Pride and Prejudice

[phisigprincess]

Has anyone else seen the other versions of P&P? The 2001 (I think version) where Elizabeth is a writer (you think Bingley's an idiot in the new version!! It was rough!) or Bride and Prejudice? I enjoyed B&P. Not so much at the begining, but at the end I found myself enjoying it.

 

[LoraJ]

I loved it. But I love the A&E version more.

 

[lewdyan1]

Has anyone else seen the other versions of P&P? The 2001 (I think version) where Elizabeth is a writer (you think Bingley's an idiot in the new version!! It was rough!) or Bride and Prejudice? I enjoyed B&P. Not so much at the begining, but at the end I found myself enjoying it.

I absolutely hated this version. It was painful to watch! However I did enjoy watching Bride and Prejudice!

 

[pixiemomma]

I've never seen the new movie or the A&E series but my mom and SIL loved the A&E version. It amazes me haw many people watched it all those years ago. (My mom died in early 2001, so I know it had to air a few years before that.) I am not really a Austen fan. (But I did like Sense and Sensability)

 

[pearlieq]

Can someone tell me the names of some of the other books??? Pretty please??

I think I'll run to the book store in the morning!

The raunchy one people are talking about is called Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife. It's truly hideous. It's not just that it's incredibly dirty (both Elizabeth and Darcy seem to be obsessed with doing the deed and then not bathing to they can enjoy each other's scent or something), it's that it's really, really BADLY written. Actual bit of writing: "We cannot make the beast with two backs because I'm riding the red stallion". It was supposed to be ironic, I guess, but was just awful! Plus, the story and characterization were silly and simple. The secret cause of Wickham caddishness? Teen acne!

Lots of libraries have it, so check it out if you want to read a train wreck, but don't spend a dime on this dreck!

The trilogy that people are refering to I think is called The Diary of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman. I haven't read it, but I've heard it's good.

Amazon.com has got a full list of continuations/companions to Pride and Prejudice.

 

[lewdyan1]

Actually the trilogy is called: Fitzwilliam Darcy - Gentleman Book 1 is called An Assembly Such as This Book 2 is Duty and Desire and the last one is These Three Remain. These books follow the same timeline as P&P, but from Darcy's view. You learn what he does during the times he wasn't at Netherfield or whereever The Bennett's were.

A quick easy read, but enjoyable is called Letters from Pemberly. There are two books and they are copies of letters between Elizabeth and Jane and describe their married lives.

Conviction is about Georgiana's life.

I am currently reading Excessively Diverted. I am only on chapter 3, so no review yet.

I have plenty more, if anyone wants more info!

 

[Princess Dot]

Wow, so many other DISers that love this story as much as I do!

I was disappointed in the new movie though, maybe because I love love love the A&E version. To me the longer the better, meaning the better way to tell the story with all the wonderful details.

Maybe it was just me, but I had trouble understanding everything they were saying in the new movie and I never have trouble with accents. I kept turning up the volume! But it seemed they were all speaking too fast. Maybe they were just over enunciating in the A&E version or something, but I just love all the great lines that Jane Austen uses that I hated to miss anything.

I also didn't care for Keira in the new film. I don't know why though! I usually like her. I think maybe she was a little too pretty, when it is Jane that is supposed to be the real "beauty" in the family. The actress in the A&E version was very pretty too, but I think it was her eyes that conveyed the most. They were always sparkling! Keira is always wrinkling up her nose when she smiles!

It also didn't help that I watched the new movie with DH and the kids. They definitly did not "get" the movie at all! They kept laughing at me when I said how romantic I thought the story was, or else they kept asking "What did they say?" a million times LOL! Maybe I should try watching it again, ALONE!

 

[theSurlyMermaid]

Guess I am the lone "hated it" vote. This isn't my Pride and Prejudice. I read the book every year and am a faithful devotee of the A&E version with the incomparable Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth.

This version was too short, too chopped up and can't hold a candle to the thorough treatment the A&E version offered. Also, Kiera Knightley was distractingly gaunt and wore the worst wigs. I was not impressed.

