What a pity that there are only six episodes. I think it would be just amazing if the ending was removed for one episode, devoting it to the long-awaited romantic interaction between Elizabeth and Darcy and preparations for the wedding. You can look at their happy faces forever :)
very, very, very rarely does a screen character coincide with a book character, character traits are always difficult to play. But this series is probably the only one where the actors almost one-on-one fell into their prescribed framework. And Mr. Darcy... He is just like that, restrained, noble, closed and so incredibly attractive. No actor will be able to even come close to this performance..
A golden classic. No matter how many film adaptations are staged after, no one will play better than Colin Firth and Jennifer. An indescribable atmosphere, amazing actors. The 2005 film adaptation with Knightley is generally hugging and crying.
I watched it after reading the book. Oh. This can be reviewed forever and ever. Maybe many actors were not very well chosen and played sluggishly, but they were overshadowed by the main couple of the series and the mother) I liked the actress who played Lizzie. And there's nothing to say about Darcy's character) Klin Firth is a wonderful actor and such a role was a real discovery for me) A very talented man! An insanely atmospheric film. 10/10
"Maybe many actors were not very well chosen and played sluggishly, but they were overshadowed by the main couple of the series." I subscribe to every word. Some actors were generally intimidating. For example, Mr. Wickham is too old. He's supposed to be the same age as Darcy, but he looks about 40 years old. Yes, and I wouldn't call Jane beautiful, but here everyone has their own. Perhaps, for someone, she is really very beautiful. :) But these are all small things. The series is great, I really liked that everything is according to the book. And Mr. Darcy... I really like Colin Firth, a wonderful actor. His Mr. Darcy seemed to have gone off the books. And that's exactly what Lizzie imagined. Mr. Bingley with his smile... she always smiled when he appeared in the frame. :D Despite the fact that the serial and book Jane are not similar in appearance, the character is conveyed perfectly. And this pair also overshadowed the poorly chosen actors. I doubt that I will watch other film adaptations of the novel, because there is nowhere better.
I am madly, madly in love with this film adaptation, watching these 6 episodes, as if you are reading the book itself and even in English. Ah...I'm in awe!I agree with the above that it was necessary to complete the end after Lizzie's consent, how sweetly they recalled all their past interactions and already fully revealed all their thoughts and feelings to each other, I was really waiting for this, my little flaw, but still the series is forever in my golden piggy bank
@Mulga: I agree about Jane and Lizzie. However, the other sisters don't look very young either, Lydia is absolutely not charming. I expected more from the series, but here is a line-by-line adaptation of my favorite novel without preserving that elusive feeling that you feel when reading it.
An amazing film adaptation! Very rarely there are such things, but everything turned out exactly as it seemed when reading. I really wanted to extend it for a couple more, well, at least one episode... The best and most beloved film adaptation of your favorite book.
now I feel the same as after the book , the book was read very slowly and boring, but the last chapters, which are described in this series, I read without stopping , and with the series I watched the first 4 episodes in the background, and the last 2, especially 6, I watched without stopping and with love.
Wow! So I watched this episode.)) I want to say that Pride and Prejudice is a great book with amazing content, maybe the plot is a bit banal, but it definitely stands out from the likes. There is a certain charm in it that makes you fall in love with this work and remain indifferent to it. The series is just a great addition to the book and many thanks to its creators for the way they showed that era! The acting is on top and the actors themselves were selected and d e a l n o. Mrs. Bennet alone, with her nerves, is worth a lot! This is definitely the best film adaptation for me!
I have loved this film adaptation with all my heart since childhood and do not want to know any other... but interestingly, Andrew Davis himself considered the scene when Lizzie finally agreed to marry Darcy to be unsuccessful, and this moment always bothered me too - somehow it turned out to be crumpled, everything was on the move, but there was a long and interesting conversation in the book that could have been used better. But even in an ideal series there may be a small drawback :)
@ProudLoony: I just watched the extended version, and they still had a dialogue there. Maybe not as long as in the book (this is an assumption, because I read the book a long time ago), but a few minutes for sure.
