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A review by jesi on Pride And Prejudice (DVD) October 13th, 2005
Author's product rating:
Did you enjoy it?
Loved it
Story
Good
Characters / Performances
Outstanding
Special Effects
Outstanding
How does it compare to similar films?
Outstanding
Advantages:
VERY TRUE TO JANE AUSTEN'S ORIGINAL - Natural and Unpretentious - Glorious Scenery and very "Down - to - Earth"
Disadvantages:
It stopped before Jane Austen stopped, and I wanted MORE !
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
At last! An adaptation of a classic story that tries to do justice to both the form and the context of the original! Lovers of Jane Austen's classic novel of an impoverished family with five daughters (and a VERY pushy mama seeking an advantageous marriage for each of her daughters) will love the acerbic wit of this 2005 version.
It had me in laughter, and in tears!
And my husband was heard to remark afterwards that it was a pity we hadn't seen an earlier show, as it was ANOTHER film (like Bride and Prejudice just over a year ago) that he would have liked to have seen "twice in succession" the same night.
===========================================================I would not have thought of either my husband or myself as particularly impulsive people. When I do the HarrisOnline Polls, and they ask me those "classification" questions at the end I always pick "Security Seeker" - "Likes to take risks" - and "doesn't care what people think of me" as the better of two choices in describing myself. But, I do confess that SOMETIMES, the results of a long, quietly analysed decision, when acted upon spontaneously, DO APPEAR to be IMPULSIVE to other people when they occur.
Such a situation occurred Saturday night.
For months Nigel and I have been counselling a couple who were considering getting married - a preliminary date was set for May 21st this year - but when the Birth Certificate was stolen with Stuart's wallet from work, and a new certificate was not acquired by 30th April (for the three-weeks notice to be called), the whole marriage thing was shelved for a while. In August, things came to a head, and the decision was made to get married on the 8th October. This time it went through, and it was a lovely day, everything came out really well, including the afternoon reception, and we helped carry the newly-wed couple and their 2-yr-old daughter (and all the presents) home from the reception.
"Let's ask Crystal and Maurice to come out to the cinema with us," my husband said. "It will give the young couple chance to spend some time together, alone." Crystal is Miriam's mother, who currently lives with them, and Maurice is her brother, who came over from Eire for the wedding.
So we went to the local "UGC" Cinema - discovered Herbie - Fully Loaded was no longer showing - but my favourite Jane Austin Book of all time - Pride and Prejudice (aka P&P) - was.
Did I choose the PG alternative, "Oliver Twist" that we could have watched? No.
===========================================================Knowing NOTHING really about this version in advance, I asked for P&P - with a "U" rating! Why? Just because I longed to see it and see how well it matched my ideal visualisation, I guess.
I haven't even seen the most recent (1995) BBC adaptation all the way through, although what I DID see on my daughter's television some years back looked overly sanitised and pretty-pretty. Apparently Colin Firth was Mr Darcy in the BBC version - the little I have seen of him didn't match my ideal of Fitzwilliam Darcy from the original book by Jane Austen, however handsome people may believe him to be.
I rather liked the portrayal of Darcy in this film by Matthew MacFadyen. He was aloof and appeared haughty - but when he unbent, you could see him changing. He was human. And you could fall in love with him just as Lizzy is doing, as your prejudice is tempered with an increasing knowledge of what he really is like, despite reports and appearances.
All the main characters were very human - and the wordplay between the characters was very close to Jane Austen's original. Lizzie's face - solemn and yet mischievous - her sudden giggles and irrepressibility endeared her to you.
Her father (played brilliantly by Donald Sutherland) was irascible, bluff, and a caring father and husband - erudite and blunt - happier in his study than in society, but willing to venture out when necessary for the sake of his family.
