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anghrainepansexualandscared said:
i adore p&p 1995 to no end but I will admit, saying that the only correct choice for an adaptation is the one most similar to the book is stupid and your annoyance is so valid
I replied:
Hmm, I think it’s fair to compare something that, say, calls itself ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to P&P itself—I made a post a little while back about this, but my opinion is that if people don’t want their adaptation compared to the original, they should just file off the serial numbers and be done with it. At the same time, I don’t think it’s right or fair to judge adaptations solely on fidelity, which a lot of people do. It’s important to look at them with double vision IMO: as adaptation, and as film/TV/whatever.
i adore p&p 1995 to no end but I will admit, saying that the only correct choice for an adaptation is the one most similar to the book is stupid and your annoyance is so valid
I replied:
Hmm, I think it’s fair to compare something that, say, calls itself ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to P&P itself—I made a post a little while back about this, but my opinion is that if people don’t want their adaptation compared to the original, they should just file off the serial numbers and be done with it. At the same time, I don’t think it’s right or fair to judge adaptations solely on fidelity, which a lot of people do. It’s important to look at them with double vision IMO: as adaptation, and as film/TV/whatever.
Thaaaat said, I don’t think the 1995 is the closest to the book in a lot of the ways that matter most to me, esp w/ Darcy. For instance, the 1995 substantially rearranges Darcy’s letter (probably my favorite passage in the book) and completely deletes the critical ending of ‘God bless you.’ The 1980′s rendition of it is, while not as good in terms of television, much closer to the letter in the book.