I live alone in an igloo.
It snowed about two or three inches last night and it hasn't gone away. The sun was out and everything, but it's still lying around. I was mucking through all that stuff, and it sounded incredibly crispy. Powdery. I don't know; somehow, I think you can tell if it's melting. It doesn't make as massive a sound.
There was ice in some places.
Ugh.
Pride & Prejudice
Let me preface this by saying how much I adore the Keira Knightley version. I love the music, the costumes (although it occurred to me that an additional reason to make the Bennets' clothes come from a slightly older period is because Keira Knightley has no boobs to speak of)... all of it.
Which is all to say that the BBC version is not, in any way, bad. I'd say that I still prefer the Keira Knightley version because it was shorter: towards the end, you get the sense that there's a lot of dead time that you don't really need to see. It is more faithful to the book in that.
On the matter of Mr. Darcy, I also prefer Matthew McFayden to Colin Firth. Mostly because McFayden has gorgeous blue eyes. :] Neither of them are overwhelmingly good looking, although it was a happy surprise to see Firth so serious. All his other roles that I remember (Nanny McPhee, Shakespeare in Love), he seemed to always be playing caricatures.
On the other hand, I hated how obvious and vocal Darcy was in the BBC version. I can see why it'd be necessary (especially since it's longer, and if people don't know that he's interested) but I thought his taciturnity (taciturness? I should probably never use this word again :D) in the KK version was more true to Austen.
Jennifer Ehle, though, I agree is the better, truer, Elizabeth. I agree that Knightley is too thin. Ehle (and the rest of the class) are not much to look at at all (I will take Rosamund Pike's Jane over the BBC Jane) but Ehle had the voice and the wit down so pat that she was soon beautiful in my eyes. The twinkle and the smiles got me as unwillingly as Darcy.
Wickham was also less wooden in the BBC Version, I noticed. Mrs. Bennet was more of a monster, and she is probably the main reason I would not sit through the showing again. I wanted to kill her. I'm blaming most of it on the length of the production; she didn't have enough time to grate on me in the KK version. Also, the BBC Mrs. Bennet seemed so put on. It was beyond annoying.
If it wasn't so late, I'd watch the KK version now.
I tried to draw a little today, but would you believe? Limbs are harder to draw than faces. LOL. :]
There was ice in some places.
Ugh.
Pride & Prejudice
Let me preface this by saying how much I adore the Keira Knightley version. I love the music, the costumes (although it occurred to me that an additional reason to make the Bennets' clothes come from a slightly older period is because Keira Knightley has no boobs to speak of)... all of it.
Which is all to say that the BBC version is not, in any way, bad. I'd say that I still prefer the Keira Knightley version because it was shorter: towards the end, you get the sense that there's a lot of dead time that you don't really need to see. It is more faithful to the book in that.
On the matter of Mr. Darcy, I also prefer Matthew McFayden to Colin Firth. Mostly because McFayden has gorgeous blue eyes. :] Neither of them are overwhelmingly good looking, although it was a happy surprise to see Firth so serious. All his other roles that I remember (Nanny McPhee, Shakespeare in Love), he seemed to always be playing caricatures.
On the other hand, I hated how obvious and vocal Darcy was in the BBC version. I can see why it'd be necessary (especially since it's longer, and if people don't know that he's interested) but I thought his taciturnity (taciturness? I should probably never use this word again :D) in the KK version was more true to Austen.
Jennifer Ehle, though, I agree is the better, truer, Elizabeth. I agree that Knightley is too thin. Ehle (and the rest of the class) are not much to look at at all (I will take Rosamund Pike's Jane over the BBC Jane) but Ehle had the voice and the wit down so pat that she was soon beautiful in my eyes. The twinkle and the smiles got me as unwillingly as Darcy.
Wickham was also less wooden in the BBC Version, I noticed. Mrs. Bennet was more of a monster, and she is probably the main reason I would not sit through the showing again. I wanted to kill her. I'm blaming most of it on the length of the production; she didn't have enough time to grate on me in the KK version. Also, the BBC Mrs. Bennet seemed so put on. It was beyond annoying.
If it wasn't so late, I'd watch the KK version now.
I tried to draw a little today, but would you believe? Limbs are harder to draw than faces. LOL. :]