Pride and Prejudice

Post by **Catspaw** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:05 pm

It's okay, Carolita - you'll make it! We'll help you through this time of pain and anguish in your life! Consider the lilies of the field.

Does this help at all, or just add to your pain?

Linne · Post by **Linne** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:10 pm

I'll see it eventually...I think.....but I really love the old one best. I have to watch it like.....well, a lot of time each year. Perfect slumber party movie! $\:D/$

*Goes back to not being around till tomorrow*

Larry The Pickle · Post by **Larry The Pickle** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:31 pm

I not a JA fan, but I am a Keira Knightley fan!

but I didn't see it. the movie not worth the admission price IMO. Maybe i'll c it wen it comes 2 dvd, but not likely.

Jennifer Doyle · Post by **Jennifer Doyle** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 5:30 pm

Oh, what was I going to say?! *thinks* Oh yes! The dancing scenes, they were shot in such a way that I felt a bit sea-sick sometimes and I just wanted them to plant the camera, but mostly it just looked SOOO fun! [The dancing.]

Here's a picture i made of P&P:

totustuus · Post by **totustuus** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:49 pm

The old six-hour one was way better. The book is really good, as you all know, and the six-hour movie took much of its dialogue directly from the book. I couldn't believe how they had Lady Catherine come in the middle of the night! Besides, they took out the best scences from the book.

Post by **Catspaw** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 10:24 pm

Ooo, I like it, Jennifer! $\:D/$ You should use it as your desktop wallpaper or something!

AioMan · Post by **AioMan** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 7:00 am

Ughhh! Pride and Prejudice is silly.

Jennifer Doyle · Post by **Jennifer Doyle** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:16 pm

*tsks*

A Christian news magazine, WORLD, reviewed this movie and said something I loved:

This is no mere chick flick. Guys will like it too, if only to gaze upon the intensely beautiful Ms. Knightley. But men will especially appreciate the movie if they use it as a learning opportunity. They should ask themselves why women are nearly always Jane Austen fans. It is not a matter of sappy romance, since Miss Austen scorns it as much as anyone. Women resonate with her portrait of the strong, intelligent, and exquisitely feminine "lady." And they really resonate with a specific kind of masculine character: the forceful, honorable "gentleman" that 21st-century guys would do well to emulate.

http://www.worldmag.com/displayArticle.cfm?ID=11314

Carolita · Post by **Carolita** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:30 pm

Catspaw wrote:It's okay, Carolita - you'll make it! We'll help you through this time of pain and anguish in your life! Consider the lilies of the field.

Does this help at all, or just add to your pain?

Thank you. *sniffle* But it just adds to the pain....*grabs some more kleenex's*

*laughs at her own silly-ness*

Post by **Catspaw** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:46 pm

I love the quote, Jennifer - all the guys insulting P&P would do well to read it thoroughly.

Sorry, Carolita!

*hands Carolita a new box of Kleenex*

Rachael Blackgaard · Post by **Rachael Blackgaard** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:27 pm

See, that picture is EXACTLY the same thing Regis and Rachael do, IN ENGLAND, outside, EXACTLY like that! The only, absolute only thing different about that picture is the people doing it.

AioMan · Post by **AioMan** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 7:32 am

Jennifer Doyle wrote:*tsks*

A Christian news magazine, WORLD, reviewed this movie and said something I loved:

This is no mere chick flick. Guys will like it too, if only to gaze upon the intensely beautiful Ms. Knightley. But men will especially appreciate the movie if they use it as a learning opportunity. They should ask themselves why women are nearly always Jane Austen fans. It is not a matter of sappy romance, since Miss Austen scorns it as much as anyone. Women resonate with her portrait of the strong, intelligent, and exquisitely feminine "lady." And they really resonate with a specific kind of masculine character: the forceful, honorable "gentleman" that 21st-century guys would do well to emulate.

http://www.worldmag.com/displayArticle.cfm?ID=11314

I have no problem with the guys in the movie. $\:D/$ They are cool! But the girls....

