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List Price: $39.98 Our Price: $29.99 You Save: $9.99 Features • AC-3 • Color • Dolby • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 23 November, 2005 DVD Release : 13 November, 2007 |
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Pride & Prejudice (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) description Literary adaptations just don't get any better than director Joe Wright's 2005 version of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice. The key word here is adaptation, because Wright and gifted screenwriter Deborah Moggach have taken liberties with Austen's classic novel that purists may find objectionable, but in this exquisite film their artistic decisions are entirely justified and exceptionally well executed. It's a more rural England that we see here, circa 1790 (as opposed to Austen's early 19th century), in which Elizabeth Bennet (Keira Knightley) is one of several sisters primed for marriage, with an anxious mother (Brenda Blethyn) only too desperate to see her daughters paired off with the finest, richest husbands available. Elizabeth is strong-willed and opinionated, but her head (not to mention her pride and prejudice) lead her heart astray when she meets the wealthy Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen), whose own sense of decency and discretion (not to mention his pride and prejudice) prevent him from expressing his mutual affection. They're clearly meant for each other, and as Knightley's performance lights up the screen (still young enough to be girlishly impertinent, yet wise beyond her 20 years), Austen's timeless romance yields yet another timeless adaptation, easily on par with the beloved BBC miniseries that has been embraced by millions since originally broadcast in 1995. Individual tastes will vary as to which version should be considered "definitive," but with a stellar supporting cast including Judi Dench and Donald Sutherland, this impeccable production achieves its own kind of perfection. --Jeff Shannon |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Don't read the book, you'll just be disappointed in this movie. |
| I suppose if you've never read Pride and Prejudice this may be a fine film (that's why I gave it two stars instead of just one), but it in NO way does any justice to Jane Austen's novel. Perhaps it's impossible to build the depth of character the way Austen does in a 2 hour movie, but it's because it was only 2 hours long that I was able to even sit through this movie. From the start I was sceptical of Kiera Knightly as Elizabeth Bennett, but in the end it wasn't her performance that disappointed - the whole movie was seriously lacking. Maybe Austen just can't be satisfied in 2 hours, but I was left thinking, That's it? What a sorry tribute to a classic.
This version is FAR inferior to the A&E miniseries (about 5 hours of Eliza and Mr. Darcy) which aired on Masterpiece Theatre and, I felt, illustrated the novel as beautifully as an on-screen adaptation can. If you'd like to see this classic on the screen, make time for the A&E version and forget this one. |
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