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I really like the BBC production of 'Pride & Prejudice'. Sure it's different from the book (5 hours and severely shortened) and mostly the appropriate behaviour changed due to lenght. Still I think they did a great job on the actors, especially Mrs. Bennett and Lady Catherine.brioche said:
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Awww, we need the rest of the story!!! It's an awsome start. What happens? Does her father come home? does the other flower bloom an imp? What's next?!! It's sweet so far Betticus, but will it stay that way or will it take a turn towards the dark and ugly? I like it! 
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chris9 said:
That, to my opinion, depends on which BBC one you are referring to. If you mean the one that was done 2 years ago, with Colin Firth as Darcy, watch the first one the Beeb did, many years ago, with, i believe, Elizabeth Garvey as Lizzie. It is much more historically appropriate. The one A&E put on was for a more mainstream audience, and its portrayals therefore a bit more obvious. For example, Lizzie would NOT snicker at the table the way she did in the Mr. Collins scene - but if you watch the first one, it's not a snicker, it's a meaningful look between herself and her father. She's calling him on the fact that he is deliberately amusing himself (and her by extension) with Mr. Collins boobery. (i find that non-word self explanatory) A look is all she would have been permitted at that time, and her father knew it.
The old one is more subtle, but all the more enjoyable because Austen was very subtle and witty under the surface. Just as the book needed multiple readings to get a thorough understanding, so the movie needed multiple viewings to catch all the undertones.
Not to mention the whole diving into the fish pond thing. WTF was that?
They did, however, set the age of the actors much better. The one thing i didn't like about the first one was that everyone was too old.
i also really enjoyed Persuasion, even though the kiss in the street and the parade were a bit odd, and Mansfield Park was - fun, but chopped up.But then, in the book, you weren't supposed to LIKE Fanny. She's supposed to be annoying. It was an experiment with an unlikeable protagonist on Austen's part.
Emma, with Gwyneth Paltrow, was pure popcorn. Not serious, but enjoyable. The other one was a bit better.
Sense and Sensibility - entirely unfaithful to the book - but i never got all the way through it, so that didn't distress me.
i should probably mention that i take historical reproductions more seriously because i am an Honours English Major, and studied most of the works. It's more of a mindset. i don't treat most movies this way.
My mum, on the other hand, had to be told to shut up when she developed a penchant for analysing commercials. Out loud. God, that was annoying. Fortunately, what with both her and myself teaching now, who has the energy? Our conversations during commercials (and not, much to my Dad's disgust) focus on the teaching world, and mutual acquaintances.
Sorry if any of this is making the sense that is - not. i have a migraine and am waiting for the meds to kick in.
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I haven't seen the older P&P, though the one with Colin Firth must be way older than 2 years. I've seen it the first time in 1998 I think. This scene with Mr. Collins is pretty much one of those I have been thinking of when saying it wasn't always appropriate behaviour in the movie. Another example are conversations between Elizabeth and Mr. Wickham. Like when she wishes him well for his marriage with Miss King and when apologizes for not proposing because of money. No good.brioche said:
Maybe I'll find the other one somewhere, then I'll watch it, too.
Persuasion, yes, I like the film. Not as much as the book, but good non-the-less.
I have not seen any of the others.
Emma seemed from the actors and set-up to be rather 'holywoody', so I skipped it.
I do like Fanny Price. Maybe I'm weird, but I could completely feel with her. And Sense&Sensibility got better on second reading, though it's not as good as the others.
I do look forward to finding out what's with the other flower!
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Hannah became curious and went outside to see what had become of the little fairy. She saw some commotion up in one of the trees and walked carefully over there. It seems that there were some fat little silkworms busily spinning out pure white silk and there were some honeybees busily doing something with it. In a few minutes the gorgeous fairy girl came out of the crowd of bugs and strutted out onto a branch of the tree wearing the most gorgeous, pure white silken dress. It was a little gauzy and see thru in some places like the belly and back. In fact it really only barely hid her itty bitty little naughty bits. In short order the busy little creatures had also made her a pair of silk shoes to match her dress. The little fairy was showing off to her friends a little and was posing like a tiny model. She saw Hannah watching and gave off a great big smile and started to glow even brighter.
Hannah had never seen so beautiful a creature and it seemed that the little fairy even liked her. In spite of being such an ugly little child. Hannah was happy and a little self conscious at the same time. The fairy flew all around the flower garden and she picked out tiny pieces of pollen from each of them until she had one piece from each flower. She then gave the lump of pollen to a really big honeybee who flew off with it into the tree and was buzzing about with the silk worms. Hannah wondered what they were up to but the fairy flew into her window and she just had to go and see what was going on.
Hannah had never seen so beautiful a creature and it seemed that the little fairy even liked her. In spite of being such an ugly little child. Hannah was happy and a little self conscious at the same time. The fairy flew all around the flower garden and she picked out tiny pieces of pollen from each of them until she had one piece from each flower. She then gave the lump of pollen to a really big honeybee who flew off with it into the tree and was buzzing about with the silk worms. Hannah wondered what they were up to but the fairy flew into her window and she just had to go and see what was going on.
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1) We are girls. And girls like cute stories.Betticus said:
I purposely chose this generalization, so don't fry me for it.
2) You used a good trick catching your readers by giving us two flowers, then telling what's in the first. Now I'm really curious what happens with the second!
3) You hinted at spankings and tyings and such to come, and we want to read that...
Are you writing another part soon?
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Hannah went into her home to find the fairy exploring all of her personal things. She was too shy to say anything but it seemed that the fairy looked to her for her approval for each thing she looked into. The fairy made herself at home among Hannah's things and she went so far as to give Hannah several really quick and surprising hugs through the day. Every nook of Hannah's private life was explored. Hannah was shocked out of her reverie by the setting sun and she rushed to prepare dinner for her father who was due home soon. When her dad came home Hannah was in a rush to tell him what had happened, she even showed him the pixie dust on her dress. Her father managed to calm her down and after dinner he even obliged her a visit to her bedroom to see the magical happenings that Hannah had described to him. He saw in the setting sun two perfect but mismatched in color tulip flowers tightly curled up. He sent Hannah off to bed with a hug and a promise that the coming years of her life would contain real magic.
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It was a busy day and Hannah was very tired from all of the excitement. She fell asleep while looking at her flowers and wondering what kind of changes would happen in her life. It was the night of the full moon and Hannah had strange pixie dust fueled dreams of magic and mythical creatures and adventure. She woke in the middle of the night and felt a sense of panic. There were bats flying through her open window, as her eyes cleared she also noticed that spiders of every kind were in her room. They were on the walls and ceiling and door and all around her window. There were snakes of every kind and every variety of poisonous creature in the forest, both magical and nonmagical. There were scabrous, leathery creatures and toads and lizards and newts, all in the bright colors of natures warning of danger. Scorpions bigger than her hand could hold and things so tiny you could only see them as they moved. The cold light of the full moon cast strange shadows on everything but she noticed that the black flower was slowly opening. As scared as she was Hannah knew that she had to see what was going on. She got out of bed and walked over to the flower, as close as the bats would let her get and she watched. The flower petals were seperating and curling away to let the plant bloom open. Hannah could make out in the moonlight that there were even some very huge spiders outside of her window watching her. They were like nothing she had ever seen. The silence of the whole evening was eerie and made shivers run up and down her back.
Hannah didn't know it but her life was about to drastically change in ways that she could have never imagined.
Hannah didn't know it but her life was about to drastically change in ways that she could have never imagined.
