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dangermousieSaw the trailer for the Pride and Prejudice movie with Keira Knightley. Ugh. Ugh. UGH!
Not only is the overexposed KK way too modern and skinny to be Elizabeth (in Regency terms, she is a starvation victim), they have also switched the period to 1790s (!!!) and the way the movie makes it look, if I didn't know that this was Austen I would have thought it was a Bronte adaptation: full blown romanticism, crumbling buildings, wind and rain everywhere. Horrible. Don't even get me started on whoever is playing Darcy. If he is a dreamboat, I am a Chinese acrobat. Also, it looks as if they made Lizzy a modern woman. She was not.
More importantly, why? There was a perfect, popular and widely acclaimed adaptation in 1995. Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle were perfect for their roles, the script was accurate and literate. Ugh. Stop the madness, people!
Not only is the overexposed KK way too modern and skinny to be Elizabeth (in Regency terms, she is a starvation victim), they have also switched the period to 1790s (!!!) and the way the movie makes it look, if I didn't know that this was Austen I would have thought it was a Bronte adaptation: full blown romanticism, crumbling buildings, wind and rain everywhere. Horrible. Don't even get me started on whoever is playing Darcy. If he is a dreamboat, I am a Chinese acrobat. Also, it looks as if they made Lizzy a modern woman. She was not.
More importantly, why? There was a perfect, popular and widely acclaimed adaptation in 1995. Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle were perfect for their roles, the script was accurate and literate. Ugh. Stop the madness, people!
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Date: 2005-06-10 09:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-10 09:56 pm (UTC)Period movies are a niche type of thing anyway, and there is no hot guy to draw women in or a hardcore fan group that would spread the word (most Austen nuts I know are displeased with this).
If they want to adopt a literary classic, there are plenty good and unadopted ones (I would love to see Burney's Cecilia on screen).