Best Darcy/Best Elizabeth/What Makes Them So Appealing and Irresistible Even Today?

I believe mom I may safely promise you never to dance with mr. Darcy [Music] my good opinion once lost is lost forever [Music] it's young people with raging hormones it has social significance that is revolutionary actually I think that primed prejudice will still be read when people go on holiday to the moon it's one of the most popular influential and cherished novels in literary history two centuries after publication the story of the Bennet girls progressed through the marriage market remains fresh enchanting and vital and the books numerous adaptations testify to its enduring appeal Jane Austen began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was 20 when it was published anonymously she was 37 in the intervening years she crafted a masterpiece which lit up the literary world prejudice was a hit when it came out at the beginning of 1813 Richard Brinsley Sheridan the playwright wittiest man of his time said it was the cleverest thing he'd read Jane Austen's brother Henry told her that somebody had told him very assuredly that it was far too clever to have been written by a woman you get the sense that London was with it and it's of course go on being absolutely steadily popular ever since Pride and Prejudice beguiles its readers right from the opening lines it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a life I remember reading probably prejudice I think must have been about 12 13 I absolutely couldn't put it down brilliant brilliant book I fell enough completely with Elizabeth and Darcy I just adored it had a huge effect on me it understood about all this stuff that was just starting to churn away our first Road prime prejudice in 1975 at North Staffordshire Polytechnic to be honest it was like reading a book about aliens I got to about page 13 then left it I'd rather he Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs overpower the same course and enemy mid-forties I picked to begin as a fellow rule got teenage kids and old had a can of life and I realized that in fact it was Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg who were the aliens and it was people like Darcy and Elizabeth who were really my neighbors to film and TV screenwriters the novel has always been ripe for adaptation in 1940 Hollywood turned it into a high-gloss evocation of England past with Laurence Olivier's Darcy in pursuit of Greer garson's Elizabeth it's no use I've struggled in vain I must tell you how much I admire and love you the BBC has adapted it six times I could feel gratitude for what you have just said sir I would now thank you but I cannot I have never desired your good opinion and you have certainly bestowed it most unwillingly each generation has cast a new pair of courting competence and this is the reply which I'm sure they are not expecting I might perhaps wish to be informed why with so little endeavour at civility I am thus rejected but it was the 1995 version that really ignited the public imagination I had not known you a month before I felt you were the last man in the world whom I could ever marry you have said quite enough madam it was translated to the screen by the acknowledged master of period drama adaptations Andrew Davis it's always been a favorite book of mine and I thought it had never been done well before I think people just make terrible mistakes about Jane Austen they think that her novels are social comedies and about very small and tiny things but they're about immense things that they're about love and sex and money and betrayal over the course of six episodes more than 11 million viewers watched Colin Firth and Jennifer Ely move from sparring to seduction and the series transformed public attitudes to Austen's work the 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice was a catalyst for kick-starting all sorts of things it became part of our broader culture in a way that the book wasn't one of those things was Bridget Jones's Diary its plot was based on the book its hero was one Mark Darcy and Bridget even devoted a couple of days entries to her obsession with the series here we go in the film version some new dialogue and the casting of Colin Firth made the parallels even more explicit I do not need a blind date particularly not some verbally incontinent spinster who smokes like a chimney drinks like a fish and dresses like her mother yummy springy I'm in no humour to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men since then the story's been shifted in space as well as time in 2004 the director current achada turned this classic English novel into a Bollywood style spectacular all others think that any single guy with big bucks must be shopping for a wife in Bride & Prejudice I wanted to take Jane Austen's preoccupation with class a step further by transposing the class differences between Darcy and Lizzy into more of a first world third-world situation and the adaptations keep on coming in 2005 a new film version written by the novelist Deborah mojo streamlined the story for the cinema there's a strong single narrative and I emphasize that that it's Liz's story it's Elizabeth Bennet's story and for instance in the film she doesn't confide in anybody there were several scenes shot in the film that were actually edited out to keep it in to Lizzie's face in her heart it can sustain such a lot free readings you read it differently different ages you read it differently a different you know decades of history and so on and in 10 years time probably be time for somebody to say oh god they look so old-fashioned those versions it's it's time to take a fresh look at it it's easy to see why filmmakers find the book so irresistible Pride and Prejudice contains every ingredient necessary for screen success at its heart is a battle of the sexes fought with wit and passion by two complex intriguing and beautifully matched characters in the 1995 adaptation Jennifer Elise BAFTA award-winning performance captured Elizabeth Bennet's spirit intellect and playfulness she had that little twinkle in her eye you know she kind of had this gorgeous cheeks but it will you know it was very hard not to smile that she said things and then when she got upset you felt genuinely upset or Lydia girl you'd so invested in this wonderful woman so for me emotionally she carried me through the whole series the richness of Elizabeth's character is one of the delights of the book Austen's creation crackles with subtlety sensitivity and wit Elizabeth almost the most appealing heroine in England she is bright self possessed confident political witty she's what every hero or heroine should be she's cheeky I think that's what makes her appeal so much to a modern audience she really stands out for herself and she won't be cowed by Authority I am almost the nearest relation he has and I am entitled to know all his nearest concerns but you are not entitled to know mine nor was such behavior as this induced me to be explicit the thing about her is that she is not just beautiful her intelligence is part of her beauty but she gets things wrong that makes her interesting - are you much acquainted with mr. Darcy as much as I ever wish to be I've spent three days in the same house with him and I find him very disagreeable i feather a few who would share that opinion except myself at first sight Darcy seems more anti-hero than Hiro brooding and diffident his appeal is complex I think mr. Darcy sort but have you met him in real life and probably kick his teeth in well the time is that terrible line about their first aboard you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections to congratulate myself on the hope of relations whose conditions in life are so decidedly beneath my own

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Length: 9min 45sec (585 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 20 2018