So, apart from Laurence Olivier, David Rintoul, Colin Firth and Matthew MacFadyen, who makes the best Darcy? It’s a bit of a wooden spoon contest of course, but nevertheless enough to occupy my little mind, and hopefully the larger minds of our dear readers. I’m talking about the Darcys of Bride and Prejudice, Pride and [...]
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Bride and Prejudice Soundtrack; a review
Gurinder Chadha’s 2004 Bride and Prejudice was a Hollywood-meets-Bollywood take on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, with a little bit of modern social satire thrown in. It was, perhaps unexpectedly, a little incoherent and reviews were very mixed. The reviews aggregation site metacritic.com gave it an average score of 55%. You can read our review [...]
It is a truth universally acknowledged… Homages and Parodies
Few writers who have found inspiration in Pride and Prejudice can resist including a parody of its immortal first sentence. The book begins with (all together now!):
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.’
As every high school student of the [...]
Jane Austen Meets Bollywood – A DVD Review of Bride and Prejudice
Bride and Prejudice is Gurinder Chadha’s 2004 attempt to fuse Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Bollywood glitz, British satire and Hollywood schmaltz into a single film. The movie follows Lalita (Bollywood goddess Aishwarya Rai) in the Elizabeth Bennet role, who in this adaptation is a middle-class Indian girl with three sisters (presumably four would have [...]