Posted on 10/16/2015 1:58:49 PM PDT by C19fan
The Bennett daughters meet the undead in the new trailer for the upcoming Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Jane Austen’s classic novel gets the zombie apocalypse treatment in the film, based on the hit book of the same name by Seth Grahame-Smith.
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I see that one now and then on the program schedule for that scary-show channel, Chiller-but I’ve never watched it.
Tonight I’m going to be watching the 2nd episode of the BBC series “The Last Kingdom”-based on Bernard Cornwell’s series of books set in England at the time of Alfred the Great and his descendants-I have all the books-just ordered the newest one. You might enjoy the series, if you get BBCA with your cable or SATTV package-but like History channel’s “Vikings”, it is for grownups and 14+ kids-too much violence and sex for the munchkins.
I read most of the “Lieutenant Sharpe” series, back in the early 90s. There’s a BBC series starring Sean Bean.
I don’t like to see sex and violence, which is why I watched only pieces of “Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.” We’re getting “Downton Abbey” out of the library, one season at a time.
I’ve read most of the Sharpe books, but never got to see the series-Cornwell’s books have always been popular with my family.
I don’t mind sex and violence if it is part of the history of the times and not just gratuitous-9th century Britain was such a time, but I didn’t let the cub read or watch the strong stuff like that until she was 14-15-the way women were taken violently and without consent in those times, and bartered away into arranged marriages or worse by relatives was not something I felt she needed to read or see until she was mature enough to process that.
I recommend it to my friends who are Austen fans. It was so clever, and fun to watch.
They do have it on DVD, but anyone who has Hulu can watch it for free. First time I watched it, I was hooked, and I think I watched all the episodes non-stop :)
That scene was the distance shooting contest for a sniper rifle prize. They were shooting zombies coming over a distant hill.
The show took one of those dark turns last night with the death of Cassandra despite the fact that she was a rabid half zombie watchdog.
I find that the description of the events in books is often a lot less graphic than attempts at depiction. It’s one thing to read, “They had sex,” and something else again to see it shown.
Same with violence. “He was shot,” or “His head was cut off,” or “He was drawn and quartered.” What a director chooses to film could be just about anything.
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