Showing posts with label pride and prejudice (2005). Show all posts
Showing posts with label pride and prejudice (2005). Show all posts

Friday, July 23, 2010

Pride and Prejudice(2005)



Pride & Prejudice(2005). Film based on the Jane Austen novel of the same name. This second major motion-picture was produced by Working Title Films, directed by Joe Wright and based on a screenplay by Deborah Moggach.

One of my favorite scenes in the movie: Elizabeth visits the Collinses at Rosings, the estate of Lady Catherine; they are invited to dine at the grand house and there meet Darcy and Colonel Fitzwilliam. Darcy begins to have interest in Elizabeth, especially when she replies to Lady Catherine's jabs with spirited wit. The next day, Colonel Fitzwilliam lets slip to Elizabeth that Darcy separated Bingley from Jane. Upset she runs out into the rain; Darcy tracks her down and to propose marriage. He claims that he loves her despite her 'lower rank.' Elizabeth refuses him because of his treatment of Jane and Bingley and of Wickham. Darcy leaves heartbroken.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005)

Pride & Prejudice (2005) film based on the Jane Austen novel . This second major motion-picture was produced by Working Title Films, directed by Joe Wright.

Pride and Prejudice (2005). I thought he used beautiful visuals and period locales to create this film. Filling it with details that tell about the Bennets family. From the films mist-filled and dream-like opening moments to its marvelous ball sequence and the wonderful ending, Pride & Prejudice is an absolutely a perfect representative of Jane Austen's book. Even with it's youthful out look it does not change the novel's late-eighteenth-century manners. i think of it is one of the best screen adaptations of this book so far. I loved Donald Sutherland as the father. And Darcy's formidable aunt played by Lady Catherine (Dame Judi Dench). I thought she was absolutely gorgeous.