Pride & Prejudice References in Pop Culture (Part 2)

A last post for 2009 as we said goodbye to the past year (and decade)...and ring in the New Year 2010 (and new decade) in just less than two hours (eastern time) from now.

Here are more P&P (2005 film) References in Pop Culture (source: via imdb.com)...

But first, as you can see in the first image here (to your left), our very own Keira Knightley (aka Elizabeth Bennet from the Oscar nominated Pride & Prejudice (2005) film) was holding a Pride and Prejudice novel (by Jane Austen) for the READ campaign (for the American Library Association) back in 2005. I just noticed recently that Keira did this (back in '05) and I saw a huge pic of her on display on the wall in my niece's Elementary School's media/library (I think the same pic is probably on display on every Elem. School's media/library walls around the country).

I took the same image from my cell phone when I was visiting my neice's elementary school just recently. I was browsing at their media/library and saw some celebs holding their favorite books in huge posters on display, on in their walls...and to my surprise I saw a big poster of Keira holding a P&P novel!  I had to take a quick snap shot of it from my cell before anyone sees me, lol. Too bad I don't have my digital camera at the time. This was the one I took from my cell phone. As you can see it wasn't very clear or in HQ, but you can still see Keira holding the P&P novel.

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I've searched this same pic in various Keira Knightley fansites and found it on the awesome and Sweet Keira Knightley fansite. Besides the poster, I didn't know there was a keychain and bookmark too. Also, the American Library Association's website has the Celebrity READ campaign section too which you can order/purchase the following... 
KK READ products:

• Keira Knightley Bookmark
• Keira Knightley Key Chain Set
• Keira Knightley Poster 

How cool! Also, check out the KK READ campaign images below!

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[source: Sweet Keira Knightley | American Library Association]

As previously posted here...and reposting it here as it relates to Keira and P&P novel...

Keira Knightley - In People Magazine's December 24 Issue, in the Children's Books section, Keira Knightley herself was quoted as saying P&P as her pick of books she loved reading as a kid.


Star Picks: When I was a kid, I really loved reading ...

"I think actually it was Pride and Prejudice. I was totally obssessed from about the age of 8 on." - Keira Knightley

Now, let's get to P&P references...

Pride & Prejudice (2005) film has been referenced in the following...

Gettin' It (2006)
 - A poster of P&P movie was in front of video store
Til Death Do Us Part: Storage Unit Murder (#1.2) (2007)
 - Factual errors: As Mindy gets ready to leave for her book club meeting, Tater reads an excerpt from her book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: "You have bewitched me body and soul." However, this line does not appear anywhere in Austen's text. The quotation is from the 2005 film of Pride & Prejudice (2005), screenplay by Deborah Moggach. Later, during Mindy's book club meeting, William leads the discussion and "quotes" more of the same excerpt: "You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you." The second part of the quotation isn't from the novel either, but does appear in the 2005 film.
Be Kind Rewind (2008) -  Mentioned as movie "sweded" during montage


Wild Child (2008)

-  Harriet (Georgia King) goes to the social dance dressed as Keira Knightley's character Elizabeth Bennet with two guys dressed up as Mr. Darcy, she enters to a music (the opening track titled, Dawn) from the Pride & Prejudice movie, and then recites to Freddie (Alex Pettyfer) one of the "Mrs. Darcy" lines from

the movie.

Harriet: "Mr. Darcy! ...You may only call me Mrs. Darcy when you're completely, perfectly, and incandescently happy."


An Interesting thing to note here... Georgia King, the actress who played Harriet in Wild Child with Julia Robert's neice Emma Roberts, also co-starred with P&P '05 Matthew Macfadyen in Little Dorrit and Talulah Riley in the new film St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold.

Lost In Austen - I recently got my copy of this period drama/tv mini-series and had seen it a few days ago or so. I thought it was good and funny, but did not like the ending nor Jane marrying Mr. Collins (lol), and Elizabeth Bennet working as a nanny in modern London with a short hair and not romantically involved with Mr. Darcy. I did notice the cool P&P '05 movie reference though...

"Lost in Austen: (#1.1)" (TV Mini-Series)(2008)
 -  Lydia's joke that the Bennet girls "might as well take the veil" references the 2005 film, in which Mr. Bennet jokingly suggests that Lydia is "going to take the veil."

