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To think that Jane Austen would be spinning in her grave...

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SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 02/09/2012 00:27

If she could see 'no tits' Knightly playing Elizabeth Bennet?! And as for Matthew Mcfaddyan [sp] he just spends the entire film looking like he's had a bucket of water dumped over his head!

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Hownoobrooncoo · 02/09/2012 01:22

I think it is fantastic, I think Miss knightly is wonderful. i think all the criticisms sound like a bunch of uptight old fannies! "oh, it's not as good as the firth series", "Knightly is awful". It's fucking ace and fucking brilliant!

VisionaryGoat · 02/09/2012 01:24

I always thought Darcy was supposed to be handsome, so putting Matthew Macfadyen in the role automatically spoiled the film for me - he is just so unbelievably unattractive especially with roadkill hair Yuck.

Didn't think much of the rest of the interpretation either really Grin

Give me the BBC version any day, I thought they did a good job for the most part - and the leading men are worth looking at.

CJCregg · 02/09/2012 01:25

Grin @ roadkill hair. Spot on.

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SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 02/09/2012 01:29

HowNowBrownCow, are you dead and blind??? I'm happy to be an old fanny thanks! Grin

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Hownoobrooncoo · 02/09/2012 01:29

Yes, because Tony and Guy was on every corner!

CJCregg · 02/09/2012 01:30

Uptight and proud Grin

CJCregg · 02/09/2012 01:31
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SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 02/09/2012 01:33

Just because Nicky Clarke hadn't been invented, doesnt mean that there weren't hair dressers! And while we're at it, They did have irons for pressing clothes back then as well, although you wouldn't know it from this film!

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ErikNorseman · 02/09/2012 03:43

Ugh Mathew McFadden is a dreadful darcy and Keira knightly is a pain in the bum. I can't watch her in anything without fixating on her awful inflated top lip. The only thing the film got right was the ages of the actors. The beeb version was sublime but most of the Bennett girls were at least 32.

squoosh · 02/09/2012 04:26

Controversial opinion alert: I like the BBC version and the KK version despite not liking KK's part in the KK film. (KK is a very lucky girl considering she's got so far on so little talent. And please stop pretending you don't have your lips injected)

I love the muddiness and lighting in the film version (the cinematography is bee-yoo-tiful) and I like the proper amount of time given to the story to evolve in the BBC version. The BBC version does seem a bit slow and at times and its style of filiming is a bit old fashioned. A little bit too tidy or something.

I don't fancy Colin Firth or the wet one in the KK version so Mr Darcy still exists perfectly in my mind.

CheerfulYank · 02/09/2012 04:38

I like the BBC version better but I like the scenery, etc, better in the KK one. Things most likely were a bit dirty and rustic back then!

WandaDoff · 02/09/2012 04:39

Matthew Mcfadyen can fuck off.

If it ain't Colin Firth, then I ain't interested. Phwoooaar.

sashh · 02/09/2012 06:22

By all means criticise her acting ability because that's what she's paid for, but to slag off her body is just crass.

ROTFLMAO Kiera Nightly paid to act? Are you serious?

Ilovedaintynuts · 02/09/2012 06:31

I like the beeb version but Kiera is so awful. She must get jaw ache from all that pouting. What a bad actress, how does such a bad actress get so far?
And she is so thin and ill looking. I loathe her.
Quite like a bit of McFadden though Smile

echt · 02/09/2012 07:39

It's all about KN's neck as far as I can see. Facilitated by the consistent lack of bonnet/hat which all middle-class women would have worn in those days.

Hate the barnyard dwelling of the Bennetts.

Should be KK but iPad stuff prevails.

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SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 02/09/2012 08:09

It really bugs me that they are all so rumpled and tatty! It's set in the Regency period. It was all about fashion. And cut! Elizabeth was a gentlemans daughter. Not a farm worker! And she didn't live on a farm!

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WillNeverGetALicence · 02/09/2012 08:10

I also don't personally find KK to be very pretty.

Usually someone will come on a thread like this and accuse all the KK haters of being jealous of her great beauty [or some such nonsense Hmm]

Sorry, but she is scrawny! This then has the effect of making her head look too big for the rest of her body.

Her facial expression is permanently set to gurning.

She has a huge mouth but even then her teeth are too big for it.

She has a massive neck [rising from the scrawny shoulders] and jaw.

Only thing she does have [and in keeping with the character] is fine eyes.

But oh my God, the wooden acting! She is awful!!!

How she has gotten so far I will never know. Why, oh why, is she given every role going?

And how was she ever nominated for an Oscar for P & P? Can anyone explain this to me?

CJCregg · 02/09/2012 08:14

Exactly, Saggy. They didn't have 'much' money but that meant not enough new dresses, not living with pigs.

Fucking stupid 'production design', trying to be 'clever'.

HumphreyCobbler · 02/09/2012 08:19

Elizabeth DID live on a farm. She couldn't have the carriage because the horses were in use.

I like the rustic/dirty nature of the film. They would have been rumpled. To be as pristine as Mrs Hurst and Caroline Bingly would have taken a great deal of money.

My favourite bit is when they quickly tidy up the room for the gentlemen Grin

SirBoobAlot · 02/09/2012 08:21

I like both versions. So neh.

I also like Keira Knightly, and think its a bit bitchy to comment on her appearance the way some of you have. If she was a larger lady, it wouldn't be done, don't do it because she's smaller.

HandMadeTail · 02/09/2012 08:23

They did live on a farm. The book mentions the horses being unavailable for the carriage, because they were needed on the farm.

However, Mrs Bennett prides herself on the fact that her girls are not expected to work in the kitchen, so definitely would not have been expected to work on the farm!

HumphreyCobbler · 02/09/2012 08:25

The thing that really annoyed me was Elinor and Marianne shoveling coal etc in their windswept hovel in the last adaptation of Sense and Sensibility. They were poor but not that poor.

AphraBehn · 02/09/2012 08:26

I like to think that instead of spinning in her grave, Jane Austen is looking down and having a good old bitch about KK with Cassandra. With wine Grin.

I don't mind this P&P version. It's just a different interpretation. Nothing ever comes close to the book anyway.

HandMadeTail · 02/09/2012 08:29

Yes, and there is an adaption of Mansfield Park, which shows Fanny's family home as being a tiny cottage, with stew slopped out into bowls on the table. In fact, they had at least one maid, it was just that the house was smaller and a bit tatty, and a bit loud due to lots of unruly younger children, not that it was a hovel.

GhostShip · 02/09/2012 08:48

Has she dropped the horrific pout now?

Has anyone seen the zombie twists on all the classics by the way? I thought that's what this was about. They've re-written books like Pride and Prejudice but to include zombies Confused