The eternal question answered
A constant bone of contention amongst Janeites seems to be, “Is Mr. Darcy really proud or just a bit shy and awkward?”* Alert Janeite Allison sent us a YouTube video that answers the question for once and all: he wasn’t shy, he wasn’t proud…he was OBSESSED!
This video was made as an example/test by a teacher who is giving a class assignment in which students are to recut a movie trailer. We think he did a fine job, and got a giggle out of it. Though we think it needs vampyres. And ninjas.
*The book isn’t called Diffidence and Prejudice. Just saying.
April 16th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Very funny — I’d like to see what he could do making a trailer of some of the 1980s & 1970s versions of the novels.
April 16th, 2008 at 10:13 am
LOL - Darcy the stalker!
April 16th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I love it…it was actually really convincing, if one hasn’t seen P&P05 that is.
April 16th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Delightfully wicked! It is quite amazing to see what a skilled creative mind can do with another’s work. Maybe some screenwriters should take his class!
Cheers, Laurel Ann
April 16th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
I think it’s an improvement over P&P05!
April 16th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
If you watch to the end, or if you click on “menu,” you (sometimes) get a bar across the bottom of thumbnails of the other recut trailers — if you run the cursor over each one, the title pops up — the second from the right gives it a suspense film feel, and the one titled “you’ll never get over me” make it a love story between Lizzy and Collins. Both are funny.
April 17th, 2008 at 12:57 am
Yes, I’ve seen this before! It’s an exercise which shows how editing can change the tone and context of a film. There are a bunch of great ones on YouTube!
April 17th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
That was hilarious…. i loved it! its was very convincing
April 17th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
*giggles*
Just goes to show what skilful editing can do.
Looking solely at the (well done) YouTube videos makes P&P05 look like such a better movie.
Also, the plural of “ninja” is “ninja”. Just sayin’.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
So fantastic, almost worryingly convincing. I would actually rather see that movie, than the actual movie.
April 18th, 2008 at 5:54 am
Diana I-C
>Also, the plural of “ninja” is “ninja”.
But aren’t both the words possible?
I read somewhere that the Japanese don’t seem to have plurals so ‘ninja’ remains as such, but after being adapted into the English language it seems to have undergone a change and an ’s’ added like to many other words.
Well, at least that’s what I can vaguely recollect.
I may be wrong though.
April 18th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
So good!
April 19th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Love it!
April 20th, 2008 at 1:07 am
I loved how the end had the creepy sound of Mrs. Bennett humming greensleeves quietly to herself. Perfect!
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:48 pm
What does it say about the acting that it works so well?