That's a very good observation about BBC Lydia. I think that's what Book Lydia is meant to convey too, isn't she? Julia Sawalha, who was Lydia in the BBC P&P, was about 26 when she played the part. It's an amazing piece of acting because she really looks and acts just like a 15 year old!Wildwood wrote:In the BBC version, I felt like they wanted her to represent impetuosity and sort of "the animal in humans". She was always tired, or hungry, or thirsty or whatever. Very into self gratification, etc. I wasn't entirely satisfied with their Lydia either, but I liked her a good deal better than this one! :D:D:D:D:D
Since she seemed to be in the film for all of 5 minutes, I can't honestly say I have a strong opinion about her. I thought Emilia Fox was pretty good as Georgiana in the BBC production, despite the fact that she bore no physical resemblance to Firth. Book Georgiana is even shyer than Fox made her.What was your opinion of the newly acted Georgianna???
In the film, I seemed to miss Wickham being a villain too.
That whole sub-plot was given such sketchy treatment I wondered why they bothered.
Well, that's film adaptation for you ... a lot of things get truncated. I love that scene in the BBC, and Anna Chancellor was superb as Caroline Bingley (what a cow!!) but I thought Kelly Reilly also did a great job. She was perhaps rather more sexually knowing than she ought to have been, but on the other hand, perhaps that's not implausible. This is Regency England, after all, not Victorian England.And how did you feel about them skipping the meeting with Miss Bingley at Pemberly?? I think Firth captured Darcy's "...it is now many months since i thought her the handsomest woman...." speech, and shut that mean Miss Bingley right up!!
[Actually, I think it's Georgian England, since the film is set in 1797 (the year Austen began P&P), whereas the BBC adaptation is set later on, around 1810 (which is closer to the date of the book's actual publication). ]
Jane Austen, Mistress of the Snark. Nobody does it better.I have always loved Austen's observation that Miss Bingley is left to enjoy the triumph of having made him say what gave nobody but herself any pain! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
I'll tell you who else was really brilliant in the BBC ... Joanna David as the terribly nice and very astute Aunt Gardner. Man, is she on the ball!
Penelope Wilton played the aunt in the film. She's Ian Holm's ex-wife.