How to spoil a great novel...

Rating: 1/10 (17 April 2006)

I cant speak English perfectly, so i hope you'll forgive me. Gosh...What to say about this movie? First, i have to say i've seen Pride & Prejudice directed by S. Langton with J.Ehle/C.Firth (BBC 1995, more than 360 mins) and i consider that film a masterpiece. Maybe i am a bit one sided when i speak about this new version of the film, but since for the very beginning of it i understood it would have been a poor thing: first of all, (as the most of the USA historical film) it is completely unfaithful: eg. in the first ball scene Lizzy asks Darcy if he wants to dance! Come on! Was Joe Wright out of his mind? A lady asks a gentleman to dance in the Victorian England period??! That's a nonsense as the most of the things shown in the movie. Second, what to say about the figure of Mr Collins? It should be a comic figure (as he was in Langton's film), but here looks more like a psycokiller. And Wickham? He is just the poor,gay, version of Orlando Bloom. What about Darcy and Bingley? the first one is really nothing in comparison with the great performance of Colin Firth and the second one is really ridiculous in the part of a weak gentleman. And Lizzy & Jane? They act like a '90 teenagers more than ancient English women. Too bad. Also Keira Knightley that usually acts good (a part to be one of he finest creature on the earth)in this film seems confused and acts hysterically in some part of it. Poor Jane Austen...