chani | Lost pride (Reply)

I saw Pride and Prejudice on Tuesday and haven't reviewed I didn't know what to say.

It was nice, much more cinematic than the BBC adaptation that looked a bit like a filmed play sometimes and sounded very BBC-like (don't ask me to elaborate, if you saw it you know what I meant), so it captured very well the British countryside and the gap between classes. I found Jane simply perfect, the Bingleys are okay, better than in 1995, the end of the movie is also better thanks to Donald Sutherland. Tom Hollander is an interesting Collins...more human than in the previous adaptation....but oddly enough there were overlong passages in that 2 hours movie compared to the 6 hours mini-series!

And to be honest I am not quite convinced by the so charming Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet. She lacks Jennifer Ehle's strength and self-restraint, she's too much in either laughing mode or crying one and the film looks like it's her own personal show that is almost embarrassing. But the main flaw of this new version is Darcy himself. Most of the time he looked simply overwhelmed while Colin Firth always had that attitude made of pride verging on arrogance, disinterest, eyes that screamed fire beneath the coldness, that is Darcy's trademark. Besides the "Firth factor" (it's hard to top his darcyness!), they made Darcy too nice, too sensitive to be really Darcy. It's like a diet-Darcy or as we'd say over here, a "Darcy Light".

Actually I think that the couple is too "modernised" (probably to reach a larger audience) and at the end of the day they have less chemistry than Ehle and Firth had.

The nasty lurking bug I mentioned a while ago, came out eventually. I almost threw up and passed out in the classroom, in front of my students yesterday, and ended up very ill (and feeling awful for "making a show" of my condition) in the teachers' restroom, so I stayed in the warm this morning. I'm feeling better, but tired and headachy.

Oh and I've just watched the last Lost.

If anyone embodies the fact of being LOST, it's Charlie. And he gives me the creeps especially with the whole hood wearing thing...

And I'm beginning to dislike Eko too. I found that the save-the-innocent-baby-to-save-yourself business was very heavy.

Aaron becoming Moses aka the one saved from the waters (Ha-bloody-Ha), the flashbacks that kept pointing out how Liam called Charlie BABY brother, the Drive Shaft guys wearing diapers in that silly video clip (although the clip maker was kind of hot)...Eko cleaning his own sins by baptizing mom and son.

I like a good metaphor, but I like them to be more subtle!

Fortunately we got a bit of Sawyer's dimples (I almost thought he made Kate look hot). And John Locke still rocks. Did I ever tell you how much I liked Locke? And Locke locking up bad things (guns and statues) is the best pun ever!

As for some trivia: Claire wears more and more make-up, men have always stubble but Libby keeps her armpits shaved! So obviously girls are smarter than boys.

Now I want a Swayer-centred episode and a Jin-centred one!