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2 July 2005

A fine house richly furnished

Filed under: Jane in the News — Mags @ 8:32 pm

An article in the New York Times about renting National Trust properties included the following:

Walking under the rose pergola toward the ornate center fountain, sipping glasses of Champagne, we could hear the children giggling as they rolled down the hill to the croquet lawn just below.

“Don’t you just feel like Elizabeth Bennet at Netherfield,” my mother, a Jane Austen fanatic, whispered. “However did you happen to find such a place for let?” she asked.

“Wow,” I thought. My Michigan mother was suddenly speaking like someone from 19th-century England. “The Internet,” I answered, hoping to bring her back to the future.

Now that’s what we call a house party!

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Emma Thompson brought in as script consultant for PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 2005

Filed under: Pride and Prejudice (2005) — Mags @ 10:29 am

Alert Janeite Mandy sent in a link to an article in the Camden New Journal about Deborah Moggach, the original screenwriter for P&P3, which states that Emma Thompson, star and Academy Award-winning screenwriter of SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, was brought in as a script consultant for P&P3. This is good news as far as we are concerned. We confess to being a trifle boggled by the following:

Deborah, who likes to appear in all her films as an extra, says: “She re-wrote a scene where I was going to be drinking in a tavern, by setting it in an oak wood, so I didn’t do it.”

A scene where a woman is drinking in a tavern? Changed to a setting in an oak wood? In PRIDE AND PREJUDICE? Anyone else feeling a bit like they’ve fallen down the rabbit-hole?

We were also a little taken aback by this tidbit:

The film also puts the Bennett girls in a very old-fashioned house with dresses so old they’ve practically got stains under the arms. So it makes it really matter that they get married.

Remember our comments below about our internal film of P&P? Does not include armpit-stained dresses. Not even close.

Thanks to Mandy for this very interesting (and a trifle disturbing) link. We pray that Ms. Thompson was able to do sufficient repairs so that our sensibilities are not completely shattered by the film. Dorothy will be standing by with the vinaigrette and the Tullamore Dew.

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