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The more I watch it, the more I love the 2005 version with Keira Knightley. I love how much more immediate the emotions are, and the Bennetts' genuine affection for each other, and the observation of the way love/attraction catches at you so you do get the ridiculous embarrassing urge to catch the material of their dress in your fingers, and have to shake the electricity of it out of your hand, after.

(Yes, I'm watching it again. :))

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[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Disclosure: I haven't actually seen the 2005 version. I was rather put off by who they cast as Darcy.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

See, I already liked him from The Reckoning with Paul Bettany (I totally wanted to slash them) so I was predisposed to like him, but omg you can totally see the lack of social graces side, with him. And you can see that he likes Elizabeth, which - much as I love Colin Firth - is more than I get in the BBC one. ;)

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Eh, it's not that I don't think he's a good actor in many ways; he just didn't 'read' as Darcy to me in the ads.

Maybe I should see if I should give him the benefit of the doubt after all.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I also love, for the record, how it's not a BBC Drama, and how there're working estates and there's pig crap around the edges. As long as you don't watch the American ending, it's delightful.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

ALSO I LOVE MR BENNETT. And how country dances really are country dances, and how Charlotte Lucas really is plain (but so lovely!) The only thing that is infinitely the lesser, compared to the BBC production, is Mr Wickham. But they couldn't really better him.

[pollums.livejournal.com]

Oh thank god I'm not the only person that loves the 2005 one. EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THAT FILM IS SO LOVELYYYYY

[villainny.livejournal.com]

They seem like people. As well acted as the BBC version is they never seemed like more than Period Characters to me.

[pollums.livejournal.com]

Agreed. All of the Bennet sisters are so likeable and radiant especially!! Everyone's so distinct. It's because of this movie that I fell in love with Keira, too....

[villainny.livejournal.com]

The film made me slash Mary Bennett and Margaret Dashwood from the new Sense and Sensibility. I started writing it but I decided no one would read it. XD

[villainny.livejournal.com]

PS I LOVE MR BENNETTTT HE IS MADE OF WIN.

[pollums.livejournal.com]

YESSSSSSSSS He is so incredibly sweet and warm!!! What a wonderful man ;w;

[pennyplainknits.livejournal.com]

i've never watched the 2005 one due to an inability to stand Ikea Knightly (tm Mark Kermode). She is such a wooden actress

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Really? I'm not a huge fan - I did not like her in PotC - but I thought she was good in Bend it like Beckham, and she really does make a great Lizzie.

[pennyplainknits.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's something about the timbre of her voice I think, she always sounds bored.

[foreverdirt.livejournal.com]

I adored the 2005 film -- it was so funny and good natured. The family dynamics are very modern, but as you say, it is nice to see the Bennetts' genuine affection for each other, rather than in the book, where with a couple of exceptions they are held together a lot more by duty and circumstance than love. Which, I mean, is one of the things that makes the book so awesome, but just for sheer fun and enjoyment, the 2005 film is very much my favourite.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I am happy to look past canonical accuracy in the name of believing there is some happiness to be had in marriage. They do make me think of my parents so, especially in this incarnation. I just think the BBC adaptation is ever so thoroughly faithful, but it does rather lose some of the emotion, somewhere along the way.

[jumperkid.livejournal.com]

I'm commenting to protest trying to choose. One, I'm bad at "favorites" because I tend to love everything slightly indiscriminately, but in this case I really do love both the BBC and the 2005 version. They're so different! Why bother comparing! JUST LOVE THEM BOTH! I think that's allowed.

Have you seen or heard about the Mormon updated version (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_%26_Prejudice:_A_Latter-Day_Comedy)? It's a little wacky, but also fun. I quite like that version as well.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

LMAO when I saw that I really thought you meant Latter Days. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latter_Days) XD Mmmm, Amber Benson. Also bonus Joseph Gordon Levitt for great LOLS.

[jumperkid.livejournal.com]

Heeeee. I haven't seen that! I'm definitely adding it to my list now that I know it exists. I never argue with bonus Joseph Gordon Levitt.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

It's kind of awful but in that WONDERFUL way.

