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Pride and Prejudice (1980) pt 1 of 25

Aug 24, 2007 00:08

Pride and Prejudice (1980)

I've wanted to write this for a while, but - nobody has seen this version! It's rather hard to find in a video store, for reasons that I'm sure have nothing to do with its quality. Then I found out it's on Youtube. In annoyingly short segments, of course, but bear with me. I thought, as an experiment, I would cover one ( Read more... )

p&p 1980, p&p

Comments 27

joellemam August 24 2007, 17:29:55 UTC

rofl! i really want to see this now. but i dont know if i could sit through painfully small segments on youtube. maybe i`ll watch the first and see if i can. thanks for the information about it!

redcoast August 24 2007, 17:33:27 UTC

It would still be painful even if it wasn't chopped up. We haven't even gotten to Darcy yet.

redcoast August 24 2007, 17:34:37 UTC

P.S. does the embedded video work? It's been giving me trouble.

xander77 August 24 2007, 17:54:42 UTC

Yes. Thanks for the recap. For some unexplained reason, I am reculant to watch beyond the opening.

Thread 9

joellemam August 24 2007, 18:03:51 UTC

i havent tried it yet-feel this maybe somethin i want to watch when other people are not in the room! oh god it didnt even occur to me how terribly they could do darcy *shudder*

redcoast August 24 2007, 19:19:45 UTC

it's not porno! Just a little bit bad.

joellemam August 27 2007, 17:43:20 UTC

rofl! i wasnt suggesting it was porno. th idea of austen porn is quite frightening

redcoast August 27 2007, 19:38:08 UTC

There was a book published awhile ago called "Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen."

You can read an excerpt.

Thread 5

katharhino August 25 2007, 02:10:21 UTC

Oh, I've seen it! I have it on DVD!

(Don't hate me. I kind of... um.... like it. A little.)

But, this is funny! I almost died at the visual representation of Mr. Bennet's chanting. Hee! Please keep going!

redcoast August 25 2007, 02:12:25 UTC

I know that people like it. I've spoken to some of these people online. I realize they exist. However ....

how? HOW CAN YOU LIKE IT?!

katharhino August 25 2007, 02:21:57 UTC

Because I am a total nerd and I can't totally dislike a faithful Austen adaptation? In my defense, I bought the whole box set of 80s BBC adaptations--of which Emma is pretty decent and Mansfield Park is, well it's the only faithful Mansfield Park adaptation, is what it is. I didn't buy it for P&P.

I actually do like Elizabeth Garvie, despite the googly eyes. You have to kind of watch it like a play instead of like a movie, but I think she's good as Elizabeth.

Nevertheless, everything you've said about it so far is not only extremely funny, but basically true. Especially the part about Lydia being 35.

redcoast August 25 2007, 02:30:47 UTC

But it's not that faithful. Most of the lines are the same, but the characters are really not represented the same way. I think it's weird that that's the argument I always hear ("It's faithful!") because I never saw it that way. For example, in just the section I've covered here, Mary is a glasses-wearing nerd who keeps to herself and is picked on by her family, instead of being pushy and pedantic. Charlotte Lucas is gushing about Bingley, when she's not supposed to like men. Elizabeth is in on Mr. Bennet's joke to Mrs. Bennet, to the point that she's basically lying by omission to Mrs. Bennet even though it upsets her a lot. The fact that Mr. Bennet is a total asshole probably is mostly the casting, and nobody could help it that Lydia isn't the tallest of the girls or that they look a little old for their roles - that's stuff I'm willing to forgive, along with the eighties haircuts. It's the screwed-up characterization that I can't forgive. That and David Rintoul ( ... )

nietzschekeen September 13 2007, 04:20:49 UTC

I own this version in VHS format.

Rather, let me correct myself: my mother owns this version in VHS format. I asked her why once, and she just said that Olivier had made a terrible Darcy. I suppose she prefers this one? Hm.

redcoast September 13 2007, 04:23:58 UTC

Well, for a while it was the best P&P adaptation out there, for lack of competition.

revolution25 October 27 2007, 08:48:01 UTC

I own two copies of this version (the reason is rather stupid, not because I like it so much or anything). I think I like it a little better than the Olivier version, and the Mormon version, but that's not really saying much.

I don't know which Mrs. Bennet gets on my nerves more, this one or the '95 version, the voice makes me want to jump in the screen.

And Kitty looks like she's in her mid thirties, much older than Lydia, at least I think.

I can't wait until we get to the ACTION PACKED!! HEART POUNDING!! LETTER OPENING SCENE where we watch her read for a good ten minutes. And yet, still better than the Mormon version.

redcoast October 27 2007, 17:48:42 UTC

I have NEVER been able to watch that entire scene. I always end up fast-forwarding through it.

revolution25 October 29 2007, 08:01:43 UTC

I have, twice (I think). But you need a buddy there with you, just in case you faint from all the ACTION.