The intimacy and yet distance between the five girls - the naturalness of the girls with each other - even when the eldest two are provoked by the silliness of the younger girls - was amazing, as was the familial resemblances. They were very well cast - Rosamund Pike as the eldest "Miss Bennet" - 23 year old Jane; Keira Knightley as "Miss Elizabeth Bennet" - or Lizzy; Talulah Riley as the bookish, accomplished (but plain) middle sister Mary; Carey Mulligan as the heedless 17 year old Kitty (Catherine); Jena Malone as the irrepressible militia-mad 15 year old Lydia who is just BOUND to fall into a scrape before she gets much older if she cannot be restrained.
Brenda Blethyn OBE made a wonderfully distracted Mrs Bennet - although she was quite wearing to listen to and watch - she epitomised Jane Austen's anxious mama in an over-blown way I have seldom seen matched. Her performance "over-the-top" may have had something to do with the 30 years she has spent on the stage (where everything MUST be larger than life to be observed) - but it fit the character she was playing perfectly.
The cast was a delightful mixture of seasoned veterans and up-coming new faces. Even more minor characters were very well detailed and developed, as in the novel. If all the sub-plots from the book had been utilised, the film would be going on still.
But the chosen vignettes carried the story well, and it was enhanced by a piano score which I noticed particularly because I was taught piano as a child, and love to listen to piano music.
Perhaps the weakest characterisation for me was that of Tom Hollander as Mr Collins, for although he was by speech and nature the very epitome of Jane Austen's Mr Collins, I found it hard to forgive his shortness of stature. The original in the book was noted for being tall.
The scenery was at times breathtaking, yet very correctly mirroring the time it was set in - Sheets and garments on washing-lines filling the courtyard - geese and a very large (old-fashioned) pig sought to steal the show in their respective appearances in the ordinary rural scenes. Wooded parkways contrasted with the wildness of the Peak District National Park, where Lizzy is filmed on a promontory with an outlook which reminded me of the filming of the Grand Canyon in "Bride and Prejudice" which I saw last year.
The entire production was filmed on location in the UK - including Derbyshire, Wiltshire and Kent. Basildon Park in Berkshire becomes Netherfield, Groombridge Place near Tunbridge Wells becomes the home of the Bennets - Longbourn. Stamford, with hundreds of locals filmed as extras becomes the village of Meryton.
Fans of the 1995 BBC Series staring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle may recognise the interior of Wilton House near Salisbury, used as the interior of Pemberly, as the location for Colin Firth's famous "wet shirt" scene. And the exterior of Chatsworth House, its grand staircase and its sculpture gallery also feature as Pemberly, Darcy's Derbyshire estate. ===========================================================
There is a timeline on the promotional Keira Knightley Pride&Prejudice website which details events from the birth of Jane Austen on 16th December 1775, the original writing of "First Impressions" by Jane Austen in 1796-97 (rejected by publisher); the revision under the working title "Pride and Prejudice" in 1811 with publication in 1813 to great acclaim and her death 18th July 1817 and burial in Winchester Cathedral.
It picks the story up again with the first BBC TV dramatisation in 1938, and lists the six versions seen on British TV of P&P.
The only previous movie version, a black and white 1940's version by MGM, was adapted by Aldous Huxley from a stage play of the book, and starred Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson as Darcy and Elizabeth.
The timeline also goes through filming dates and is a very useful reference as to which parts of the movie were filmed where and when, and with whom, during the year from January to October 2004. For further information, see the website.
[Adapted from timeline information appearing on http://www.keiraweb.com/pppromo.html ]
===========================================================Jane Austen's novels look at social stratifications, interactions between people on a very down to earth level - developing her characters both through what they say, and how they treat and respond to others. Her dialogue carries her books along and makes her characters come to life.
In Pride and Prejudice, the Bennet sisters are in a difficult situation. An "entail" on the property means that when their father dies, there being no other male heir, a distant, as yet unmet cousin will inherit Longbourn. Their foolish mother worries far too much about what will become of them and has allowed all five sisters to begin to interact socially at local balls and mix with the militia, even though her youngest is not yet 16. In the book, this serves to propel the plot while allowing Jane Austen to examine the social class structure and patriarchal society of her day.
