November 13, 2005
Proud of ‘Prejudice’Film
Did you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your timing? From the first moment I met you, your derivativeness made me realize you were the last movie in the world I could ever love. But I’ve come to make confession: you have bewitched me body and soul.
I entered the new Pride and Prejudice movie with extreme prejudice and exited a believer.
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Nimbooda in a wig |
The producers were going for Gone With the Wind, but they ended up with Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. It’s the same Bollywood lighting, the same night scene with the romantic leads sitting before water, lit in gold. British group dances were like dandia raas and served the same virtuous end, hooking up the young’uns. The dance scene was like that amazing, flirty song in in HDDCS, ‘Aankhon Ki Gustakhiyan.’ Keira is sharper, Aishwarya prettier. Rai with that John-Cusack-lookalike-in-a-wig would have been ideal.
HDDCS was more emotional, but this was definitely lump-in-throat territory. I rarely see intelligent romantic sparring any more, the last was Clooney and Zeta in Intolerable Cruelty. And the gender role inversion at the end is delicious. The beseechers and hand-kissers are not whom you’d expect.
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Elna Bannat and Dharsi sahib |
Someone stop me before I play some South Park Chef.
Watch the trailer. Here’s the A. Lane review, less snarktastic than usual.
manish on November 13, 2005 04:36 PM in Film, Literature · T·r·a·c·k·b·a·c·k address · Direct link · Email post








Manish, I'm totally cracking up right now. Maybe now you'll read the book? ;-)
I'll paraphrase Mr. Bingham in the movie: 'Read? A book? Nobody reads any more. It's not that I can't read. It's just that I have better things to do.' ;)
*sniff* manish, I really like your writing and comments in general. But i SERIOUSLY hope you were being sarcky. this is the worst movie and version of P and P i have ever seen in my LIFE. if you liked the wittiness of THIS, you HAVE to read the original. I'm just gonna go BITCH out keira on my blog when I review the movie. and for a TRUE purist film rendition of the book, you must check out the BBC version (its victorian and it's beautiful perfect english - probably not what the shires would speak, but that which exists as a ond memory on our colonial imaginations). 10 hours of amazing intricate detail and subtle wit. *WAILS* i wasted 2 hours on bad costumes, trite dialogue, lapses into comtemporariness and ghastly accents and ugly people!
Oh. you were. sorry. my bad.