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AIBU?

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To think that this scene from the Firth/Ehle P&P adaptation is one of the best TV moments?

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NoUnicornsToSeeHere · 05/10/2018 13:19

On maternity leave and just rewatched the first proposal scene from the BBC Pride and Prejudice adaptation (on iPlayer at the moment).

It may be over 20 years old, as the sound and colour quality date it slightly, but it just is perfect TV...

AIBU?

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OrianaBanana · 07/10/2018 09:16

It grew on me too. There’s much more passion, as a PP said the BBC version is excellent but very neat and clean.

Whwhywhy · 07/10/2018 09:22

About 20? 25 years ago me and my flat mate got lent this on dvd. It was before the days of binge watching. We put it on. Addicted. Stayed up too late. Went to bed and set our alarms for 6am so we could finish it before lectures in the morning.

pompomcat · 07/10/2018 09:29

I've been binge-watching this on Netflix this weekend (again!) I noticed the "no no the green one" but can't think why- @Deadringer @Lovestonap please can you enlighten me?

Lovestonap · 07/10/2018 11:04

yes @pompomcat It's the morning after the piano smouldering scene and Darcy is dressing to ride across to see Elizabeth again (perhaps to propose? In any event definitely to invite her again to Pemberly). He is clearly anxious and irritable while he gets dressed and is choosing his clothes with his valet. It's a small but cute insight into the fact that he is not relaxed about the meeting.

Lovestonap · 07/10/2018 11:07

Just in case anyone is having a bad Sunday and needs it brightening up..... I'll leave this here.

To think that this scene from the Firth/Ehle P&P adaptation is one of the best TV moments?

BearsDontDigOnDancing · 07/10/2018 13:12

Oh I loved this when I was 14/15 and it was on TV, I got the Box Set for xmas off my Nanna as I loved it so much. She died a few days before Xmas though so when we got the presents on Xmas day from her that she had bought, I never watched it.

I have just binge watched on Netflix! It is perfection.

I have never witched the KK version, but that is also on Netflix so might give it a go. Not a fan of Matthew Macfadyen, he looks like a little boy grown up as opposed to man, which makes sense to me in my head. If not to others! Colin Firth is my Mr Darcy.

NoooorthonerMum · 07/10/2018 16:00

Bloody love it, my favourite scene is when Darcy and Elizabeth exchange glances over the piano when his sister is playing the piano.

morethanacondiment · 07/10/2018 20:45

I was on another JA thread a couple of months ago and people were discussing fan fiction and spin offs. Somebody recommended Perception - written not very long ago as the follow-up story of Whatever Happened To Mary And Kitty.
I read it last night, and it was perfect. And Mrs Bennett was in top Alison Steadman form

pompomcat · 07/10/2018 23:03

@Lovestonap aahhh thank you - I had thought there was something significant about it being the green coat (rather than him just being nervous IYSWIM!)
Just watching the final episode now. Oh Mr Darcy 😍

BearsDontDigOnDancing · 09/10/2018 21:36

I have now watched the 2005 movie with KK and really liked it.

I had never watched it as I never thought much of the fella that plays Darcy in that, but he had a sort of tortured unrequited love thing going on.

I loved the bit where he helps Lizzie into the carriage and we get a close up of his hand stretching out and clenching. I think the movie did a good job of making it seem that Darcy was reluctantly attracted to Lizzie from the start.

hapagirl · 09/10/2018 21:47

I haven’t seen it since it was first out and I still regularly think of that lake scene.

eurochick · 09/10/2018 22:08

I never knew Firth and Ehle were shagging when this was made. It explains the wonderful chemistry.

Orlandointhewilderness · 09/10/2018 22:29

ohh were they eurochick?! i didn't know that! can't say i blame her!!

BehemothPullsThePeasantsPlough · 09/10/2018 23:14

The thing about Firth vs McFadyen is that so much of Darcy’s character for good or ill lies in his childhood, and it’s not until Lizzy goes to Pemberley and meets people who knew him then, including Georgiana, that she starts to see him differently. I think you see that boy in McFadyen, but not in Firth (who, I grant you, has other merits).

TheDowagerCuntess · 10/10/2018 00:42

Apparently the Firth-Ehle fling didn't last for the duration of filming, and apparently some of the end scenes were filmed before the beginning, so there is extra heat in some of those.

Don't ask me how I have acquired this level of detail.

TheCraicDealer · 10/10/2018 00:55

YABU.. Best moment was when Caroline Bingley was trying to slag Elizabeth off and Darcy goes "WHAT" in a really irritated tone then fucks off out the room. Love it!

Me too! I do feel a bit sorry for Caroline Bingley as her personality was clearly a very effective form of contraception. I couldn't see her ever finding someone after Darcy she thought was good enough for her until she was "too old", rather like Elizabeth Elliot in Persuasion.

I watched the Death Comes to Pemberley adaption a few weeks ago and it was far better than I was expecting, given the reviews. The casting was a bit hit and miss, but one person they got right was Matthew Goode as Wickham- I could see why women were so keen to elope with him. A few whispers in my ear and I would've been like "mate, hold my reticule" to Mrs Forster too.

SleepingStandingUp · 10/10/2018 01:03

Omg the way he looks at her as she plays piano. I swear DH has never looked at me like that!!

My school friends and I all watched it as teenagers then when we went away for one pre Xmas weekend a few years ago we took the box set. Was slightly happy at being snowed in and needing rescuing so we dorks finish it off

TheDowagerCuntess · 10/10/2018 01:22

Matthew Goode is devilishly good looking.

agirlwithnoname · 10/10/2018 12:06

This has made me want to watch it all over again

BusterTheBulldog · 11/10/2018 10:00

Have started to watch this again off the back of this thread! My fav, most comforting thing ever.

My favourite scene is when Elizabeth is caught at Pemberly, and as she leaves in the carriage she looks back at Darcy. I feel that look is the ‘cor, I fancy the pants off you and I think something might happen here’ look that is so magical at the start of a relationship.

Also love Elizabeth putting Lady Catherine in her place. Always try and channel that tone when I am dealing with difficult customers at work!

There is nothing I don’t like about this adaptation! I like KK generally, but she looked too scruffy in the film.

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NoUnicornsToSeeHere · 11/10/2018 17:12

//now back with baby// (turns out friday’s P&P watching was that last hour of peace and quiet without children, time well spent I think!)

Started on the BBC House of Cards which is also on iPlayer, and has Susannah Harker (Jane) in it. North and South is also viewable. And then I’ll hit Netflix.

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TheDowagerCuntess · 11/10/2018 17:23

The scene after the cringey, post-lake encounter.

Darcy's gone inside to make himself presentable, and then strides through the courtyard, adjusting his sleeves, looking for Lizzie with the express purpose of 'making a good impression'.

That courtyard stride

BusterTheBulldog · 12/10/2018 14:19

After watching the royal wedding and the some p&p i think im about ready to fall in love with the next man I see! The look between Elizabeth and darcy whilst Georgianna is playing the pianoforte sizzles!

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