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I truly enjoyed the new P&P, but I have to say that Colin Firth will always be the quintessential Darcy to me.
 
I am with Invisi-ink on this one Colin Firth is the quintessential Darcy. That being said, Matthew does a great job, Sir Lawrence Olivier does okay but the P & P is so messed up compared to the book.

Have any of you read the Memoirs written by her Nephew
 
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I mean that starting at the beginning of the Netherfield Garden Party (which doen't really occur in the book in that form) that particular movie condenses the book to the point where it is quite unrecognizable as being the same text.

In the book you don't go directly from Lizzie's trip to Rosings to Lydia's disappearance. And Aunt Catherine is no where near what Aunt Catherine was in the book. These are two of the more major issues, other major problems between the book and that movie exist but those are probably the two worst. Also the movie leaves out some of the most beautiful parts of the book.

That being said, I think that the 1940's movie is undoubtably the funniest version of Pride & Prejudice ever made.
 
~Lava~ said:
I am with Invisi-ink on this one Colin Firth is the quintessential Darcy. That being said, Matthew does a great job, Sir Lawrence Olivier does okay but the P & P is so messed up compared to the book.

Have any of you read the Memoirs written by her Nephew
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I don't really like Colin Firth as Darcy. :eek: :p I know most people don't feel that way, but oh well. :D

I want to read that book by her nephew. I also want to read the book of the collected letters of Jane Austen that's available.
 
I have the Memoirs. There is a part in them that talks about how Jane pictured Mary and Kitty Ending up, I cannot find it and want to.
 
~Lava~ said:
I have the Memoirs. There is a part in them that talks about how Jane pictured Mary and Kitty Ending up, I cannot find it and want to.
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Really? I didn't know about that. That's very interesting... Too bad my library doesn't have a copy (at least I don't think they do). :rolleyes:
 
I had a hard time finding it, I had to order it online.

It also says why the Jane and Tom thing didn't work out. He died shortly after they met.
 
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I take back what I said about Emma and Mr. Knightley's age difference. :eek: I finally got my hands on the movie, and I just watched it this evening. I loved it! Emma and Mr. Knightley are so sweet together. Mr. Knightley just became my second favorite male character. :D The actor did a very good job portraying him.

Also, I just finished reading "Mansfield Park" a minute ago. Has anyone else read it? Or has anyone seen the movie? I think there is a fairly new version of it (maybe 1999?).
 
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I take back what I said about Emma and Mr. Knightley's age difference. :eek: I finally got my hands on the movie, and I just watched it this evening. I loved it! Emma and Mr. Knightley are so sweet together. Mr. Knightley just became my second favorite male character. :D The actor did a very good job portraying him.

Also, I just finished reading "Mansfield Park" a minute ago. Has anyone else read it? Or has anyone seen the movie? I think there is a fairly new version of it (maybe 1999?).
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*smiles* So happy you like it. Emma is my favorite JaneAusten movie...
I've seen (not read) Mansfeild Park....unfortunately the version I saw (I believe it was the 90s) had a lot of things I didn't care for,so I turned it off half-way through....They maybe another version,thats the only one the library had/I saw...:eek:
 
snowflower said:
*smiles* So happy you like it. Emma is my favorite JaneAusten movie...
I've seen (not read) Mansfeild Park....unfortunately the version I saw (I believe it was the 90s) had a lot of things I didn't care for,so I turned it off half-way through....They maybe another version,thats the only one the library had/I saw...:eek:
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I can understand that. I've just been doing some research on that version, and it seems to be a movie "loosely based" on the novel, and since it's rated PG-13, I can believe that. I guess I'll just have to wait for a better version to come along. I think there's one that aired on TV in the UK in March of this year, but that's set to debut in the US this month. I hope I can catch it. :)
 
snowflower said:
I didn't know about the new one..:)Hopefully I'll get to see it too.....:)
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There isn't much information about it, even on IMDB. I just read a review of it on there that makes it sound not so good, but who knows. :rolleyes: I guess since it's not one of her famous books, it hasn't been made into a good, faithful movie. But I still would like to see this year's adaptation.


I found Northanger Abbey and Persuasion at the bookstore today. Now I can finally read the last two books of her's. :p
 
So I just watched the only P&P movie I had not seen, unless I haven't heard of all of them.

It was the 1980's BBC version, It is pretty good, the plot deviates very little from that of the book. What is it with the movies leaving out the last chapter of the book though, some of the most wonderful parts of the book are in that last chapter.
 
I've always had a soft spot when it comes to Pride and Prejudice, but Emma is, in some ways, even more fun. Has anyone else read Mr. Darcy's Daughters? Much better, in my opinion, than the typical Austen spinoff. I can just picture poor Fitzwilliam Darcy surrounded by a bevy of girls :D. Serves him right :p.
 
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