is the CLASSIC pride and prejudice better... or the RETELLING?! 💘 project classics vs tellings 

I have seen both, and the Kiera Knightley one is just absolute chef's kiss. The chemistry is just incredible. The acting is so good. And the soundtrack is truly breathtaking. Please please please watch it.

I love both adaptations and I think they both bring different things to the table! Lol don’t think of it as a competition but rather what you’re in the mood for! Haha 2005 is def worth the watch! Patreon movie night? Lol

I love the BBC adaption, first watched in high school and fell in love with pride and prejudice. But the 2005 version is also beautiful and gives new perspectives on characters and scenes. They both have a space in the Austen universe and it is definitely worth watching. Once you love pride and prejudice you start to devour every retelling and adaption.

❤ I say go for it with reading through Austen. You said you wanted this to be your best reading year ever… Plus it sets you up for the joy of rereading!

EXCUSE ME miss keira captures those scenes PERFECTLY also might i add the shirt scene with matthew macfadyen is FAR superior. i mean no offence to colin firth love ya babe but DAMN

I recommend the classic North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. The yearning in that book is *chef's kiss*

Claudia Gray is currently writing a cozy mystery series with all the Jane Austen-characters. The first on is called The Murder of Mr. Wickham. I absolutely love the series and am looking forward to the third book coming out in June 😍

I also strongly recommend picking up Lady Susan on your Austen journey!! It's a novella, so it doesn't get as much love as Austen's full length novels, but it's so fun!

Tbh I kinda agree, the movie misses out a lot.... but I am a BBC mini series girlie till I die so am probably bias 😂

Please read Anne of Green Gables and then watch the 1985 Canadian TV mini series!

You should definitely watch the film! I actually prefer it over the tv show. Also, try Lost in Austen, it's a tv show where a modern day woman and Lizzie switch places and she ends up in the Pride and Prejudice story. So good.

I also grew up on the BBC P&P and I love it, but I do think the 2005 one is definitely worth watching. The sets, cinematography, and score are all gorgeous and you have so many now iconic moments like the handflex, the rainy day rejection, the foggy morning proposal. I would give it a chance, you might be surprised ❤

I’m very interested to see what is going to be your next set of books

Hearing you speak about Pride and Prejudice with such joy made me so happy!! 😊It's one of my favorite books of all time as well. Also you mentioned reading Persuasion again and I would definitely recommend it! I read it once when I was around 19 or 20 and I enjoyed it then but I recently re-read it within the last couple of years and I just loved it. I appreciated it so much more as I got older, I think. ❤

Jane Austen is the best, i love all her books. Highly recommend reading Rebecca in the future for your classics. Its so amazing

Personally I don't like the movie , I absolutely love Keira but yes, for me it does not do the book justice at all

Somali Dev also has as series based on Jane Austin’s books, and Nikki Payne (P&P and S&S)

I love all Adaptions of pride and prejudice, even the pride and prejudice and Zombies movie with the actress from the cinderella live Action as lizzie and the crow guy from the maleficent movie as darcy😂😂

Gosh I would recommend you read Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal if you haven’t already. The regency grumpy/sunshine elegant romance plus mystery and fantasy elements. So so good.

Since you love Jane Austen and murder mysteries, I think that you might like the Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney trilogy (at least I think it's a trilogy? 🤔 third book is coming out this June) by Claudia Gray that starts with The Murder of Mr. Wickham (especially after you read all of the Jane Austen novels). It's a murder mystery series that follows a son of Lizzie & Darcy and a daughter of the couple from Northanger Abbey while they solve mysteries of who killed some of the fans most loathed Austen's characters, while also falling in love with each other. You also get to revisit most of the couples and see how would they interact with other, which was absolutely delightful, for me at least ☺ There is also autism rep, as Darcy Jr is autistic and the books address how he struggles with that in his time period. I will say that I found the solution to the mystery in the first one to be somewhat weak (being a huge Poirot fan, I need a good solution 😆), but I found the second one to be satisfying and I cannot wait for the third one! 🥰

I've read two of the Jade Austen murder mysteries and they were both good. Then again, I still haven't read any of Miss Jane's books. Yet, I might add.

in my opinion emma is janey’s best work, hands down, followed by northanger abbey but growing up i was very partial to pride and prejudice and it still holds a very soft spot in my heart ♥️

I really love the Bollywood adaptation Bride and Prejudice movie. Its just fun. The Keira Knightley adaptation has some great moments. The soundtrack and cinematography are amazing. Ive found some interesting books that focus on other characters from the book - Charlotte Lucas and Mary Bennett. Cant remember the titles now but I enjoyed seeing things from their perspective.

❤ Pride and Prejudice is such a comfort read for me and I’m so glad you loved it! I’ve also recently read a retelling, but it was Most Ardently which I really enjoyed. I’m trying not disrupt my current reading to pick up Pride and Prejudice, but I think I’m going to have to reread it soon!