It amuses me when they say that the plot in the book is banal, when the book was written 200 years ago. The series is charming, very close to the book, and moreover has its own charm. The actors are perfectly matched, the only thing Mr. Wickham did not fit, in my opinion. 10 and 10 :)
@foodsleepbook: Yeah, this is the moment when they watch some groundbreaking film of their time and say, "yes, I've already seen it all many times," but the trick is that more modern works mostly amaze the old ones.
A wonderful cast, a unique Darcy, now even a bookish one, he will forever remain Colin Firth with puffed cheeks and knitted eyebrows. A wonderful film adaptation.
We read a book with my sister and watched the film adaptation together. I really liked it, we will definitely review it. But I really wanted to see a couple of things: Mrs. Bennet's first reaction to Lizzie and Darcy's engagement and Mr. Bennet's words about how good his sons-in-law are, but Wickham is his "favorite")) Well, this is a quibble)
those who say that the plot is banal should remember the book is 200 years old. it was and is so popular that the original plot was played out hundreds of times. they transferred the actions to the modern world, and stories with zombies, and with the replacement of characters. maybe that's why everything seems so familiar. but still Jane Austen is the best and the classic film adaptation is great. The movie with Keira Knightley may not be bad, but there is no match in the scenery and costumes. once upon a time I read that unmarried girls did not wear dark dresses at that time, so I just physically can't look at Lizzie in dark)
An incomparable film adaptation. I don't know how many times I've watched it. Of the more modern ones, as far as I'm concerned, only the Knightley version has a chance.
Best Film Adaptation ever And the main character is just wah There is such a light chemistry between the characters, and it feels good. They play so well I would watch and watch)
The funny thing is that Colin Firth didn't like his character at all. I agreed to this role only out of curiosity. Once in an interview, he admitted that he didn't have to play at all, just stand there and be an asshole)
The series is very good, everything is according to the book, the atmosphere is perfectly conveyed, all the feelings and chemistry between the characters. And that era is felt in all the little things.
But the selection of actors (except Colin Firth, he is love) is very inferior to the 2005 film. Probably, my modern perception is much more pleasant to the appearance of Keira Knightley and Rosamund Pike — they are really beautiful)
And in the film, many of Lizzie and Darcy's dialogues are more "cinematic" emotionally, beautifully and dramatically conveyed. Everything here is languid and simpering, measured, which probably corresponds to that time, but it doesn't look so impressive in the frame.
I had a prejudice that I would not like the series. Especially after the 2005 film. On the contrary, the series has risen even more than the film. (I read the book before all the film adaptations)
Compared to previous episodes, this one seems to last only 10 minutes, but I want it to be at least a little longer)) I really like all the actors, I really like how much effort was obviously put into costumes, hairstyles, places, everything! A very good and joyful series, always a pleasure to watch!)) After this revision, it became interesting for me to re-read the book again because I can't understand Wickham's character. It always seemed to me that he was just a p*** phil trying to mess with the brains of another girl with an inheritance over and over again, but then I wondered why it follows from this film adaptation that he is at least a little bit interested in Lizzie? I don't remember how in the book. Maybe, of course, they were trying to make his character just less creepy, because this is a TV series... And somehow I saw a discussion on the Internet - who told Lady Catherine de Burgh about Elizabeth and Darcy's engagement that she rushed so fast? One British critic even wrote that this was the malicious intent of Charlotte's friend, that this was supposedly proof that female friendship does not exist. Of course, they laughed at him, saying that Charlotte saw perfectly well during her friend's visit that Lizzie was not afraid of the old woman in communication with de Burgh and was one of the few people who could argue with her. She was well aware that de Burgh's arrival would likely cause a backlash (like Darcy's), and would not affect Elizabeth's feelings in any way. Well, besides, she's been shippin' them since the second episode and telling Lizzie, like, "Look, he's an enviable fiance, he's been looking at you all evening," or "here he came to visit us with Mr. Collins just because you're staying with us." So I'm thinking, who said de Burgh? The offended Wickham, to whom Lizzie had just told that she knew about his shady dealings, or Darcy himself, saying that he was breaking off his engagement with the sickly daughter of de Burgh because he was going to marry Elizabeth?
