[ SECRET POST #6428 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6428 ⌋

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Comments

[(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.

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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.