I posted about this previously last year (August 2008) here. I'm reposting part of it below...

iTV's new period drama (2008 TV mini-series) titled, Lost in Austen is s premiered on UK's ITV last September 2008.

Jemima Rooper stars as Amanda Price - the frustrated romantic who lives for reading and adores the characters in her Jane Austen books. Then one day she discovers a gateway in her flat and ends up being transported to her favourite world, the world of Pride and Prejudice. But is the “true” story in danger of being thrown off track by her presence?


More info from imdb.com:

Lost in Austen
Cast:
Jemima Rooper = Amanda Price
Gemma Arterton = Elizabeth Bennet
Elliot Cowan = Darcy
Alex Kingston = Mrs. Bennet
Huge Bonneville = Mr. Bennet
Morven Christie = Jane Bennet
Tom Mison = Bingley
Perditta Weeks = Lydia Bennet
Tom Riley = Wickham
Guy Henry = Mr. Collins
Michelle Duncan = Charlotte Lucas
Christina Cole = Caroline Bingley
Lyndsay Duncan = Lady Catherine de Bourge

Writers:
Guy Andrews (Writer)
Jane Austen (Novel)

Director: Dan Zeff                                    

Check out... 

Lost In Austen's Behind the Scene Photos:

[source: iTV.com]

Watch the promo trailer for Lost In Austen via YouTube below:

[source: inmypooropinion]

Also, I most recently and previously posted here that...
Natalie Portman to star in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?

According to Variety.com, Portman will star in and produce “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” a film that is based on the bestselling book written by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen. Lionsgate will finance and distribute. Quirk Books published the tome.  
Read the interesting news article below...

Natalie Portman to slay zombies

  Actress takes on 'Pride & Prejudice' adaptation

Given Natalie Portman’s elegant demeanor, a turn in a period Jane Austen adaptation was inevitable.

Portman will star in and produce “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” a film that is based on the bestselling book written by Seth Grahame-Smith and Austen. Lionsgate will finance and distribute. Quirk Books published the tome.

Though Austen’s name is on the book, Grahame-Smith took the liberty of adding bloodthirsty flesh-eating zombies to the mix.

Portman will produce through her handsomecharlie shingle with Annette Savitch, plus Darko Films’ Richard Kelly, Sean McKittrick and Ted Hamm.

Described as an expanded version of the Austen classic, the book tells the timeless story of a woman’s quest for love and independence amid the outbreak of a deadly virus that turns the undead into vicious killers.


Portman will play feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet, who is distracted from her quest to eradicate the zombie menace by the arrival of the arrogant Mr. Darcy.

“Natalie and I are longtime passionate fans of Jane Austen’s books and this a fresh, fun and thought-provoking way to approach her work,” Savitch said. “The idea of zombies running rampant in 19th Century England may sound odd, but it lends a modern sense of urgency to a well known love story.”

Read full article here.

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Behind The Scenes: Conversations with the Pride & Prejudice Cast

Here's a transcript I've compiled from the P&P DVD Deluxe 2-Disc DVD Gift Set's Bonus Extra Features (it features various interviews from the main cast of P&P, which can also be seen at A Bennet Family Portrait featurette and HBO's First Look: Pride & Prejudice featurette) ...

Conversations with the Cast

Donald Sutherland: You have no idea, you know, when you come into a picture...what Keira Knightley is going to be like. And it turns out she is... as extraordinary an actor as I've ever met in my life. Rosamund was... it's indescribable how ethereally beautiful she was. Talulah was... Oh, I just embraced her. Carey. They were like children, you know. And Jena...she just became this... silly child. They were wonderful. It was just a wonderful family, you know. Headed and embraced and supported... and catalyzed by Brenda Blethyn.

Talulah Riley: I'm glad she's my mummy. She's a lovely mummy to have. She's very mummyish.

Rosamund Pike:  You know, the Bennets wouldn't... The girls wouldn't be like they were if they didn't have a mother like Mrs. Bennet.

Brenda Blethyn: And the elephants said to the mouse...  [slowly]'why? why am I so big...and you're so small?' [Talulah laughs listening to her, lol] The mouse said, 'it's not my fault. I've been ill." [laughs with Talulah]

Brenda Blethyn: I've loved every minute of this film.
Talulah Riley and Carey Mulligan: [nods at Brenda in agreement]

Talulah Riley: To bond and to get to know the house... we decided to play the game Sardines... where one person hides and then everybody goes to look for them.




