Ага. Вот.

[Viltis]

У меня все же будут показывать. Премьера 3его февраля.



Надо сходить и отписаться, чтобы затем ругать его или хвалить(?) с чистой совестью.



Но, может, кто-то уже сам посмотрел? Тогда не молчите -- поделитесь впечатлениями!

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Интересы

[P&P]

Раз уж мы все здесь собрались...



хотелось бы спросить, может, у вас есть какие-нибудь предложения насчет интересов? Как-то они грустно выглядят, но мне больше ничего в голову не приходит.

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Еще один отзыв. Этот уже на русском

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Впечатления от нового ГиПа или сравнительная Дарсиология.



Кто-нибудь смотрел эту экранизацию? Поделитесь впечатлениями, пожалуйста.

У нас, похоже, даже и не собираются показывать.

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Bride & Prejudice или Болливуд представляет

[Viltis]

I don't know if anyone here has seen the Bollywood adaptation of P&P, Bride and Prejudice, but I thought it was really great!



I haven't seen the 2005 version yet, but when I was watching the extra features on the DVD, the director mentioned that Jane Austen Society of North America had given the film a big thumbs up! (Whereas with the 2005 version they gave it the big thumbs down)



It is a musical, so that already adds to the cheese factor, but it is really cute. You kind of have to go into it with the open mind that it is Bollywood and meant to be a little over the top. The director even noted that the India version is even more cheesy with longer songs!! Plus, Darcy is pretty hot and there is some fun Indian dancing. Even a cameo from Alexis Bledel! And I think Mr. Collins in B&P is much cuter and less slimy...which is kind of an ok change, because Charlotte is a lot more endearing in this adaptation.



So for all of you who have been disillusioned by Keira Knightley's version of Elizabeth, I'd urge you to check this out...I've seen it at rental places, and I got it from the library.



P.S. When I was researching B&P I found out that there is a version of P&P from the Church of Latter Day Saints....has anyone seen that one!? I have serious questions about the quality of acting, LOL.

(с)from here



Bride and Prejudice on IMDB

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[guava_girl]

Прекрасная писательница. Прекрасная книга. Прекрасный сериал. В общем, я к вам, не возражаете?

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New "Pride and Prejudice" movie

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Review inside

I saw the new version of "Pride and Prejudice" on Friday. Here's the summary of my critique:



The movie is a beautiful package, complete with some wit (most of it Jane Austen's), good humor, and beautiful cinematography. However, it only works if you *don't* think of it as conceived by Jane Austen, and you don't try to compare it to previous versions of this beloved novel. Think "Pride and Prejudice" written by one of the Bronte sisters instead (there's even a Heathcliff moment complete with Darcy walking purposefully across the fields with a haunted look in his eyes).



Why I say it's not Jane Austen: They changed some things around that played with the core nature of Austen's writings. Of course they can't include everything, even the 6-hour version doesn't. I disliked how they portrayed a few of the characters. Mr. Bingley is supposed to be a cordial young man, who every parent with a marriageable daughter has designs on. He is supposed to be amiable and reasonably intelligent; a fitting match for Jane, who equals his temperament. In this version, Bingley comes off as a low-IQ idiot. Sure, Bingley gets a bit tongue tied, but here you'd think he's still in puberty, which I think cheapens their match. Initially, I wasn't crazy about Darcy, but he pulled it off. They played up shyness of all things, but he manages it well, and really, who can resist Darcy when he has that almost pouty look and says he doesn't have the ability to converse with people easily. How take-you-home cute!



They also changed the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, and this is a big one. They show them kissing and in bed together, something that is not even hinted at by Austen, and for a good reason. Jane Austen's writings are social commentaries as much as they are romance novels. In Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, Austen commented on the state of marriage in her time. The relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet can be argued as being an integral part of the story's value, as it is the reason that Elizabeth and Jane discuss their wants in a husband so adamantly. It is the reason that Elizabeth lets herself fall in love with Whickam, and why the match between Jane and Bingley, and Elizabeth and Darcy, are so wonderfully unexpected and perfect. As Mr. Bennet says to Elizabeth after Darcy has asked for her hand in marriage, "My child, let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life." This basically sums up one of the main messages in the book, which this most recent move basically nullified.



Interestingly, this is one of the few period films I've seen recently where they did not showcase the costumes, which were rather plain compared to other films (no Bingley sisters in sumptuous, rich colored silks). In fact, at the ball as Netherfield, all of the women were wearing white. However, they did still managed to show a distinction between the clothes of different classes. They also had problems blending famous lines with the sсriрt. Austen's lines stood out like sore thumbs, and sometimes it didn't really work (it might be less noticeable to someone who isn't familiar of the book).



