Pride and Prejudice Fans

[pegkerr]

I just called the girls, who are home today, and I was rather amused that my little sophists took my dispensation to watch "one movie, one that you can both agree on" and used it to watch, indeed, one movie: Pride and Prejudice--all six hours of it.

"I'm looking forward to seeing the new version, aren't you?" I asked Delia (we've seen the trailer in the movie theaters).

"Yeah," she said, with a shade of doubt in her voice. "But . . . I think the Mr. Darcy in the new version [Matthew MacFadyen] can't be nearly as good as our Mr. Darcy [Colin Firth]."

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[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh. me too--and how!--except when it comes to Austen I've gotten picky because I've read the novels so very many times a voice whispers the words to me when I watch a depiction on screen, and if it wrenches her text too wildly, I get thrown right out of the story.

The young woman with all that makeup and her mouth constantly hanging open I guess to show off botoxed lips is just so UNlike Eliza Bennet I don't know if I can shed my inward images and surrender to this one, the way I could with the six hour version (and yes, I can name every single variation from the text, but for the most part they work).

[kayselkiemoon.livejournal.com]

The young woman with all that makeup and her mouth constantly hanging open I guess to show off botoxed lips is just so UNlike Eliza Bennet I don't know if I can shed my inward images and surrender to this one

urk, i know. I'll just have to repeat this to myself: book adaptations are not trying to be the book on screen, they are a completely different animal with good forbears. *sigh*