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Gail suggested we go to the afternoon showing of Pride and Prejudice: and the short version is that it was a perfectly agreeable way to spend an afternoon: it wasn't as good as the last movie I saw (Curse of the Were-Rabbit), nor as good as the book (d'oh!) but nor was it as bad as I'd been warned.
( The long version )The question remains, what is this film for? I watched it against a consciousness of previous versions, the book, the previous TV adaptations, the version with Laurence Olivier with Mr Darcy (and a script by Aldous Huxley)... There's an audience, I suppose, who insist on new movies, but don't mind their being adaptations of classic novels, and this film was made for them. It seems a lot of effort for something agreeable, but entirely disposable.
( The long version )The question remains, what is this film for? I watched it against a consciousness of previous versions, the book, the previous TV adaptations, the version with Laurence Olivier with Mr Darcy (and a script by Aldous Huxley)... There's an audience, I suppose, who insist on new movies, but don't mind their being adaptations of classic novels, and this film was made for them. It seems a lot of effort for something agreeable, but entirely disposable.