The movie was very entertaining overall. I was annoyed throughout by the total lack of respect for propriety and social rules of the time (Bingley visits Jane while she is not dressed in bed, as one example). I think that, knowing that it's there, I will be far less annoyed the next time I see the movie. So I've come to the conclusion that the movie is great, providing you don't compare it to the book. After all, there's something compelling and satisfying to see Elizabeth and Darcy make very flirty, sappy conversation that makes your heart melt.



from here

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[and_masha]

ещё немного картинок из нового фильма (уже с официального сайта)

в разделе Gallery



хотя я думаю, что он будет ужасный, потому что Кира Найтли в роли Элизабет... кхм %))

а вы как думаете? %)

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Pride and Prejudice (2005) :: Production Photos

[Viltis]

P&P'05 PP on Y!

@музыка: Carl Davis -- Pride & Prejudice

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Статья :: For our Knightley pleasure

[Viltis]

By Peter Craven for The Age

October 22, 2005



It's odd to think that Pride and Prejudice hasn't actually been made into a movie since the 1940 version with Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier. Odd, partly because that bit of casting went deep into the collective memory - Larry, in particular, at 31 was the platonic idea of Darcy, all sneer and sparkle - and odd, too, because the 1995 TV version with Jennifer Ehle was one of those adaptations for television - like the Jeremy Irons Brideshead or the Derek Jacobi I, Claudius - that seem more significant than any film could be.



Indeed, the collective female furore about Colin Firth's Darcy in the TV version - largely inexplicable to the male eye, straight or gay - led on to Bridget Jones and to the whole cinematic cult of Austen and her Victorian successors, which led film critic Derek Malcolm to say that you could hardly go out these days without wearing a bonnet.



Well, now we have a new, handsome Pride and Prejudice, full of ducks and pigs and lavish country vistas, and featuring as Elizabeth Bennet one Keira Knightley, she of Bend it like Beckham and Pirates of the Caribbean.



The thought of Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet, one of the more self-possessed comic heroines since Shakespeare's Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, caused the kind of apprehension that greeted the news that Leonardo Di Caprio was to play Romeo. It wasn't that she was literally too young - Elizabeth Bennet is a marriageable 20-odd - but that adulthood (in the sense of maturity, wit and ripeness) seemed to fall on girls a bit faster in far-off Regency days than it does today.



Elizabeth is the best of the Bennet bunch in Pride and Prejudice - including noble, yearning Jane. She's her father's daughter and Mr Bennet is a cynical delight. Mrs Bennet is one of those fatuous lumps of womanhood who can never get beyond the feminine view that a good marriage is better than any other fate.



Of course, Elizabeth, like any humour-dominated type in Ben Jonson or Moliere, is prejudiced against Mr Darcy, dark, handsome and proud as Lucifer.



It is an extraordinary image of life, Pride and Prejudice - as great as As You Like It or Much Ado About Nothing - and we know it like the backs of our hands.



The good news is that the Keira Knightley/Matthew MacFadyen Pride and Prejudice is likely to bring pleasure to the millions of people - most, not all, of them women - who think the world was a better place in Regency smocks and tight trousers, at least when Jane Austen was calling the tune.



This is an easy-to-take, sweeping, countrified Pride and Prejudice. The director, Joe Wright, who hadn't read the book - and whose claims to fame are TV things such as the Rufus Sewell Charles II and Timothy Spall losing it in Bodily Harm - didn't want things to be too "posh" so he's muddied them up.



This makes Austen seem earthier and her world more like something that falls somewhere between Fielding's and Hardy's. Historically this is fair enough even if it is a bit at variance with the tone of the book and the kind of visualisation it evokes.



Everything looks a bit more slatternly, the Bennet girls are rowdier, nothing is all that clean-looking and the ball is much jiggier and more folksy than the usual neoclassical stateliness.



What goes along with this is a more stormy and messy naturalisation of Austen's vision. Brenda Blethyn is superb as Mrs Bennet, dotty and vulgar in her pursuit of marriageable chaps for her daughters, but there's no surrender to comic type.



Donald Sutherland - who hasn't been heard with an English accent very often since his walk-on bit-playing in The Avengers 40 years ago - turns Mr Bennet into the most complex, compassionate, neo-Rembrandtian figure in a way that transforms the brilliant naysayer of the original into something more human but also more touchy-feely. It's hard to object, though stylistically the upshot is more Victorian than it is Jane Austen.



