A purist

This past weekend I saw the new Pride and Prejudice with some kids I was babysitting. They of course loved it since they have never read the book nor seen the A&E adaptation.

What I liked better in the new movie:
1. Jane is actually very pretty, so it makes since when everyone refers to her beauty.
2. Judi Dench as Lady Catherine
3. Better job of showing the passion behind the arguments between Darcy and Elizabeth


What I didn't like in the new movie:
1. No Colin Firth-- still think he's the best Darcy
2. Left out some characters altogether
3. Left out some of my favorite dialogue:

"There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil— a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."
"And your defect is to hate everybody."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them." (Elizabeth and Darcy)

"You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.......
You could not have made the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it." (Elizabeth to Mr. Darcy)


One of my friends told me that the reason why I like the A&E version so much is because it's 6 hours long so it includes everything in the book. I'm ok with that.