*blech*

[ksmith]

I completely agree with this. Read the nested article as well.

Wasn't Keira Knightley the same actress who played the leather bikini version of Guinivere? Is it her career plan to butcher female icons?

Darcy and Elizabeth kissing? No, no, no...

Comments

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I will have a P&P and PERSUASION party in protest. This is gonna be such crap.

The only saving grace--some people may seek out the other version to compare, or even, heavens!--the book.

[technomage.livejournal.com]

Yes, leather bikini. Also the love interest on Pirates of the Carbs.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

More discussion here:

http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=195#comments

Some folks maintain that while the trailer indeed stinks, the movie itself is good.

I doubt I'll see it. My fave version of P&P is the 80s David-Rintoul-as-Darcy version, and yes, I preferred him to Colin Firth. I like Colin Firth, but I'll take tall, dark, and patrician over blond and slightly blowsy any day. But that's just me.

I also hated the on-the-nose moralizing at the end of the Firth version. We have already figured out how everyone will end up, as well as what marriage means. We don't need it shoved down our throats with a plunger.

Another favorite performance in the Rintoul version was Barbara Shelley as Aunt Gardiner. She defined that character for me--an island of common sense with a voice like warm maple syrup.

[janni.livejournal.com]

OTOH, Keira Knightly was quite good in Bend It Like Beckham.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Others have said that--I never saw that movie.

[kalligraphy.livejournal.com]

You should see it. It is a most excellent movie about a young woman coming of age in a culturally repressed environment. That entry also mentions the Bride and Prejudice version by Gurinder Chadra, which is an excellent version.