Pride and Prejudice….THE WHOLE SCHBANG!!!

Hey everyone

Here I am again. Blogging away. I am so glad I got into blogging. I just love it to death. What a weird mood I’m in today. Anyways, my subject today is going to be Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” I absolutely love that book. It is one of my favorites (although my favorite of favorites goes to Ayn Rand’s “Fountainhead”). Anyways, I just read it again for about the fourth time. Although it has been a very long time since I have read it. I enjoyed as much as I always have. Most of the time I wonder why, because I know a lot of people would find the work boring considering it is about a bunch of people from the 18th century who are busy being intertwined in each other’s life. Then I realized that is exactly why I love it….I love hearing about other times and places. Plus, I love the psychology of the human mind. It is absolutely fascinating. It amazes me sometimes that they are much the same in the 18th century England as we are in 21st century United States. I mean, naturally the etiquette and the way things were are different. As people we haven’t changed much. We still have pride, prejudice, jealousy, and happiness like they did back then. I think what I love most about this book is that Jane Austen wrote the lead character Elizabeth with such spirit for a girl in the 1700s. I just love it. It makes me think of me and how I would have been back then.

Now, there are two different versions of the movie. I would suggest the first one. It is one of those six hour movies where your boyfriend will be crying at the end….not because it is so good, but probably because you bribed him into this in exchange for (you know what) and he just wants the thing to end. All in all, you will enjoy it. The beautifully cast british group does so much justice to the work that even Jane Austen would be proud. If you have ever watched “Bridget Jone’s Diary” then you will know that Mr. Darcy is played by the true love interest in this movie. Great actor!

As far as the new one goes…..I didn’t like it as much as the old one. Everyone might hate me after this statement, but I really do not like Keira Knightly all that much. Don’t get me wrong, she is good in movies where the director has to lead her around by her nose, or she is playing herself. I’m sure as a person she is really great too, but as an actress I am not all that pleased. I honestly do not think she deserved the Academy Award nomination for this movie, but she got it. The movie is fine. I just think it is really hard to not make an eight hour movie on a Jane Austen book. They are so complicated.

Anyways, I am glad to get all that out. Now on to “Sense and Sensibility…..”