The book has remained popular to this day because everyone can identify to some extent with one or more of her characters. And it asks the question as to whether you CAN always trust your "First Impressions" - which are bound to be coloured by one's own upbringing. The book asks the reader to reflect on his or her own "pride" or "prejudice" in a basic sense and to measure how much justification there is in the attitudes shown.
There is a measure of ambivalence in her writing, for she was well aware of the inevitability of class rigidity, and certainly expected even her own characters to "know their place" and be conscious of the respect due to others. And she realises the conditioning that upbringing gives, so that one who is merely well-bred, shy and dutiful may appear haughty through lack of social skills never learnt (this applied to both Darcy and his sister Georgina).
But she gives hope to those who are sensible of their place; who are both respectful and respectable despite lack of fortune: that by industry and scholarship, intelligence and a liveliness of character, one can still aspire to beauty and worth.
All the money and station of Lady Catherine de Bourgh cannot compete with the integrity and spendour of Lizzy's determination to not make a promise she cannot keep, and to be true to those she loves.
I saw all this in the Film I saw last Saturday night, too.
Highly recommended. Distributor:- UIP Release Date:- 16th September 2005 Certificate:- U Running Time:- 2 hours 7 mins
(World-wide Premiere was in London on 5th September 2005; the film is on gradual release in the USA from 11th November to 25th November 2005.)
United International Pictures, Universal Pictures and Working Title Films present: ========================================================== ...................................Pride and Prejudice (2005) ========================================================== Directed..................................... Joe Wright (his first feature film) Screenplay................................. Deborah Moggach Produced................................... Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner Produced................................... Paul Webster Executive Producers................... Debra Hayward and Liza Chasin Co-producer............................... Jane Frazer Director of Photography............... Roman Osin Production Designer.................... Sarah Greenwood Editor......................................... Paul Tothill Costume Designer....................... Jacqueline Durran Hair and Makeup Designer............ Fae Hammond Music ........................................ Dario Marianelli
Cast: Elizabeth Bennet ........................ Kiera Knightley Mrs Bennet ................................ Brenda Blethyn OBE Mr Bennet .................................. Donald Sutherland Jane Bennet ............................... Rosamund Pike Mary Bennet .............................. Talulah Riley Kitty Bennet ............................... Carey Mulligan Lydia Bennet .............................. Jena Malone Charles Bingley .......................... Simon Woods Caroline Bingley .......................... Kelly Reilly Fitzwilliam Darcy ........................ Matthew MacFadyen Charlotte Lucas .......................... Claudie Blakley Mr Collins .................................. Tom Hollander Wickham ................................... Rupert Friend Lady Catherine deBourgh. ........... Dame Judy Dench
and many others...
=========================================================== ============================================ ...................................From the Official Press Release ============================================"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
"A fresh yet faithful adaptation of the original novel, Pride & Prejudice follows the adventures of Elizabeth Bennet, her four sisters and their attempts to find husbands. When a wealthy bachelor and his circle of sophisticated friends take up summer residence in a nearby mansion, the Bennets are abuzz with hope that potential suitors will be in full supply. But once Elizabeth meets up with Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen), what seemed at first like a match made in heaven quickly becomes one of the most classic battles of the sexes ever portrayed in literature. " =================================================================
Advantages: Proves there is always room for another Austen Disadvantages: Not as thrilling as it should be, no wet breeches!
...were producing another version of Pride & Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley, I must admit I had mixed feelings. I didn't see the point, as for me the BBC's 1995 version had put such a memorable stamp on it. It received fairly universal praise at the box office, however, which I admit did peak my curiosity. I had forgotten about it until this past weekend, when a friend and I rented it out to watch on a "girlie night".
For the uninitiated, Pride ... ...has no place in a Pride and Prejudice adaptation. I am undecided - I think this film is, if nothing else, proof of how difficult Austen can be to adapt successfully, and perhaps the director was trying to give it a bit of oomph lost in the editing of key plot strands. It is sumptuous and lovely to look at, but it could have been much more cohesive.
