Pride and Prejudice 1995: Lasting Impressions, 2006 | Digitally Enhanced 2023 

I completely agree! ❤

golden words. especially i cannot watch the one with Keira Knightley. don't know why i did, but, pardon my french, it sucks big time, and caused me to dislike this, otherwise maybe pretty good actress, for this brutal butchering of Elizabeth Bennet. in totally destroying Austen characters, mood and all about them, only this new horrible Persuasion is more successful. at least with the latter they did it on purpose, not accidentally falling on their arses. but, returning to point, another Pride and Prejudice i thoroughly enjoyed, was this one en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_%26_Prejudice:_A_Latter-Day_Comedy set in Utah, 1990s i think. was available on youtube last i watched. one thing they got more right than Miss Austen: Mary married Collins. :D

@@SiiriRebaneme too! I have so many friends who just love the 2005 version and I have tried, and cannot watch it. Kiera Knightley has this constant facial expression that I can’t get past! The 1995 version is so good. You can sit with the book and follow along almost perfectly. I watch it multiple times a year.

@@ThatgirlL18 she would've been perfect almost in any other role except Elizabeth, whose diversity of facial expressions and liveliness was kinda main thing in her character. 'constant facial expression' btw reminds me of Lady Mary of Downton Abbey. she had 1 facial expression and 1 gesture, y'know, this rising and dropping both rigid arms slightly. Keira would've pulled it off nicely, also, she is prettier than wossername... who played Lady Mary. dementia... Michelle Dockerty or Doherty or smth? Dockery!

@@SiiriRebane agreed! 💯!!!! I call her facial expression this perpetual pout…. Kiera has it in every role I have seen her in, and it’s not at all what I picture when I think of Lizzy, Jennifer did an outstanding job! I think that rigidness suited Lady Mary’s character, which is not at all like Lizzy. I hope that makes sense.

Agreed

Absolutely! 😁

dam right

The 1995 version is authentic and classic series that pays homage to the classical book and period.

Absolutely! I pay for Brit Box every month just to be able to see it!!❤❤❤❤

I agree entirely. I remember being drawn in by her when it first came out, her characterisation was wonderful. I've just watched this again only a couple of weeks ago, and I had the same feeling.

I must beg to differ...Ms. Ehle is absolutely gorgeous, and was right from the beginning.

@@karynlouisa3771 Ms Ehle is absolutely gorgeous indeed. But not immediately "stunning." Which makes her the perfect Elizabeth. Elizabeth was exactly that. Not immediately "stunning" as per the book. Her sister Jane was "the beauty" of the family, and Elizabeth was second to Jane in both the "goodness" department and the looks department. Jane in the otherwise horrific 2005 movie was perfect in this respect, because the actress Rosamund Pike is absolutely gorgeous. Bingley was completely and immediately attracted, and for obvious reasons. Unfortunately, in the BBC series, Susannah Harker did not have this kind of beauty, and that kind of chemistry didn't exist. I could never look at Ehle and Harker in a scene and convince myself that Harker was the more beautiful, but we were supposed to be under that illusion. If I could have the Jane and the Mr Collins from the 2005 movie, in the 1995 series, that would indeed be a perfect cast. Fortunately for us, both Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth were so right that they created a work of perfection, though some of the lesser characters not quite there...... So I am not taking from Jennifer Ehle in the slightest way. By the time that series was over, I would think we were all in love with her.

Agree - she bowled me over immediately. She was the whole package beauty and brains - but a heart too. @@karynlouisa3771

@@jamesmcgrath3841 Regarding Jane - I agree on their relative looks if you go by today's standards of what is considered stunning, however Susannah Harker did have the Grecian profile that would have been preferable in the time Pride and Prejudice is set in.

Even my 80 year old husband requests it on movie nights.

I just watched this show last weekend and I too watch it on a regular basis😊 I simply love it🎉

Yes, he seemed to embody Bingley's sweet good nature.

I also liked how he stood up to Darcy at the end for concealing Jane's whereabouts in London. He wasn't just a lovable doofus which I HATE how he was portrayed in the 2005 version...

April 2024

Yes, exactly

Yes.