Lucy Pevensie · Post by **Lucy Pevensie** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 7:56 am

Monday wrote:
Mandy Straussberg wrote:Ewww. Ewww. Ewww. Anything with the name "Keira Knightly" involved is repulsive to me.
I'm not the only one! Wow!

Ditto. I don't really like her much, either... (I have my reasons.) I'm not even sure what P & P is like, lol, I guess I'll find out when it gets popular around here...

I was actually never fond of the book although I'd never picked it up really, since I used to be waaaay too much of a tomboy (honestly) .

It doesn't seem too bad, I just read the Plugged in Review.

It would be interesting to watch it, I guess. I totally agree with that World review thing, it's not the sappy stuff, if you know what I mean.

Jennifer Doyle · Post by **Jennifer Doyle** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:30 am

what's wrong with KK?

Me · Post by Me » Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:23 pm

The biggest problem I have with her is that now that she's famous, she's being used in everthing. Kierra (sp?) overload.

Thursday Next · Post by **Thursday Next** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:14 pm

The problem I have with Keria Knightly is that her interpretation (and this has much to do with the director as anything) is not Lizzy from the books. In the scene after Mr. Collins proposes to Lizzy and Mr. Bennet says Lizzy must be a stranger to one of her parents According to the book

I understand that Mr. Collins has made you an offer of marriage. Is it not true?" Elizabeth replied that it was. "Very well-and this offer of marriage you have refused?"
"I have, sir."
"Very well. We now come to the point. Your mother insists upon your accepting it. Is it not so, Mrs. Bennet?"
"Yes, or I will never see her again.
"An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

Elizabeth could not but smile at such a conclusion of such a beginning...

For starters in the book this took place in the library...in the house because it was a private family matter. In the movie it takes place outside for all the world to hear. That would not have happened.
Secondly Lizzy does not mouth off to her parents in the book like she does with her mother in the movie during this scene. That is a big Regency no no (and theortically is still the case today).
Thirdly and probably the most telling is that in the book Lizzy smiles because in a lot of ways her father has a way of putting things to her that are highly amusing. Lizzy was her fathers favourite daughter and by telling her that she doesn't have to marry Mr. Collins shows that very much...much to the disgust of Mrs. Bennet who only cares about getting her daughters married off. In the movie she hurries off with and thanks her father without the slightest trace of amusment in her voice. Lizzy is a study of human folly and loves to laugh at people (believe me this can be quite fun). I mean the original title of Pride and Prejudice, First Impressions, should be the most telling about what the movie should be about and I've not gathered that at all. Lizzy was bright and intellegent within the social structure of her time. If you're going to do a period movie do a period movie do not do a period movie that reflects 21st century values which is what this movie does.

jasodia · Post by **jasodia** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 3:13 pm

i want to see pride and prejudice so bad! everyone that's seen it says it's good, and i saw the old one (it could use some work, though!). i just haven't had time, really.

Rachael Blackgaard · Post by **Rachael Blackgaard** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:01 pm

Yes, I have to agree with DOT that Elizabeth was not my favorite part of the movie. Still I enjoyed the movie, because I went into it with the understanding that it would be different from the book.

Sarah · Post by **Sarah** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 10:01 am

My sister went to see it last night... She said it was wonderful, and she cried her eyes out.

I have an even stronger urge to see it now... *twitch*

Sarah

Jennifer Doyle · Post by **Jennifer Doyle** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 11:02 am

dawningoftime wrote:The problem I have with Keria Knightly is that her interpretation (and this has much to do with the director as anything) is not Lizzy from the books.

That's a problem with the screenplay writer and alot of people behind the scenes then, I don't really see what Keira can do about it. She's in a scene where the lines tell her to yell at her mother, she does it. She's in a scene where she's outside instead of inside, she can't say, "This doesn't follow the book." I don't see what choice she has in the matter at all.

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