Pride and Prejudice was my first non-Shakespeare classic that I loved! It's so good! I totally understand your fear of classics. I did too but last year I did a month of classics and allowing myself to dnf at any time got me to through 20ish classics and a few were even 4 or 5 stars!

I just did something similar. It had been a long time since I read Pride and Prejudice. I wanted to watch a Hallmark movie where a writer ends up in the Pride and Prejudice book. I felt like it wasn't fresh enough in my mind so I listened to the book and thoroughly enjoyed it.

There’s a RU-vid channel I think you would really love for analysing Jane Austen more deeply: Dr Octavia Cox. She unpicks some of the things that would have been obvious at the time but we don’t pick up on. This video is particularly good on Class and the Bingleys: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EVtwlg1uvA4.htmlsi=PEo7OIekZ8txwiky

Meg I'll watch the BBC series for the first time if you watch the 2005 movie for the first time. Pinky promise! 😁

Yes, I remember watching the original 1996 pride and prejudice adaption on A&E when they were still making art and entertainment and not reality television and the deafening classics into the mix which was awesome. I was 19 and Mr. Darcy was bae especially Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy As for the 2005 adaptation with Karen Knightley, my favorite thing about that is Donald Sutherland as Mr. Bennett?,he is impeccable say what you will about the rest of the adaptation but I really really really love. Donald Sutherland as Mr. Bennett.

Don't read any other comments, I'm so with you on the 2005 P&P. I've tried to watch it three times and it's all vibes, zero P&P. I get why people love it, but sorry to the 2005 babes, they just don't GET IT. Glad you loved the book. My Austen book idea (that I don't successfully do but I still think is a good idea) is to read one Austen a year. Can be a new one (I still haven't tackled Mansfield Park) or a reread, whatever I'm in the mood for.

Having watched both, the bbc adaptation visually looks boring (sorry 😅) and the 2005 is gorgeous and incredible 😇

My favorite read of the year last year was Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (the audio book is amazing!). It's a modern retelling of Dickens' David Copperfield. It would probably make a fun video in this series!

So I’ve read P&P twice and I’ve seen both of the major adaptations, and I definitely prefer the BBC one. But I think the Keira Knightly one is still a really beautiful film

I don't love the 2005 adaptation, the BBC version will always be the best for me. I will say that the 2005 version is shot beautifully and the soundtrack is amazing (almost worth watching for those 2 things) but it turns a satirical novel into a gothic one, I just feel that it's way too serious and loses some of the lightness and laughter that Jane Austen does so well. I can't wait for you to reread Persuasion and get to S&S, P&P had been my favorite for SO long, but over the last few years Persuasion has just narrowly taken over the top spot, followed closely by S&S and P&P. I just love them all so much!

Persuasion is my favorite, mostly because of the movie with Amanda Root. There is a new retelling of Huck Finn out called James by Percival Everett . I keep wondering if I need to reread Huck Finn to appreciate James.

I stg Pride and Prejudice changed my life. I’ve never been a romance girl but Jane Austen is just chef’s kiss. Also P&P 2005 >>>>

I don't know if you've read Persuasion, but I just read a modern retelling of it called Once Persuaded, Twice Shy by Melanie Edwards, and I really enjoyed it. Edit: I'm not done with the video, so I don't know yet, but if you don't like that retelling, there are about a million others out there. I'm not recommending you fall down that rabbit hole (like I did), just saying they're out there.

Don’t hate me don’t hate me BUT I’m not an Austen girlie 😢I really didn’t like Emma or P&P and cba to watch them either. Don’t hate me 😢😂 so happy you’re an Austen girlie though ❤ 😊

You should read Heartstone by Elle Katharine White! It’s Pride and Prejudice in a fantasy world where Darcy is a dragon rider. It has all the scenes from the original but with a twist and the same vibes of Lizzie and Darcy’s romance.

I haven't read it yet, but Pride and Protest by Nikki Payne is on my TBR and sounds fantastic. Liza is protesting gentrification in her DC neighborhood.

I adore Pride and Prejudice, it's one of my all time favourite books! ❤That being said, I have never watched an adaptation of it. I honestly have no idea why? I should definitely change that soon 😂

You should have done Pride And Prejudice And Zombies 😂😂😂 that was fun!

I love hearing that you enjoy Pride and Prejudice!! 🥰🤗 it's one of my all-time favourite books & I love the adaptation (the 2005 one 😂). I did my honours research essay on the 2005 adaptation & the 2020 Little Women adaptation, so I have a soft spot for these books ❤ (Someone else suggested it, but I'd really recommend you watch Dr Octavia Cox's videos on Jane Austen. She does really interesting close readings of the books, characters, and society of the time. I really enjoyed watching her videos while doing my Jane Austen research)

Read all of Jane Austen's works now and then in 10 years you'll have forgotten what happens in them all and you can reread them like it's the first time!

