Criticism has been said many times. Lizzie's few whimsical and childlike laughs will definitely make you feel inexplicable. Darcy's expressionless walk through this movie must also make you feel that his face is more than handsome and "arrogant" (or lacking confidence). The director's preference for Lizzie can always only give you a Jane who is not satisfactory. But I didn't expect that even Bingley, who should have been personable this time, was a surprise. In general, all the characters seem to have been naive for several years. I am very worried that those children who are influenced by the fast food culture and have time to contact Austen in the future will greatly underestimate her IQ. I just don't know if this is the director's compromise with the production company to the audience, or he really can only understand this level of Austen.
But one thing is enough for you to pay for a movie ticket and spend two hours sitting and watching the movie quietly: the breathtaking scenery of central England, and Lizzie's dancing dress.
Just as many people use the 1995 BBC’s six adaptations of the series as a blueprint for comparison. When I watched a movie, many times in my mind I thought about the scene that made me fall in love with Austen and her world. Love on TV. Until I finished watching this movie, I was finally able to explain the feeling that the changes in that year gave me that I couldn't explain clearly in words for a long time: it is like the exquisite embroidery of the title, studded with pearls, and surrounded by stitches that are arranged finely and rigorously. , Was sewn into long skirts by Lizzie, Jane, and all the women inside, and worn on her body. No matter how she moves, she still doesn't move, full of the temperament of high society.
And Joe Wright's adaptation makes him more popular as the director of Notting Hill and Love Actually. The tone of the whole film is just like Lizzie's long dress. When the wind blows, when she walks in a hurry, she dances in various forms with unbridled changes; the morning sun in the English countryside gently and thinly covers the grass. At the same time, the wrinkles on Lizzie's long skirt were reflected in the ups and downs of the flowing stream. Compared with the gorgeous embroidered silk and satin, this soft cotton and linen allows you to feel the grass-scented breeze blowing over England from tens of thousands of miles away.
A similar contrast is the tips of women's hair. In the movie, when Lizzie rushed to the Bingley house to visit the sick Jane, she stood in front of Darcy, with long hair scattered on her shoulders because of the long journey, she was shocked.
In addition, Joe Wright's handling of details is indeed a long aftertaste. Thinking about it, such a scene of "warming your cold hands" is too sensational and familiar. But is there any way? In this age of sensationalism, it is not easy to be able to see a fairly exquisite drama. What's more, poor me has never resisted close-ups with my fingers.
I still love the loyalty to the original in the 1995 adaptation and Colin Firth's almost perfect interpretation of Darcy. Such a peak is indeed difficult to surpass. But Joe Wright did give us a not too bad answer sheet. The scenery of the characters in his lens, from Lizzie's dancing dress and hair, from the soft and incomparable morning sun in the countryside of central England, bit by bit, seems to jump out of the novel, more real, and closer to modern people. Sincere interpretation.
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