Pride and Prejudice
A new film version of Pride and Prejudice is coming out. But there was a high-profile Bollywood version called Bride and Prejudice just last year. And not only was Bridget Jones' Diary an adaptation of the novel, but there was a straight-up BBC production of Pride and Prejudice also starring Colin Firth in 1995.
I think that, for now, we've seen just about enough of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
However, I would be open to seeing Stone Cold Steve Austin's Pride and Prejudice.
It should ideally consist of announcer Jim Ross screaming, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife!" And then Austin should give the Stone Cold Stunner to Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet, and Vince McMahon, then stand on a turnbuckle and pour beer on his own face.
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Not to forget, of course, the ultimate Pride & Prejudice, the 1940 version starring Sir Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson (with screenplay by, would you believe it, Aldous Huxley, of Brave New World infamy) and which, in a sensible world , would be the greatest version of the franchise, rendering all other versions obsolete and unnecessary.
Maybe it's just because I'm a girl, but I actually wouldn't mind seeing it. I hated the book;I can't stand Jane Austen. I think that with Keira Knightly playing Elizabeth though it might be tolerable. Maybe they'll put more obvious sexual tension and they'll update it with some bodices being torn off.
I did like the 1995 BBC version; Firth was born to play Darcy. But enough is really enough. You also missed that there was a modernized version a couple of years ago, too. And with some kind of weird 12 year-old boy called Keira Knightley playing the role, I'm really much too tired to see anymore.
Fuck, I'm sick of Jane Austen and her silliness.
Firth was good but he still ripped-off Olivier in his impersonation.
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