P&P3 News Roundup: Special Victims Unit
(Today’s post title is an homage to our favorite Law and Order show and to our girl Mariska Hargitay, who occasionally reminds us of Lizzy Bennet and was robbed, ROBBED WE SAY! of an Emmy.)
The Bucks Free Press has a thoughtful review of the film that we think does the best job we’ve seen yet of making a case for a more “modern” adaptation.
The settings feel earthier than many prim and proper period films; the Bennett household especially has a convincing grubbiness to it. Wright also makes the most of some lovely scenery, never missing an opportunity to set the characters against beautiful sunsets or impressive rainstorms.
Even the society sequences have more vibrancy than most, as the camera sweeps fluidly through corridors and ballrooms to offer a real sense of place and occasion. The dance scenes themselves are boldly filmed, sending the audience spinning amongst the social high-flyers. These touches work well, giving the film a modern feel without unnecessarily updating the material.
We still think that it is no bad thing to challenge an audience to maybe try to enjoy the old-fashioned boring historical rectitude thing. You never know; they might even like it.
Music From the Movies has a review of the soundtrack.
There is so much to enjoy on this album, despite its relatively short running time and each listen immediately takes you back to the world of the film. Pride and Prejudice is definitely an album for many repeated listens.
The Australian tells about a cinema in Gloucestershire that discovered a squatter had been living in the cinema behind the screen.
It may have been a cut above sleeping in a doorway, but only just. The mysterious squatter in his comfortable, secret burrow will have had to endure three showings of Pride and Prejudice every day, plus Wedding Crashers, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of Were-Rabbit, The Dukes of Hazzard and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory - and all of them back to front.
Oh, those crazy P&P fans; what won’t they do next? 
