It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Everybody knows the first sentence of Jane Austen"s Pride & Prejudice. But the chapter ends with a truth equally acknowledged about Mrs. Bennet, who has five daughters in want of husbands: "The business of her life was to get her daughters married."
Romance seems so urgent và delightful in Austen because marriage is a business, và her characters cannot help treating it as a pleasure. Pride and Prejudice is the best of her novels because its romance involves two people who were born lớn be in love, và care not about business, pleasure, or each other. It is frustrating enough when one person refuses to lớn fall in love, but when both refuse, we cannot rest until they kiss.
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Of course all depends on who the people are. When Dorothea marries the Rev. Casaubon in Eliot"s Middlemarch, it is a tragedy. She marries out of consideration và respect, which is all wrong; she should have married for money, always remembering that where money is, love often follows, since there is so much time for it. The crucial information about Mr. Bingley, the new neighbor of the Bennet family, is that he "has" an income of four or five thousand pounds a year. One never earns an income in these stories, one has it, và Mrs. Bennet (Brenda Blethyn) has her sights on it.
Her candidate for Mr. Bingley"s hand is her eldest daughter, Jane; it is orderly khổng lồ marry the girls off in sequence, avoiding the impression that an older one has been passed over. There is a dance, to lớn which Bingley brings his friend Darcy. Jane và Bingley immediately fall in love, to lớn get them out of the way of Darcy và Elizabeth, who is the second Bennet daughter. These two immediately dislike each other. Darcy is overheard telling his friend Bingley that Elizabeth is "tolerable, but not handsome enough khổng lồ tempt me." The person who overhears him is Elizabeth, who decides she will "loathe him for all eternity." She is advised within the family circle to lớn count her blessings: "If he liked you, you"d have to talk to him."
These are the opening moves in Joe Wright"s new film "Pride & Prejudice," one of the most delightful and heartwarming adaptations made from Austen or anybody else. Much of the delight & most of the heart comes from Keira Knightley, who plays Elizabeth as a girl glowing in the first light of perfection. She is beautiful, she has opinions, she is kind but can be unforgiving. "They are all silly và ignorant like other girls," says her father in the novel, "but Lizzie has something more of quickness than her sisters."
Knightley"s performance is so light and yet fierce that she makes the story almost realistic; this is not a well-mannered "Masterpiece Theatre" but a film where strong-willed young people enter life with their minds at war with their hearts. The movie is more robust than most period romances; it is phối earlier than usual, in the late 1700s, a period more down to lớn earth than the early Victorian years. The young ladies don"t look quite so much lượt thích illustrations for Vanity Fair, & there is mud around their hems when they come back from a walk. It is a time of rural realities: When Mrs. Bennet sends a daughter to lớn visit Netherfield Park, the country residence of Mr. Bingley, she sends her on horseback, knowing it will rain, và she will have lớn spend the night.
The plot by this point has grown complicated. It is a truth universally acknowledged by novelists that before two people can fall in love with each other, they must first seem determined khổng lồ make the wrong marriage with someone else. It goes without saying that Lizzie fell in love with young Darcy (Matthew Mac
Fadyen) the moment she saw him, but her pride has been wounded. She tells Jane: "I might more easily forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine."
The stakes grow higher. She is told by the dashing officer Wickham (Rupert Friend) that Darcy, his childhood friend, cheated him of a living that he deserved. Và she believes that Darcy is responsible for having spirited Bingley off lớn London khổng lồ keep him out of the hands of her sister Jane. Lizzie even begins to lớn think she may be in love with Wickham. Certainly she is not in love with the Rev. Collins (Tom Hollander), who has a handsome living và would be Mrs. Bennet"s choice for a match. When Collins proposes, the mother is in ecstasy, but Lizzie declines, & is supported by her father (Donald Sutherland), a man whose love for his girls outweighs his wife"s financial planning.
