Pride & Prejudice #5: You have bewitched me, body and soul...

  • Thread starter Thread starter pendragon?
  • Start date Start date
:love: this film! Keira Knightley is so incredible as Elizabeth. Well everyone did a great job in portraying their characters. Mr. Darcy is such a cool character.:in_love:

Shame, the omitted kiss between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy didn't make it into the movie. I know it's kinda corny, but it would be a great ending.
 
okay, while i love joe wright, and all. he really knows how to kill a scene...:lol:

"I'm quite romantic," says director Joe Wright. But his study of the montage experiments of the Russian director Dziga Vertov taught him that the audience's emotions are what counts. The emotion viewers see written all over the face of Darcy (Matthew MacFayden) at the end, walking through the mist to embrace Lizzie, is in fact entirely projected thereupon. "Matthew is very blind. So that shot which women seem to swoon over—I'm behind the camera with a red flag waving so he knows where to walk. All he's trying to do is work out where's the red. That's montage!"

link to the full article: The Sit-Down: An Interview with Joe Wright (Seattle Weekly)
 
I had to read P&P when I was 15 and truly loathed the experience (I know, it's almost the anti-girl response) so I wasn't really all "I have to watch P&P" when it came out in 2005. But I sucked it up and watched it after my friends had gushed to me about it for almost a year, and wow, this movie owns me.

The perfect scenes that I watch over and over are the obvious ones: when the sunlight streams into the scene when Mr. Darcy makes every woman swoon with his "You have bewitched me..." line (I swear, I feel sorry for any man who meets me because he has to be just how Matthew played Mr. Darcy) and the scene in the rain where Lizzie turns down Mr. Darcy's proposal. Every shot, those two especially, are so mind blowingly gorgeous in this film that I became a 'Joe Wright is God' fan girl the day after I saw the film (he was the reason I saw Atonement the day it came out).

About the kiss at the end of the film, personally, I would have felt cheated without it. Call me a fan of the bubble gum romance endings, but when he kisses her cheeks, nose, then mouth while calling her Mrs. Darcy, I become goo. Yeah, I need my sweeping period pieces to have sweet endings.

But I do understand it wasn't very Austenesque, but since I didn't like the book, I love that Joe Wright decided to give us the kiss. It equaled adorableness.

This movie is seriously one of the best. So freaking epic. I much prefer the 2005 version of it than the one with Colin. I fell in love with Matthew and Keria; not so much with the other version.

This is one of those movies I watch every time it is on TV, even though I own it. I could gush about it all day long.
 
I loved the movie! :sigh: I haven't read the books yet, but I definetly want to now :D I loved the characters of Elizabeth and Darcy the most... quickly followed by Jane and Bingley... oh, I loved Bingley when he wasn't sure if he should tell Jane that he loved her or not :) such a cute scene :sigh:
 
I love this movie so much. I find it funny that i like the movie so much now, when i didn't want to watch the movie when it first came out. I never had a movie that i could call my favorite until i saw this.

The movie is so breathtaking and the characters-are just so alive that you forget that it is just a movie after all. it's been two weeks since i last saw PP and i'm craving to see it again. It's just that good!

If you haven't seen this movie yet, drop everything you are doing and go out to your nearest video rental store or Target and get PP NOW!

Now that i've gotten that out of my system, i wanted to know if any of the other adaptations of PP or any other Austen books are as good as this one?
I've already seen Mansfield Park and Emma(w/GP) and they were good but nothing like this.

Lastly, PP is just simply amazing.
 
after watching the movie, it made me read the book. but seriously, keira & matthew [and the other actors] made all the characters come alive for me. i can watch this movie a million times. hehe. :D
 
I just watched this movie again, last week.
:thud: :love:

:sigh: Just beautiful. :sigh:

Thanks for the pics everyone. :D
 
P&P is such a wonderful movie! I had seen the BBC mini-series several times and was a bit worried about how the movie would be, but I loved it! Keira Knightley did an incredible job as Elizabeth, as did Matthew as Darcy. I've seen it more times that I want to admit too, and enjoy it even more with each viewing. Great flick :D
 
Ooh! I watched the Youtube video.
I love this movie. I had to buy the DVD, CD, Piano music, and book. (I already had a copy of the book, but wanted the one with the picture of Keira & Matthew) :D
 
Really perfect! :sigh:
Have you listened to the movie with the commentary?
At that point one of the assistants looked at Darcy and said,
"I wish this was my life!"
 
I'm back with a great quote from Mr. McFadyen about his role in Pride and Prejudice (click the entire thing for a link to the whole article):

"Everyone goes, 'How did you prepare for the role, how did you approach it?"' MacFadyen said. "Well, you turn up, learn your lines, grow some sideburns, play the scene and go home..."

:lol:

And Keeley played Zoe! I can't believe I couldn't recall her name. I first saw her in The Moonstone (with the gentleman who's currently Emma Thompson's husband), then Cold Lazarus, then Our Mutual Friend, and finally The Cater Street Hangman (all on PBS (Public Broadcasting)). By the time I saw her in Lucky Jim, Spooks/MI-5 and Miss Marple I was a huge fan. I couldn't have been more thrilled when I found out she and Matthew McFadyen were a couple. :D
 
Wow, those icons are gorgeous, Alexa, and this movie has to be one of my favorites. :love: Keira and Matthew were perfectly cast and had great chemistry together. I especially love this scene here. It's subtly funny, romantic, and heartbreaking all at the same time.
 
the movie was good but i think they could've gotten a better darcy, when i read the book it seemed that he had a little more personality, hugh grant could've done it well
 
I was watching this great miniseries on Sir Arthur Conan Doyal at his early age before he started writing Sherlock Holmes.

When he was clerking for Dr. Bell the man he bases Holmes on.

Matthew played a doctor who was boarding with Doyal's family and taking care of Doyal's drunk/mad father.
 
Back
Top