For me, Mr.Darcy wasn't given enough screen time to establish much of a presence. He's quite fanciable ...
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Advantages: Alive with a beating pulse, music, naturalistic settings, excellent portrayals, electric chemistry between leads. Disadvantages: A superfluous ending scene (US version only?); otherwise nil.
...later softening of Lizzie's own pride and prejudice is a change made credible by Ms Knightley's well-tuned performance.
While Colin Firth (from the BBC television mini-series made ten years ago) seemed heretofore to be *the* definitive Mr Darcy, Matthew McFadyen is no slouch, either. He quickly stole my (foolishly romantic) heart away the moment he appeared next to the grinning Mr Bingley at the ball, all unsmiling, taciturn and with furrowed brow. ... ...intriguing, but then again, I confess to a weirdness, too. Mr McFadyen is handsome but not in the boring, conventional way (ugh, who wants that?), and gives Mr Firth a serious run for his money. Of course that charge of electricity between the leads that could light up the neon signs in Times Square doesn't hurt the film one bit. The repressed sexuality and erotic undercurrents racing through Mr Darcy and Elizabeth generate an intense cinematic ardour ...
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Advantages: A sharp script and good performances Disadvantages: Keira Kngihtley's sniggering
...BBC mini-series, "Charles II: The Pride and the Passion" (see, it even sounds a bit like his current project). However, his television origins make themselves known in his chocolate box visuals that appear to have been sponsored by the Derbyshire tourist board. Not that there's anything wrong with misty pastoral panoramas (they are beautifully shot, after all), it's just that they add to the national trust gentrification of our history that ignores ... ...quainter perspective. The Bennets live in the kind of picturesque poverty that makes you feel someone's going to turn a corner and stumble into "The Haywain" at any moment. Oddly the film looks more like an adaptation of "Wuthering Heights" than an Austen piece, thanks to the director's yearning for the dales and his propensity for shooting his heroine on windswept promontories (not to mention his decision to shift the setting forward a few years ...
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...Hill et al), Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice, and film, all in one sentence. Wow. My Mum and I had been anticipating this one for a very long time. We practically leapt out of our seats in excitement when we first saw the trailers. I am a massive fan of British Films, the majority of which have been produced by Working Title - Shaun of the Dead, Bridget Jones, Four Weddings and A Funeral to name but a few. I am also a huuuuge fan of costume dramas. ... ...Pride and Prejudice is the ultimate love story; it is so simply boy meets girl, but yet so much more, and has been re-told hundreds of times, whether less subtly in Gurinder Chadha's Bride and Prejudice, or cunningly disguised in Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones. The plot centres around the five Bennet sisters, Jane, Lizzie, Lydia, Kitty, and Mary. Having all been raised by their mother for one purpose - to marry, they are all understandably excited ...
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Advantages: Matthew MacFadyen's Darcy Disadvantages: Low on action. One to see with the girls.
Pride and Prejudice is the story of Elizabeth Bennet, one of a family of five sisters in a English lower gentry family at the start of the 19th century. Their mother is determined to see them married and secure because their estate is entailed to pass to their nearest male relative on their father's death.
The BBC filmed a TV series of Pride and Prejudice which first aired in 1995 and starred Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet and Colin Firth as ... ...the BBC's 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice was all about balls and Chippendale elegance, then the 2005 film is set in a farmyard. Longbourn, the Bennet's home in Hertfordshire, is not a scaled-up doll's house. There is clutter on the tables, muddied hems and shoes, and the window sils need a lick of paint.
The sensuous feel and detail is rife. The sun shines when the Bennets are happy. rain showers down heavily when there is a crisis. There is ...
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Advantages: Feels good, happy. Disadvantages: Very long, approximately 5 hours.
