Comments on: Pride & Prejudice

By: shellshear

shellshear — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 23:59:26 +0000

That’s interesting - there is certainly a subtheme of vampire movies that is about the woman choosing the boring good man or the exciting villain, which is certainly in common with P&P. That’s a very workable angle.

By: emmajeans

emmajeans — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 05:14:39 +0000

the point about sex/death being at the heart of vampire movies; but not at the core of P&P is true, I think. However, I know a good many people who rate death as preferential to getting married, so there is that angle.

By: shellshear

shellshear — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:58:07 +0000

It’s an interesting point - we’d want something like a guest book, I suppose.
That should be doable.

By: Dr Clam

Dr Clam — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 23:20:14 +0000

You need a place for ‘general comments’ on Film Forensics.

For instance, how about a Film Forensics haiku section?

In ‘What Lies Beneath’
How could Harrison Ford’s wife
Not be the killer?

By: Anotherblog » Ottawa

Anotherblog » Ottawa — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 21:28:39 +0000

[...] om being weak about jet-lag. Still, I’m pretty stuffed right now. Also, I posted a FF I did on the plane.

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By: shellshear

shellshear — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:12:49 +0000

One of the internal conflicts of this version of P&P is that vampire films are (often) about sex/death, and P&P… isn’t. Not really. It would be tempting but incorrect, I think, for the sex/death to become front and centre: the core of the story must still be Elizabeth vs. Darcy. We don’t want Elizabeth’s choice to be sexy Wickham vs. repressed Darcy - that’s too easy a cliche, and Darcy *is* supposed to be sexy, not the second-choice family-man of vampire films.

I’m not saying that the sex/death angle should be ignored - I think it’s the most powerful element of vampire films - but it has to be very carefully handled in this kind of film. There are *lots* of potential pitfalls to this film, many sure steps that must be taken to avoid it being an utter disaster. On the bright side, I think that if it does avoid being a disaster, it’d be brilliant.

By: winston

winston — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 07:38:01 +0000

It’s so crazy it just might work!

Just one question: Would there be more heaving of bosom and bodice ripping in this version? Enquiring rakes wish to know.

BTW, in the last few weeks I watched the BBC version. I enjoyed it very much, but think I’d rather sit down with P&P lite. While the longer version keeps more of the books incidents, I don’t believe it captures the essence of the book any better than the recent movie.

You really ought to pitch this to the Hollywood money-men before someone else does.

By: Dr Clam

Dr Clam — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 04:17:40 +0000

I love it! You are a genius. Your name deserves to be written across the 21st century in letters of fire a thousand miles high. This movie must be made.