Elizabeth And Darcy
Dec. 9th, 2004 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI've just watched the BBC's Pride and Prejudice- all six hours of it in a single session. I started out of duty (Ailz is studing P & P with the Open University) but I quickly became hooked.
By the end of it Elizabeth and Darcy had become so real to me that I was speculating about their future. I thought, these two will live to see Victoria come to the throne and the railways criss-cross the country and their beloved Derbyshire fill up with factories and maybe they'll still be around for the Great Exhibition in 1851. When they're approaching late middle-age someone will take their photographs. Almost certainly theyll get to read Dickens and Tennyson and....
...And then I made myself quite melancholy thinking about how they've now been dead for something like 150 years.
But, of course, they're not dead at all; they're immortal- reborn every time anyone picks up the book or watches a dramatization.
By the end of it Elizabeth and Darcy had become so real to me that I was speculating about their future. I thought, these two will live to see Victoria come to the throne and the railways criss-cross the country and their beloved Derbyshire fill up with factories and maybe they'll still be around for the Great Exhibition in 1851. When they're approaching late middle-age someone will take their photographs. Almost certainly theyll get to read Dickens and Tennyson and....
...And then I made myself quite melancholy thinking about how they've now been dead for something like 150 years.
But, of course, they're not dead at all; they're immortal- reborn every time anyone picks up the book or watches a dramatization.
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-happy sigh-
Date: 2004-12-09 02:08 pm (UTC)Re: -happy sigh-
Date: 2004-12-09 02:29 pm (UTC)They had such good taste in the Regency. There have never (before or since) been more flattering fashions for either sex.
The one piece of casting I disliked was Alison Steadman as Mrs Bennett. You need to be able to believe that sensible Mr Bennett was once madly in love with this silly woman, but Steadman plays her as a spiky shrew without any vestige of sexiness or charm.
Re: -happy sigh-
Date: 2004-12-09 03:32 pm (UTC)I feel very (and this will sound silly) civilized when I watch P&P. It makes me want to be more of a lady, more genteel, more feminine - which I actually want to be anyway, so it's not as if watching the series has me all topsy-turvy or anything like that. Rather, it serves as a reminder of the woman I would like to be...I really should watch it again.
That's one of the reasons I love to drink my tea (with milk and -gasp- sugar, thank you very much). I think it's a far more civilized drink than coffee could ever hope to be; there is something extremely satisfying about having a nice cup of tea.
Re: -happy sigh-
Date: 2004-12-09 03:52 pm (UTC)I would love to wear one of those full-skirted greatcoats and a top hat. So very dashing!