RabCGiblet (December 31, 1969 at 3:59 pm)

Again Firth is working to hard for her affections, not how it would of been in these days.

RabCGiblet (December 31, 1969 at 3:59 pm)

Yes, but i saw much better acting from Emma Thompson sense and sensibility and Sally Hawkins Jane Austins Persuasion when they received their propositions of marriage where they cried for joy at the offers, and that is the difference between them and Jennifer above.

dAvrilthebear (December 31, 1969 at 3:59 pm)

Oh, I think Jennifer is charming and really looks like a girl from 1805. All I am saying is that Darcy does a better job in this particular scene. Anyway, she was supposed to feel "more than common awkwardness", so it's difficult to show love. Her exclamation at 2:42 sounds a little overplayed. Her only loving glance is at 3:00. But it's very nice!

RabCGiblet (December 31, 1969 at 3:59 pm)

You have a good point, but Jane Austin allways made sure all the men in her storys worked very hard for the girls affections. Quite contray to the demands of these times.Agree also with Jennifer Ehle not been suitable for the part, perhaps Kate Winslett would of been a better choice. Good adaptation though.

dAvrilthebear (December 31, 1969 at 3:59 pm)

So, in fact, I don't know why they decided to jump directly to the next paragraph: "They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects."Maybe the idea was to show them too overcome with deep feelings to speak... Anyway, Collin Firth tells enough with his eyes. But I'm not 100% sure that Jennifer Ehle quite pulled it off here. (Although I like her a lot.)

dAvrilthebear (December 31, 1969 at 3:59 pm)

"Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable."

dAvrilthebear (December 31, 1969 at 3:59 pm)

"The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do."

dAvrilthebear (December 31, 1969 at 3:59 pm)

In the book Darcy actually says something, when proposing: "Elizabeth, feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of his situation, now forced herself to speak; and immediately, though not very fluently, gave him to understand that her sentiments had undergone so material a change, since the period to which he alluded, as to make her receive with gratitude and pleasure his present assurances."

graiminy (December 31, 1969 at 3:59 pm)

Plus Jennifer Ehle is so gaspy here. And old. She's only twenty. Not thirty. It's rather annoying.

graiminy (December 31, 1969 at 3:59 pm)

I haven't seen this movie but what I have seen of it I don't like. I watched the '05 movie. Loved it. Read the book. LOVED it. But when I read it I imagined the '05 people. Anyway, I loved the chemistry between MacFadyen and Knightley. The first proposal was...stomach-turning if very heart-breaking. Also I found Mr.Darcy to be likeable and given to vulnerability. Firth didn't show that. And there was no chemistry in the marriage proposal. ^ How Sad.