[ SECRET POST #5284 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5284 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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02.
[Las Lindas]


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[Pride and Prejudice]


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04.
[Matt Fraction's Hawkeye]


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05.
[Murdoch Mysteries]


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06.
[Clerks]


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07.
[My Fair Lady]






Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 31 secrets from Secret Submission Post #755.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[fscom]

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[Pride and Prejudice]

[(Anonymous)]

Rebuttal: I saw this one first and the 1995 version is better because Colin Firth is hotter.

[(Anonymous)]

Facts is facts.

[arashinoookami]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who's never cared for the 95 miniseries, I've honestly never understood the Colin Firth lust. It feels like a you-had-to-be-there kind of thing. Matthew Macfadyen's Darcy is so much more attractive to me. Though admittedly neither of them are the typical "hollywood" flavor of sexy, and objectively I'd say they were fairly on-par with each other looks-wise.

[(Anonymous)]

Yup

[(Anonymous)]

I thought the reason the 95 version was better was because it was just better in every way.

[(Anonymous)]

That's what I thought, too.

[(Anonymous)]

why would you say something so uncontroversial and yet so true? ;)

[(Anonymous)]

Methinks most people prefer the movie cause they are unaware this version exists, but almost everyone who has seen this version and then the movie prefers the former by a large margin.

[(Anonymous)]

I saw this version first and I like the 2005 version better.

[(Anonymous)]

+1000000000

[(Anonymous)]

To refute that: I saw the 1995 one first, but the 2005 one is the one I like best. I just like the casting so much better in the 2005 one. The only person I like in the 1995 one is Colin Firth, and the only person I dislike in the 2005 one is Donald Sutherland.

Although, neither has a better Catherine de Bourgh than the 1940 version ;)

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh I didn't like Donald Sutherland either!

[(Anonymous)]

Nope. I saw the Miniseries first. Still prefer the 2005 version by a landslide, though. The only thing I don't prefer about it is that it's much shorter, but that's just the nature of the beast. To me the 2005 movie just feels so much more naturalistic and lived in, which is something I love to my bones. The direction, camera work, and set design are breathtaking. The dialogue manages to feel conversational and chatty and like actual people conversing socially despite all the linguistic particularities of the time period. And I adore every single casting choice they made.

I've never particularly enjoyed the miniseries, tbh, but I can understand why others do. The only thing I find tiresome is that so many miniseries fans seem determined to be snobs about it, pronouncing their opinions of the miniseries' alleged superiority and the movie's alleged suckage as though those things were objective fact.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think I'd like the 2005 version better even if I'd seen it first. I prefer Jennifer Ehle's Elizabeth and Colin Firth's Darcy, and IMO, the 2005 version messes with the dialogue too much until it no longer sounds like Austen.

[(Anonymous)]

The 1995 version to me is the better version for accuracy and honestly, Jennifer Ehle's boobs. And Colin Firth. And honestly everyone is just cast perfectly.

But I am old.

Cinematically the 2005 version is pretty but imo that's about all it has going for it.

[(Anonymous)]

the 95 version understands Darcy better. I can't handle the reinterpretation/weird 'oh hes just shy/got anxiety uwuwuw' takes that came out of the 05 version. That isn't who Darcy is? He's got issues but he's also a fucking git who learns.

[(Anonymous)]

a weird thing that bothers me--the 05 version makes the Bennets seem more poor than they actually are? I mean they are very worried about money because they have no sons (and spent too much early on, yes) but they aren't poor by any means. They have servants, they have a nice house. There is no talk of any of the girls having to go into convents or become governesses. We've SEEN poor in Austen (in Emma) ...and they aren't it. But for some reason the 05 version wants us to think they are less well off?


....also I fucking hate that sixteen candles scene at the end. I actually enjoy the 05 version ok but that scene is the fucking worst

[(Anonymous)]

I like the '95 version a million times more, and I still feel like I want to fight you.

[(Anonymous)]

I saw the miniseries first and it is 1000% better. The miniseries is amazing. The movie is fine, no hard feelings towards it. Something has to come in second place.

[(Anonymous)]

I've read the novel about 5 or 6 times and I love both adaptations equally but for different reasons. 95 is the serious, deep, lengthy adaptation that comes quite close to capturing the real sensation of the novel. 05 is the frothy fun condensed version that messes around with some things but does it lightheartedly and imo engagingly. Which one I want to watch at any given time entirely depends on my mood and I love both. (I also really like the way the 05 played around with the transition of styles at the turn of the 19th century.)

[(Anonymous)]

Yes the 1995 version is better overall (not least because it has space to move), but the 2005 version has a much better portrayal of the relationships between the sisters and their mother. Fight me.

[(Anonymous)]

People on the internet prefer the 2005 version because they're badly read kids with the attention span of gnats who can't deal with anything not adjusted to be 'relatable'.

Only reasonable explanation. The 2005 film is garbage.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the 1995 one is undeniably a closer adaptation.

That said, I saw the '95 first and I still prefer the, I dunno, call it the Impressionist version that is the 2005.

That's okay, I'm glad you enjoy it.