Posts Tagged ‘Pride and Prejudice 2005’

Here are My Pride and Prejudice’s all time top 10 pictures of the vexing but also adorable Mr Bennet. In no particular order and from all the major screen and TV adaptations we have Donald Sutherland (2005), Benjamin Whitrow (1995), Moray Watson (1980), Edmund Gwenn (1940) and Hugh Bonneville (lost in Austen).

Keira Knightley has an unrivaled ability (for an actor, anyway) to polarize opinion. She is the marmite of the movie industry. While her fans are of course everywhere, I always seem to be bumping into people who can’t stand her, or stumbling onto critical forum posts about Ms Knightley that reflect a toxic mixture of [...]

Here are My Pride and Prejudice’s all time top 10 pictures of the ‘oddity’ that is Mr Collins. In no particular order and from all the major screen and TV adaptations we have Tom Hollander (2005), David Bamber (1995), Malcolm Rennie(1980), Melville Cooper (1940) and Guy Henry (Lost in Austen).

Almost everyone ‘knows’ that Elizabeth and Mr Darcy have dark hair, and that Jane and Mr. Bingley are blonde-ish. The idea is so ingrained that Jennifer Ehle dyed her eyebrows and left her hair unwashed for her audition for the 1995 series. Colin Firth’s ginger tendencies, as described by Andrew Davies, were one reason that [...]

Darcy’s behavior at the ball scene has the capacity to shock me every time I read it. We know that he is misunderstood, that he is shy, and that he has the awesome responsibilities of his estate to consider. And yet, on every read, I am offended anew by his treatment of Elizabeth. Here is [...]

Charlotte Bronte famously criticized Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for its ‘neat borders and delicate flowers.’ The novel, she wrote, had ‘no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck’ – merely ‘elegant but confined houses.’ Fair or not, she could have had no such complaints at Joe Wright’s outdoor extravaganza of [...]