pride and prejudice new movie!

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trailer here

... looks very exciting but how can we get colin firth and the bbc production out of our heads... good darcy though! liked him in spooks!!!

Yep, it was indeed the actress who played Jane, which was why she could never keep up with Elizabeth when she ran!!!!!

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Well, the thing is, I have to share my favours between Colin Firth and Richard Armitage but Colin is going to be the lucky man tonight

Can't help but be entertained by the irony of 'by the producers of Bridget Jones'

While it's impossible not to fall in love with Colin Firth, I always thought the poor man was rather limited to always having to look strong/silent/arogant (and of course he had to do the same again in Bridget Jones). This trailer does suggest they've worked a bit harder on the Darcy part, made him a more three dimensional character.

Really not sure about Kiera from this, though - all dressed in dark colours - that seems odd. And what's all this standing-on-hilltops stuff? It's not Cathy & Heathcliff...

heard they set it several decades before the book, hence it is more gritty...........

I fell in love with Mr Darcy in a very old BBC production - probably in late 70s/ early 80s (certainly while I was at school). Always been a favourite book. Any ideas who played the divine Mr D?
I enjoyed Bride and Prejudice and am going to use it for a holiday comparison with the BBC version to improve my 11 year old's review skills. Am I mad?

Yes, swedishmum, see my post of 8.04, it was David Rintoul (if it was the series I remember, which would have been about the time you describe).

Can't wait to see it, although the Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle version was nigh on perfect. The best Austen adaptation I have seen was Persuasion, from a few years ago.

I just hope the film is better than the film version of Sense and Sensibility. Although I did enjoy the film, I just didn't feel it was quite right re the book. And Emma Thomson was just too old!

1979 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice for swedishmum

Thank you so much Gingernut. Of course now I'm worried that he hasn't lived up to me teenage expectations...... Have to have that movie!

Would love to go and see this but never seem to make it to the cinema anymore. Its been filmed at Chatsworth just down the road though which may be just enough to lure DH......

Bah to modern adaptations - Laurence Olivier will always be my favourite Darcy!

I thought the 1979 version was terrific - David Rintoul was a bit wooden but Elizabeth Garvie was lovely as Lizzie and Sabina Franklyn was much better as Jane than poor old Susannah Harker (who was indeed pg during 1995's version).
I often wonder what happened to Natalie Ogle in the earlier version. Tessa Peake-Jones and Clare Higgins have had brilliant careers in TV and in the theatre, but she was just as good as Lydia and you never hear of her now.
Also agree Carolina - CF is cute but I suspect Matthew McFadyean will make a better Darcy.
Keira Knightley looks too peevish IMO to convey Lizzie's good humour. She might have made a better stab at Emma...
Poor Rosamund Pike (Jane in the forthcoming film) was thoughtfully cast opposite the boyfriend she had just split up with, apparently. So she started going out with director instead. Attagirl but not very Jane Austen...

oh sd . Greer Garson, yes yes yes. Laurence Olivier, NO. He was in so much make-up in that film!

ooh no, he was gorgeous, make up or no!

I love Greer Garson - been looking for Random Harvest on video for ages.

Another Larry fan here. Can't wait to see this version though, although I'm not sure about KK - not sure she's right.

Ooh, I remember the Elizabeth Garvie, David Rintoul version - it was brill and got me hooked on Jane Austen novels generally.

I couldn't stand the way the 1995 version made Mrs Bennet so grotesque. I normally really like Alison Steadman's work but I thought her performance overbalanced the Bennet ensemble. I can't remember who played Mrs B in the 1979 version but she doesn't stick in the mind as being OTT.
I think David Bamber as Mr Collins will take a lot of beating in the film. He was indecently funny and creepy at the same time.

Excuse this fulminating digression, but in an interview possibly the one Marina saw Rosamund Pike said she didn't mind not being cast as Elizabeth, bcs she'd never read the book. She was/is reading English at top university, fgs! Simply don't understand how you can be A/ a girl, B/ interested in books and C/ not get around to P&P

I have loved all version of this absolutely brilliant book my favourite of all times. Request for time of from children to see at cinema will be granted Dh knows better than to refuse this one. He has been to the cinema 4 times in the last year so I think 1 should be my right. Opinion of actors:- as long as they sound like the character have no problems and Mr Darcy should be tall dark and mysterious.

Love all of Jane Austins novels in particular P&P and Emma

CF did overpower me in the end as Darcy, but I was aghast when I head he'd been cast -- too pale and pudgy.
He was (cough) fit in Another Country though.

Oh but they are far too busy microanalysing Beowulf at that "top university" () to spend time on anything as banal and sollipsistic as the world of Jane Austen though BP! I saw that too .
Rosamund is so flawlessly beautiful that there is always the possibility she is an android programmed by a lab-bound geek. A few probing questions about Philip K Dick and Isaac Asimov would have revealed all.

Another Country! What a SHOCKING oversight that this is yet to be reissued on DVD. Friend at university was an extra in this - can be seen leaning poncily on mantelpiece in the background at one point.

Snap saadia, that version of Persuasion spoiled all other adaptations for me.

tho did love the mid 80s? version of Mansfield park on telly. That was tip top.