Comments | adamwolf: Pride & Prejudice

adamwolf

Pride & Prejudice

Jun 05, 2007 21:04

AHA! AVAST! Or something like that... I finally saw the BBC-miniseries (well, mini, from 19h till 00h30 is not exactly what I'd call 'mini', but...) and now I can finally compare it to the movie.

( For those who are bored out of their skull: I did the link-thing again to make it 'barely tolerable' )

movie, pride & prejudice

Comments 9

ryvka June 5 2007, 20:12:56 UTC

I wonder if the one that most people prefer is the one that they see first? I vastly prefer the BBC version, but maybe that's because I saw it many, many times before I saw the movie. The movie version just seems wrong in so many ways, but mostly because it's so different from the BBC version (well, and different from the book. And wrong historically. But that's another matter.)

Colin Firth is yummy, isn't he?

adamwolf June 5 2007, 20:17:09 UTC

Yeah, and you replied before I edited in the rant I forgot to write :P

Also: absolutely. Same thing happened with LOTR, remember? It shapes your ideas and expectations, no doubt. Some things the 'second' Lizzie'll say or do will seem off, but that's not cause she's not doing well, she's just not Keira. I guess that always happens.

In all objectiveness though, I think the movie has enough capacity to equal the series. It's not as detailed, or as classic, (and there's a distinct lack of Colin Firth), but I do enjoy the score and the cinematography and the amazing sense of life that pours through the screen.

el_angelina June 6 2007, 01:23:42 UTC

I've got to agree with Riv there, Fig. I mean... the movie Darcy almost cried during the first refusal and I sort of expected Keira to plunge onto him as though she was in a girl fight... on the whole, I found Keira's Lizzy weak, and I don´t mean the acting...

I agree with some of your other views though I believe there's a balance... the BBC Jane and Mr. Bingley too were not attractive enough... but film Wickham was not so detestful... film Mr Collins was better acted, but BBC Mr Collins was so much more pathetic... I always thought Mrs Bennet unbearable, so the BBC one is more fit to my liking...

But it´s all so irrelevant, isn't it? I mean... when we read the books we create this whole perfect picture in our minds... and one adaptation or another will always let us arguing about this or that... and the important thing, the really important thing is nearly always forgotten...

I mean... Jane Austen should be praised most because P&P is her creation after all... but we hardly see people writing... go Jane or something ( ... )

el_angelina June 6 2007, 01:25:32 UTC

PS: Colin is ... (in?)undescribably yummy...

PPS: Sorry by the lenghty comment... I always get overexcited with P&P... ::blush::

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therealaowyn June 6 2007, 20:59:41 UTC

I'm gonna have to go with Firth-Darcy...I felt Movie-Darcy was just too weak, he really didn't come across enough with the disdain and arrogance. When Firth-Darcy realizes he's made a mistake and decides to make amends, I believe it. The BBC proposal was definitely superior. I don't know what they were thinking in the movie...they're yelling, then they look like they're going to kiss. What?!
But the movie, I must admit, is very beautifully shot and Keira didn't do a bad job at all.

adamwolf June 7 2007, 16:30:02 UTC

Yeah, story-wise the proposal is not very okay; but it's so gorgeous. And I don't think he looks like he's going to cry, he just looks... very young, there, and very insecure. That doesn't seem too right, but it is touching in a way :D

ryvka June 7 2007, 18:07:28 UTC

I don't get the Keira love. I thought she was ghastly as Elisabeth Bennett. Way too emotional and...Hollywoodised. That was my problem with the movie in general. Hollywood's interpretation of Jane Austen. It's just wrong, wrong, wrong. The pacing is wrong, the manners are wrong, the clothes are wrong, the history is wrong. One of the reasons I love P&P is because it's so understated and...almost repressed. And yet through that, you can still see the passion that Darcy and Elisabeth feel for each other, as much as is allowed by the strictures of their time and society. But the movie version has TOO much passion, TOO much emotionalism. It's not Jane Austen...it's become almost gothic in its portrayal. It's like watching Pride & Prejudice as written by Emily Bronte.

adamwolf June 7 2007, 20:18:09 UTC

It's like watching Pride & Prejudice as written by Emily Bronte.

Yes! It absolutely is. Which is probably why I love it so much. I love the life in it, the thrill, the excess of everything. It's how I would feel and react.
I also think that I prefer Keira's Lizzie because she's younger, and just in general easier to relate to.

I don't agree with the 'Hollywoodised' though - it would have had at least one kiss if it had been, and a lot less of the social critizism.

But you know, this is just one of those things where heart wins over grey cells: I know the BBC's is the more faithful adaption, but I like the movie so much. It's like with Boromir :P: I know Tolkien saw him as a traitor and a villain, but I feel he's not. And that's the lovely thing, in the end, about art: it goes on to live a life of its own, far away from its creator and his or her intentions. That's why it remains relevant even when the social context is gone.

And I should get more sleep :D