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To: caryatid

Have you seen the recent version inspired by the book set in modern day India, the UK and the US called Bride and Prejudice? I thought it was an interesting take on the classic.


10 posted on 03/07/2006 10:17:57 PM PST by xp38
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To: xp38
Sorry, no, I have not. I am not really a movie person ... have not been in a theatre in 20 years and have never rented a video. ... not much of a TV person either ... but the A&E version of Pride and Prejudice has been shown so often that I tuned in once and found it delightful.

We do have a VHS library [now acquiring DVDs of favorites] ... but they are oldies like Galsworthy's The Forsyte Sage [1965 or 1967]; LeCarre's Tinker Tailor and Smiley's People [early 1980s]; Peter Wimsey [1970s or so]; Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Poirot, Doyle's Sherlock Holmes; The First Churchills; and a few others.

About the only modern thing is Simon Schama's History of Britain and we often watch history things. Watching a history of World War I right now that is quite well done.

There are a few other goodies like BBC's Edge of Darkness and In the Red ... but I do not know of anyone else who has ever seen those ... the first is from the 1980s and has a cult following in England, the second is from the 1990s and is fascinating, amusing and has Stephen Fry in it. And we love the Francis Urquahart series ... House of Cards, To Play the King and The Final Cut; as well as several other interesting BBC series like Crossing the Floor; Defense of the Realm; The Politician's Wife [Ian Bannen was in it]; and more recently The Whistleblower and State of Play.

I guess I am just not a child of Popular Culture. Most of what passes for entertainment today is so dumbed down and so trashy/filthy that it has little appeal for us. And, as you can see, much of what we have enjoyed has come from the BBC. Needless to say, I am usually left out in the cold when conversations turn to TV or movies ... as hardly anyone has ever seen any of the things I have mentioned.

I did, over the summer, re-read all of Austen's books, almost all of Hardy's books, and the Galsworthy's 3 trilogies.

11 posted on 03/07/2006 11:20:57 PM PST by caryatid (Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait ...)
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