[ 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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03.
[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 ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(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)]

Probably for similar reasons that made it appeal to one of the anon comments above. Showing the Bennet family as being more impoverished than they were in the books feels more relateable to a modern audience, because otherwise you'd have to explain that oh yeah, they're financially fine right now but entailments blah blah blah. Likewise, the film rewrote Austen's dialogue so it sounded more modern and "conversational" rather than, you know, like Austen. And Darcy is a shy man suffering from social anxiety who finally gets the courage to blurt out I LOVE YOU because that's more relatable to a modern audience than a man whose too proud to air his family's dirty laundry.

[(Anonymous)]

All of this is why I hate the 2005 version.

[(Anonymous)]

As my freshman year roommate put in back in 05, Austen would be rolling over that post-coital scene by the lake.

[(Anonymous)]

They don't read as poor to me in that movie.

They have a house, with staff (Mrs Bennet is v. pointed that they employ a dedicated cook). And the estate is clearly flourishing.

To me, they read as *country*. There are ducks and geese in that pond, they have land on the estate set aside for pheasant-hunting (Mrs Bennet mentions it late in the movie). The family is running their estate just fine, but they don't have a lot of fluid cash and their manners are considerably less formal than Darcy or the the Bingley sisters.

As you say, we've seen what 'poor' looks like in Austen. And the estate in the '05 movie ain't that.

[(Anonymous)]

+10000000