So what about the leads? Will you quiver, will you shiver at the latest incarnations of Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy? Well, as they say on Little Britain - Scottish accents, please - "Mebbe yairs, mebbe noo."



Knightley has always been easy on the eye and she is ravishingly shot by Roman Osin in what is pretty consistently a long hymn to the "barbarous beauty" of Britain. Her hair is dark, she's fresh, even tanned, not peaches and cream, and as Elizabeth she gives the best performance she's given so far in a "British" film, vowels peaching, nose wrinkling.



It's not a patch on her American girl in The Jacket with Adrien Brody, where the nose thing vanished as though it had never been. But although someone should have taken the scissors to this particular mannerism, Knightley is a pretty presentable Elizabeth Bennet. She's a lot more natural than she normally is and there are times when she's overtaken by genuine poise, where she looks absolutely self-possessed.



It's not a great performance but it has some terrific moments - including the confrontation with Lady Catherine de Bourg where, a bit unbelievably, Knightley holds her own with Judi Dench.



So not an Elizabeth Bennet that will banish memories of Jennifer Ehle and Greer Garson - perhaps least of all for older Janeites - but one that is likely to communicate by a spirit of empathy with her contemporaries and probably get some votes, for all its friskiness and touches of toughness, from their elders.



And her Darcy? Well Matthew MacFadyen is obviously a fine actor - I would like to have seen his Prince Hal opposite Michael Gambon's Falstaff in Henry IV at Britain's National Theatre recently - and he's got good eyes and the ability to register the softer aspects of Darcy at a glance.



You miss the Olivier hauteur and savage intensity of style and I suspect a lot of the ladies will miss Colin Firth's "weight". He doesn't strike me as an ideal contemporary Darcy - who would that be? - but he'll do.



He sometimes looks more like a self-conscious schoolboy than he does like a morally upright version of Byron. The fact that he's a slightly boyish Darcy, a bit wispy, at least makes him look compatible with Knightley in a way an actor with a huge presence like Clive Owen just wouldn't.



So this Pride and Prejudice is a bit of a chamber music for kids' orchestra, with chooks in the background and plenty of dirt and rain and tousled hair and some adult guest players deepening the sense of reality.



The exception to the slightly anachronistic complexity - typified by Sutherland - is Judi Dench's Lady Catherine de Bourg. I wouldn't have cast her. I would have gone for Maggie Smith ahead of her and Vanessa Redgrave ahead of either of them, but Dench is superb and superbly on the note. The old monster of snobbery is utterly human and executed with brutal grandeur, with not the faintest bid for sympathy.



It's the flintiest and most purely Austen-like thing in this soft, earth-coloured chocolate box of a Pride and Prejudice.



And when Darcy comes good and Elizabeth sees the light, hearts will flutter at something way beyond romance.



This is an easy-to-take, sweeping, countrified Pride and Prejudice. The director, Joe Wright, who hadn't read the book - and whose claims to fame are TV things such as the Rufus Sewell Charles II and Timothy Spall losing it in Bodily Harm - didn't want things to be too "posh" so he's muddied them up.



This makes Austen seem earthier and her world more like something that falls somewhere between Fielding's and Hardy's. Historically this is fair enough even if it is a bit at variance with the tone of the book and the kind of visualisation it evokes.



Everything looks a bit more slatternly, the Bennet girls are rowdier, nothing is all that clean-looking and the ball is much jiggier and more folksy than the usual neoclassical stateliness.



What goes along with this is a more stormy and messy naturalisation of Austen's vision. Brenda Blethyn is superb as Mrs Bennet, dotty and vulgar in her pursuit of marriageable chaps for her daughters, but there's no surrender to comic type.



Donald Sutherland - who hasn't been heard with an English accent very often since his walk-on bit-playing in The Avengers 40 years ago - turns Mr Bennet into the most complex, compassionate, neo-Rembrandtian figure in a way that transforms the brilliant naysayer of the original into something more human but also more touchy-feely. It's hard to object, though stylistically the upshot is more Victorian than it is Jane Austen.



So what about the leads? Will you quiver, will you shiver at the latest incarnations of Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy? Well, as they say on Little Britain - Scottish accents, please - "Mebbe yairs, mebbe noo."



