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dangermousieSaw Keira Knightly's version of Pride and Prejudice and shockingly didn't hate it.
Of course, the difference between it and the BBC version is like comparing Hallmark with Shakespeare. The meat of the story has been cut out to turn it into a rather cliche heaving bosoms type period chick flick. Don't even get me started on the fact that people in that world seem to pay midnight calls, wander around like Heathcliff wannabes, go without any servants for travel, or the Bennetts' incomprehensible squalor.
As to Matthew McFaddden, he just left me rather cold. Colin Firth he ain't though I assume he is better somewhere else, considering the gush I'd read about him. Mr. Darcy does not appear proud or brooding or anything but sullen. Of course, who could blame him, considering they didn't let him sleep for three days, took away his razor, and banned all hair brushes from his vicinity. Sadly, the same is true for the rest of the cast. Keira Knightly is actually OK, though she doesn't come across as fiercely intelligent in the way Jennifer Ehle did. The last scene, with the billing and cooing and everything but 'shmoopy' is....no.
But Jane is beautiful, Jane and Bingley are adorable together, the balls are hectic fun, Wickham handome the way he is supposed to be, and the scene where Lizzy tells her father how much she likes Darcy is adorable.
Of course, the difference between it and the BBC version is like comparing Hallmark with Shakespeare. The meat of the story has been cut out to turn it into a rather cliche heaving bosoms type period chick flick. Don't even get me started on the fact that people in that world seem to pay midnight calls, wander around like Heathcliff wannabes, go without any servants for travel, or the Bennetts' incomprehensible squalor.
As to Matthew McFaddden, he just left me rather cold. Colin Firth he ain't though I assume he is better somewhere else, considering the gush I'd read about him. Mr. Darcy does not appear proud or brooding or anything but sullen. Of course, who could blame him, considering they didn't let him sleep for three days, took away his razor, and banned all hair brushes from his vicinity. Sadly, the same is true for the rest of the cast. Keira Knightly is actually OK, though she doesn't come across as fiercely intelligent in the way Jennifer Ehle did. The last scene, with the billing and cooing and everything but 'shmoopy' is....no.
But Jane is beautiful, Jane and Bingley are adorable together, the balls are hectic fun, Wickham handome the way he is supposed to be, and the scene where Lizzy tells her father how much she likes Darcy is adorable.
