's illustrations in the first edition of the novel.
* CompositeCharacter: As in most film and stage adaptations, Oliver is brought up in just the one workhouse, and the two respective matrons, Mrs. Mann and Mrs. Corney, are combined into the same character.
* DecompositeCharacter: While Oliver is forced by Sikes to help him burgle a house, Nancy goes directly to Mr. Brownlow to warn him of the plot against the boy, and Fagin dispatches the Artful Dodger instead of Noah Claypole (who appears only in the early scenes) to spy on her. It is also Dodger, and not Charley Bates, who angrily gives up Sikes to the police (he suffers remorse after discovering Nancy's dead body and realising he has been an unintentional party to her murder).
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Sikes' death is changed slightly: while attempting to swing to another building to escape the mob, he is shot by a police officer and dies while dangling from a building by a rope around his body. This was later used in ''Film/{{Oliver}}''.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Agnes Fleming, Oliver's mother, is turned into Brownlow's daughter, rather than simply the paramour of Oliver's father.
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* RaceLift: In a 2007 BBC television adaptation, Nancy is played by Creator/SophieOkonedo. Contrary to her appearance in the novel, she is mixed-race in this version.
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* PetTheDog: In the 1985 miniseries, when Sykes abandons Oliver in the ditch, he takes a moment to pull the blanket up to his chin and patting it down before running off.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Oliver in the 2007 version. Normally, Oliver is barefoot because the workhouse doesn't give him shoes, and he is dressed properly by Mr Brownlow, but in this adaptation, he actually removes his shoes voluntarily while on the walk to London, and remains barefoot for the rest of the series.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Oliver in the 2007 version. Normally, Oliver is barefoot because the workhouse doesn't give him shoes, and he is dressed properly by Mr Brownlow, but in this adaptation, he actually removes his shoes voluntarily due to them hurting while on the walk to London, and remains barefoot for almost the rest of the series.
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* LondonGangster: Bill Sykes, a thoroughly reprehensible London criminal who Fagin makes bargains with, and Nancy's abusive boyfriend.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Now, one should not presume that the chimney sweep Mr. Gamfield limited his care-giving methods to his donkey steed, as his three dead apprentices track record can attest, but these displays, by which one means blows to the head, do illustrate more than even his looks could what fate would be in store for Oliver, should he get him under his care.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Now, one should not presume that the The chimney sweep sweep, Mr. Gamfield limited his care-giving methods to his donkey steed, as his Gamfield, has three dead apprentices track record can attest, to his name, but these displays, by which one means blows to is shown beating his donkey on the head, do illustrate head as a more than even his looks could direct illustration of what fate would be in store for Oliver, should he get him under his care.
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* BiggerBad: Although Sikes is usually portrayed as the main villain, Monks usually serves as the Bigger Bad.
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* AgeGapRomance:
** Edwin Leefort was on both ends of this. First he married a much older woman (Monks's mother) and theirs was a ''very'' unhappy union. After his wife's death he met a much younger girl named Agnes and they hit it off, but he suddenly died and Agnes ran away from her family. [[DeathByChildbirth And we all know what happened to her]].
** Bill Sikes was thirty-five and Nancy was about seventeen.
** Edwin Leefort was on both ends of this. First he married a much older woman (Monks's mother) and theirs was a ''very'' unhappy union. After his wife's death he met a much younger girl named Agnes and they hit it off, but he suddenly died and Agnes ran away from her family. [[DeathByChildbirth And we all know what happened to her]].
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* MayDecemberRomance.
** Edwin Leefort was on both ends of this. First he married a much older woman (Monks's mother) and theirs was a ''very'' unhappy union. After his wife's death he met a much younger girl named Agnes and they hit it off, but he suddenly died and Agnes ran away from her family. [[DeathByChildbirth And we all know what happened to her]].
** Also, Bill Sikes was thirty-five and Nancy was about seventeen.
** Edwin Leefort was on both ends of this. First he married a much older woman (Monks's mother) and theirs was a ''very'' unhappy union. After his wife's death he met a much younger girl named Agnes and they hit it off, but he suddenly died and Agnes ran away from her family. [[DeathByChildbirth And we all know what happened to her]].
** Also, Bill Sikes was thirty-five and Nancy was about seventeen.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: All of the adult male criminals are explicitly described as being ugly or disfigured save for "Flash" Toby Crackit. Rose is beautiful, and Agnes, Oliver's [[TheWoobie sympathetic]] mother, was apparently attractive in her youth.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: All of the adult male criminals are explicitly described as being ugly or disfigured save for "Flash" Toby Crackit. Rose is beautiful, and Agnes, Oliver's [[TheWoobie sympathetic]] sympathetic mother, was apparently attractive in her youth.
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* CoolOldLady: Mrs Maylie, in a PuritySue kind of way.
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* CoolOldLady: Mrs Maylie, in a PuritySue kind of way.Maylie.
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** Edwin Leefort was on both ends of this. First he married a much older woman (Monks's mother) and theirs was a ''very'' unhappy union. After his wife's death he met a much younger girl named Agnes and they hit it off, but he suddenly died and Agnes ran away from her family. [[DeathByChildbirth And we all know what happened to her]]. [[ValuesDissonance And he, married at about twenty to a thirty-year-old woman, was treated almost like a child sold to some old hag, while him taking interest in a nineteen-year old girl more than ten years later, was perfectly okay in terms of age]].
