Pride & Prejudice

I actually thought that too when I saw the trailer!! and it does seem to be abit more modern looking than previous adaptations, judging from the few snippets of dialogue i've heard.
 
I WNT TO SEE THE NEW MOVIE ON FRIDAY NIGHT AND I THOUGHT IT WAS MAGNIFICENT . IT WAS AN ACTING TOUR DE FORCE THROUGHOUT . IT WAS SUPERLATIVE IN EVERY DETAIL AND BEATIFUL ON THE EYE FROM START TO FINISH
 
Me too - is there room round the kleenex box for another!

As someone who had the heart and soul ripped out of P&P (way too many!) years ago when doing 'A' level English Lit I thought I could never even see the name Jane Austen without going into a cold sweat but the TV adapation changed that.
The film is different - which is good - and a few minutes in I wasn't even thinking about the TV one - except in the dancing sequences strangely enough when they doing the same dances.
Possibly the fact that chunks of the film were set just down the road helped too - seeing the way they totally changed the look of a town just for a couple of minutes of film was fascinating.
 
I love the BBC version from the 90's - Alison Steadman as Mrs.Bennett cannot be topped in my view, nor can Mr.Bennett for that matter. Colin Firth is definitely the ultimate Darcy!!!! Don't really want to see the film as I fell nothing can top the BBC one! Although Judi Dench looked good as Lady Catherine deBergh!

Nat
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It is good and obviously it is hard to fit everything into 2 hours so alof of the subplots have been condensed but I found that Darcy is played as a more romantic character than he is written in the book. Almost from the beginning he's throwing longing looks at Lizzie. The problem is that Darcy IS meant to be arrogant and concieted and he just doesnt come across that way in the movie..having said that, as a 2 hour adaptation it is very good, the visuals are lovely
 
Ive seen it now, its is good and beautifully shot but it really can't be comaped to the TV series. Firstly Keira Knightly is too pretty to play Lizzie, isn't jane supposed to be more beautiful? Secondly this Mr Darcy is more like Heathcliff than Darcy.
 
This appalling new adaptation left me reeling with disappointment. I know they had to condense the story into two hours but they did it very badly. Kiera Knightley, as beautiful as she is, did not play this legendary character at all well. The slow-burn attraction of Elizabeth and D'arcy wasn't even there. When he proposed to her it left the viewer wondering why as they had hardly had any contact at all. D'arcy's lines might have been on an autocue the way he delivered them. The relationship between Elizabeth and her father was also absent from this tedious production and yet is so fundamental to the story. In fact Mr Bennet (with sparkling white teeth), played unenthusiastically by Donald Sutherland, looked like he was on Prozac. Lydia seemed mentally deranged instead of flirtatious and Jane might not have been there except for her scenes with Bingley. If you blinked you missed Mr Wickham completely. There wasn't even the slightest hint that Caroline Bingley fancied D'arcy so it rendered the scene where she and Lizzie take the "turn around the room" nonsensical. Sir John Lucas had no lines, Maria Lucas wasn't featured and neither was Bingley's other sister and Mr Hurst. Brenda Blethyn's Mrs Bennet was a poor rendition of the fantastic Alison Steadman's portrayal from ' 95. Even the wonderful Judy Dench, whose Lady Katherine de Burgh was good, could not lift this farce as there simply wasn't enough of her in it. By far the worst portrayal was Mr Collins who, instead of the hilarious character he is meant to be, was as funny as a dose of cystitis. The cinematography was beautiful but it looked like a series of set pieces. Half way through I noticed the woman next to me was texting and I began to wish I'd brought a book to read. I was determined to stay to the end, despite a noisy teenager in the row behind who, I suspected, might have had Tourettes, so that I could say with confidence that it got no better as it went on.
 
This is a while on from the last post, but here goes anyway.

I saw the film a couple of weeks ago, and prefer the BBC version. By a country mile.

Keira Knightly, while she may be pretty, had the most annoying smile; the jaw stuck out, and the top lip disappeared to show all her top teeth - it's just not attractive, and it's fast becoming her 'trademark' smile. Bizarre. As I looked around the cinema, I saw many people doing 'Keira' impressions to their frienRAB, which happened each time she smiled, and was from then on marginally more entertaining than the screen.

The film was made like they were all on speed, at a breakneck rate, leaving loaRAB out, and changing scenes for the sake of it, and not for the better either. It was like the 'Reduced Jane Austen Company'.
There was also a tendency to make the conversations too up to date, and it came across as 'well, we didn't really fancy saying those old worRAB, so we, like, modernised it - know wot I mean?'.

But the film quality was absolutely appalling, the worst I have seen in years of going to the cinema. The shots that scanned panoramically were impossible to watch, as the screen appeared to blur. I had to look away, as did the friend I went with. In the ball scenes, the film was so grainy it looked like it had been filmed on an old 8mm film camera. And by far the worst bit was the sound during the abortive first marriage proposal, in the rain (why was it in the rain? why make that bit up?) The sound of the rain changed at least three time during that scene, it was really poorly spliced together. It was not just the tempo of the rain changing, it sounded like it was different rain spliced(ish) together.

Save yourself the money. If you've never seen the BBC 1995 adaptation, get the video/dvd or just read the book, and make the pictures come to life in your own imagination. At least you will be imagining scenes and dialogue that Jane Austen actually wrote.
 
I agree. I thought the BBC version was absolutely excellent, and it totally captured what raw true love was about. The characters who played Darcy and Lizzie, carried off their attraction brilliantly, and really convinced me that they were crazy about each other. I think they were going together in real life though, so whether this helped their on screen attraction or what I don't know.

I was always dying to see Darcy and Lizzie together on screen, because they just couldn't help but show their feelings for each other. All the other ones were concerned about was getting married or going with someone purely just for not wanting to be alone's sake. But there was the most intense atmosphere between Darcy and Lizzie, this much was obvious. I wonder what the next remake will be like then.
 
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