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Pride & Prejudice
Nov. 17th, 2005 04:20 pmThere are a few things that struck me about the new movie version of Pride & Prejudice.
The first is that Kiera Knightly is flat. The girl just goes straight down from collar bone to hip. Eliza Bennett appears to be wearing her sister Jane's unaltered handmedowns. One wonders that Mrs. Bennett hasn't spoken to the dressmaker about it.
The second is that I never thought that Pemberly looked quite so much like the Louvre from the inside.
Mr. Darcy is the requisite combination of Byronically handsome and appealingly repressed, Lizzy Bennett is the right kind of spirited and coltish, and the director (bless!) gave Mrs. Bennett a few lines to justify her obsession with marrying her daughters off. They do really very nice things with Bingley and Jane. On the other hand, the dialogue is mostly made up out of whole cloth (I guess the stuff in the book wasn't good enough, or wouldn't stretch, or something), and is it really plausible for an ardent suitor, in eighteen-ought-something, to declare himself a comprehensive and unmitigated ass before falling at his lady's feet? For that matter, is it plausible for Miss Bingley to wear red silk with a full train to breakfast? And if Miss Bingley really is that fashionable, is it plausible for her to pay any attention at all to the daughters of people who keep pigs in the kitchen?
The first is that Kiera Knightly is flat. The girl just goes straight down from collar bone to hip. Eliza Bennett appears to be wearing her sister Jane's unaltered handmedowns. One wonders that Mrs. Bennett hasn't spoken to the dressmaker about it.
The second is that I never thought that Pemberly looked quite so much like the Louvre from the inside.
Mr. Darcy is the requisite combination of Byronically handsome and appealingly repressed, Lizzy Bennett is the right kind of spirited and coltish, and the director (bless!) gave Mrs. Bennett a few lines to justify her obsession with marrying her daughters off. They do really very nice things with Bingley and Jane. On the other hand, the dialogue is mostly made up out of whole cloth (I guess the stuff in the book wasn't good enough, or wouldn't stretch, or something), and is it really plausible for an ardent suitor, in eighteen-ought-something, to declare himself a comprehensive and unmitigated ass before falling at his lady's feet? For that matter, is it plausible for Miss Bingley to wear red silk with a full train to breakfast? And if Miss Bingley really is that fashionable, is it plausible for her to pay any attention at all to the daughters of people who keep pigs in the kitchen?
