Obsessed!

[ladywaterwind]

I've been obsessed with Pride and Prejudice lately. I've watched the film with Keria Knightley quite a few times now. (Just watched it last night before bed, and am watching it again now lol)

Well, this afternoon I went in to the local library to check out the book and they didn't have it! What is that? It's a classic! They had just one Jane Austen book at all, Persuasion, which I checked out because I've never read it, but it's no Pride and Prejudice.

I need to buy me a copy. How lame I don't already it >.< and Emma. Need Emma as well.

[love_virus]

To be honest I've never quite gotten around to reading that book or see the movie.
But I know what you mean, when I like a song or television show I can replay it over and over again and I research the actors. etc. lol.

Can you request for your library to order a copy?

[jenntip]

Love the movie! The book is also wonderful. My book is small and red with a little red ribbon attached for a book mark. Jane Austen is such a passionate writer and sometimes I feel like that was me in another life, another time. Then again I like my showers and shaving so I'll slap myself back into reality.
Your not crazy, it's a great movie and Keria did a heck of a job with Elizabeth's character which is very complex.

[ladywaterwind]

I could get on a waiting list or something from the library, but it's usually only checked out when school kids have some sort of assignment, so I'll just leave it and get my own copy, which I should have done a long time ago, lol.

I just adore the movie. The cinematography is just superb. I love just the simplest things and how they express a HUGE emotion or step in the relationship between Elizabeth and Mr Darcy. For instance, in the movie where the Bennets are leaving Netherfield after Jane's illness and Mr. Darcy helps Elizabeth into the carriage and that unusual occurrence of skin to skin contact. While he is walking away the camera focuses just on his hand as he stretches it and just that small scene shows that he is already involved towards Elizabeth, and it's just so romantic. Love, love, love the movie.

[jenntip]

Your right it was the look and the touch. Not to many pp see that and how they must have felt because back then the slightest touch was the biggest moment. Dang you, now I want to watch the movie....that's ok, there could be worse things.

[nateNnatsmommy]

You should totally watch Becoming Jane now...James McAvoy...yummy :D

[ladywaterwind]

I've seen it. I didn't care for it, surprisingly. I still can't pinpoint what it ws exactly that made me 'ehh' towards it, but I just didn't care for it.

But on a good note when I couldn't get Pride and Prejudice I was able to pick up Persuasion, a book of hers I've not yet read. And it was awesome. It was a little slow-y to start. Where P&P just kind of jumps right in this one had a little back story and it took a few pages to get to what felt like the start of it. But I was pleased, it was very good all in all.

[jenntip]

I haven't seen that one yet. I do love Sense & Sensibility. That was another movie that got to me. Could you imagine if you were born into a poor family and you had to try to marry a man with money to survive? I don't think that would fly with me...I'm one of those "I wear the paints in the family" kind of woman. My DH is proud of that and is glad to tell anyone. Prob bc I do everything and all he has to do is work - sleep - trash - toilet seat down.

[mocha poka]

There is only one Mr. Darcy for me and that is Colin Firth (SWOON)! BTW, I love Pride & Prejudice .

[ladywaterwind]

omg! I just banished DH out of my sight!

We were channel flipping, Doom pops up on tnt, and we're sitting there watching a little bit of it and this chick comes on and it turns out to be Rosamund Pike, who plays Jane Bennett in the 2005 version of P&J. Well, it was her, and you could see that, but it didn't quite look like her, I guess cause use to seeing her in the period piece or something, I don't know.

So DH is all 'I thought it was her, but couldn't tell, cause I'm use to seeing her play that uppity socialite in that dumb movie you watch'.

When I tried to tell him she wasn't an uppity socialite, that Jane Bennett could never be a uppity socialite, he started saying I was nuts and she totally was one and stuff. I told him to get out and go get my mail, lol.