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Post by Ms. Whatsit on Dec 31, 2006 13:55:59 GMT -5
I'm considering buying a movie version of "Pride and Prejudice" sometime, so I was wondering which version is the best in your opinion. Also, which stays truest to the book?
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Post by O.G. Theatre Kid on Jan 14, 2007 10:28:59 GMT -5
Well, there's the Colin Firth version, which was a BBC series. The latest one with Keira Knightly stays pretty true to it, thought it does take some dramatic license.
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Post by Ms. Whatsit on Jan 14, 2007 18:17:20 GMT -5
"Dramatic license" in a bad way or in a good way?
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Post by O.G. Theatre Kid on Jan 15, 2007 13:00:36 GMT -5
In a good way. C'est tres romantique. ;D
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Post by Ms. Whatsit on Jan 15, 2007 17:19:16 GMT -5
Good, because I found the book to be a tad stuffy, myself. ;D
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Post by O.G. Theatre Kid on Jan 16, 2007 11:25:15 GMT -5
Well, think about when it's based . . .
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Post by Ms. Whatsit on Jan 18, 2007 23:29:44 GMT -5
Lol, I know, that's how I forced myself to get past it. Besides, it's no worse than Nathaniel Hawthorne! (Here is a random excerpt from "The Scarlet Letter": "We have thrown all the light we could acquire upon the portent, and would gladly, now that it has done its office, erase its deep print out of our own brain, where long meditation has fixed it in very undesirable distinctness."; if I had the book with me, I could find much worse and MUCH longer ones.)  |
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Post by O.G. Theatre Kid on Jan 20, 2007 7:46:30 GMT -5
Could you repeat that excerpt again, in English?
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Post by Ms. Whatsit on Jan 20, 2007 13:28:07 GMT -5
Exactly. Imagine 20-someodd fairly long chapters of that (in which nothing much really happens, I might add). |
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Post by O.G. Theatre Kid on Jan 22, 2007 11:36:47 GMT -5
I think I'd throw the book off of Tower Bridge . . .
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Post by Ms. Whatsit on Jan 25, 2007 17:29:27 GMT -5
Exactly. Then we spent three weeks on it and wrote an in-class essay analyzing it. I'm so glad we're done with the colonial/Puritan era.  |
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Post by O.G. Theatre Kid on Jan 29, 2007 15:50:49 GMT -5
*pet-pet* I feel for you.
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Post by Ms. Whatsit on Jan 29, 2007 19:05:02 GMT -5
Wait, why are you petting me? I hardly know you! LOL! -_^ |
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Post by O.G. Theatre Kid on Jan 30, 2007 12:33:14 GMT -5
;D
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Ana
Children's Book Reader
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Post by Ana on Mar 20, 2007 12:35:15 GMT -5
I enjoyed the movie. There are some books that have awesome plot, but are hard to read. I'm not looking foward to reading Emma for class. DX
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