Watching: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1995)
Some quick thoughts about PRIDE AND PREJUDICE:
* I have never read the novel nor seen any of the adaptations before. This was delightful.
* The British class system is pretty fucked, but there's a reason it provides the basis for so much art: There's *so much subtext* in every conversation, every glance. Only rarely are people saying what they mean to say. (This gives writers and actors so much to play with, to convey in ways other than dialogue what they mean to convey.) The characters who obviously see the absurdity in all of this are the ones we modern folk are most likely to empathize with. Still, it's kind of fun to spend six hours with a romance in which the only kiss comes in the final freeze frame shot.
* That said, she was kissing his chin in that shot.
* Also, I don't get all the hubub about Colin Firth in a wet shirt, but to each his own.
* Maybe I *should* read some Jane Austen.
* I have never read the novel nor seen any of the adaptations before. This was delightful.
* The British class system is pretty fucked, but there's a reason it provides the basis for so much art: There's *so much subtext* in every conversation, every glance. Only rarely are people saying what they mean to say. (This gives writers and actors so much to play with, to convey in ways other than dialogue what they mean to convey.) The characters who obviously see the absurdity in all of this are the ones we modern folk are most likely to empathize with. Still, it's kind of fun to spend six hours with a romance in which the only kiss comes in the final freeze frame shot.
* That said, she was kissing his chin in that shot.
* Also, I don't get all the hubub about Colin Firth in a wet shirt, but to each his own.
* Maybe I *should* read some Jane Austen.
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