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Pride and Predjudice vs. Pride and Prejudice

Man! I haven't written in a VERY long time!! :P I need to not do that anymore but it's been so hectic around our house lately that I haven't had the time to post anything.

So, as a re-entrance into the blogging world, I am going to post three reasons that I like the new "Pride and Prejudice" movie with Kierra Knightley better than I like the "Pride and Prejudice" movie with Colin Firth. You may laugh because all three of my reasons have to do with the three men who 'go after' Lizzy - Mr. Darcy, Mr. Collins, and Mr. Wickham.

1: We shall start with Mr. Collins since he just cracks me up sometimes! In the 2005 version, Mr. Collins is played by the five foot, five inches tall Tom Hollander (right). I liked him much better than Tom Bamber (left) who played Mr. Collins in the 1995 A&E movie. The main reason, is because Hollander is so short compared to six foot two Matthew Macfadyen who plays Mr. Darcy. It makes him seem a bit more ridiculous I guess. Also, Mr. Hollander’s facial expressions are so much better than Mr. Bamber’s. I just ‘like’ the 2005 Mr. Collins much better than the 1995 Mr. Collins! Hehe                           

2. Now, we shall move on to Mr. Wickham, played in the 2005 version by Rupert Friend (left). For women, especially, he seems much more easily trusted than the 1995 Mr. Wickham, Adrian Lukis. Friend also seemed much more proud and ‘truer’ than Lukis. His laugh was good and with his fair skin and blonde hair, he seemed much more the type that one would ‘pick on’. Whereas tall and dark Lukis seems much more guarded and you feel that you can’t trust him. He smiles like a snake and doesn’t play ‘the lady’s man’ quite so well as Rupert Friend.

 3: Now, now, we shall move on to the most loved hero in the Jane Austen novels – the wonderful Mr. Darcy. The 2005 Mr. Darcy is played by Matthew Macfadyen right) while the 1995 version is played by Colin Firth (left). Now, I must say that Colin Firth is an amazing actor and is a definite a man who loved by many ladies. Equal in height with Matthew Macfadyen (6’2”), it is difficult to convey why I like Macfadyen as Darcy better than Firth. One thing is, that, I don’t like that Firth never smiles until the very end of the movie just before he kissed Lizzy while Macfadyen smiles a few times and that (if I may say so without being pegged as a silly girl) just makes your stomach go crazy with butterflies!!! Hehe! Macfadyen also just seems so much more like the Darcy one reads of in the novel “Pride and Prejudice”! I must say that MM just seems to play Mr. Darcy much better than Firth, although I still love Colin Firth’s movies! J

There, I will leave you, my readers, with this to comment on for the time being!

Kate