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Pride and Prejudice
Oct. 26th, 2005 11:14 pmWell, now Jörg and I have seen the new movie production of Pride and Prejudice.
It's a charming, light-hearted, fluffy, beautiful movie. It's a delightful way to spend two hours. It has pretty actorsOME MR BINGLEY!.
It is not, however, the book, and not the BBC series. Matthew MacFaden is NOT Colin Firth. And the whole movie lives because of Keira Knightley, who, admittedly, is a suitably vivacious and amiable Elizabeth.
It would be wrong to say I'm disappointed; of course they had to compress everything to fit it in a two-hour movie. And it's a really pretty two hour movie.
But you do have the faces of the 'actual' actors, who seem so much more pre-destined for their roles, in your head all the while. And things happen too fast, and you notice.And wtf, since when are the Bennets farmers, and why does it look as though they lived in Tuscany now?
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( Stolz und Vorurteil )
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It's a charming, light-hearted, fluffy, beautiful movie. It's a delightful way to spend two hours. It has pretty actors
It is not, however, the book, and not the BBC series. Matthew MacFaden is NOT Colin Firth. And the whole movie lives because of Keira Knightley, who, admittedly, is a suitably vivacious and amiable Elizabeth.
It would be wrong to say I'm disappointed; of course they had to compress everything to fit it in a two-hour movie. And it's a really pretty two hour movie.
But you do have the faces of the 'actual' actors, who seem so much more pre-destined for their roles, in your head all the while. And things happen too fast, and you notice.
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( Stolz und Vorurteil )
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