Pride & Prejudice, Volume I, Chapter 14

[kellyrfineman]

First, a cleverly put-together montage of Mr Collins's dinner conversation, using footage from the 1940, 1995 and 2005 adaptations. The sound is a little inconsistent in volume among the three, but I trust you can sort it out:

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Lady Catherine De BourghMr Collins is quite a talker, is he not? He rambles on at some length, singing the praises of

Comments

[kellyrfineman]

I hope you enjoy your time!

[robinellen]

Yes, I still prefer Tom Hollander -- though Mr. Collins in any form is too much fun :)

[kellyrfineman]

Collins, like the rest of Austen's characters, is a lot of fun. I imagine they'd be a blast to play!

[rachelswardrobe]

I was just loading up the video and my patner asked what I was watching, to which I replied, 'oh it's p and p stuff', to which he said, 'what? postage and packing' Lol
Although I haven't seen the 2005 movie, in this clip it seems very dark (as in lighting) and I wouldn't have thought the bennets had enough money to have the amount of servants that seem to be in the background here...
Mr Collins is so funny, I bet Austen had real fun writing him.

I enjoyed her passage on defending the novel, I know some people who still have the opinion that 'it's just a novel' it's very frustrating, they must be intolerably stupid ; )

[kellyrfineman]

The 2005 movie overall isn't quite as dark as this clip. And Joe Wright made some stupid choices. Like, sometimes I swear they're wearing homespun, which makes no sense at all, and Lizzie wears a lot of dark colors, which likewise makes little sense. Plus the waistlines are all over the place in the movie. And Lizzie runs about with her hair DOWN, which is simply not done. Plus he has a pig just outside their door and, at one point, inside the house (or so it appears). And the Bennets weren't wealthy, but neither were they poor. They likely kept a cook and at least two maids for inside, and probably a man for the stables/outdoors. And if they had a farm, they'd have had more help still, since they wouldn't have worked the land themselves.

But Wright's movie shows quite a lot of staff if they had to wear cheap clothing and keep the pig in their own yard.

[kellyrfineman]

Indeed!

As Rachel pointed out, there are still individuals with that viewpoint around today. (Rachel called them "intolerably stupid" - hee!)

[cloudscome]

I love the way you are using video clips. Your choices always compliment your commentary so well!

[kellyrfineman]

I try!