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Pride And Prejudice [2005] | ![Pride And Prejudice [2005]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RT3393Q2L._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Joe Wright
Actors: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Tom Hollander
Studio: Universal Pictures UK
Category: Video
New (2) Used (3) from £8.69
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 5318
Format: Pal
Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 121 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
EAN: 5050582391053
ASIN: B000CQK0CK
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: February 6, 2006
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 oh dear! May 13, 2006
Han (Surrey, UK)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've never watched a film that I've hated so much! Please don't buy this.
You have to be pretty brave to attempt an adaptation of such a fantastic and well loved novel - and the BBC managed it so well. But I'm even tempted to think that the scriptwriter for this version read the novel in secondary school and never bothered to think of it again. IT'S NOTHING LIKE THE BOOK!! The director has completely missed the point!!!
Darcy's an apologising idiot you feel sorry for from the outset (instead of loathing as you do in the book) half the other characters have been chopped out and as for Keira, sorry girl, but you are no Elizabeth Bennett. There's making a character your own and then there's making a really bad character.
The Bennets are pretty common; dirty, sprawling themselves over the furniture, pigs running through their house - nothing like the "Gentleman's family" in the novel. There's no sense of morality, which is integral to the whole Elizabeth/Darcy relationship. The language is modern day, with the occasional long word thrown in to make it look period! I'm also pretty certain the majority of the characters wouldn't have spoken with American accents in the novel...
All in all I was so disappointed - I forced myself to watch it through to the end, just in case it any way resembled the correct ending. Characters are missing, whole scenes are cut (and not just any old scenes, but the important ones that reveal the very reasoning behind the plot) and except for Judy Dench and Brenda Blethin (clearly the only two who have read the novel) the cast is terrible!! (Donald Sinden's version of Mr Bennett- what's that all about?!)
Sorry, but it's a big 'no' from me. If you love the story, please don't ruin your memories of it with this.
 A great adaption February 8, 2006
Goldheim44 (Swansea UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Those who really love Jane Austen's book should be a little cautious if they think this adaption is going to be faithful to it. However, those with an open mind for visual adaptions and a love for romantic period dramas will love it. For me, this was a beautful adaption of the central theme of Pride and Predjudice, with all the sub plots neatly trimmed to fit into 2 hours. I loved the more earthy and less refined way it was filmed, allowing us to see more passion than the 1995 television adaption allowed. There will inevitably be comparisons to the 1995 adaption - but there shouldn't be. This was obviously filmed by a director with a very different perception of the novel and I for one, preferred his vision of it. The only drawbacks to this film are that some of the scenes do feel very rushed - almost as if the actors have been told to say their lines really fast; this does mean that some scenes that us true romantics love most of all, can leave the viewer feeling as if the scenes lack a bit of emotional depth sometimes. For example, the scene where Mr Darcy proposes to Lizzy in the rain - a wonderfully set scene, beautifully located in the rain with simmering passion in abundance, but the lines seem hurried rather than passionate and the viewer (who will always read reality between the lines of romance) will wonder whether Mr Darcy took to chasing lizzy through forests and hills before startling her in the palladian arch!
All in all, my only real concern with this film is how the director could have understood the book so well, but could have failed to realise why it is read so widely. I draw this opinion from the final scene, or lack of it. Where is it Joe? (and those of you who are looking forward to seeing the extra US scene where they kiss - prepare for a cheesy dissapointment, not a classy romantic conclusion which conveys the sublimity of such a moment). It has to be said, the 1995 version got the end right. It's all in the conclusion!
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