Can we just please take a moment to appreciate the beauty that is the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride & Prejudice

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It is my go-to TV show when I'm bored and need something on in the background. The way Colin Firth looks at Jennifer Ehle makes my knees go weak. They don't make them like that anymore!

There's a book called Miss Austen which is a fictionalised account of why Cassandra burned Jane's correspondence. It's rather good!

@Aahotep I agree but I’ve seen people on here moan about it saying Emma’s far too old, Hugh isn’t right etc etc etc. You wait, they’ll be along in a minute.

I have watched this series about 6 times at least.

I only re watched a couple of weeks ago.

I love the film version too. I just love the..well, love in it.
A sense of romance but you cant touch them, send then kinky texts or pictures, cant see their social media....just plain ol' love and passion.

Jennifer Ehle was in the film Contagion that we watched recently-it took me ages to realise it was her as she had an American accent!

I love this novel and I've read it every few years for the past 3 1/2 decades. I see a different aspect of it every time and I love the way my own life experiences change my understandingof it. The woman was a genius.
Apart from David Rintoul as Darcy, I preferred the 80s version with Elizabeth Garve as Lizzie.

@WhereYouLeftIt

Ah, David Bamber! The Mr Collins against whom I judge all subsequent Mister Collins'! He was absolutely superb in this.

Agree 100% ! Tom Hollander was good in the Keira Knightly version, but David Bamber is the definitive version for me.

The best Austen adaptation of all!

Did anyone see the imagined Bennett family group chat on Facebook? It was inspired. m.facebook.com/claire.mcgowan.399/posts/pcb.10103160473592749/?photo_id=10103160462375229&mds=%2Fphotos%2Fviewer%2F%3Fphotoset_token%3Dpcb.10103160473592749%26photo%3D10103160462375229%26profileid%3D679757822%26source%3D48%26refid%3D52%26__tn__%3DEH-R%26cached_data%3Dfalse%26ftid%3D&mdf=1

[quote PuppyMonkey]@Aahotep I agree but I’ve seen people on here moan about it saying Emma’s far too old, Hugh isn’t right etc etc etc. You wait, they’ll be along in a minute. [/quote]
But part of the point of what that S and S adaptation does is changing the novel’s moral by tweaking the casting — Edward Ferrars in the novel is decent but dull, and Hugh Grant— and his nice interaction with a Margaret made much younger than in the novel — gives him far more charm. Likewise the novel’s Colonel Brandon, while an intelligent, honourable man, is middle-aged, flannel-waistcoated consolation prize for Marianne the teenage romantic — casting Alan Rickman makes him much more palatable.

Yes and in Sense and Sensibility Emma Thompson was 36, and looked 36, whereas Elinor was only 19 or 20.

I also hate that they cut out a key scene from the book - Willoughby returned to Marianne to declare his love and ask for forgiveness after he married.

I don't mind one but though that the cast was filled with handsome men Alan Rickman as Colonel Brandon 🤤

Aw, Alan Rickman was lovely. Sexy and a lovely human being.

I've just bought episode 1 of Sanditon. I quite liked it, but didn't enjoy it after that and now I've given up.

Is it worth pursuing?

Gawd, I love Emma Thompson's S&S. The script is so good...and that scene where she cries on finding out that Edward isn't married gets me every time.

Yes, the relief is so heartbreaking

Didn’t the noise Emma Thompson makes when she realises he isn’t married go viral?

I want to watch it now!!!
(I love Hugh Grant anyway )

The Noise is mentioned on Vicar of Dibley and Geraldine makes it when Harry proposes

Just discovered it’s free on Amazon prime

Yes, we love the BBC version in our house...well, me and teenage dd do. Dh tolerates it but doesn't see the appeal. It gets watched over and over around here!

Thanks to this thread I've ordered a copy of The Other Miss Bennet

I've just bought Longbourn, and another book about JA, her novels and the background to her life. I've just finished that and I'm now tempted to read "The Watsons" and Sanditon again. I've almost finished the ITV Sanditon, which I enjoyed but come on..... it's not exactly JA is it?

Since reading this thread I watched the 1995 version in one sitting and have started re-reading the book for the nth time. I have never noticed before how often Kitty is referred to as Catherine and also that very rarely do authors have characters with the same name in the same book as here. I'm trying to think if JA has done it in any other book.

Must mention that the piano scene in this P&P is the most understated memorably burning lust I’ve ever seen

This! I don't think I really understood why "smouldering" meant in the human context till I saw that.

Love it. Have watched it a dozen times.

Me and my 3 girls used to watch the box set every school summer holidays. Youngest DD now 19 wasn't even born when it was first on tv and I smiled to myself sitting downstairs on the sofa at Christmas when I could hear the sound track music coming from her bedroom - she was sat in bed watching it again for the nth time on youtube. I think we are all a little bit in love with Mr Darcy. Such chemistry between Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth.