#pride and prejudice

lizzibennet:

it is still absolutely hilarious to me that the bbc’s train of thought while making their 1995 pride and prejudice was like “let us make a historically accurate near scene-by-scene adaptation with near identical dialogue to the book. except for one thing: we are allowed one (1) transgression and that is a wet!darcy scene. no explanation needed” like talk about having ur priorities straight

Happy Netherfield Ball Day, everyone!

A few days ago I reread pride and prejudice … and I said nah, let’s see

It’s not an Au of that story itself, but I found the context interesting

Cliche, they don’t like each other at first and then they end up falling in love.

Resume

Dean falls in love with Cass but her father had already committed her to someone else long before that they will get along, but nothing had ever been confirmed, that’s why she never told him about that and when he finds out they fight, the drama begins.

since he also fell in love with her. And in his anger and sadness he goes on a journey to never come back. Cass decides to start writing him letters, but you’re left alone in a drawer that Dean doesn’t want to open, he also did not want to receive Cass in person when she wanted to talk to him.

After a while the letters stopped arriving and thinking that it was because she had already married, he wanted to burn the letters, but at the last moment he opens them: Cass always was in love with him, and she wanted to stay with him and marry, even putting aside her father’s wishes.

So Dean decides to go back and go for Cass, but when he arrives it’s already too late.

She had not married the other man, on the contrary, she had no longer sent him letters because Cass had died in an epidemic that occurred in her city and instead of finding the love of his life again, ended up visiting a tombstone. End

literatureausten:

no other fictional event will ever influence me as much as netherfield park being let at last

Pride and Prejudice strikes again!  In the world of P&P adaptions (of which there are many, and of which I will cover a number of) I think this one stands out.  The format was the key here, with episodes released over time that clock in at roughly 3 min each.  The storytelling had to be tight, and the humor that was injected into this modern day version was well timed and well placed.  They cut out things that weren’t going to contribute much (two extra Bennet sisters that didn’t feature largely in the books) and gave more agency to secondary characters (Lydia and Charlotte) which was beyond smart.

What this series brought home for me is how this story, while driven by Lizzie and Darcy (and to a great extent Jane and Bing) is carried by its female characters.  We experience everything important through their narration, and this just distills that concept into a highly enjoyable liqueur of fast talking fun people.  It’s not that the men are not on screen, but their appearances are few and far between.  Casting for all the characters was on point.  I would have watched this movie, and given that there’s 100 episodes it certainly adds up to having watched a couple movies at least.  Lizzie and Darcy somehow never get stale.

I remember the first time I watched this the part that made me laugh the most was Darcy’s sister.  I know in the books Georgiana Darcy is used more like a cautionary tale rather than a character, but in this adaption I dug her shipping her own brother with Lizzie in real time.  It was the flag waving I needed to tip this story from great to golden in my mind.  We are all Gigi.