Folly & Noncompetence of authors

Rating: 4/10 (28 January 2006)

This is the poorest adaptation imaginable. The authors would have done well if they'd placed the action in some other historical period, e.g. in contemporary times. This would have at least spared the picture from many serious blunders concerning the way of life and mores of Regency England. Still it wouldn't make the whole picture much better: the characters they are absent at all. Elizabeth is subtle, and Knightly is an ever jeering ninny. Darcy is proud and haughty and MacFadyen is like a log. Both Elizabeth and Darcy characters are developing as the action evolves, and nor Knightly neither MacFadyen are not, let alone all other personages. P&P is a brilliant, wise and subtle novel. The film is dull. I'm going to once again watch BBC miniseries to wipe out the dusty effect of this picture.