[jumperkid.livejournal.com]

Per my previous comment (see also: my icon), I'm a little easy. Awful but WONDERFUL is totally my cup of tea!

[areyoumymemmy.livejournal.com]

I adore all of these versions for very different reasons, so it's hard to pick a favorite.

The BBC drama is lovely and restrained and decorous but it does have bits of emotion peeping out like the mud on Elizabeth's hem. And I love that the girls are rounded and soft and there are varying levels of attractiveness throughout. Sometimes I am in the mood for that one!

The Keira Knightley version is, as you said, much more immediate and messy and okay, a little over-the-top sometimes (the last scene is just LUDICROUS. Also I disliked her sobbing breakdown at the inn with the walking and not being able to talk), but the affection and visible interest on the parts of the romantic pairs is nice. Also, Mary ends up as Miss Evangelista and Kitty is Sally Sparrow, so I can't hate on that action! Sometimes I'm in the mood for this one!

Bride and Prejudice I also ADORE, but more for Aishwarya Rai and the SONGS than the actual Pride-and-Prejudiceness of it all, because I think her Darcy and her Wickham are both dinks and she can do better. But sometimes I am in the mood to get "No Life Without Wife" stuck in my head for a week, so!

... okay, so this is really long, but I JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT AUSTEN ADAPTATIONS, OKAY?

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Oh god, god, did you watch the American version? THE ENGLISH VERSION OF THE FILM DOES NOT END LIKE THAT OKAY. It ends with Mr Bennett all choked up but absurdly happy, saying if any young man should call for Kitty or Mary they should send him in, he is quite at his leisure. The English version ends in a way that leaves me all hand pressed to mouth choked with embarrassing happiness, okay.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

PS I do not know who Miss Envangelista is but I should like to because Mary is PRETTY, and also I want very much to kiss Sally Sparrow's face.

[areyoumymemmy.livejournal.com]

I did watch the American version! Clearly I must get my hands on the FAR SUPERIOR English version! I would be MUCH happier with a Mr. Bennet choked with happiness version that the absurdly anachronistic yet also totally lame American ending that had my mom and I going WHUT. NO.

Miss Evangelista is from new Who, specifically Silence in the Library! Have you seen?

[lamardeuse.livejournal.com]

HELLO, LAURENCE OLIVIER IN TIGHT TROUSERS.



Also a script by Aldous Huxley, SO THAT I CAN PRETEND IT'S ABOUT THE CULTURE.

[skygiants]

I am sorry but I have to jump in to say that while this version is lolarious, I CANNOT accept it as an actual Pride and Prejudice based on the GIANT CIVIL WAR HOOP SKIRT COSTUMES. WHAT. WHAT. LIZZIE BENNETT IS NOT SCARLETT O'HARA.


- sorry! Sorry. I just have a lot of feelings about contextually-inappropriate hoop skirts. *sheepish*

[lamardeuse.livejournal.com]

The thing with Hollywood movies is generally in the even-numbered decades (40s, 60s, 80s), they suck at getting costumes right. In the 30s, 50s and 70s, they tend to do better. When I watch this movie, I say to myself, "Self, you can bitch about the costumes, or you can enjoy Laurence Olivier being a hotass." GUESS WHICH ONE I PICK.

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

One you haven't thought of: the book does it best for me. (In fact, it may be time for Yet Another Re-read...) :D

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Hee, I didn't forget; I'm someone who pretty much universally prefers the book. The only exception I can think of is the Da Vinci Code, which pretty much sucked hardcore all over but had Paul Bettany. :) I was thinking specifically TV.

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

Ah! My bad, then. :D

I guess the various TV or movie versions I've watched just haven't had much effect on me, because while I know I've seen several, details elude me as to which ones or what my reaction was. So I guess my "Other" should be "All were equally entertaining as far as that goes". *grins*

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I have yet to see a Pride and Prejudice that makes me swoon with the "Yes, PERFECT" in the way the Root/Hines Persuasion does. Just sayin'.