I’m here for this series! Can’t wait to see what other installments there will be! And as a fellow Jane Austen fan, I loved hearing you gush about her and the book 🥰

Pride and prejudice is one of my favorite books of all time I also have pride and premeditation on my kindle

Has anyone here seen lost in Austen? It has my fave Mr Darcy. It's definately not anything to write home about but it is fun

So happy you got your book!! Watching this a bit late but dinosaurs are my fav so I hope you love it lol!

I've been se excited for this video idea since you mentioned it on patreon wayy back and it did not disappoint. I can't wait to see more of these videos Meg!

i love the 2005 because I feel like it’s what an adaptation is meant to be - something that uses the original source as a way to make something that, yes is mostly that thing, but also adds something to it. In my opinion adaptations that are just the source but in a film form don’t really do much for me which is why I love the 2005 one because yes there are book moments but joe wright is so good at creating atmosphere and captures the warm, sparkly feelings I had whilst reading P&P (whilst still obv covering the story)and adds to it with new interpretations and lines the same way new productions and directions of theatre add something to the original too.

I really love the idea of this series. Can't wait for the next one.

I actually have murder comes to Pemberly by PD James in my library

Me when yousaid you haven't watched 2005 P&P: 🤯😳😭😭 LOL if it was a mediocre adaptation, id have nothing to say, but ACROSS THE BOARD- casting, acting, music, the CINEMATOGRAPHY!! Is it adapted scene-by-scene loyal to the book? No, but that is part of its beauty and its done SO well! Pleasepleaseplease consider giving it a chance, i dont think youll be disappointed 😊

Somehow I haven’t watched any adaptations or read Pride and Prejudice….that changes after this video!!❤❤❤❤❤

As a 95 lover (and preferrer) I would LOVE to see a reaction from you to the 2005 film because I think you will be so shook. I don’t know if you’re prepared. The day you do this I promise I will subscribe to your patreon for it😂

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Now you need to read Bridget Jones's Diary

I just HAD to write to say how I loved your choice of music for this video. It felt so fitting with the books you were reading. I think it's such a great idea to read a classic and then the retelling! I want to try that as well. Would be perfect. I should have done it with Frankenstein before reading Our hideous progeny.

brb going to reread pride & prejudice

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All of the humor actually being from Jane Austen was my favorite revelation from reading Pride and Prejudice for the first time.

now i’ve only read the classic but ALLEGEDLY the wife upstairs by Rachel Hawkins is a Jane Eyre retelling

I didn’t care for Pride and Prejudice :( but I didn’t get the vibe that Mr Darcy cared for her for most of the book and I’ve never seen the movie. So that could be why. I also can’t stand a man that refers to his love interest as ugly. Ugh lol

💙 I love Pride and Prejudice. I have read it twice and this year I bought a copy that includes physical character letters. After watching your video I want to read P and P but I have just started War and Peace so it will have to be after I have finished that tome.

One of my favourite classics booktuber is Tristan and the Classics and he has done a really fantastic video on Pride and Prejudice and many other videos on Austen. But I would recommend checking him out anyway for your classics journey! Also Persuasion has become one of my favourite of her books, but it took me a few rereads as it is one of her most mature and quiet novels, but I adore it!

Just adding another plus for the Kiera/matthew version: it’s one of the few films to really make me FEEL something

I literally watched the BBC mini series when I was sick in March. P&P is just an absolute banger.

"I can't imagine someone living in this world not knowing what its about" I'll show myself out 😅

omg I love a classic vs retelling debate literally why I started reading

ahh i love how much you love pride and prejudice 🫶

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To continue this series of reading classics and retellings you should read jane eyre and the wife upstairs!

rereading Austen is always a treat

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I do get where you are coming from with the keira knightly movie, after the bbc adaptation I was convinced they couldn't do it justice in a movie, but I was so shocked when I saw it as to how such a good job they did, it is a great adaptation with beautiful music, I would really recommend it, I think it would surprise you. Also, you have to do jayne arye in this series, the reading just flows.

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Love love love p & p i’m the same the bbc version is amazing, i will not hear a bad word about it! i just cannot see keira knightly and the guy as lizzie and darcy, it will always be colin firth and jennifer ehle. i feel like the film was lacking, but still gave me the feels because id seen the bbc adaptation and read the book. if i hadn’t it would’ve been a bit meh i think ❤

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not you making me want to read a classic

The Keira Knightly one is trash, lol sorry not sorry 🤷🏻‍♀️

Welp i guess im adding ‘read a jane austen novel’ to the 2024 reading goals. Thanks meg 🥲

I need to read pride and prejudice 🥹😩 you sold the book for me