[ SECRET POST #6428 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6428 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm no expert but maybe it was an intentional choice to show the contrast so the audience would have the desired emotional reaction. Yes, we all know there are different levels of "rich" but most people's knee-jerk reaction is going to be "Quit whining, you're rich! You're fine!"

See also the friend who marries Mr. Collins. I think they made her older in the movie so the audience would have the correct reaction when she makes her case for marrying him.

[(Anonymous)]

IMO, it's an irritating choice even if it's intentional. It feels lazy, like not wanting to make those nuances understood for a historical drama, and not trusting your audience to understand that this is an older time, with different expectations and customs.

I looked it up, and the actress who plays Charlotte Lucas was around 31 at the time P&P came out. I don't think that's really "older" casting, since it's reasonable for a 31 actress to play a 27 year old character.

[(Anonymous)]

HR Mencken once said "No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."

And I doubt that's become any less true in the near-century since he said it (eg Republicans suddenly whining about Rage Against the Machine being "political").

[(Anonymous)]

Sad but true. It's a shame though, because having a reasonable grasp of the time period's customs understanding how entailments worked and why marriage was so important to women makes all of Austen's work a lot more interesting. Without that understanding, it seems far more like a frivolous story.

[(Anonymous)]

I kind of assumed it was meant to demonstrate not "they're poor", but a combination of "they have country manners" and "the household is badly run". A pig walking through the house is not the most subtle or accurate way to show this, true, but considering how many people manage to miss it entirely in the book...

But I'm probably giving them too much credit.