We Club members are a snooty bunch, there's no denying it. We hold (unswervingly) to the belief that the 1995 A&E miniseries is the be-all, end-all of Pride and Prejudice adaptations (yes, thank you Mary, I think we had all apprehended that much) and as such we believe all other adaptations to be Inferior and Unworthy. The 1940 and 1980 versions get off rather mildly, to be sure, as they were made before the 1995 masterpiece and were just building up to The Grand One, but the 2005 butchery has no such excuse. We have rather immaturely dubbed it FakeP&P, because P&P already exists, people. We don't need a new one. Especially not an American one. Especially not one that stars Keira Not-Knightley. (We're big fans of Mr. George Knightley, and we resent the fact that the Pirates of the Caribbean gal shares his name.)
Where were we.
Oh, yes, bad adaptations. That's the subject of this week's game, you see. You will be provided with a list of ten actors' names-- your job is to match each one with a) the P&P adaptation they appeared in (i.e. 1940, 1980 or 2005) and b) the character they played. No fair checking IMDb! You must make your best guess... and you only get one shot at it, so think very carefully before submitting your answers in a comment. You will get one point for each correctly guessed character and one point for each correctly guessed adaptation. You may also acquire five extra bonus points for answering the bonus question, for a total of 25 points maximum. Have fun!
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1. Judi Dench
2. Maureen O'Sullivan
3. Melville Cooper
4. Osmund Bullock
5. Brenda Blethyn
6. David Rintoul
7. Laurence Olivier
8. Carey Mulligan
9. Sabina Franklyn
10. Tom Hollander
BONUS: What connexion does the humanist satirist Aldous Huxley have with Pride and Prejudice?