 

[NancyIL]

I haven't seen the new P&P, but I think you tend to prefer the one you saw first. I LOVE the A&E Pride and Prejudice. On the other hand, I never saw the A&E version of Emma, but love the version with Gwyneth Paltrow. Sense and Sensibility is very good, too - although it's rather depressing at times.

 

[theSurlyMermaid]

I haven't seen the new P&P, but I think you tend to prefer the one you saw first. I LOVE the A&E Pride and Prejudice. On the other hand, I never saw the A&E version of Emma, but love the version with Gwyneth Paltrow. Sense and Sensibility is very good, too - although it's rather depressing at times.

Well, ordinarily I think that you are right...you DO tend to prefer the first thing you saw. But the first P&P version I saw was the one with Greer Garson and Lawrence Olivier when I was in high school. And I loved it for the longest time.....until I saw the A&E version and was just astonished. I honestly don't think any version of P&P before or since holds a candle to it.

 

[Shugardrawers]

Can someone tell me the names of some of the other books??? Pretty please??

I think I'll run to the book store in the morning!

I'm reading Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife right now and let me tell you

Yeah, it's trashy in the manner of a bad and very graphic romance novel but it's fun. Whenever I get to the dirty parts I just imagine Colin Firth doing the hokey pokey with Kiera Knightly. Yeah baby!!!

 

[NookOfTheNorth]

I thought Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife was a fun read. I read all sorts of lit--heck, I'm an English teacher, but this was really an entertaining, albeit trashy novel. Come on, we all think Mr. Darcy would be pretty hot in bed--particularly if picturing Colin Firth (that sounds like I am such a lech).

 

[Aimeedyan]

I liked it - but didn't love it. I voted 'it was okay' but I liked it more than that =) LOL

 

[hoosll]

I love A & E version but it is so nice to have such a wonderful short version:

I love to watch Lizzie's wheels turn as she is systematically attracted and repelled by Darcy. And to watch Darcy's attraction to the vibrant Lizzie get the better of him. I especially like the scenes at Pemberly because you can see that Lizzie becomes aware through the house JUST how hard it must be to put aside his own world to declare his love - and then they are separated AGAIN by Lydia's foolishness.

The movie has such a rhythm of attraction and there really is chemistry between Keira and Matthew that I have not seen her display in other movies.
Since the movie IS short and places Darcy and Lizzie front and center, it is much easier to watch the unfolding of the themes of pride/prejudice. I believe the Netherfield ball scenes are marvelous. Again, so much is said through body language and facial expression.

I have gone back to watch MI-5 again, the first season where Matthew is in love but is unable to tell his girlfirend that he is a spy. He is fabulously romantic.

Colin Firth is always in my heart as Darcy I, but the scene of Matthew walking through the dawn mist towards Lizzie is one of the most romantic scenes since Casablanca.

"I am bewitched body and soul"!

 

[azgal81]

I thought the new one was good but I didn't see the old one so I guess I really can't compare them!

 

[lovmy2girls]

Loved it too. MacFadyen did a great job, and so did Kiera Knightly. I liked Donald Sutherland too.

 

[Reflection]

It was okay, but can't compare to the A&E version with Colin Firth!

My sentiments exactly.

I also really like Sense and Sensibility.

 

[CourtasanSatine]

There's also the Bollywood version called Bride and Prejudice, it has Naveen Andrews from Lost

 

[PaulaSB12]

It was okay, but can't compare to the A&E version with Colin Firth!

I have to agree with you Keira Knightly is not that good an actor she pouts but she didn't do the job as well as Jennifer Ehle and who could beat Colin Firth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!By the way in the A&E version did anyone notice how you never see young Georgiana Dary and Mrs Gardener in the same frame? That is because Mrs Gardener was played by Joanna David and Georgianna Darcy was played by her daughter Emilia Fox and they do look alike.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I liked it but I also liked the 1995 version better with Colin Firth.