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26/12/05 10:41My nice tenants at the house in Massachusetts want to renew the lease for another two years. A sigh of relief is heard.
26/12/05
So this afternoon I took The Young to see Pride and Prejudice. On the whole I still liked it (subject to my quibbles from last time. This time I feel that Donald Sutherland may be the single best thing in the film) and on the whole the girls, including YG, a self-professed "Jane Austen Geek", liked it too.
About forty five minutes in, YG leans over and says "Doesn't Elizabeth ever wear a hat in this movie? Why isn't her mother yelling at her?" I have clearly left my imprint on the kid. I was looking at hairstyles on this viewing; Greg Feeley has a theory that one of the ways that some historical movies cheat is by giving the heroes and good guys modern haircuts, and the villains more historically accurate ones (for instance, Kevin Costner's razor-cut do' in Dances with Interminable Wolves. I will say that Matthew McFayden's haircut is straight period, and Keira Knightley's hair, while perhaps fudging a bit, was admissable. The film is clearly not set in that awful early 1820s period with women wearing wiiiiiide shoulders, high waists and weird towers of hair with side-puffs, so I didn't have to worry whether Lizzie was properly puffed out. But yes, they coulda put her in a hat now and then, and she certainly should have been wearing gloves at the ball. I don't care how much you're trying to make out that Lizzie is a tomboy; sooner or later someone would have run after her with her bonnet.
About forty five minutes in, YG leans over and says "Doesn't Elizabeth ever wear a hat in this movie? Why isn't her mother yelling at her?" I have clearly left my imprint on the kid. I was looking at hairstyles on this viewing; Greg Feeley has a theory that one of the ways that some historical movies cheat is by giving the heroes and good guys modern haircuts, and the villains more historically accurate ones (for instance, Kevin Costner's razor-cut do' in Dances with Interminable Wolves. I will say that Matthew McFayden's haircut is straight period, and Keira Knightley's hair, while perhaps fudging a bit, was admissable. The film is clearly not set in that awful early 1820s period with women wearing wiiiiiide shoulders, high waists and weird towers of hair with side-puffs, so I didn't have to worry whether Lizzie was properly puffed out. But yes, they coulda put her in a hat now and then, and she certainly should have been wearing gloves at the ball. I don't care how much you're trying to make out that Lizzie is a tomboy; sooner or later someone would have run after her with her bonnet.