tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671579349491474304.post3103287340595926099..comments2024-03-27T21:03:05.934-04:00Comments on Pride & Prejudice (2005) Blog: Let's talk about the best movie EVER!Jeanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07716623880055624574noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671579349491474304.post-88512669855627796362009-09-03T00:12:28.515-04:002009-09-03T00:12:28.515-04:00Hi, Shannon! Welcome! :) Thanks for visiting and p...Hi, Shannon! Welcome! :) Thanks for visiting and posting your comments here. Glad you found this blog. Have fun browsing and enjoy reading. There are lots of previously posted entries here for you to occupy yourself on reading here as well as the P&P soundtrack (turn on your speakers) to listen to. Don't be surprise if you lost track of time, lol.Jeanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07716623880055624574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671579349491474304.post-15747179464728283602009-09-02T22:37:14.602-04:002009-09-02T22:37:14.602-04:00Oh, I have just found a new favorite blog! ;)
So...Oh, I have just found a new favorite blog! ;)<br /><br />So many wonderful scenes in this movie to choose a favorite. And there are just so many things "right" with this movie... the score, the acting, the costumes, the cinematography. Wow.<br /><br />Congrats, Sharon, on the release of your second book!Shannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13655298574868899841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671579349491474304.post-72646511122621701862009-09-01T22:50:53.111-04:002009-09-01T22:50:53.111-04:00Hey, Vee and MM! Thanks for stopping by and taking...Hey, Vee and MM! Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to post here. Glad you both enjoyed reading my interview with Sharon. <br /><br />Keep visiting here to read more as there are more of my interview with Sharon to come. Thanks again, Sharon for doing this interview with me and for posting them here as well. You know I love ya and appreciate ya. :)<br /><br />As for the U.S. ending controversy that you brought up, MM. Thanks for bringing it up (and for sharing your opinions) for us all to discuss here. I too disagree with you, but that's also just my opinion. We can agree to disagree right? I thought the U.S. ending was sweet and romantic. With a happy ending like P&P, that kind of ending was more fitting. Even Entertainment Weekly included it as one of their 25 Greatest Movie Endings of all Time list. So, the movie must have done something right to include it here in the U.S. version (which was the original ending anyways...the UK/International was just edited as a result of it not testing well in the UK's pre-screening of the film...glad the U.S. version was kept here in the U.S...most fans loved it, including myself), lol. <br /><br />I just think that ending it with Mr. Bennet at his library would would just been too weak for me 'cause I would be so disappointed and would keep expecting to see something romantic with Elizabeth & Darcy. Also, they might as well end it at the meadow/2nd proposal scene 'cause that was an awesome scene with perfect timing of the sunrise appearing in the background as Darcy & Elizabeth nearly kiss. Now, that woud've been an awesome ending...but still you want more...so they had to add the library scene and since they didn't have the double wedding ending like the '95 version. I think the balcony ending scene was a nice addition for the ending to this beautiful and amazing film. Of course, that's just my opinion. Obviously, MM (and some other P&P fans) disagrees, but it's all good. Not everyone will agree on everything nor there's a film who pleases everyone. There's always someone who disagrees, which is all good...doesn't mean that the movie wasn't good because of that particular scene. <br /><br />But like Sharon said, MM...you can disagree as you prefer it a different way than Sharon and I did. We just love romantic endings and are not pleased with Mr. Bennet just sitting there in the library...lol.Jeanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07716623880055624574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671579349491474304.post-30034911901424659582009-09-01T20:46:28.693-04:002009-09-01T20:46:28.693-04:00Thanks for all your comments, Vee. I had to comple...Thanks for all your comments, Vee. I had to completely rein myself in when it came to naming favorite parts! It is so hard so to just name them all. Believe me, if Hollywood comes a'callin' - you will be about the second person to know!