Appreciation For The 1990s Pride And Prejudice

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

Ooo @SpikyHatePotato I love that!

Thank you for this thread, I absolutely love this version of Pride and Prejudice. Think I might head over to iPlayer

I play piano and over the last year I have been learning some of the piano pieces from this series.

I can play the Sluuuuuumber dear maid one that Mary plays at the Netherfield ball (Ombra Mai Fui by Handel) and now I'm working on the piece Georgiana plays (Andante Favori by Beethoven).

Sadly I'm not a true proficient as Lady Catherine would have been!

I play the pianoforte in Mrs Jenkins room as I'm not in anyone's way in that part of the house.

What a scandal!

I mean, you wouldn't blame her for doing so would you?! 😉

Isn't it meant to be said more with irony than intent?

She is half English - her mother is Rosemary Harris who is still acting in her nineties.

Has it? I never really watch iPlayer but maybe I should because its on there

Yes! Enjoy!

Oh I'm late to this thread.

What are you talking of? What are you telling each other? I must have my share in the conversation.

I enjoy Tudor Smith's little YouTube videos on particular aspects of the 1995 P&P:

https://youtube.com/@tudorsmith?si=ulFa88GtD2RoucIT

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I enjoy telling people (who will get it!) that although I have never tried to do something we are discussing, if I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

The first P&P adaptation I watched was the 1980 version - we watched it in English when studying the book. So I do have a great fondness for Elizabeth Garvie and David Rintoul, but Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth were just so perfectly cast. Many years ago I spent a cold and wet weekend away with a friend who had never read the book or seen any version, and it was such a delight seeing her totally get engrossed in the story. She was squirming with utter mortification on Lizzie’s behalf when Mr Darcy came back unexpectedly to Pemberley!

Also, just for the poster upthread, droll doesn’t mean fun or exciting. It means wryly amusing. Lydia’s not saying it’s exciting being referred to as Mrs Wickham, she’s saying it feels a bit strange and funny.

I've just watched this again. Loved it! It is almost uniformly excellent.

I do think, though, that Mr Collins just tips too far over into caricature (also David Bamber was too old) and prefer the 2005 version. Also Caroline Bingley was rather too OTT - obviously the Bingley sisters are trying but she was nothing but horrible.

But Mr Bennet - and Mrs Bennet - are just perfect for me. Love Bingley with his genial manner and happy smile. And Darcy & Elizabeth are just lovely together. Perhaps my favourite line in the whole thing is where Lizzie says her liking for Darcy dates from when she saw his grounds at Pemberley... obviously it's more than that but the way Jennifer Ehle delivers it, you get the distinct impression there is some truth in it!

The 2005 version was a film

The Nineties one was a series

I also didn’t mind Alison Steadman in this!

Looks like Alison Steadman is the most controversial, marmite piece of casting.

I'm firmly in the "she totally hammed it up and would have ruined it if everything else hadn't been so good" side of the debate.

I am totally aghast that Susannah Harker is not thought of as beautiful enough on this thread. 😭😭 To quote Bingley ‘Come man, she’s a goddess’. She’s really pretty and suits the fantastic up-dos.

Susannah’s mother was the 1980’s adaptation’s Jane. Susannah had been on the set when it was filmed. I like the cyclical nature of that.

Decided to indulge starting at episode 4! 😁

Too late to edit. I think it is ‘Come man, she’s an angel’.

She’s an incredibly pretty woman, but I think she looked far less attractive than she actually is with the specific Grecian Regency hairstyles she was given, which were too skinned back, with the tight little bun/pigtails, and tight little clusters of curls around her face, which made her head look too small and her jaw too pronounced, and her back too broad for the dresses,

I’m far from the only one to think so!

www.reddit.com/r/PrideandPrejudice/comments/1gnu96u/justice_for_susannah_harker/

I've heard all the criticism of Alison Steadman but the Mrs Bennet of the book is just as ridiculous, shrill and over-the-top. I think, for me, it works.

I always enjoy the undersung women - those who will never be a Jane or an Elizabeth - but whose lot is much more realistic in terms of the limited options available to women of their day. One - Charlotte - handles her limitations sensibly and the other - Lydia - gets her apparently deserved comeuppance in being hitched to an indifferent husband who, it's hinted, shags his way around Bath whenever he becomes bored. I thought that in this adaptation both those characters were quite sympathetically drawn; in Charlotte's case because she had good sense and Collins represented her best future prospects, and Lydia because she's too young and stupid to recognise her own predicament but in the fullness of time, trapped in an unsatisfactory marriage, will learn.

Stand-outs for me were Barbara Leigh-Hunt's ummatchable portrayal of Lady Catherine, and David Bamber as Mr Collins. Playing that role must have been a hoot!

Absolutely stellar performances from both.

Susannah Harker’s mother is Polly Adams I think, who was in the 1967 adaptation as Jane rather than the 1980 one

So glad I'm not the only person who loves, loves it. Its perfect and the casting and set designs are wonderful.

Took this into hospital to watch when I was in labour, happy days !!

I love Alison Steadman In this. All the casting is spot on.

One of my favourite sayings. Can be fitted into anything! Along with "what are you talking of, I must have my share In The conversation."
My colleagues think
I'm
Barmy.