Tom Hollander: It was just me and Keira and Talulah... and all the girls playing Sardines in a cupboard.  That was one of the happiest days of my life. [laughs...and dances in the background as Mr. Collins, lol]

Tom Hollander: So all the men have been blessed by the women on this... for which we are all eternally grateful, I'm sure. They're charming. They're difficult to focus sometimes. Not on the work, but just on which woman to focus on.

Keira Knightley: So I don't know. I don't think I could pick... my favorite person to work with... 'cause they're all so amazing. And I know everyone always says that, but you do go... "No, this is such a special group of people."

Matthew Macfadyen: I used to watch the Bennets with kind of... jealousy, 'cause they're all running around and being, you know... laughing and screeching and having a fabulous time.

Carey Mulligan: And I love it when we're a family unit rather than... I mean, we've been sort of split up in various things... but when we're presented as the Bennets... and that scene when we go to Netherfield... and it's a Miss Bennet a Miss Bennet... a Miss Bennet, and a Mrs. Bennet. And it's like we were all together.

Talulah Riley: Carey and I have been really good friend... because, obviously we're both new to this. So it's been good to have somebody... that doesn't know what's going on as well.


Keira Knightley: The most incredible thing has been seeing people... like Carey Mulligan and Talulah Riley... whose first job this is and how... they've taken to it like ducks to water, you know... and how excited they've been.


Carey Mulligan: I think Jena helped a lot 'cause I kind of leaned... I have leaned on her the whole solo basically, because it's kind of... A: in my character, and B: just because she's so much more experienced.

Jena (to Carey as they get into characters as Lydia and Kitty): Listen. Can you hear?
Carey: Can you hear?
Jena: Can you hear?
Carey: Can you hear? [laughs]




Carey Mulligan: She kind of psyches me up for stuff... so she kind of helps me get in the giggly frame of mind all the time.


Jena Malone: You know when I go up she goes down... and we both sort of hop, she skips... and just sort of becoming synchronized with another actor. It's quite hard, actually.


Jena and Carey [both humming, lol...]: Mama and Papa [in unison...laughs]
Jena: That's how we synchronize.
Carey: Yeah.
Jena: That's how we boot up and cross analog.

Brenda Blethyn: We've become such friends, all of us, for real.

Matthew Macfadyen: Glorious. Donald and Brenda and all the girls. What a lovely family.


Rosamund Pike: Really fun, 'cause I'm an only child... So, I don't know what it's like to have that particular rivalry you have with a sister... or that particular love or whatever... and with this it feels like it has come alive.

Jena Malone: I feel like I've been so welcome here, and like... It's just been so nice.

Talulah Riley: I'm getting dreadfully into it and I want, you know, I want... I want it all to be real and  want to be Mary and I want everyone... and I want us to all live in the house together and us all to be really sisters... and it all to really happen. And then it doesn't, and then Joe [Wright] says, you know, "Check in the gate"... and then it stops and I'm thinking, "Oh, what happened?"

Rosamund Pike: We were all very, very nice to each other at the beginning... and suddenly, you know, we've started to sort of have real dynamics... as well as sort of the character dynamics. You know them to be... sort of trusted implicitly by a family like that. Because I don't have that, and then... I've loved it, really loved it.

Brenda Blethyn: It's been so happy, a kind of idyllic in that house. And the friendships and the camaraderie, it's just heaven.  And I don't want it to end, to be honest.

Talulah Riley: And I think we've been really lucky just with all the people. And everybody's so nice and everybody gets on so well. It's such an interesting mix of people. And Joe's managed to keep it all together like a headmaster, you know, with a load of unruly school pupils. And I think it's working, don't you?

View more BTS Photos of the P&P cast below...

 

P&P Behind The Scene

Also, check out the P&P Gallery for more images from the P&P movie.

Film Review: Sherlock Holmes

I saw this movie with the lovely Kelly Reilly co-starring with Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, and Rachel McAdams during the Christmas holiday weekend and the theater was very full especially on its first opening weekend.

Check out and read my review of this film below!

But first...

[Warning! ... for those who haven't seen this movie and don't want to be spoiled...]