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** Edwin Leefort was on both ends of this. First he married a much older woman (Monks's mother) and theirs was a ''very'' unhappy union. After his wife's death he met a much younger girl named Agnes and they hit it off, but he suddenly died and Agnes ran away from her family. [[DeathByChildbirth And we all know what happened to her]]. [[ValuesDissonance And he, married at about twenty to a thirty-year-old woman, was treated almost like a child sold to some old hag, while him taking interest in a nineteen-year old girl more than ten years later, was perfectly okay in terms of age]].
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* ''Oliver Twist'' (1922), featuring Creator/LonChaney as Fagin
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* ''Oliver Twist'' (1922), featuring Creator/LonChaney as FaginFagin and Creator/JackieCoogan as Oliver
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Some adaptations credit Bill "Sikes" as "Sykes".
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* LighterAndSofter: The Saban ''Adventures'' cartoon. Among other things, Oliver's mother is alive, Oliver merely being separated from her and put into an orphanage by accident, and a major story arc for the series is Oliver trying to find his mother. Not to mention the Artful Dodger being a little less morally dubious, and the villainy of Fagin, Sykes, and others being toned down a little for a cartoon aimed at kids.
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* ''Disney/OliverAndCompany''
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* ''Disney/OliverAndCompany''''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany''
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* TruthInTelevision: Charles Dickens wrote the book based on many problems that were prevalent in English society at the time. Fagin was a representative of a type of criminal found in the slums of that day, called a "kidsman." They would train young runaways and "throwaway" children to pick pockets, and pay them for the proceeds, as well as providing a place to sleep. Oliver Twist himself gets used as what was called a "snakesman"---a young child or very small adult who could insinuate himself into places where an adult could not pass, to open doors and allow older, larger confederates to enter.
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* TruthInTelevision: Charles Dickens wrote the book based on many problems that were prevalent in English society at the time. Fagin was a representative of a type of criminal found in the slums of that day, called a "kidsman." They would train young runaways and "throwaway" children to pick pockets, and pay them for the proceeds, as well as providing a place to sleep. Oliver Twist himself gets used as what was called a "snakesman"---a "snakesman"--a young child or very small adult who could insinuate himself into places where an adult could not pass, to open doors and allow older, larger confederates to enter.
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Agnes is Oliver's mum, Elizabeth is the name of Mr Leeford's first husband
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* VillainousMotherSonDuo: The NightmareFuel-packed 1998 TV series makes posthumous character in the book, Agnes Leeford, a case of GreaterScopeVillain who was determined to murder her husband and claim his vast fortune. She was reluctantly assisted in her plans by her sniveling son, Edward, better known as Monks, whom she treated with utter contempt. After she died of alcoholism, Edward, under the pseudonym of Monks tried to finish what she started by trying to get his stepfather's fortune. Ultimately he does a HeelFaceTurn.
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* VillainousMotherSonDuo: The NightmareFuel-packed 1998 1999 TV series makes posthumous character in the book, Agnes Elizabeth Leeford, a case of GreaterScopeVillain who was determined to murder her husband and claim his vast fortune. She was reluctantly assisted in her plans by her sniveling son, Edward, better known as Monks, whom she treated with utter contempt. After she died of alcoholism, Edward, under the pseudonym of Monks tried to finish what she started by trying to get his stepfather's fortune. Ultimately he does a HeelFaceTurn.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Mr. Brownlow at times seems to give off this vibe.
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* VillainousMotherSonDuo: The NightmareFuel-packed 1998 TV series makes posthumous character in the book, Agnes Leeford, a case of GreaterScopeVillain who was determined to murder her husband and claim his vast fortune. She was reluctantly assisted in her plans by her sniveling son, Edward, better known as Monks, whom she treated with utter contempt. After she died of alcoholism, Edward, under the pseudonym of Monks tried to finish what she started by trying to get his stepfather's fortune. Ultimately he does a FaceHeelTurn.
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* VillainousMotherSonDuo: The NightmareFuel-packed 1998 TV series makes posthumous character in the book, Agnes Leeford, a case of GreaterScopeVillain who was determined to murder her husband and claim his vast fortune. She was reluctantly assisted in her plans by her sniveling son, Edward, better known as Monks, whom she treated with utter contempt. After she died of alcoholism, Edward, under the pseudonym of Monks tried to finish what she started by trying to get his stepfather's fortune. Ultimately he does a FaceHeelTurn.
HeelFaceTurn.
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* VillainousMotherSonDuo: The NightmareFuel packed 1998 TV series of makes posthumous character in the book, Agnes Leeford, a case of GreaterScopeVillain who was determined to murder her husband and claim his vast fortune. She was reluctantly assisted in her plans by her sniveling son, Edward, better known as Monks, whom she treated with utter contempt. After she died of alcoholism, Edward, under the pseudonym of Monks tried to finish what she started by trying to get his stepfather's fortune. Ultimately he does a FaceHeelTurn.
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* VillainousMotherSonDuo: The NightmareFuel packed NightmareFuel-packed 1998 TV series of makes posthumous character in the book, Agnes Leeford, a case of GreaterScopeVillain who was determined to murder her husband and claim his vast fortune. She was reluctantly assisted in her plans by her sniveling son, Edward, better known as Monks, whom she treated with utter contempt. After she died of alcoholism, Edward, under the pseudonym of Monks tried to finish what she started by trying to get his stepfather's fortune. Ultimately he does a FaceHeelTurn.
