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November 20, 2005

Damn Your Bawdy Boldness, Darcy!

IT was perhaps a little embarrassing to learn that the British producers of the latest "Pride and Prejudice" released a different ending for American audiences: a swoony moonlit scene of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy in dishabille, kissing and cooing in a post-coital clinch.

It was as if NASA had prepared an international mission to Mars and felt a need to lace the Russians' Tang with vodka.


Gasp and Grope ~ Austen, American-style. (I didn't read where Mr. Bingley got any extra action, though. He must have been busy trolling online.) And I guess we've infected the homeland with more than just fast-food:
And Austen fans in England who got wind of the American version were incensed that they had been denied a final kiss.

Posted by tree hugging sister at November 20, 2005 04:44 PM

Comments

Oh ick.

Just ick.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at November 20, 2005 10:06 PM

My friend went to it and said she had come home and immediately watch the A&E version to wipe the memory of Donald Sutherland from her brain.

Posted by: Donnah at November 20, 2005 11:13 PM

Donald Sutherland. Is that like beyond creepy, or what? Mr. Bennet is...oh, never mind. Suffice to say, he's not...NOT...Donald Sutherland. But, of course, Keira Knightly (a fine cockney girl) with her Winona Ryder/"Dracula" upper class English accent is not Eliza Bennet either.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at November 20, 2005 11:24 PM

My bride said that she could tell it was going to be awful simply by the poses the cast took in the ad she saw, so we most assuredly are not going to darken a theater where it's playing.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at November 21, 2005 07:57 AM

Donald Sutherland's last great role was Oddball.

Posted by: John at November 21, 2005 10:50 AM

Yeah, the world wasn't exactly crying out for a new Pride and Prejudice, especially one with such an ending with Darcy and Elizabeth. Especially curious, considering the utter horror every character shows towards Fitzsimmons and Elizabeth's youngest sister.

(Did they read the book before filming it?)

Posted by: Nightfly at November 21, 2005 12:18 PM

George Wickham, I believe you mean, 'Fly

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at November 21, 2005 01:21 PM

(OOOoooh, scoundrely, simpering man. Wickham = ::boo hiss boo::)

Posted by: tree hugging sister at November 21, 2005 01:28 PM

Wickham...a gamester. How horrible!

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at November 21, 2005 01:37 PM

Drat, yeah, it was Wickham. Should have remembered that. (And I think the other dude was Fitzwilliam, so I'm just going to fall silent here for a while...)

Posted by: Nightfly at November 22, 2005 12:52 PM