@Olga_cat: I think you've already found the answer to the question of who exactly told you about the engagement, but if not, or if someone after your comment also started looking (like me), then it was still Mr. Collins. In the letter he sent to Mr. Bennet, there are these lines in the book: "When I mentioned to Her Ladyship last night about the possibility of such a marriage..." He apparently found out about everything from one of the "sweet gossiping Lukases," as Mr. Bennet called the neighbors, and in a fit of his sycophancy he blurted out she accepted this fact without thinking about the consequences. But this is definitely not Darcy - he did not need to break off the engagement with her daughter, there was no engagement as such, only the desire of mothers to marry their children, as Lady de Burgh herself told Lizzie in the garden. And in the book, Lizzie also asks him if he will ever have the courage to tell his aunt about his engagement. And I don't think it's Wickham, I don't think Lady de Burgh has any acquaintance with the manager's son, it's beneath her dignity)
The ideal caste. Bennett's parents, sisters, Lizzie and Jane are exactly like in the book. Mr. Bingey is even better in the TV adaptation, in the novel he is not so bright and gets lost among other male characters. Mr. Darcy, of course, there's nothing to even discuss here, Colin Firth has perfectly shown all the facets of this character. I want to say something about Jane separately. I saw comments here saying Jane is the most beautiful sister, and here she is generally ugly. You just don't know the beauty standards of the 19th century. Jane, played by Susanna Harker, is the ideal of neoclassicism. Look at the portraits of Julie Recamier, Louise (Queen of Prussia), Henrietta Delacroix and you will understand everything. It's a perfect hit here. Yes, of course, it cannot be compared with the standards of 21. Mr. Collins deserves a standing ovation, a caricature character, but very lively. Although I love it most of all performed by Matt Smith. In general, I watched this adaptation with great pleasure. If someone has not read the novel, you can basically not read it. The script is well adapted, unnecessary dialogues and scenes are removed, and the most important things are left.
Before that, I had only watched the 2005 film with Keira Knightley, I had not read the book. This is a very good series, the families of the characters are much more revealed, secondary stories are told, many dialogues are much more interesting. And the fashion of that time is more reliably shown. However, some of the actors' acting seemed flat. So for myself, I do not compare this series and the 2005 film, they are both beautiful. Although the film cuts down part of the plot, it is incredibly beautifully shot, the characters and their emotions are written in such a way as to be clearer to the modern viewer. For example, in the series Jane does not seem to me to be beautiful at all, and the Pemberley estate does not cause such delight as Lizzie.
Oh. This can be reviewed forever and ever. Maybe many actors were not very well chosen and played sluggishly, but they were overshadowed by the main couple of the series and the mother)
I liked the actress who played Lizzie. And there's nothing to say about Darcy's character)
Klin Firth is a wonderful actor and such a role was a real discovery for me) A very talented man!
An insanely atmospheric film. 10/10
But these are all small things. The series is great, I really liked that everything is according to the book. And Mr. Darcy... I really like Colin Firth, a wonderful actor. His Mr. Darcy seemed to have gone off the books. And that's exactly what Lizzie imagined.
Mr. Bingley with his smile... she always smiled when he appeared in the frame. :D
Despite the fact that the serial and book Jane are not similar in appearance, the character is conveyed perfectly. And this pair also overshadowed the poorly chosen actors.
I doubt that I will watch other film adaptations of the novel, because there is nowhere better.
