Pride and Prejudice - Documentary [2/3]

Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AHUrLIGI50

Category:

Education

Tags:

• jane
• austen
• pride
• prejudice
• book
• series
• adaptation
• colin
• firth
• jennifer
• ehle

[bobla2000]

I just love the fact that Colin had to think that he got an instant erection when he saw Elizabeth.. Fantastic!! :)

[Minty210]

Since when is P&P all about sex? o.O Sorry to disagree with Andrew Davis, whose version is my fave, but Jane Austen didn't write a novel about sexual tension. That's just barely scratching the surface of the story.

[EoSAkurei]

"And you have Lydia who is a complete slut." ...What kind of a thing is that to say? She's flirty, does that mean she's a slut? Please, don't taint our idea of the series by uttering such ill-fitted comments. As a sidenote, the 1995 version is my favourite. :>

[BlazingGoddess]

I don't think Mr. Davis is saying that sex is main point of the story, but it is absolutely an element. Austen made her world very rich, textured and real, and sex is an undeniably real element of life. But it was wielded with subtlety in her book, and it was subtle in the mini-series as well. I thought it was very well done.

[hearts000able]

It's better to wait until you're married to be intimate, even today. We respect men who control themselves :) Many people in the media will say otherwise, but they're wrong. I love reading and watching Pride & Prejudice and Sense & Sensibility because they're good stories AND they're decent.

[popap1995]

I'm sorry, but this is absolutely disgusting. Andrew Davis is a complete perverted moron to think that P&P is about sexual tension. He's disgusting! Jane Austen wrote a respectable novel about two mature, educated adults who fall in love, not modern-day amoral trashes. Sorry to disappoint you all, but the 1980 version is the very best, because it got the emotions spot on from the novel exactly, not Davis' polluted mind. Go watch something else instead of trashing Pride and Prejudice.

[Gothka13]

Well, they got all Freud on me. I think the 1980, an underrated version I believe, said it best at the end about Darcy's attraction to Lizzy. Lizzy told Darcy that she believes he had favored her before he even liked her because she her manners were so unconventional from the normal society he was used too, that she intrigued him. I think they meant there was only a little sexual tension, because of it's time, but they talked about it so long that it got mistranslated into too much instead.

[Sage80]

Can you just say physical attraction without getting into the gutter and talking about horny arousal?

[Vivimusic91]

@Minty210 Of course, the novel is more than about sex. There's money, social status, family, etc. So many ways to approach the story, and I simply think they wanted to point out a new way of seeing it, that wasn't considered before. Considering the times it was written, I don't think sexual tension was like we consider it today. (then again, I wasn't there in 1810) but I think it was so much more subtle. Something attractive doesn't have to be raw, it can be a smile, a gaze...

[0877579262]

Agree with other posters. A beautiful novel, but the sexual theme is only an undertone of supressed desires in that era, among such lines as class inequality, poverty and financial management, hypocricy, women vs men, aiming high, confidence and perseverence, character balance, family and bringing up children, friendship, honour, purity, respect for parents etc etc, and most importantly true love...

[mnosugi]

@Minty210 i agree with you that he overfocuses on the sex, but rather than explaining it as 'barely scratching the surface of the story' i would say 'going a little farther than austen intended'. I dont think the surface is mostly sexual tension with emotional underneath, is that what you were saying?

[nousernamewhatsoever]

I too don't think p&p is about sexual tension.there is certainly a lot of tension between Darcy and Elizabeth but it's more emotional than sexual