pride and perpetually painfully constipated
I hate myself for the curiosity that induced me to watch the Keira Knightley edition of Pride & Prejudice, thinking that since it's been years since I last saw her face (in Pirates of the Caribbean) perhaps I can get over her permanently Botoxed pout that reminds me so much of a certain Anoshito
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I suppose mean-spirited is a bit stronger than what I'm thinking of. Lizzie can be mean though, when she is partial. The novel hinted she thought quite badly of Miss King (the girl whom Wickham flirted briefly with) and she also snarked when she first saw sickly Miss de Bourgh that she'd be perfect for Darcy...which I thought was a pretty mean thing to say about a girl she knew nothing of and whom she's clearly only judging by appearance.
Yeah, my only complaint about the BBC version is Lizzie is a bit too sweet. She's still mischievous and sharp, but she seemed a little too demure to be "lively" even for young women of those days, surely? But in a way I also loved the way she delivered her lines with such grace and took the meanness out of the phrasing and made it merely playful, and that quality could convince me about her attracting Darcy's attention and admiration.
I don't think we even got to see Knightly's muddy petticoat, but surely women of her day wouldn't have walked around with their hair lusciously loose? And people were saying that it's completely ridiculous that they were all walking around with their hair uncovered because Regency women wore at least a bonnet during the day.
Mr Bingley was terrible. I loved him in the book and he was so cute in the BBC version, terribly embarrassed by his sisters and sympathetic with Jane for her embarrassing relations, but always so earnestly nice he'd try to patch up any animosity. He looked like a Twitlight Cullen in the movie =___=
On the topic of bad makeup, I kept getting distracted by blonde Jane/Rosamund Pike's lush black lashes. I love how in the BBC making Alison Steadman (Mrs Bennet) said they weren't even allowed to wear mascara because it wouldn't have been authentic for the time.
So anyway, I watched the ending of the BBC version again, and the kiss on the carriage is so much better =3=
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