And me! 😂❤

I love this version and I like to dream this world ❤❤❤❤

I totally destroyed my daughter by introducing this series to her. Now we are watching them non-stop :))

My daughter and me, too. We quote it at each other as a shorthand communication when in a crowd because we've watched it together so many times since 1995 😁

If my husband walks in when I try to watch this version he makes me pause it until he can join me. He loves this version and doesn't really like any other Austen adaptation.

❤️💜❤️

So sorry for your loss 😢

Oh wow! Sounds so fun!

What a great idea!❤

So do we! Me, my husband and 2 daughters, the elder one being born in 1995! We just had our annual binge watch a couple of weeks ago and last weekend visited Belton House in Grantham, which was used for the exterior of Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s house!

We need an international Pride & Prejudice Day.

I agree. It's fantastic. The one that got me hooked was A Room with a View. I saw it when I was in college. I have been watching period t.v. and films ever since. And reading the books.

​@@gardenlover9663RIP Julian Sands

@@kikidevine694 I had no idea! How awful.

@@gardenlover9663 he went missing whilst climbing in the mountains in California and they found his remains last month. Or early this month. Deva.stated

This 1995 production ruined me for any other remakes. I love everything about this production!

Me too!

Same here

It's also currently available on IPlayer.

Me too🎉

Wellll, Darcy is supposed to be 28 in the novel, so yep, that was a bit off ... but it's amazing how attractive good acting and a good character can make somebody. admittedly, I'm giving this movie points for _not_ making Elizabeth and Jane look like standard magazine cover beauties, thank goodness :)

@@Julia-lk8jn they really have the standard beauty for that time though. Which is why is so confused as to why everyone thinks Jane is so much more attractive compared to Lizzy. Maybe blonds were more popular? The actresses actually look like sisters in this series

@@zvezdoblyat I've always thought that it's because the 1995 Jane resembles a classical statue. And Regency/Empire fashion and beauty standards were all about the antiquity.

That would be wonderful.

I believe it was remastered for its 25th anniversary.

Where did you buy it? I am in Canada.

Yes, was wondering why they didn't talk to the two main actors. Anyone know?

The 1987 adaptation of A Room With a View is also an excellent example of the screen capturing the 'feel' of the page!

@@zenocrate4040 Absolutely! That was another rare example. That and Merchant Ivory's Howard's End. The Three Graces of movie adaptations.

Knigthley is not adequate

And playing 2005 Bingley is humiliating

Intelligent reflection. That would be a fun topic of conversation with Austen fans, the emotional expectations upon early 19th century young people.

Yes--for me Kira Knightly is just too modern to be convincing in a period piece. She doesn't have the right sensibility.

In the movie the actors had the right age but it didn’t have feeling.

l always liked Sixth.

I couldn't agree more! It is perfect! Thank you for your heartfelt comment.

Are there any French equivalents to P and P? Have you read Cranford?

@@MrTonyInchpractice Spontaneously, I'm thinking about Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" ?

I totally agree with you!

I am always looking for zippers in the back of ladies' dresses. 😊

In its perfection, it does leave you with wonderfully soothing & lasting memories~ complete with the most magical music! So it's not surprising that people return to it so often~ it's beautifully therapautic.

@@annelousteau9799😂

Whoops, typo! Therapeutic!!

Yes so absolutely annoying, and so believable - it's a shock every time the actor behaves like an intelligent and interesting man!

For music that Jane Austen herself played, see You Tube categories for 1) 1)Jane Austen. family music books" etc. similar titles 2) several performances of various songs of which she owned scores. 3) ads for several CDs of performances but of different songs 4) website articles about the many styles of songs that Jane Austen played--- European classical. English, Scottish Irish, French folk + popular songs, English longways country dance instru mentals, etc. songs,

zhannageskin, I loaned my 'well-watched' P&P to a workmate, who also was immediately hooked. It was ages before she [reluctantly] returned it. I understood compl;etely.

Aww bless you

Ditto 😁

His brother saying it!🤦‍♀️ REALLY not an expert on this I'd say🙄

Thank you for the recommendation! Enjoying it now!!