Pride & Prejudice with Pirates
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dangermousieThe best review/bash of the new atrocity that is Keira Knightley's P&P is to be found
here
The author starts with her dashed hopes that P&P would have made a great pirate story (don't ask) and only improves from there:
Sample wonderfulness (read the comments, too):
these enjoyable musings were spoilt by the arrival of a pair of ominously unsmutched Bingleys totingComeback Special Elvis a Darcy about whom it must universally be acknowledged that he is not, and is unlikely to ever turn into, Colin Firth. How can such a thing be? Women all over the world are desperately trying to understand.
Pride and Prejudice lacks an inner rhythm or tension or drive of its own. It is a compilation of Greatest Hit scenes from the novel, each scene cut down as much as those responsible thought they could get away with, and strung passively together.
D’ye comprehend how thoroughly Mr Collins must be eviscerated in order to un-funny him and remodel him as a psychokiller / stalker type person? Or how much behind-the-scenes work must go into first boring Judi Dench into a cataleptic trance then training her up to be Lady Catherine de Bourgh, only boring?
If they only had listened to me. In my counterfactual version Elizabeth would have married the genteel, courtly, reserved Friedrich Nietszche in the last chapter, living happily ever after much to everyone’s surprise, and permanently changing the world of philosophy too.
here
The author starts with her dashed hopes that P&P would have made a great pirate story (don't ask) and only improves from there:
Sample wonderfulness (read the comments, too):
these enjoyable musings were spoilt by the arrival of a pair of ominously unsmutched Bingleys toting
Pride and Prejudice lacks an inner rhythm or tension or drive of its own. It is a compilation of Greatest Hit scenes from the novel, each scene cut down as much as those responsible thought they could get away with, and strung passively together.
D’ye comprehend how thoroughly Mr Collins must be eviscerated in order to un-funny him and remodel him as a psychokiller / stalker type person? Or how much behind-the-scenes work must go into first boring Judi Dench into a cataleptic trance then training her up to be Lady Catherine de Bourgh, only boring?
If they only had listened to me. In my counterfactual version Elizabeth would have married the genteel, courtly, reserved Friedrich Nietszche in the last chapter, living happily ever after much to everyone’s surprise, and permanently changing the world of philosophy too.
