Getting in touch with your inner Lizzy
Nicole Laskowski wrote a very sweet editorial about how she and a college friend came to love Lizzy Bennet (and Pride and Prejudice) in spite of themselves.
It makes sense to me why she has become Austen’s most widely known, most celebrated heroine. Because Elizabeth Bennet defines the word classic.
Jane Austen wrote that Lizzy was “as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print.” We concur.
March 31st, 2006 at 3:44 pm
Only recently saw Aishwarya in the part. Mags was too permissive while reviewing B&P in giving Ash’s performance and direction a pass. Ash early in the film makes many faces at Darcy expressing a variety of pique but never with the sweetness & archness we see from Garvie in P&P1…
On the other hand there is saving grace in the moment of pillow talk between Ash and Martin Henderson (Darcy) during the airplane cabin scene that is well-played and makes the most of gorgeous Ash.
March 31st, 2006 at 4:12 pm
But your lordship, she’s Lalita, not Lizzy: there’s a difference.
Things change by necessity when you bring the story into the modern-day.
April 2nd, 2006 at 3:37 pm
Well, thanks for your attention, Mags.
I conclude if the delightful creature is jettisoned, it’s not changing times or cross-cultural translation, but the most important element of the novel that the writers elected to set adrift.
It’s about Lizzie isn’t it–despite all the mooning over Darcy in a certain quarter?
Furthermore, I gather you think that the preference for P&P3 over all others is just love of that quarter for the Full Brontë over Austen? To coin a phrase…