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)

“Emma Thompson ... was too old for Elinor.”

She was, but Alan Rickman was also quite a bit too old for Col. Brandon. He’s thirty-five in the novel, and lovely Alan was forty-nine.

Sadly I think I'd have been a miners wife but I know exactly what you mean. Would be exhausting having to watch yourself all the time though

Maybe they were a bit old, but in spite of that - perfect.

I have never seen a decent version of Jane Eyre. Every single one is wrong , somehow. A particularly awful interpretation was the 2011 version full of flashbacks. Utter crap.

Along with the Wuthering Heights with Juliette Binoche. A Cathy with a French accent? No, no, no.

I’ve got it on now.

Lucy Davis auditioned for Lydia as she was the right age but was seen as too inexperienced for the role.

I never notice the age thing. Emma Thompson was superb as Elinor.

Thanks for reminding me of this! I haven't watched it in ages but have got my DVD out for later!

I would love to see a good production with the actors at the correct ages.

Wow, people who Google ages before watching a TV show. Who knew.

It's not that I Google ages, just that if I have read the book then I know how old the characters are supposed to be so I can see if the actors don't look the right age.

Plus, I have to admit, I am forever looking on IMDB to see what else actors have been in. Sometimes because I can't place where I've seen them before, sometimes because I think I might like to watch them again in something else. IMDB usually has their DoB so I can see how old they were when they made a particular thing.

Nobody is saying that they Google ages before watching! It’s simply that if you know the novel then you know that Elinor is nineteen, which leads to some curiosity about the actors’ actual ages.

I don’t think it would work to cast significantly younger actors, anyway. Elinor is supposed to be ever so slightly on the shelf in contemporary terms, which is patently ludicrous to a modern audience (see also Jane Bennet, who is practically an old maid at the ancient age of twenty-two). A modern audience can’t sense that whiff of jeopardy from a teenager.

I have found my people, I have seen it a lot but I pretty much watch anything to do with a Jane Austen novel from the awful Jane Austen book club, the completely insane pride and prejudice and zombies to the Keira Knightley which I enjoyed. But nothing beats the bbc version.

BUT no I wouldn't want to be there although I appreciate the constraint sometimes when I have to deal with stressed out people commuting. It would be lovely if we all apologised profusely rather than grunt or worse shout out obscenities at each other.

Matt Smith was amazing as Collins in PPZ completely unlike David Bambers performance but yet its own greatness

The only problem was the Darcy in it was so unsexy that Collins was more desirable 😂