Appreciation For The 1990s Pride And Prejudice

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It's never been equalled as novel adaptations go!! Everyone is perfect !

Agree with every word cariadlet

Alison Steadman’s performance was too overblown for my taste. I preferred the more querulous Brenda Blethyn.

I did love the relationship between Keira Knightley and Donald Sutherland!

I like the 1980, 1995 and 2005 adaptations equally and for different reasons. I haven't yet seen a Lizzie who outdoes Elizabeth Garvie in 1980, but Brenda Blethyn (2005) is much the best Mrs Bennet. She manages to make her, dare I say it, very slightly sharp and sarcastic and her chemistry with Donald Sutherland is superb. You can see that their lovely daughters didn't arrive with the stork! Mr Collins OTOH is at his most enjoyably smarmy in 1995. David Bamber clearly had fun and made an apparently unflattering role his own.

In the Zombie version Matt Smith is a great Collins. But then I love Matt Smith. I do think David Bambers is best though

It's smashing and never beaten in terms of adaptations of books. I love everything about it.

I love it too.

But the director should totally have had a word with Julia Sawalha when, freshly married, she exclaims, "Mrs Wickham! Lord, how droll that sounds!"

Julia Sawalha obviously doesn't know that droll means fun or exciting, not "dull" as she delivers it. It annoys me every time I watch it.

@icouldnteatanotherbite

Clearly, like myself you can recite the script!

Wait wtf, that's what droll means?? I've literally always thought it meant dull/boring. Possibly because of this show 🤣

It's easily my favourite adaptation, and love the score

I read the book several times when I was younger. The 1980s TV adaptation was the first one I watched and Lizzie was excellent from memory. I remember thinking that Darcy wasn't handsome at all. Obviously not my taste in my teens.

There was a black and white film version that was awful though. The ending was completely different - Lady Catherine de Bourg was being a good aunt and had been 'testing' Lizzie.

I always thought she delivered droll with irony?

I agree best book adaptation of all time

Oh yes, I remember that scene. She went first and went to talk to Elizabeth and after she talked to Elizabeth, went out to her carriage and Darcy was waiting in the carriage which is totally wrong then he went inside and all the Bennet sisters seemed to have suitors all around the piano

Obsessed with it! And rewatch more than once a year!

To the poster who asked where you can watch it, it’s usually on the U&Drama channel but I’m not sure when it’ll be next shown

"Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?"

I remember the first time I watched it, replaying the moment when Lizzie and Darcy’s eyes met over the piano.

Sheer perfection.

I just watched Jennifer in two other movies - Contagion, where she saves the day, and The Girl Across The Street.
This whole time I thought she was British - she was born in North Carolina!

I saw Jennifer Ehle playing an evil nun in 1923 recently she's also a CIA operative in Lioness both on Paramount +

I also think she needed tweaking down a bit so she didn't overshadow the real heroine, our Lizzie... it stopped her being too perfect on screen (easier to convey in the book that she's regarded as more beautiful but isn't as interesting).

And I've said before that there will never be a better Mr Collins than David Bamber... 🏆 That little finger to the lips when he's afraid he's gone to far...

@icouldnteatanotherbite I thought droll meant fun and isn't that the way she says it? Like look at me I'm having the life you wish you could have (missing the irony of actually they wish for anything but her life).

Jennifer Ehle was so perfect in her role, I was really shocked when I learnt she was actually American! I also don't understand why she's not had a bigger career, I'd have watched her in anything!

1995 Jane is often slated as not pretty enough but I thought she was beautiful in the role, porcelain skin, classic features and a wonderfully serene demeanor. Perfect, as was Elizabeth.

This was Jennifer Ehle at her most consummate (not P&P imho)

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I didn't realise it was a series

Thought it was a film

It's been on the iplayer for months

Just here to name-drop that I have worked with Adrian Lukis (Mr Wickham), and have even been in his hotel room

I think she says it like it means "dull", with a little frown.

Yes, absolutely ironic for the audience!