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⌈ Secret Post #3304 ⌋

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[Law & Order SVU]

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[Leonardo DiCaprio]

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(Penny Dreadful: Caliban/John Clare)

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[Star Wars]

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[Kumail Nanjiani, The X-Files]

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[Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem]

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[Love Live!]

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[Severus Snape and the Marauders]

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[Sherlock Holmes]

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[Making a Murderer, Dean Strang and Jerry Buting]

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[Colony]

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2005 Pride and Prejudice. I'm not a fan of empire waist dresses so aesthetically it's more my speed. I also liked the houses and locations they picked (I found the houses very samey in the BBC version).

I also liked them humanizing Mrs. Bennet and showing that she and Mr. Bennet were more partners than in the book. I liked that Lydia and Kitty were cast much younger. This is the only version of Lydia that I can sympathize with. I actually liked the little Mary/Mr. Collins they threw in there. I also felt the chemistry between this Darcy and Elizabeth more than any other version I've seen.

Really, all the cast worked really well for me except for Mr. Bennet, who I didn't hate in the role (he just felt out of place).

Huh, I think Mr Bennet was the ONLY part of the 2005 P&P that I sort of liked. Well, liked may be too strong a word...

I don't know if the guy who was Mr. Bennet was out of place, or if they were just trying to show Mr. Bennet as out of place. Which is true to the novel, but I didn't see him as almost angry as Mr. Bennet seemed. He didn't even seem that thrilled with Elizabeth when in the novel it's established that they're close. (Although at the end he was clearly saddened by her marrying and leaving home.)

For me, it was more that he felt like Donald Sutherland and not Mr. Bennet. I also didn't feel the deep bond he shared with Elizabeth that's so evident in other adaptions. And he just seemed to be sleep-walking through a lot of what was going on.

He wasn't terrible and I didn't hate him but every time he was on screen, I was thrown out of the movie. He didn't disappear into the character like all the others did for me.

To me, the characterization for the 2005 version felt off and I thought the speech sounded too modern and not much like Austen.

Same here. Charlotte snapping out "So don't you judge me, Lizzie. Don't you dare judge me," made me squirm in secondhand embarrassment.

A lot of the dialogue made me cringe. Unless the adaptation is a modern AU, I see no reason to modernize Austen's language. It's not that hard to understand! The 2005 version also felt the need to make everyone far more effusive and verging on sentimental, which felt wrong.

Take Darcy's speech at the end: "You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on."

WTF. Dude's supposed to be restrained, and the pathos of the scene comes from the emotions underneath that are barely breaking through. He's not supposed to sound like a Hallmark card. I felt like I was being talked down to, as if the writer thinks the audience isn't smart enough to grasp what's going on unless it's spelled out in 10 foot letters.

I'd rather have modern language than an unlikeable Mrs. Bennet and an obnoxious Lydia. Honestly, I can't watch the first half of the BBC version because of Mrs. Bennet. It's not enjoyable to watch someone who's so annoying.

The characterization might have been off but I loved absolutely every change they made (except for Mr. Bennet).

Well, Mrs. Bennet is meant to be a rather annoying comic figure of ridicule, and Lydia is kind of obnoxious. Maybe even more so in the books, since at the end she has the gall to write Lizzy and hit her and Darcy up for money so Wickham can have a place at court!

Yeah, I'm aware. And I don't like it so I like the 2005 version.

Okay then. :)

I like this movie out of spite because I know too many people who act like the TV version with Colin Firth is the most perfect thing that ever pefected and I realize I have very little patience for Regency anything, so I appreciate that the movie is shorter.

That's my favorite adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. I loved everything about it, especially Darcy.

Honestly, Pride and Prejudice has been the only Jane Austen I've managed to actually read, although my other attempts have been Persuasion and Mansfield Park, both of which were good movies.

The 1995 movie of Persuasion is my favourite costume drama adaptation ever. Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds are so, so wonderful in it. I've never really liked Mansfield Park though, book or screen.

Yesssssss.

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