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Starring Robert Downey Jr, Rachel McAdams, Jude Law, and Kelly Reilly

Watch the Sherlock Holmes trailer

[source: traileraddict.com | The Movie Box]

Synopsis
Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.

I thought Sherlock Holmes was pretty good. It had all the action, adventure, comedy, suspense, and mystery that I love and enjoy watching in a film. The story was good, interesting, witty, and funny. I've never read the book or its previous adaptations/versions, but I quite liked and enjoyed this one. The main cast and their acting/performances (esp. Robert Downey Jr.) were superb. Robert Downey Jr. as the title
character Sherlock Holmes was very impressive and funny in this film as does his British accent was pretty good. I loved and enjoyed him in this film very much. Jude Law was great as well, not too mention, handsome and charming as Dr. John Watson, Holmes' friend and confidante. Rachel McAdams was great too, but it would have been awesome to see her in more scenes with RDJ and Jude Law. Still, she was great as Irene Adler, Holmes romantic interest and adversary. Mark Strong was pretty good as the bad guy,

Lord Blackwood. And Kelly Reilly (aka the unlikable Caroline Bingley of the 2005 film, Pride & Prejudice) was pretty goood here too (as Mary Morstan) considering she had a small supporting role. Like Rachel McAdams, It would've been great to see here in more scenes too. She does have a few very good scenes with the two main lead male characters and she's a love interest to Jude law's
Watson character. I especially love her first scene with Holmes and Watson at a hotel/restaurant dinner
scene when she asked Watson to read her. I thought that scene was very funny her character Mary did not approved of the way Holmes read her.  I thought that was funny especially Holmes' reaction and facial expression when and after she did that to him.


Continue Reading my full Film Review: Sherlock Holmes...

More Memorable Quotes from Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Here more random quotes/lines from the P&P movie...

Kitty: Can I wear your spotted muslin? Oh, please, Jane.
Jane: No, I need it.
Kitty: Please, Jane, I'll lend you my green sleepers.
Jane: They were mine.
Kitty: Oh, where they? Well, then I'll do your mending for a week.
Lydia: I'll return your new bonnet.
Kitty: Two weeks.
Lydia: I'll repay you myself Jane.
Lydia: Jane, look at me, Jane.
Jane: But I want to wear it myself.

~*~

Lizzie (talking to Jane): Mr. Collins is the sort of man... who makes you despair at the entire sex...
Mr. Wickham (picks up Lizzie's handkerchief): Yours, I believe.
Lydia: Mr. Wickham, how perfect you are.
Kitty: He picked up my handkerchief, too. Did you drop yours on purpose too, Lizzie?
Lydia: Mr. Wickham's a lieutenant.
Mr. Wickham: An enchanted lieutenant.
Jane: What are you up to, Liddy?
Lydia: We just happened to be looking for some ribbon.
Kitty: White, for the ball.
Mr. Wickham: Shall we all look for some ribbon together?
Lydia and Kitty: [laughs and giggles]
Lydia: Good afternoon, Mr. James.
Milliner: Good afternoon, Miss Lydia. Miss Bennet.
Mr. Wickham: I shan't even browse. I can't be trusted. I have very poor taste in ribbons.
Lizzie: Only a man truly confident of himself would admit to that.
Mr. Wickham: No, it's true. And buckles. When it comes to buckles, I'm lost.
Lizzie: Dear, oh dear. You must be the shame of the regiment.
Mr. Wickham: A laughingstock.
Lizzie: What do your superiors do with you?
Mr. Wickham: Ignore me. I'm of next to no importance, so it's easily done.
Lydia: Lizzie, lend me some money.
Lizzie: You already owe me a fortune, Liddy.
Mr. Wickham: Allow me to oblige.
Lizzie: Oh, no, Mr. Wickham, please.
Mr. Wickham (hands money to Lydia): I insist.

~*~

Lizzie: I pity the French.
Lydia (to Jane and Kitty): What are they talking about?
Wickham: So do I, miserable bunch.
Jane: I don't know. Look Mr. Bingley!
Kitty: Mr. Bingley!
Mr. Bingley: I was just on my way to your house.
Lydia: Mr. Bingley, how do you like my ribbons for your ball?
Mr. Bingley: Very beautiful.
Lydia (teases Jane in front of Bingley and Darcy): She is. Look at her. She's blooming.
Jane: Oh, Lydia!
Lydia: Be sure to invite Mr. Wickham, he is a credit to his profession.
Jane: Lydia, you can't invite people to other people's balls.
Mr. Bingley: Of course, you must come, Mr. Wickham. If you'll excuse me ladies. Enjoy the day.

