since this is a blog about my library use, i decided i can blog about DVDs I check out from the delano branch. i am sure if francie nolan could check out movies, she would have.
so after reading "pride and prejudice", my colin firth obsession caused me to request the DVD. and i will say, oh so glad that i did. simply for the bath scene. (sorry if this post reads like a "the scarlet letter" book report from "easy a". lol)
but seriously BBC did an excellent job with their adaption. every character looked just as i had imagined. though at the risk of sounding shallow, they could have cast a prettier jane. but i read her mom played jane in the 67 bbc production so that is sweet. also found it funny that anna chancellor missed out on firth twice (she was his fiancée in "what a girl wants". lol)
mrs. bennet was perfect. her voice was so annoying which matched her annoying character. i really felt bad for mr. bennet for having to be married to her. and she was seriously too much for me, playing proud mother to lydia after being bed-ridden by her scandal. also it was horrible how she was okay with her brother footing the bill for lydia's marriage. such poor manners! alison steadman did well because i disliked mrs. bennet equally in both the book and on the small screen.
the only thing that i disliked was the double wedding at the end. that was way too cheesy for my taste.
i also checked out the 2005 movie with keira knightly. which i did not like at all. i will say that i thought keira knightly did well as elizabeth. i actually liked her more than jennifer ehle (ps doesn't ehle remind you of meryl steep?). there was a boldness and fierceness that knightly embodied that ehle didn't. but that is where the praise stops. also i could have done without knightly smiling in this movie, it was not cute.
their darcy was attractive but he was no colin firth. and he butchered the proposal scene. his delivery was too fast paced. and the whole rain did not add dramatic flair, it's was only excessive. another bad scene was the dancing scene when it cuts to jane and darcy alone in the room then it cut backs. there could have been a better way of displaying their attraction. and shame on the writer/adapter for not including a line about elizabeth's "fine dark eyes"! i also missed miss bingley's teasing of his admiration for those eyes. they could have cut that scene of elizabeth spinning after finding out charlotte was engaged to make room for those lines. also they could have left that last scene on the cutting room floor. way too cheesy, i actually preferred the double wedding ending!
last but not least, i missed crispin bohman-carter's voice!
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