, the book was read very slowly and boring, but the last chapters, which are described in this series, I read without stopping
, and with the series I watched the first 4 episodes in the background, and the last 2, especially 6, I watched without stopping and with love.
I want to say that Pride and Prejudice is a great book with amazing content, maybe the plot is a bit banal, but it definitely stands out from the likes. There is a certain charm in it that makes you fall in love with this work and remain indifferent to it.
The series is just a great addition to the book and many thanks to its creators for the way they showed that era! The acting is on top and the actors themselves were selected and d e a l n o. Mrs. Bennet alone, with her nerves, is worth a lot! This is definitely the best film adaptation for me!
The series is charming, very close to the book, and moreover has its own charm. The actors are perfectly matched, the only thing Mr. Wickham did not fit, in my opinion.
10 and 10 :)
A wonderful film adaptation.
And the main character is just wah
There is such a light chemistry between the characters, and it feels good. They play so well
I would watch and watch)
But the selection of actors (except Colin Firth, he is love) is very inferior to the 2005 film. Probably, my modern perception is much more pleasant to the appearance of Keira Knightley and Rosamund Pike — they are really beautiful)
And in the film, many of Lizzie and Darcy's dialogues are more "cinematic" emotionally, beautifully and dramatically conveyed. Everything here is languid and simpering, measured, which probably corresponds to that time, but it doesn't look so impressive in the frame.
On the contrary, the series has risen even more than the film.
(I read the book before all the film adaptations)
After this revision, it became interesting for me to re-read the book again because I can't understand Wickham's character. It always seemed to me that he was just a p*** phil trying to mess with the brains of another girl with an inheritance over and over again, but then I wondered why it follows from this film adaptation that he is at least a little bit interested in Lizzie? I don't remember how in the book. Maybe, of course, they were trying to make his character just less creepy, because this is a TV series...
And somehow I saw a discussion on the Internet - who told Lady Catherine de Burgh about Elizabeth and Darcy's engagement that she rushed so fast? One British critic even wrote that this was the malicious intent of Charlotte's friend, that this was supposedly proof that female friendship does not exist. Of course, they laughed at him, saying that Charlotte saw perfectly well during her friend's visit that Lizzie was not afraid of the old woman in communication with de Burgh and was one of the few people who could argue with her. She was well aware that de Burgh's arrival would likely cause a backlash (like Darcy's), and would not affect Elizabeth's feelings in any way. Well, besides, she's been shippin' them since the second episode and telling Lizzie, like, "Look, he's an enviable fiance, he's been looking at you all evening," or "here he came to visit us with Mr. Collins just because you're staying with us." So I'm thinking, who said de Burgh? The offended Wickham, to whom Lizzie had just told that she knew about his shady dealings, or Darcy himself, saying that he was breaking off his engagement with the sickly daughter of de Burgh because he was going to marry Elizabeth?
I want to say something about Jane separately. I saw comments here saying Jane is the most beautiful sister, and here she is generally ugly. You just don't know the beauty standards of the 19th century. Jane, played by Susanna Harker, is the ideal of neoclassicism. Look at the portraits of Julie Recamier, Louise (Queen of Prussia), Henrietta Delacroix and you will understand everything. It's a perfect hit here. Yes, of course, it cannot be compared with the standards of 21.
Mr. Collins deserves a standing ovation, a caricature character, but very lively. Although I love it most of all performed by Matt Smith.
In general, I watched this adaptation with great pleasure. If someone has not read the novel, you can basically not read it. The script is well adapted, unnecessary dialogues and scenes are removed, and the most important things are left.
So for myself, I do not compare this series and the 2005 film, they are both beautiful. Although the film cuts down part of the plot, it is incredibly beautifully shot, the characters and their emotions are written in such a way as to be clearer to the modern viewer. For example, in the series Jane does not seem to me to be beautiful at all, and the Pemberley estate does not cause such delight as Lizzie.