I personally don't thinks it fits in here with a bunch of supposed college students post the millenium.
In a lot of ways, Utah is like another world, in another time. I think it fit perfectly with the wholesomeness and modesty of the Utah Mormon scene. The typical post-millenium college student also drinks alcohol and coffee, but you won't find any alcohol or caffeine in the film because that's accurate for a Mormon campus.
At the time that film was made, the bare midriff was pratically a uniform on college campuses in the US (with the ultra low-rise jeans and cropped tops). But you'll hardly see any midrff skin in P&P 2003 except on Lydia (and a bit of Jane's, whose character comes from a different country). Did you notice how long their tops are? You couldn't find tops that long in regular mall stores in the US back when this film was made. Note that Lydia's the only one with her decolletage on display.
Also note the scene when the roomies are tubing on the river: none of them is dressed in a bikini. If the film had been set in practically any other location in the US (and developed by a non-Mormon company), they surely would have been wearing bikinis.
http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/modesty/modest_swimwear.htmlhttp://www.modestclothes.com/LDS.html]I am English and a Londoner and know many people with Herts/Hereford type accents like Darcy had, and I can honestly say that Anna had none of these accents.
I don't think they were supposed to be from Hertfordshire? In the film, Darcy says he's from Derby but spends a lot of time in London now. Perhaps the filmmakers just had the actors use their own accents, assuming that the Mormon audience wouldn't realize that the sibs had different accents?
I believe the film wasn't called Pride and Prejudice; it's complete title was
Pride & Prejudice: A Latter Day Comedy. The distributor removed the reference to Latter Day Saints (LDS, aka Mormonism) because they didn't want non-mormons to think it was only about Mormonism.
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eightynine
16 years ago
Oh man, okay, you win, I'm too tired to continue. Agree to disagree about this film?
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Debbieuk
16 years ago
Come on guys, this film was so bad that I gave up on it within the first 10 minutes, it was too embarrassing. The acting was awful, the characters were hugely miscast, and the plot was paper thin. It was an insult to the original text and I actually would go so far as to say that there wasn't even an attempt to update the story, just steal themes within it and situate it in a 21st century setting. The point is that Jane Austen wrote about rural life in early 19th century England, and no one should assume that those themes would work in any setting; this film proves that they do not! Oh and as a final moan, the actor that placed 'Mr Darcy' didn't seem to appreciate how subtle and understated the character should be, I would probably blame the director in this instance but the acting still was very poor.
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fab4fan-2
16 years ago
At the time that film was made, the bare midriff was pratically a uniform on college campuses in the US (with the ultra low-rise jeans and cropped tops). But you'll hardly see any midrff skin in P&P 2003 except on Lydia (and a bit of Jane's, whose character comes from a different country). Did you notice how long their tops are? You couldn't find tops that long in regular mall stores in the US back when this film was made. Note that Lydia's the only one with her decolletage on display.
To be honest, I really liked some of the outfits in the movie! Sure, they were modest by a lot of people's standards, but they were still designed well enough so that the girls looked stylish.
LDS or not, a lot of women in their 20s and 30s have a hard time trying to find clothes like that. They don't want to dress like they're 15 when they're going to work and trying to be taken seriously, but they also don't want to dress like their mother, either.
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Julie-30
16 years ago
Try being a woman in her late 40s/early 50s who can't find anything to wear. Even my "old reliable," Talbots, is trending younger and younger. And no, I still don't want to dress like my 70-something mother.
I'm too thin and too short for Emme's plus-sized line, but I love her clothes. I'm going to have to learn to sew.
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