tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2271063888121299568.post5884148164002151351..comments2023-04-10T05:18:36.315-07:00Comments on amo vitam: On Jane Austen Film Adaptations, Take 2AMOffenwangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429398915780302831noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2271063888121299568.post-82394772434014682282013-05-23T07:37:33.594-07:002013-05-23T07:37:33.594-07:00Funny, I never noticed Keira/Elizabeth's ruden...Funny, I never noticed Keira/Elizabeth's rudeness to her parents. Perhaps because I was taken up with some of the other anachronisms, like the cows by the back door. And the shouting match between Elizabeth and Darcy during the proposal scene. That movie is very much an *adaptation* for 21st-century audiences. When it first came out, I watched it with a friend and her 16yo daughter, and the girl said it made a lot more sense to her than the Colin-Firth version. But yes, for true Janeites, it's the older one, for sure.<br /><br />And the Persuasion, that's the comfort movie I reach for when I don't have five hours for P&P!AMOffenwangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04429398915780302831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2271063888121299568.post-20619201079719615502013-05-23T04:50:14.203-07:002013-05-23T04:50:14.203-07:00Love, love, love Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds as A...Love, love, love Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds as Anne and Capt Wentworth. I've never seen any other actors come close to doing those characters justice.<br /><br />I hated Keira Knightley's Elizabeth. HATED. Her rudeness toward her parents (acceptable to a 21st century audience, perhaps, but to anyone who knows anything about the time period, horrible), her very modern attitude toward everything, her loudness and bluntness ... to me, she was Keira Knightley playing a role, not Elizabeth Bennet. Jennifer Ehle is still the best Lizzie to my mind.<br /><br />But isn't that the marvelous thing about so many different adaptations? Something to love about each of them, and such a wealth of material to pick and choose one's favorite!<br /><br />(Oh, and I will always love Emma Thompson's S&S for its acting, soundtrack, and wit, but yes, the new one is far closer to the book in almost every way. And with excellent acting there, to boot.)Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17840731400749105419noreply@blogger.com