Pride, prejudice and destruction

My followers Jane Austen, you will need strength. In July, we will come to the three -year anniversary of the massacre that Netflix is ​​considered appropriate to tell us that it was persuasive. If you have just recovered from the murder of characters that causes his rage, you need to know that the streaming platform has even more threatening motion plans, with pride and prejudice next to the series.

We are obliged to warn you that if you have lukewarm feelings about the pride and prejudice of the BBC, get a burning passion for adapting 2005 and you will have an unexplained love for what Netflix thinks about Austen, you should probably stop reading. As for the rest of the race – that’s for you. Your rage has been noted and your feelings are valid. These are dark times.

Take care of yourself

In recent days, our variety has given us small nuggets for the latest Cast list, making it very difficult for those of us who previously committed obedience to the pride and prejudice of the BBC in 1995 with their protagonists Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. She continues that the star of Crown Olivia Colman is scheduled to play Mrs Bennet, with her daughter Emma Corrin, assumes the role of Mrs Bennet’s stubborn daughter and Austen’s most beloved heroine by Elizabeth. As for Austen’s most tormented hero, the task of bringing Mr Darcy to life (again) has been handed over to Jack Lowden, whom the drama fans will know better as a cartwright river than late horses.

Last week, then, the 95 fans have been designed by the 2005 memories, when Kiera Knightley, Elizabeth Bennet from Joe Wright’s attempt at this sacred classic, said to anyone who will hear in an interview: “Only fans of Snobby of the ’95 edition.”

Knightley was absolutely right. Even now, twenty years later, Snobby’s fans of the ’95 edition make no attempt to hide their frustration. Ergo, we can write an encyclopedia in all Knightley and its coats have been wrong in their film, critically recognized, though it may have been and are willing to get to the challenge again with what Netflix offers when the time comes.

Let us note that there are very few that are objectively incorrect with Colman or Corrin or Lowden. Colman could gradually play middle -aged people in the crown and equally depicts an optimistic homodchurch homicide detective. There is no reason that he will not be able to convince the nerve bag that is Mrs Bennet.

In the same vein, Lowden may not be enough oil painting (sorry, Lowden), but as anyone who has gone through the old firth photos has been forced to be completed, not even Mr Darcy himself, when his brother was given, but Darcy should not play. sexy? “Having all this in mind, it would be unfair to delete Lowden for his appearance. Despite his straight blond hair (the direct opposite of the dark curls of the firth), Lowden can give us a man who convincingly tells his crush (his unfortunate Elizabeth) Constitutional details.

Therefore, we do not write Lowden about his genetics. Instead, we write the whole thing – Colman, Corrin and every director, producer, screenwriter and the whole Caboodle – before it begins. Because, as the story teaches us with persuasion and Emma (2020), when it comes to slaughtering Austen adaptations, the limit does not exist for the depths of Netflix wilderness can sink.

Why, Netflix?

Consider the case of anachronistic persuasion with Dakota Johnson’s Anne. Speaking over the alienation by Captain Wentworth after eight years of separation, the book Anne thinks: “Now they were strangers.

It was ratified by Netflix, screenwriters Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow, under Carrie Cracknell’s director (we must distribute the responsibility where it is due, since it would be unfair to want to hit Johnson for that).

Because no one was convicted of walking in a Lego field for this unnecessary killing the classic Austen line is unclear. As a Reddit critic he put it back when the film was released, “I watched this movie last night for the first time and I am full of anger and anger now.”

To the rest, that anger and anger also took advantage of Netflix’s efforts with Emma, ​​Austen’s final novel. There are people who fill love and praise in this “humorous” take Emma. You tough Austenites do not need to be associated with any of these people so as not to start having fun thoughts on socially unacceptable violence.

That was said, those who raise accidents on the side of the road would be unable to look away from Emma’s Anya Taylor-Joy’s disaster at Emma, ​​where the heroine Regency not only dances with a man who has never met in the middle of the city outside the Open not in any film) proposed in the middle of the sentence.

Why a rhinorrhea? No one has offered a rational explanation, but what we know is that, like the monstrous Exes line to persuasion, this physical function was a deliberate choice. In fact, during an interview with Entertainment Weekly in 2021, Taylor-Joy explained that the collective decision was to avoid “sweeping violins” in favor of “blood and screaming”. Obviously, Taylor-Joy can produce a rhinorrhea in the slogan, which means there was less work for the makeup section.

“Yes, the plan was to stop the filming and add the blood and then continue, I handed the blood, so there was no need,” the actor possessed.

Do you see what we have to do here? On behalf of all Austenites, please all studios to stop polishing fresh young minds with what this bizarro version of the Regency Romance is. The only accepted remote from the original material is diving in a lake in Pembberley. Beyond that, we can no longer let we scream, false blood and talk about exes to contaminate our screens. Filmmakers, please leave Austen only. Thank you.