How I Met P&P95: Kathleen

My parents love literature. Over the years, they have accumulated an enormous library because of this love, even when their finances were stretched thin. So of course in their hours of reading, they had both encountered the world of Jane Austen. My mother had read Pride and Prejudice, and my father had read Emma, and both admired her wit and style. They discovered the BBC/A&E version of Pride and Prejudice when I was four years old.

And so it happened. I was hit by a huge dose of Jane Austen. Yes, at the tender age of four, I watched for the very first time the timeless Pride and Prejudice 1995.

We were enthralled. I was entranced. We had never seen anything like it. I admired the beautiful Jennifer Ehle and the handsome Colin Firth, and felt very content when they married at the end. My parents admired the humour and the superb acting of all the cast members, from Mr. Darcy and Lizzy to Lydia and Wickham. I fell in love with the costumes.

And so, that started it. We have watched it almost every year, and I have never ever gotten tired of it. Every year I become more mature and find more details I had never noticed before, more subtleties that had escaped my noticed. And I have learned the dances danced at the Meryton Assembly Hall and at the Netherfield Ball. I even held my own ball at my Regency-themed birthday party. And I still love the costumes.

I have even attempted to show it to my friends. And you know what? They absolutely adore it. And if anybody even mentions or whispers about the 2005 version, I cringe. I throw rotten tomatoes (yes, sure I do!).

And so that started my love of everything Jane Austen.

And now I am a proud member of the P&P95 Forever Club.

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Game the Thirty-Seventh: the Random Stuff game

It's been a while, I think, since we've had a game that involves screencaps. Sooo, today I've chosen ten things from episodes 1-4.

How much do you really notice about this movie? I mean, we're always so intent on watching the people and what's going on that we don't notice very much about what's in the background. At least I don't--although when I've seen something a number of times I start noticing them more.

Anyways. Your job is to look at the ten snips of pictures below--all of some object(s) or other--and guess the following:
- What house you will find the object(s) in (example: Pemberley) ~2 points~
- What room in that house you will find the object(s) in (examples: "music room" or "the room where Lizzy and Mr. Darcy share The Look") ~1 point~
- Where in that room the object is located (example: on the piano) ~1 point~
- As a sort of bonus, you'll get an extra point if you say which scene it's coming from (and I'll probably count if if the object was in more than one scene, too).

So that's a total of 5 points per picture, and 50 points total.

Make sense? Here we go!

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Answers will be posted on Saturday. :)

Quote Quiz Answers

Thank you to everyone who participated in our latest game!  Hopefully it wasn't too difficult to identify the speakers and the episodes-- though I must say most of you did remarkably well.  Perhaps we need to up the ante.  :D  (We apologize if anyone found any aspects of the game discouraging or too hard; however, when scoring people's answers we need to stick to the rules we laid out in the original game post for the sake of fairness.  Thus, we will only count an answer as fully correct if it identifies both the speaker of the quote and the episode in which the line is spoken.  Thanks for understanding!)

1.
Consider that it is by no means certain that another offer of marriage may be made to you.
~Mr. Collins, episode 2

2.
My dear, do not give way to such gloomy thoughts. Let us hope for better things.
~Mr. Bennet, episode 3

3.
If it is merely a shooting party, we shall not see him often.
~Jane, episode 6

4.
I believe every disposition has a tendency to some particular evil.
~Mr. Darcy, episode 1

5.
The chances of any of us making a good marriage were never very great; and now I should say, they are nonexistent.
~Lizzy, episode 5

6.
What have you to accuse him of? I should dearly like to know how he behaves among strangers.
~Colonel Fitzwilliam, episode 3

7.
And this must be a most inconvenient sitting-room for the evening in summer. Why, the windows are full west.
~Lady Catherine, episode 6

8.
For a woman's reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful. Therefore we cannot be too guarded in our behavior towards the undeserving of the other sex.
~Mary, episode 5

9.
Resignation is never so perfect, as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our estimation.
~Mr. Collins, episode 2

10.
Well, my comfort is, she will die of a broken heart and then he'll be sorry for what he's done!
~Mrs. Bennet, episode 4

And our winner is... Melody, with all 20 points!  Check back later today for a new game!

Caption Contest {12} Winner

Congratulations to Emily (Miss Darcy), winner of last week's caption contest!

Game the Thirty-Sixth: Another Quote Quiz

Our game today features ten quotes from various episodes of P&P-- your job is to identify the speaker and the episode from which the quote comes.  No peeking in the quotes pages on this blog!  If you need help identifying where one episode ends and another begins, check out the screencaps posts.  You will receive one point for each correctly guessed character and one for each correctly guessed episode-- maximum score is twenty points.   You only get one chance to guess, so think carefully before submitting your answers.  Have fun!

1.
Consider that it is by no means certain that another offer of marriage may be made to you.


2.
My dear, do not give way to such gloomy thoughts. Let us hope for better things.


3.
If it is merely a shooting party, we shall not see him often.


4.
I believe every disposition has a tendency to some particular evil.


5.
The chances of any of us making a good marriage were never very great; and now I should say, they are nonexistent.



6.
What have you to accuse him of? I should dearly like to know how he behaves among strangers.


7.
And this must be a most inconvenient sitting-room for the evening in summer. Why, the windows are full west.


8.
For a woman's reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful. Therefore we cannot be too guarded in our behavior towards the undeserving of the other sex.


9.
Resignation is never so perfect, as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our estimation.


10.
Well, my comfort is, she will die of a broken heart and then he'll be sorry for what he's done!

How I Met P&P95: Miss Margaret Dashwood and Lizzie

Today things will be a little different--there will be two shorter stories rather than one longer.

From Miss Margaret Dashwood:

When I was about ten? eight? I flipped through the first few chapters of the book, but didn’t understand it all. It really didn’t interest me and I never got farther than the part about ‘not handsome enough to tempt me.’ I think I actually saw P&P 05 first!!*embarrassed smile* but I didn’t like it. We purchased the 1995 movie in two separate parts and after watching the first half, I got out the book and read it from cover to cover and I loved it! For the next few weeks: “Mum, Mum, can you PLEEEAAAASE buy the second half of P&P???” I think we watched it in one afternoon when we finally got it!
So that’s how I met Pride and Prejudice 1995, and I haven’t looked back!

From Lizzie:

When Pride and Prejudice was first aired in 1995, I was only 4 years old, and therefore had little appreciation for it at the time. My parents had recently seen the 1995 Sense and Sensibility, and they loved it, so they were eager to see this new period drama. It quickly became one of their favorites, and they watched it often. As I grew older, I started to find it more interesting, particularly the pretty hairstyles and dresses. Finally, at the age of 14, Mom told me that I should read the book Pride and Prejudice, and so I read the whole wonderful novel, and immediately knew I had to watch the entire mini-series. I had seen bits and pieces before, but reading the book was what prompted me to sit down and watch it from beginning to end. I was delighted and enthralled. I think it’s the best Pride and Prejudice film adaptation that will ever exist.  Since then, I’ve read the book many more times and each time I finish the book, I always feel that I must watch the perfect movie adaptation again; it's a lovely little cycle of felicity. I try very diligently to steer all my friends away from the most recent, hideous monstrosity masquerading as Pride and Prejudice, and introduce them instead to the most faithful, beautiful adaptation of Pride and Prejudice: fondly known as P&P95.

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