Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
Having got all excited about the trailer a few weeks back, I feel like I should follow up on what the movie was like... [no spoilers]
So, you know how some films have these amazing trailers, but then you watch the full feature and realise that all the good stuff was used in the trailer and the rest is just drivel? This film was like the opposite of that :D So. Freaking. Good. The hubby and I tend to have pretty different taste in movies, but we both were sat there shushing each other for the first twenty minutes or so becaue of the amount of gleeful cackling we kept doing.
I'm not going to re-cap the plot or anything, because honestly, the title pretty much sums it up, but I will say that, from what I've heard about the book, the film is much, much better. The integration of the zombie side of the plot felt really seamless, and was played absolutely deadpan, which is how I like my ridiculous crack. I particularly enjoyed Elizabeth as a zombie fighting warrior, because you just know that if original!Elizabeth could've taken all her passion and frustration out with a sword, she would've, BUT my unexpected fave was Lady Catherine de Burgh, played by Lena Headey, the eye-patch-wearing, trouser-toting "best fighter in all the land".
YES THANK YOU MA'AM.
And talking of things original!Elizabeth would've liked to do if only she could? That revamped (re-zombied?) Darcy/Elizabeth proposal scene? Holy freaking pom-poms, Batman!
Also, any heinous anachronisms forced on the film by the constraints of telling a 1 hr 40 min story (like men in unwell ladies' bedchambers *looking at you, 2005 adaptation*) can be neatly explained by the zombie stuff, and that kind of cohesiveness just makes me extremely happy.
What was really interesting to me on second think, though, was the little world-building details that came about because of the zombie infestation. The fashion is recognisable, but subtly changed -- Lady C wears trews, of course, but the other ladies keep their gowns. The difference is the way they're cut to allow easy access to the weaponry hidden in their frilly underthings. Then there was the architecture -- secret tunnels and heavily fortified doors, and Rosings had a drawbridge staircase that could be raised and lowered. I don't know much about either fashion or architecture, but I'd love to see some speculation as to how history might've unravelled differently in those domains based on this scenario.
So, anyone else seen it? Come squee with me :D
So, you know how some films have these amazing trailers, but then you watch the full feature and realise that all the good stuff was used in the trailer and the rest is just drivel? This film was like the opposite of that :D So. Freaking. Good. The hubby and I tend to have pretty different taste in movies, but we both were sat there shushing each other for the first twenty minutes or so becaue of the amount of gleeful cackling we kept doing.
I'm not going to re-cap the plot or anything, because honestly, the title pretty much sums it up, but I will say that, from what I've heard about the book, the film is much, much better. The integration of the zombie side of the plot felt really seamless, and was played absolutely deadpan, which is how I like my ridiculous crack. I particularly enjoyed Elizabeth as a zombie fighting warrior, because you just know that if original!Elizabeth could've taken all her passion and frustration out with a sword, she would've, BUT my unexpected fave was Lady Catherine de Burgh, played by Lena Headey, the eye-patch-wearing, trouser-toting "best fighter in all the land".
YES THANK YOU MA'AM.
And talking of things original!Elizabeth would've liked to do if only she could? That revamped (re-zombied?) Darcy/Elizabeth proposal scene? Holy freaking pom-poms, Batman!
Also, any heinous anachronisms forced on the film by the constraints of telling a 1 hr 40 min story (like men in unwell ladies' bedchambers *looking at you, 2005 adaptation*) can be neatly explained by the zombie stuff, and that kind of cohesiveness just makes me extremely happy.
What was really interesting to me on second think, though, was the little world-building details that came about because of the zombie infestation. The fashion is recognisable, but subtly changed -- Lady C wears trews, of course, but the other ladies keep their gowns. The difference is the way they're cut to allow easy access to the weaponry hidden in their frilly underthings. Then there was the architecture -- secret tunnels and heavily fortified doors, and Rosings had a drawbridge staircase that could be raised and lowered. I don't know much about either fashion or architecture, but I'd love to see some speculation as to how history might've unravelled differently in those domains based on this scenario.
So, anyone else seen it? Come squee with me :D