Knightley has always been easy on the eye and she is ravishingly shot by Roman Osin in what is pretty consistently a long hymn to the "barbarous beauty" of Britain. Her hair is dark, she's fresh, even tanned, not peaches and cream, and as Elizabeth she gives the best performance she's given so far in a "British" film, vowels peaching, nose wrinkling.



It's not a patch on her American girl in The Jacket with Adrien Brody, where the nose thing vanished as though it had never been. But although someone should have taken the scissors to this particular mannerism, Knightley is a pretty presentable Elizabeth Bennet. She's a lot more natural than she normally is and there are times when she's overtaken by genuine poise, where she looks absolutely self-possessed.



It's not a great performance but it has some terrific moments - including the confrontation with Lady Catherine de Bourg where, a bit unbelievably, Knightley holds her own with Judi Dench.



So not an Elizabeth Bennet that will banish memories of Jennifer Ehle and Greer Garson - perhaps least of all for older Janeites - but one that is likely to communicate by a spirit of empathy with her contemporaries and probably get some votes, for all its friskiness and touches of toughness, from their elders.



And her Darcy? Well Matthew MacFadyen is obviously a fine actor - I would like to have seen his Prince Hal opposite Michael Gambon's Falstaff in Henry IV at Britain's National Theatre recently - and he's got good eyes and the ability to register the softer aspects of Darcy at a glance.



You miss the Olivier hauteur and savage intensity of style and I suspect a lot of the ladies will miss Colin Firth's "weight". He doesn't strike me as an ideal contemporary Darcy - who would that be? - but he'll do.



He sometimes looks more like a self-conscious schoolboy than he does like a morally upright version of Byron. The fact that he's a slightly boyish Darcy, a bit wispy, at least makes him look compatible with Knightley in a way an actor with a huge presence like Clive Owen just wouldn't.



So this Pride and Prejudice is a bit of a chamber music for kids' orchestra, with chooks in the background and plenty of dirt and rain and tousled hair and some adult guest players deepening the sense of reality.



The exception to the slightly anachronistic complexity - typified by Sutherland - is Judi Dench's Lady Catherine de Bourg. I wouldn't have cast her. I would have gone for Maggie Smith ahead of her and Vanessa Redgrave ahead of either of them, but Dench is superb and superbly on the note. The old monster of snobbery is utterly human and executed with brutal grandeur, with not the faintest bid for sympathy.



It's the flintiest and most purely Austen-like thing in this soft, earth-coloured chocolate box of a Pride and Prejudice.



And when Darcy comes good and Elizabeth sees the light, hearts will flutter at something way beyond romance.

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Уря!!!

[W&G LF]

Я в дневниках не очень давно, но побывало во многих сообществах. Где-то беспочвенные разговоры, где-то очень шумно или слишком тихо, но есть места, которые манят к себе, где тепло и уютно. Я только в мечтах могла предполагать, что сообщество о одной из моих любимых книг существует. Я снимаю шляпу перед человеком, который (в отличии от меня) постарался и сделал общество. Надеюсь, что оно не исчезнет.

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Pride & Prejudice'2005. Teaser

[P&P]

Хм.... Мда...



Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

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Карта

[Viltis]

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Jane Austen Sequels

[Viltis]

In which Lady Catherine's shy daughter Anne, unexpectedly free of her mother's constant supervision, finds romance.



A satisfying love story, written with elegance and wit.



Desсriрtion: Lady Catherine de Bourgh had always intended a marriage between her daughter Anne and her nephew Mr Darcy. But when Mr Darcy has the temerity to thwart her plans by marrying Miss Elizabeth Bennet instead, Lady Catherine resolves on bringing Anne to Bath to seek a husband. Shortly after their arrival, her ladyship is run down by a reckless coachman, and Mr and Mrs Collins hasten to Bath to be of service. As Lady Catherine recuperates from her injuries, Anne is befriended by the beautiful Louisa Wynnewood, and courted by Miss Wynnewood's oh-so-charming and irresistibly handsome brother. But can the Wynnewoods be trusted - or are they only after Anne's fortune?



here



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Preposterous Pride & Prejudice Sequels



I suffer from chronic insomnia, and one sleepless night I amused myself during the wee hours with devising a slew of P&P-inspired titles, and the stories that might go with them.



Joan Ellen

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Цветные иллюстрации. 1895

[P&P]

много

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Что-то вроде вступительного слова. Пока так...

[Viltis]

Сообщество посвящено роману Джейн Остен "Гордость и предубеждение" и будет по возможности мною поддерживаться.



Добро пожаловать.