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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 10:07 pm (UTC)Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice had a long and varied life before it finally saw publication on January 28, 1813. Austen began the book, originally titled First Impressions, in 1796. Her father submitted it to a London publisher the following year, but the manuscript was rejected. Austen continued to work on the book, and scholars report that the story remained a favorite with the close circle of friends, relations, and acquaintances she took into her confidence. She probably continued working on First Impressions after her family relocated to Bath in 1801 and did not stop revising and rewriting until after the deaths of both her father and a close friend in 1805. After this point Austen seems to have given up writing for almost five years. She had resumed work on the book by 1811, scholars report, and the final product appeared anonymously in London bookstalls early in 1813.