All of these characters meet and circle each other at a ball in the village Assembly Hall, and the camera circles them. The sequence feels lượt thích one unbroken shot, và has the same elegance as Visconti"s long single take as he follows the prince through the ballrooms in "The Leopard." We see the characters interacting, we see Lizzie avoiding Collins và enticing Darcy, we understand the politics of these romances, & we are swept up in the intoxication of the dance. In a later scene as Lizzie & Darcy dance together everyone else somehow vanishes (in their eyes, certainly), & they are left alone within the love they feel.
But a lot must happen before the happy ending, and I particularly admired a scene in the rain where Darcy & Lizzie have an angry argument. This argument serves two purposes: It clears up misunderstandings, & it allows both characters khổng lồ see each other as the true and brave people they really are. It is not enough for them to love each other; they must also love the goodness in each other, and that is where the story"s true emotion lies.
The movie is well cast from đứng top to bottom; lượt thích many British films, it benefits from the genius of its supporting players. Judi Dench brings merciless truth-telling khổng lồ her role as a society arbiter; Sutherland is deeply amusing as a man who lives surrounded by women & considers it a blessing & a fate, & as his wife Blethyn finds a balance between her character"s mercenary & loving sides. She may seem unforgivably obsessed with money, but better to be obsessed with money now than with poverty hereafter.
When Lizzie & Darcy finally accept each other in "Pride và Prejudice," I felt an almost unreasonable happiness. Why was that? I am impervious to lớn romance in most films, seeing it as a manifestation of box office requirements. Here is it different, because Darcy và Elizabeth are good and decent people who would rather vì chưng the right thing than convenience themselves. Anyone who will sacrifice their own happiness for higher considerations deserves to be happy. When they realize that about each other their hearts leap, and, reader, so did mine.
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Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
Sure, it"s another adaptation of cinema"s fave Jane Austen novel, but key performances & a modern filmmaking sensibility make this familiar period piece fresh and enjoyable. Read critic đánh giá
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In this adaptation of Jane Austen"s beloved novel, Elizabeth Bennet (Keira Knightley) lives with her mother, father và sisters in the English countryside. As the eldest, she faces mounting pressure from her parents khổng lồ marry. When the outspoken Elizabeth is introduced to lớn the handsome and upper-class Mr. Darcy (Matthew Mac
Fadyen), sparks fly. Although there is obvious chemistry between the two, Darcy"s overly reserved nature threatens the fledgling relationship.
Rating: PG (Some Mild Thematic Elements)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Original Language: English (United Kingdom)
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 23, 2005 wide
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 28, 2006
Box Office (Gross USA): $38.4M
Runtime: 2h 8m
Distributor: Focus Features
Production Co: Universal Pictures, Working Title Films
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)
Cast và Crew
Keira Knightley
Elizabeth Bennet
Matthew Macfadyen
Mr. Darcy
Brenda Blethyn
Mrs. Bennet
Donald Sutherland
Mr. Bennet
Judi Dench
Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Rosamund Pike
Jane Bennett
Talulah Riley
Mary Bennet
Claudie Blakley
Charlotte Lucas
Cornelius Booth
Colonel Fitzwilliam
Tom Hollander
Mr. Collins
Jena Malone
Lydia Bennet
Kelly Reilly
Caroline Bingley
Peter Wight
Mr. Gardiner
Penelope Wilton
Mrs. Gardiner
Simon Woods
Mr. Bingley
Rupert Friend
Mr. Wickham
Carey Mulligan
Kitty Bennet
Tamzin Merchant
Georgiana Darcy
Sylvester Morand
Sir William Lucas
Janet Whiteside
Mrs. Hill
Joe Wright
Director
Jane Austen
Writer
Lee Hall
Screenwriter
Deborah Moggach
Screenwriter
Tim Bevan
Producer
Eric Fellner
Producer
Paul Webster
Producer
Jina Jay
Casting
John Moffatt
Visual Effects Supervisor
Guy Heeley
First Assistant Director
Phil Booth
Second Assistant Director
Vicky Marks
Third Assistant Director
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