Watching Pride & Prejudice for the 4865 time

[IsTheRainEverComingBack]

The proper Andrew Davies version, of course,

And yet again wishing I lived in a world that spoke like this, where manners where like this, where balls were given by respectable people. Where people read of an evening, turned about the room, called in on one another. Even the visiting for months at a time. I like cake and gossip and I have boobs that would work well in a tight empire line. I can’t be alone in this?

(Yes I know medical care was minimal, everyone died in childbirth and women had little to no power in life, but let me have my fantasy)

Mary muffin ! Sounds like a stripper dressed as a nun

The BBC series is THE P&P series / film for me

Everything about it is perfection - even the theme tune: " Duh diddlidle, duh diddlidle, duh duh duh duh duh duh!"

Love a good period drama in Autumn. P&P is one of my absolute favourites but I also like Bleak House, Far From the Madding Crowd (Paloma Baeza and Nathaniel Parker) and North and South (only for Richard Armitage).

I’ve seen P&P so many times - the empire line dress would have been perfect to hide my post-children stomach. I would have probably ended up like Charlotte Lucas though - marrying a man just for security.

Me too, though i’d rather have had Colonel Brandon.

I couldn’t have stomached the drippy Mr Bingley, nor suffered the insults of his sisters, no matter how big his pile.

I don't think Mrs B was OTT in the 1995 version - she was supposed to be annoying!

There's a wonderful monologue of hers towards the end of the book, just after Lizzie tells her she's going to marry Mr D - I do so wish they'd included it.

Just the last half goes, 'Oh my dear Lizzy! - pray apologise for my having disliked him so much before . I hope he will overlook it. Dear, dear Lizzy! A house in town! Every thing that is charming! Three daughters married! Ten thousand a year! Oh, Lord! what will become of me. I shall go distracted.'

Did Mr Bingley have a particularly big pile then Irma? It was hard to tell in those trousers !

Yes getting I really wish they had included that scene too.

I do love this but also love Jane Eyre (Timothy Dalton version).

Oh yes, OP I love the BBC production of Pride & Prejudice I've just recently watched it again for about the zillionth time. Fortunately my husband enjoys it too and can do a marvellous impression of Mr. Collins!

I thoroughly enjoy the wince factor during Darcy's first proposal to Lizzie when he says the immortal words:

to congratulate myself on relations whose condition in life is so decidedly below my own

Ouch - put the shovel down Darcy, when you are in a hole stop digging!!

Mr Collins is SUPERB in the 1995 version. So obsequious and shallow and played so well by David Bamber who is a brilliant actor.

Did we all know that the actor who played Mr Bingley is now an English teacher in a secondary school?

I love all the mentioned period dramas and rather enjoyed Death comes to pemberley. It has Anna Maxwell Martin in it who I always rate e.g Bleak House and Nkeyh and South.
Now North and South is another must watch...
I re watch all the period dramas at least once a year (32 now and started when I was 15 ) 😁🙄

He truly is superb Delores, David Bamber absolutely nailed that role. It was an extremely well cast production, everyone seemed perfect for their respective parts.

Conversation about Mr. Wickham after his elopement with Lydia:

"they say there is not a tradesmans' daughter who hasn't been meddled with"

Just love that description meddled with!

I love the BBC Jane Eyre with Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens and North and South with Richard Armitage.

Ohhhh my people. I rewatch it several times a year. Its sublime.

I saw the Keira McChin version once and that was enough. Matthew McTearful just came across as sulky. It was utter rubbish.

Vanity Fair tomorrow. Itv. Fingers crossed

I get disproportionately annoyed at Lydia's "Lord how droll that sounds". It's like Julia Sawalha thinks it means "dull" rather than "exciting" and the director didn't pick up on it.

Otherwise, perfection.

Loved Brenda Blethyn in the film version but then love her in anything...always watch Vera each January.

Ah, my fave thing ever on TV! The music really makes it... and Colin Firth of course. Thanks for reminding me it’s time to watch it again

And to honour thus thread my Jane Austen rose was in lovely bloom today

Opps, try again

"That will make your ladyship's situation at present more pitiable; but it will have no effect on me."

I use "let me be rightly understood" at work. It has the desired effect, particularly as I have the accompanying resting bitch face!

I've been watching it (again) this afternoon and I'm still bothered by how Julia Sawalha doesn't look like a 15 yr old. She was in her late twenties at the time so it's hardly surprising, and she does play it very well but surely they could have got someone who looked like a teenager.

please get the original film version with Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier absolutely brilliant, I love old films, but the version with Colin Firth is really good and I also have a copy, though I did watch Kiera knightly in it and to be honest it was awful.

I have found my people. I tweeted this yesterday - it’s currently on iPlayer.

It’s just so comfortingly familiar, and the emotion in the clipped, reserved words is a real credit to the actors. Also love the settings, costumes etc. It does look a bit pale/washed out though - is that how it was filmed or just aging 1990s film?

I enjoyed the BBC version of S&S but I will forgive Emma Thompson almost anything, including being far too old to play Marianne, in her version of the film.