We suppose everyone has heard by now, but Keira Knightley was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Actress in a Motion Picture for her performance in PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.
The full list of technical nominations has not been posted yet (slackers) but we understand that the film also was nominated in the Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design and Best Original Score categories.
What, no Best Original Screenplay nomination? </snark>
Well, here’s something to liven up a slow news week…
Although she is candid about many visual touches the director added to her script to make it more cinematic that she feels improved it, she was not happy with the most controversial addition - a passionate kiss between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy at the very end. British audiences were so incensed by this scene that it was cut from the British version, although it will be seen in America because “apparently they thought American audiences have a bit of a sweeter tooth.”
According to Moggach, who wrote an alternative scene to establish the intimacy between Elizabeth and Darcy at the end, “the kiss is so not Jane Austen. They were very powerfully attracted to each other, we certainly understand that. But it was a time of restraint and constriction.”
Really, the kiss is fine. There’s nothing wrong with the kiss. It was the dreadful dialogue that accompanied it that many of us have a problem with. Ms. Moggach’s original conception of the scene (the dialogue for which came from a scene in the novel) was a better fit, in our opinion.
ETA: Because it’s a slow news week, here is the scene from the earlier draft of the script: (more…)
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