The new Pride and Prejudice trailer is up at Yahoo. I am so nice that I am telling you all about it before I can even hear it myself, since I’m at work and this computer has no sound. It looks good, and I’ll be watching it as soon as I get home. Here’s hoping.
(How long before Mike comments on Keira Knightley?)
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the Yrailer is amazing.
trailer
because keira knightley is a fantastic actress
I didn’t notice her acting. I was too distracted by how pretty she is.
I think she looks like a giraffe.
a sexy giraffe with a hot british accent
I just found your blog a week or two ago (I actually found it while trying to find out other people’s opinions on Lauren Winner’s books! lol!)
Anyway – I just can’t stand to even try and watch it… I was SOOOO worried when my parents bought me P&P2 for christmas a few years ago, because its my favorite novel and I don’t really trust most adaptations – of course I was pleasantly surprised with it (and turned into a Colin Firth fan, lol) because it stuck to the book well enough for me, but I’m just dreading even trying to watch another adaptation because of my fear of them, LOL
though I must admit I’ll eventually see the movie if only to see Judi Dench play Lady Catherine!!!
Anyway, great blog – and sorry to comment the first time about something so random =)
nothing against the lovely winston-salemite jennifer ehle…but when mr. darcy says keira/elizabeth is “not pretty enough to tempt me,” it’s going to be REALLY hard to buy it…
*sigh*
maybe the movie will make me want to finish the book….or not. keira might though!
Maybe it’s just me, but it looks like they’re trying to copy the A&E version. Is that what this is supposed to be? A feature length A&E version of Pride and Prejudice?
It’s not the same as the A&E version, since the A&E version stuck so close to the book. “You have bewitched me, body and soul,” is NOT Jane Austen.
I think that it’s just one of those stories that hadn’t been made into a feature-length film in a while, so they wanted to try again. But you can see, also, that they made the clothing earlier than Regency (hence Judi Dench’s big hair) to differentiate from the A&E version.
Aria: P&P2 is my favorite movie (even though it’s technically a miniseries), and I don’t think this looks as good, but they had six hours in which to tell the story. It will be interesting to see how they fit it into two-ish.
Overall, I think it looks good, like they are trying to do it right. Comes out in the US on September 23.
Oh, Charles – maybe they won’t have him say that. They have Elizabeth asking Mr. Darcy if he ever dances, and he says something like, “Not if I can help it,” and that conversation isn’t in the book . . . so maybe he just doesn’t like to dance and it’s not that Elizabeth isn’t handsome enough to tempt him.
I know it’s not the same! Give me some credit!
But a lot of it reminded me of the A&E version. Especially the mom and Lydia (and especially the mom) were almost exactly like the A&E. Like they modeled the characters after that version.
But, maybe that’s because the A&E version was so spot on.
Their clothes, and generally appearance, in this one look a bit sloppier, too. And Bingley’s hair? What is up with that?
Wasn’t there a shot of Elizabeth and Mrs. Bennet hugging? That would be a marked difference from the A&E version, where Elizabeth didn’t seem to have much (if any) affection for her mother at all.
As far as their clothes, part of it is setting it earlier, and part of it seems to be that they are interpreting them as poor. They weren’t well off like Darcy, but didn’t Mr. Bennet have something like 2000 a year? He was a gentleman after all. So I would say they’re just trying to play up the class distinctions, maybe diverging from the book in that way. Too soon to tell.
i told you one time I started reading this and my wife made fun of me.
so I stopped.
You should start again.
true enough on the P&P2 had 6 hours to tell it – I happen to be of the “movies should be long” opinion (which is why I love the P&P miniseries… and Wives and Daughters…and even is why I don’t find it odd or hard to sit through 3 hours of Les Miz (now when is someone going to do a good movie version of that? – as partial as I am to the musical, I would like a good movie or miniseries version of it, i.e. not one who takes out half the main characters, LOL!)
But seriously, I have friends who will on some nights refuse to watch any movie thats 2hrs long – where as I tend to think a movie is short if its not 2hrs, LOL…