~*~

Jane: I still think there must have been a misunderstanding.
Lizzie: Oh, Jane, do you never think ill of anybody?
Jane: Well, how could Mr. Darcy do such a thing? I'll discover the truth from Mr. Bingley... at the ball this evening.
Lizzie: If it's not true, let Mr. Darcy contradict it himself. Till he does, I hope to never encounter him.
Jane: Poor, unfortunate, Mr. Wickham.
Lizzie: On the contrary, Wickham is twice the man Darcy is.
Jane: And let us hope, a rather more willing dancer.

~*~

Mrs. Bennet: Lizzie, how fortunate you have arrived. Your aunt and uncle are here to deliver Jane from London.
Lizzie: How is Jane?
Mrs. Bennet: She's in the drawing room.

~*~

Jane: I'm quite over him, Lizzie. If he passed me in the street, I'd hardly notice.  London is so diverting.
Lizzie: Jane.
Jane: It's true. There's so much to entertain.
Jane: What news of Kent?
Lizzie: Nothing. At least not much to entertain.

Kitty: Lizzie, Lizzie, tell Mama, tell her!
Mrs. Gardiner: Oh, Kitty, stop making such a fuss.
Kitty (sobs): Why didn't she ask me as well?
Mrs. Gardiner: She probably can't afford it.
Lydia: Because I'm better company.
Lizzie: Kitty, what's the matter?
Kitty: I've just as much right as Lydia.
Mrs. Bennet: If I could but go to Brighton.
Kitty: Also, because I'm two years older.
Mrs. Gardiner: Lets all go!
Jane (to Lizzie): Lydia's been invited to go to Brighton with the Forsters.
Mrs. Bennet: A little sea-bathing would set me up very nicely.
Lydia (dances): I shall dance with the officers every night.

~*~

Lizzie: Please, Papa, don't let her go.
Mr. Bennet: Liddy will never be easy until she's exposed herself... in some public place or other... and we can never expect her to do it with so little inconvenience...  as under present circumstances.
Lizzie: If you, dear father, do not take the trouble to check her... she will be fixed forever as the silliest and most determined flirt... who ever made her family ridiculous. And Kitty will follow, as she always does.
Mr. Bennet: Lizzie, we shall have no peace until she goes.
Lizzie: Peace. Is that all you really care about?
Mr. Bennet: Colonel Forster is a sensible man. He will keep her out of any real mischief.  And she's far too poor to be an object of prey to anyone.
Lizzie: Father, it's dangerous.
Mr. Bennet: I am certain... the officers will find women better worth their while. Let us hope, in fact, that her stay in Brighton... will teach her, her own insignificance. At any rate, she can hardly grow any worse.  If she does... we'd be obliged to lock her u for the rest of her life.

~*~

Mrs. Bennet (sobbing): Oh, why did the Forsters let her out of their sight? I always said they were unfit to take charge of her.
Mary: Now, she's ruined.
Mrs. Bennet: You are all ruined.
Mrs. Bennet: Who will take you now with a fallen sister? Poor Mr. Bennet will now have to fight the perfidious Wickham...and then be killed.
Lizzie: He hasn't found him yet, Mama.
Mrs. Bennet: And Mr. Collins will turn us out before he's cold in his grave.
Jane: Do not be alarmed, Mama. Our uncle has gone to London and is helping in the search.
Mrs. Bennet: Lydia must know what this must be doing to my nerves. Such flutterings and spasms all over me. My baby Lydia. How could she do such a thing to her poor mama?