...When I was young and had to do literature in school, classics were never a favourite of mine. William Shakespeare brought terror and my preference for modern novels stopped me from diving into Jane Austen's books and programs made about the times prior to the 20th Century were a definitely no no. So, you can tell, I did not watch much television programs nor movies.
All this changed last year as I went in search of books, and chanced upon Pride and Prejudice. I thought I have finally come of age and may understand the story and context without being terrorised by the English language. To cut a long story short, I fell in love with the book and became an Austen fan. Since I did not have the privilege of watching Pride and Prejudice while it was on the tele, I could not resist getting a copy of it on DVD.
This is the BBC...
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Advantages: Perfect adaptation of Jane Austen's most popular book Disadvantages: None
...... Mr. Bennet
Screenwriter ... Andrew davis
Director ... Simon Langton
Producer ... Sue Birtwistle
~~ The DVD Set~~
The DVD set comes in two DVD's with the six episodes plus a special on the Making of Pride and Prejudice, which takes you behind the scenes as the director and producer explain how they chose the locations and cast the characters.
I was disappointed that they didn't include more specials for this aniversary set - it would have been lovely to see interviews with the cast and to have more Austenography and information on the period the book was set in.
You can buy this new from Amazon.co.uk for as little as £8.98 new.
~~Conclusion~~
In my opinion this is the best Jane Austen adaptation ever, and if you are a fan it's a must-buy. And if you've never fancied classical English literature, make...
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Advantages: you get two great movies Disadvantages: In My books none
...Shakespeare In Love/ Pride and Prejudice Two disc (DVD)
Having read and fallen in love with both Shakespeare In Love and Pride and Prejudice i was afraid to buy this DVD. Have you ever found that after enjoying reading a book you found that the Film just didn?t live up to the book? i have, so i didn?t want to be disappointed after watching the Film of both these books so i didn?t buy the DVD. My partner knew how much i loved the book so last Christmas on our five year anniversary he had bought me a collection of stuff i liked to show me that five years in he still loved me, within this collection i found both these movies and that evening we both sat through them and i was not disappointed. Both films lived up to my expectations, it was romantic, charming with a hint of comedy the perfect recipe for any of my movies.
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This version of Jane Austen's fiercely beloved novel has the daunting task of living up not only to the classic book, but also to the excellent 1995 miniseries of the same name. Yet 2005's PRIDE & PREJUDICE is up to the task, thanks to lively pacing, a witty script, an excellent cast, and clever direction from British newcomer Joe Wright. The surprisingly still-relevant story follows the five Bennet sisters as they deal with suitors and love, as their mother desperately schemes to marry them off advantageously. Sweet-tempered beauty Jane (Rosamund Pike) develops feelings for the equally amiable and extremely wealthy Mr. Bingley (Simon Woods), but forces conspire to keep them apart while Lizzie (Keira Knightley) finds herself first appalled by, but gradually drawn to, Bingley's aloof, intelligent, and socially awkward friend, Mr. Darcy (Matthew MacFayden). The movie, at just over two hours, is forced to cut and condense a number of the book's subplots, and at times it tries to heighten the drama of certain scenes. But, for the most part, it's as faithful to the spirit of the original as time and cinematic convention allow. The tremendous supporting cast includes Brenda Blethyn as Mrs. Bennet and Donald Sutherland as her wry, withdrawn husband; Jena Malone as teenage twit Lydia; Judi Dench, effortlessly haughty and imperious, as Lady Catherine de Bourg; and Tom Hollander, who steals every scene he's in as the ludicrously pompous and awkward Mr. Collins. The movie's script, adapted by Deborah Moggach, manages to be proto-feminist without becoming anachronistic and, like the novel, it is incisive about the class politics and gender inequalities of the day.
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Special Features: The Politics Of Dating, The Stately Homes Of Bride And Prejudice, The Bennetts, The Life And Times Of Jane Austen, On Set Diaries, Audio Commentary With Director Joe Wright, Galleries Of The 19th Century, Pride And Prejudice Family Tree, Alternate Us Ending
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