PRIDE AND FUCKING AWESOME PREJUDICE
Nov. 13th, 2005 12:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockHaving never read the title previously mentioned and being only vaguely familiar with the story in the context of Bridget Jones's Diary, I endeavored to watch a film of the same title and purporting to be of the same story.
I, who am not likely to swoon at anything less than Ewan McGregor serenading Satine on top of an elephant, positively swooned.
Between my friend and myself there was an uncommon amount of girlish squealing and fluttery sighs. I'm afraid the dear people behind us must have thought me fifteen instead of twenty one.
Upon returning home I wrote on the white board at the top of the stairs:
And then I thought I should write in my livejournal about it.
EDIT: Now I actually want to read the book. I've never had any desire to read the book before.
EDIT 2: I didn't mention it before but this movie is pretty. It's really lushly and beautifully designed when it comes to sets and landscapes.
I, who am not likely to swoon at anything less than Ewan McGregor serenading Satine on top of an elephant, positively swooned.
Between my friend and myself there was an uncommon amount of girlish squealing and fluttery sighs. I'm afraid the dear people behind us must have thought me fifteen instead of twenty one.
Upon returning home I wrote on the white board at the top of the stairs:
Mr. Darcy is hot.
Where's my fucking Mr. Darcy??!!!
And then I thought I should write in my livejournal about it.
EDIT: Now I actually want to read the book. I've never had any desire to read the book before.
EDIT 2: I didn't mention it before but this movie is pretty. It's really lushly and beautifully designed when it comes to sets and landscapes.
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Date: 2005-11-13 09:15 am (UTC)Girl, forget about the movie, the miniseries is one thousand times better.
You've seen the movie? I've been considering it, but I've been hesitant, wondering if it stood up well for somebody who's fannish about the miniseries. You don't think it does?
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Date: 2005-11-13 09:16 am (UTC)It's just that I've been ruined by the miniseries!
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Date: 2005-11-13 09:29 am (UTC)Still, I spent the whole movie rooting for them and swooning for them and I was never bored, so the movie gets my thumbs up.
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Date: 2005-11-13 09:31 am (UTC)And I'm glad it gets your thumbs up :) If it encourages anyone to read Jane Austen, then it's done its job, as far as I'm concerned!
miniseries SPOILERS....
Date: 2005-11-13 09:53 am (UTC)*bobs head* Great! I had wanted to see another adaptation, so long as it had its pleasures, and wasn't painful. Thanks for cluing me in!
It's just that I've been ruined by the miniseries!
I know! There are so many breathtaking moments in the mini. Firth!Darcy, hair still damp from his dip in the lake, dressed in that yummy hunter green coat and dark breeches and crisp white cravat, desperate to show Lizzie how much he's unbent, how *gentlemanly* he can be...
*siiiigh*
And then later, Elizabeth at the piano, singing; a truly accomplished woman. The heat and admiration in Darcy's eyes...
.. Okay, so I'm going to have to schedule a rewatch soon. Very soon. :)
Re: miniseries SPOILERS....
Date: 2005-11-13 09:55 am (UTC)I hope you don't mind that I am downloading the episode, too...I have it on tape but I want to show it to someone to watch on their laptop :)
Re: miniseries SPOILERS....
Date: 2005-11-13 10:06 am (UTC)Not at all! Please do. I love it when new people discover P&P. :)
Re: miniseries SPOILERS....
Date: 2005-11-14 04:59 am (UTC)http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1M98K1V7XE8VM35XTCZ66Z9O03
Re: miniseries SPOILERS....
Date: 2005-11-14 06:31 am (UTC)Re: miniseries SPOILERS....
Date: 2005-11-15 12:49 am (UTC)Here's P&P ep 3:
http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=33WC7MXGDOJNF1Y4AN7TPRNXKE
Or, as I like to call it, the bit with the Worst Proposal Ever. ;)
Re: miniseries SPOILERS....
Date: 2005-11-15 06:27 am (UTC)And haven't you always wanted a guy to propose to you by saying 'Hey, you're beneath me, but I like you anyway. Yay for me! Now, how about it?' ;)
Re: miniseries SPOILERS....
Date: 2005-11-16 06:40 am (UTC)Hee! Well, maybe, if I were guaranteed an outcome similar to the one Elizabeth got... ;)
Here's part four:
http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=132IBSV8E8ZEX3CJNXCOQJ59SE
Re: miniseries SPOILERS....
Date: 2005-11-17 06:03 am (UTC)http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=05NLH6Z8HMZ4U3A670QB9BKQMD
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Date: 2005-11-18 12:52 am (UTC)http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1QIFK74PFPVUJ1MTCSB2FXRK7N
:)
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Date: 2005-11-19 02:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-13 09:17 am (UTC)Just a thought:
Date: 2005-11-13 09:41 am (UTC)Re: Just a thought:
Date: 2005-11-13 10:02 am (UTC)Because that was the only way single girls and boys could touch. One thing to be said for chastity-belt like decorum: it gives such an aching, erotic urgency to a glimps of ankle or the brush of fingers.
Watching Firth's Darcy, you can *feel* him wanting to touch her, wanting to come nearer, and also feel him reigning himself in so tightly.
The contrast is so frrrrreeeaking HOT.
Re: Just a thought:
Date: 2005-11-13 10:21 am (UTC)::needs cold shower::
Re: Just a thought:
Date: 2005-11-13 10:03 am (UTC)