~*~

Mary (takes letter from Kitty who tries to open it): You can't do that.
Kitty (takes letter back from Mary): Don't be such a baby.
Mary: Kitty, give it to me!
Kitty: No!
Jane (takes letter from Kitty): Who is it for? It's addressed to Papa.
Lizzie (takes letter from Jane, lol): It's in uncle's writing.
Lizzie (runs outside with her sisters to see their father): Papa, there's a letter!
Mr. Bennet: Let me catch my breath.
Lizzie: It's in uncle's writing.
Mr. Bennet: He has found them.
Kitty: Are they married?
Mr. Bennet: Wait. I can't make out his script.
Lizzie (takes letter from her Papa): Oh, give it to me!
Kitty: Are they married?
Lizzie: They will be, if father will settle 100 pounds a year on her. That is Wickham's condition.
Kitty: A hundred pounds?
Lizzie: You will agree to this, Father?
Mr. Bennet: Of course, I'll agree. God knows how much your uncle must have laid on that wretched man.
Kitty: What do you mean, Father?
Mr. Bennet: No man in his senses would marry Lydia... under so slight a temptation as 100 pounds a year. Your uncle must have been very generous.
Jane (to Lizzie): Do you think it a large sum?
Lizzie: Wickham is a fool if he accepts less than 10,000 pounds.
Jane: 10,000 (pounds)? Heaven forbid.
Lizzie: Father!

~*~

Mrs. Bennet: Lydia married. And at 15, too. Ring the bell, Kitty. I must put on my things and tell Lady Lucas. Oh, to see her face. And tell the servants they will have a bowl of punch.
Lizzie: We should thank our uncle, Mama.
Mrs. Bennet: And so he should help. He's far richer than us and has no children. A daughter, married!
Lizzie: Is that really all you think about?
Mrs. Bennet: When you have five daughers, Lizzie... tell me what else will occupy your thoughts... and then perhaps you will understand.
Lizzie: You don't know what he's [Wickham] like.

~*~

Lydia: You must all go to Brighton... for that is the place to get husbands. I hope you have half my good luck.
Lizzie: Lydia.
Mrs. Bennet: I want to hear every little detail, Lydia, dear.
Lydia (showing off her wedding ring to her Mama): Oh, Mama!
Mrs. Bennet: Beautiful.
Mr. Wickham (to Mr. Bennet): I've been enlisted in a regiment in the North of England, sir.
Mr. Bennet: Glad to hear it.
Mr. Wickham: Near Newcastle. We travel there next week.
Kitty (to Wickham): Can I come and stay with you?
Mr. Bennet (to Kitty): That is out of the question!
Kitty: [grins]
Lydia (to Lizzie): Well, Monday morning came and I was such in a fuss.
Lizzie: I don't want to hear.
Lydia: There was my aunt preaching and talking away...as if she was reading a sermon. She was horrid unpleasant.
Lizzie: Can't you understand why?
Lydia: But I didn't hear a word because I was thinking of my dear Wickham. I longed to know whether he'd be married in his blue coat.
Mary (randomly talks to anyone who would listen, lol): The North of England, I believe, boasts some spectacular scenery.
Lydia (resumes talking to Lizzie): And then my uncle was called away... from the church on business... and I thought, 'who is to be our best man if he doesn't come back?' Lucky he did come back or I would have had to ask Mr. Darcy... but I don't really like him.
Lizzie: Mr. Darcy?!
Lydia: Oh, I forgot. But I shouldn't have said a word.
Lizzie: Mr. Darcy was at your wedding?
Lydia: He was the one that discovered us. He paid for the wedding, Wickham's commission. Everything. But don't tell anyone. He told me not to tell.
Lizzie: Mr. Darcy?
Lydia: Stop it, Lizzie! Mr. Darcy's not half as high and mighty as you sometimes.
Mrs. Bennet: Tell Kitty to stop glaring at Mr. Wickham...your father is doing enough for the pair of them.
Lydia: Kitty, have you seen my ring?

