Some new musings on P&P3 the morning after...
Well, after a good night sleep I’m really glad I’m going to see it again next week. The pace of this movie was so fast, I fear I might have missed some things. (Well perhaps I only hope I’ve missed things.)
And then …. Reading reviews from others is nice and talking in msn about my POV is also nice but I’m looking forward to really talk about it with someone who saw it as well.
I said there were quite some liberties taken in the script compared to the novel. Some of them I didn’t mind at all. The first proposal scene took place in the pouring rain. It enhanced the drama enormously.
Darcy’s misinterpretation of Jane’s love for Bingley, he defends during the proposal “discussion”. His tale about Wickham is explained in the letter. I guess for the differences between scenes etc, this was not too bad. Explaining both points in the letter might have slowed down the pace too much.
But … what I’ve missed and what I will look for closely next week is Darcy saying … “I did what I thought was natural and just.”
Someone said that the inner struggle of Darcy was more visible in MM as in CF. That might be true. MM’s corners of his mouth itch a few times not sure if he should smile or not. But he constantly keeps looking so sad. But I think it’s more the inner struggle if he will allow himself to love Elizabeth or not. But what I missed dearly … and again that’s a point I will look after next week … In our beloved novel Elizabeth rejects Darcy and sums up her objections. It takes quite some time for Darcy to agree she’s right in her objections and he does his best to deal with them and become a better person. He tells Elizabeth that was it not for her, he might have stayed the proud person he already was 28 years. In this adaptation I only saw Darcy got rejected … but he simply keeps trying. Yes, he did the good deeds with Lydia and Wickham, and yes he says he did it for Elizabeth only. But I missed his inner struggle. It was more that he got rejected and couldn’t accept the rejection and tried it another time. But again I might have missed it in the second proposal. The speech is fast and clipped and sometimes not even entirely translated.
The scene where Elizabeth sits on the swing is made to tide over a few months. She turns and turns and every turn you see other things on the backyard of the Bennet house. That was nicely done.
But I will certainly take a closer look to the time of the last day. Like I said yesterday … it looks that so much events simply can not happen in a time-span of barely 18 hours.
I have so much more to say …. And every time I remember new things that caught my attention. Perhaps I might keep posting my musings. Perhaps I’ll wait to more of you have seen the movie so we can compare our thoughts.
M~
And then …. Reading reviews from others is nice and talking in msn about my POV is also nice but I’m looking forward to really talk about it with someone who saw it as well.
I said there were quite some liberties taken in the script compared to the novel. Some of them I didn’t mind at all. The first proposal scene took place in the pouring rain. It enhanced the drama enormously.
Darcy’s misinterpretation of Jane’s love for Bingley, he defends during the proposal “discussion”. His tale about Wickham is explained in the letter. I guess for the differences between scenes etc, this was not too bad. Explaining both points in the letter might have slowed down the pace too much.
But … what I’ve missed and what I will look for closely next week is Darcy saying … “I did what I thought was natural and just.”
Someone said that the inner struggle of Darcy was more visible in MM as in CF. That might be true. MM’s corners of his mouth itch a few times not sure if he should smile or not. But he constantly keeps looking so sad. But I think it’s more the inner struggle if he will allow himself to love Elizabeth or not. But what I missed dearly … and again that’s a point I will look after next week … In our beloved novel Elizabeth rejects Darcy and sums up her objections. It takes quite some time for Darcy to agree she’s right in her objections and he does his best to deal with them and become a better person. He tells Elizabeth that was it not for her, he might have stayed the proud person he already was 28 years. In this adaptation I only saw Darcy got rejected … but he simply keeps trying. Yes, he did the good deeds with Lydia and Wickham, and yes he says he did it for Elizabeth only. But I missed his inner struggle. It was more that he got rejected and couldn’t accept the rejection and tried it another time. But again I might have missed it in the second proposal. The speech is fast and clipped and sometimes not even entirely translated.
The scene where Elizabeth sits on the swing is made to tide over a few months. She turns and turns and every turn you see other things on the backyard of the Bennet house. That was nicely done.
But I will certainly take a closer look to the time of the last day. Like I said yesterday … it looks that so much events simply can not happen in a time-span of barely 18 hours.
I have so much more to say …. And every time I remember new things that caught my attention. Perhaps I might keep posting my musings. Perhaps I’ll wait to more of you have seen the movie so we can compare our thoughts.
M~