<br /><br />Hi MM! Thanks for stopping in and sharing your opinions. It is great to have differing thoughts offered. I am afraid that I have to say I totally disagree with you on the ending scene, however. For me the scene is perfect partly because it IS at odds with the rest of their interactions. All along we have seen two people who are struggling in one way or another. Their feelings so gradually evolve with hesitancy, fear, doubt, and life events never giving them the chance to fully express themselves. The balcony scene is that tiny peek behind the curtain allowing us to see that every last barrier has been smashed away. They are comfortable enough to be teasing each other, touching in that tenderly casual way that two people familiar do, and be in states of partial undress. It is not a sexual scene to me, not at all. It is a romantic scene, yes, but mostly it is a satisfying crescendo to all the turmoil that has gone before. We know that all is in the past and they are now content and happy.<br /><br />I love it! Do we have to see it? No, not necessarily, but I feel it adds greatly to the love story. Without it we would assume that they are happily ever after, sure. But it would feel incomplete to me.<br /><br />I could maybe see ending with the meadow proposal sunrise. But to end with Lizzy and her father, the lovers separated and their last exchanged looks still shy and unsure, would have driven me crazy!<br /><br />From a filming standpoint I really see no fault. They are in the privacy of their home. Servants are not going to barge into their chambers, and if they are seen from the grounds, it isn't as if they are naked! I liked the muted tones, firelight, and shimmering water. You knew they were in a very secluded place, just the two of them enjoying the presence of the other. Beautiful!<br /><br />But that is OK, you can disagree. LOL!Sharon Lathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09539439531975181469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671579349491474304.post-77155608465873559102009-09-01T18:56:39.585-04:002009-09-01T18:56:39.585-04:00Hey, I would love to win one of the free books! An...Hey, I would love to win one of the free books! And I'm always up for discussing such a great film...<br />I wonder how you feel about the controversial US-only ending (the last scene where they kiss). While I love to see that they're finally together, alone, happy and so on - I also find the scene at odds with much of the movie. While the movie is wonderful and electric with all the pent-up emotions and the restraint and the barely-there touches (I'm thinking the touch of the hands when Darcy helps Lizzy into the carriage at Netherfield for instance), the last scene is a bit too touchy, too syrupy, too much of a shock from all the previously filmed scenes. And the fact that they're on some kind of table outside (for all the servants to see?) is odd. And the filming is one single 'flat' shot. I guess I'm giving away that I feel disappointed in the last scene in that it doesn't live up to the extraordinary high bar of the previous scenes. How do you feel about it?<br />Thanks!<br />MMMMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671579349491474304.post-86497152535658654062009-09-01T10:50:48.475-04:002009-09-01T10:50:48.475-04:00Hey Jeane and Sharon,
Loved reading the interview....Hey Jeane and Sharon,<br />Loved reading the interview. Great site and love the music adds a great feel.<br />I adore the Hunsford scene where Darcy bursts in on Lizzy, that is so well done. Probabaly my favourite scene. Matthew plays the passionate lovesick fool brilliantly. You can just see declarations he wants to make swimming around in his big beautiful eyes. I really feel for Darcy in this scene! The nervous flick of his gloves just cracks me up each and everytime. <br />The proposals are both brilliant, one so fiery and impulsive the other romantic and blissful. The near kiss sizzles!<br />I also love Mr Collins he makes me laugh. Bingley is so cute and gorgeous. He is played just a touch too goofy in this one.<br />I agree that Mr Bennet is played really well, brings a tear to my eye when he has to admit Darcy has won Lizzy's heart, so sad that he loses his fav daughter.<br />The Bennet girls are all marvellous too, a great casting for the whole Bennet family!<br />You're so right about Col Fitzwilliam Sharon, he does have more to do in the novel and he is much more endearing than this adaptation allows.<br />How wonderful would it be to bring Sharon's novels to screen! Nothing less than a six hour adaptation please!!! Call Matthew first hehe!<br />Happy reading, you'll all love Sharon's novels!<br />TSBO devotee<br />VeeVeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10834446584740466339noreply@blogger.com