~*~


Kitty: He's here! He's here. He's at the door! Mr. Bingley!
Mrs. Bennet: Mr. Bingley? Oh, my goodness! Everybody behave naturally. And whatever you do, do not appear overbearing.
Kitty: Look, there's someone with him.
Jane: Mama, Mama!
Kitty: Mr. What's-his-name. The pompous one from before.
Mrs. Bennet: Mr. Darcy! The very insolence of it. What does he think of coming here? Keep still, Jane. mary, put that away at once. Find some useful employment. Oh, my Lord! I shall have a seizure, I'm sure I shall.
Jane: Kitty!  Kitty!
Mrs. Bennet: We can't have this here.
Jane: Mary, the ribbons, the ribbons, the ribbons.
Mary: [throws ribbons to Jane]
Mrs. Bennet: Mary, sit down at once. Mary!
Mrs. Hill: Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley, ma'am.
Mr. Bingley: Good...
Mrs. Bennet: How very glad we are to see you, Mr. Bingley. There's been a great many changes since you went away. Miss Lucas is married and settled.  And one of my own daughters too. You will have seen it in the papers... though it was not put in as it ought to have been. Very short, nothing about her family.
Mr. Bingley: Yes. Yes, I did hear of it. I offer my congratulations.
Mrs. Bennet: But it's hard to have my Lydia taken away from me. Mr. Wickham has been transfered to Newcastle, wherever that is.
Lizzie: Do you hope to stay long in the country, Mr. Bingley?
Mr. Bingley: Just a few weeks for the shooting.
Mrs. Bennet: When you have killed all your own birds, Mr. Bingley... I beg you will come here and shoot as many as you please.
Mr. Bingley: Thank You.
Mrs. Bennet: Mr. Bennet will be vastly happy to oblige you... and will save all the best of coveys for you.
Mr. Bingley: Excellent.
Lizzie: Are you well, Mr. Darcy?
Mr. Darcy: Quite well, thank you.
Lizzie: I hope that the weather stays fine for your sport.
Mr. Darcy: I return to town tomorrow.
Lizzie: So soon?
Mrs. Bennet: My Jane looks well... does she not?
Mr. Bingley: She does indeed. Well, we must be going, I think. Darcy? It's been very pleasant to see you all again. Miss Elizabeth. Miss Bennet.
Mrs. Bennet: You must come again. From when you were in town last winter... you promised to have a family dinner with us.  I've not forgot, you see. At least three courses.
Mr. Bingley: [Bows and leave]
Mr. Darcy (bows): Excuse me.

~*~

Mrs. Bennet: Most Extraordinary.

~*~

Mr. Bingley: We were going to walk in, and she was going to say, 'sit down.' No, No. No. So, I feel... Oh, It's a disaster, isn't it? It's been, it's...
Mr. Bingley (practices proposal with Darcy): Miss Bennet.
Mr. Darcy (pretends to be Jane Bennet, lol): Mr. Bingley.
Mr. Bingley: I just go in and I'll just say it.
Mr. Darcy: Yes. Exactly, exactly.
Mr. Bingley: Oh, God!

~*~

Jane: I'm glad it's over. At least now we can meet as indifferent acquaintances.
Lizzie: Oh, yes.
Jane: No, you cannot think of me so weak as to be in danger now.
Lizzie: I think you're in great danger of making him... as much in love with you as ever.
Jane: I'm sorry though that he came with Mr. Darcy.
Lizzie: Don't say that.
Jane: Why ever not?
Lizzie: Jane... I've been so blind.
Jane: What do you mean?
Kitty (interrupts Lizzie and Jane's conversations): Look, it's him! He's back. He's come again.


Mr. Bingley: I know this is all very untoward... but I would like to request a privilege... of speaking to Miss Bennet. Alone.
Mrs. Bennet: Everybody to the kitchen. Immediately. Except you, Jane dear. Of course.
Mrs. Bennet: Oh, Mr. Bingley. It is so good to see you again so soon.

Mr. Bingley (as he proposes to Jane): First, I must tell you. I have been... the most unmitigated and comprehensive ass. [kneels down in front of Jane to propose]
Jane: Yes, a thousand times yes.

Mrs. Bennet (after eavesdropping, interrupts Jane & Bingley moment): Thank the Lord for that. I thought it would never happen.


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An Education (Carey Mulligan and Rosamund Pike)	1 (14%)
Brothers (Carey Mulligan)	1 (14%)
Cheri (Rupert Friend)	0 (0%)
Me and Orson Welles (Kelly Reilly)	0 (0%)
Nine (Judi Dench)	0 (0%)
Pirate Radio (Talulah Riley)	0 (0%)
Public Enemies (Carey Mulligan)	0 (0%)
Sherlock Holmes (Kelly Reilly)	1 (14%)
St. Trinians (Talulah Riley)	0 (0%)
Surrogates (Rosamund Pike)	0 (0%)
The Messenger (Jena Malone)	0 (0%)
The Soloist (Tom Hollander and Jena Malone)	0 (0%)
The Young Victoria (Rupert Friend)	4 (57%)

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