[ SECRET POST #2560 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2560 ⌋

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Comments

[badass_tiger]

1995 Pride and Prejudice miniseries! My favourite adaptation of anything, ever! I'm sad most people just know the one with Keira Knightley, I didn't enjoy that half as much as the 1995 one. That's all I have to say about this secret. I am an unabashed Colin Firth fangirl.

[(Anonymous)]

??? B-but... almost everyone knows the 1995 mini-series. It's rare when you can even say you like the 2005 one without people jumping on you about how "the 1995 one is so much better".

[badass_tiger]

Oh really? We may run in different circles. I usually have to encourage people to watch it to get somebody to talk about it to and I know quite a few classics fans.

[(Anonymous)]

You're speaking of most people your age, I assume.

[badass_tiger]

Eh, I guess so. I live in a non-English-speaking country so most fellow fans I meet are on the 'net and I don't really know how old they are. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say they're all in their early to mid-20s.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm going to join you in this corner. I adore this version of P&P - definitely kept more the tone of the book, and there were some really jarring moments in the Keira Knightley one that I just couldn't get past.

The BBC one is perfection. I especially love the hilariously mortifying (for both of them) moment when Darcy and Elizabeth meet in the gardens at Pemberley.

[badass_tiger]

Yay, a friend! I admit that Keira Knightley is not really a bad Elizabeth, she certainly has the eyes imo, but the 1995 one was definitely better in every way. My only regret about the miniseries is they didn't add the line at the end where Lizzie's father, after he talks to Lizzie about her decision to marry Lizzie, says, 'And if any young men come for Kitty or Mary, send them in for I'm feeling quite at leisure,' which was one of my favourite moments ever. But everything else was pretty perfect, right down to the actor choices.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, I think every actor was cast perfectly in the BBC version. I can't think of a one that I'd change. I have to admit, I didn't notice that omission at the end, but it's been a while since I've read the book.

Keira Knightley - perhaps I can concede that she has very fine eyes (note: I'm doing my best Caroline Bingley impersonation when saying that), but what drove me nuts was her walking to Netherfield with her hair down (ack!), and her walking out to meet Mr Darcy in the fields (ack! ack! ack!), and his stupid non-Jane Austen speech at the end. I seem to recall having some admiration for the sets and costumes, but the rest of the film has faded from my mind.

Although it's much less canon-compliant, I will admit to a fondness for the Laurence Olivier/Greer Garson version, although that's largely due to my fondness for Laurence Olivier. Otherwise, the film has the wrong costumes for the period, changes some pivotal points, etc. etc., and yet - Laurence Olivier. :-)

[(Anonymous)]

IA. The non-Austen speech Mr. Darcy makes in the Knightley remake was beyond horrific.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, yeah. More 1995 P&P snobs.

It's okay to appreciate both. Not everyone has the same tastes.

[(Anonymous)]

It's also okay to NOT appreciate both. When people get defensive about other people not liking the 2005 version and citing specific reasons why, you sound silly.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh I much prefer the 1995 version and didn't care for the one with Keira Knightley at all. I thought the 1995 one was truer to Austen's tone.