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Book vs Film - Pride and Prejudice
I'm currently re-reading Pride and Prejudice and so pleased to find many nuggets of additional information that are not in the excellent BBC film version. It's been a very long time since I've read the book, but much more frequently and recently that I've seen the film. What a pleasure to find more detail. I wonder how it will change the story for me again overall. Does anyone have any additional insight they gained from this same comparison?
Posted on July 3, 2008 at 10:32pm — 1 Comment
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Great question.
Film adaptations are wonderful because they flesh out the physical aspects of a book: what a period manor house was like, for instance, or what the surrounding countryside was like. And then, of course, there are the visual bits we love: the clothes and jewelry and hairstyles ... and how a country dance was done and what the music sounded like. And how the intracacies of proper manners worked. We are drawn into the story by performances of the actors, especially if the screenplay was well written. Basically, a period movie serves to whet the appetite for more.
And eventually, one is drawn to explore the book. The book is where the author does the interior work within the characters. The reader becomes privy to their thoughts, the reasoning behind their decisions, their memories. These are not easily included in a film, especially a period film. ("How do you spell BO-RING?" I can hear it now.) I don't mind "slow" movies if they're beautifully done. But you should have seen my thirteen-year-old son writhe during the screening of "Miss Potter" !! (Like me, during a violent scene in an action flick!)
As to reading and re-reading books, our understanding is colored by what we bring to the table as readers. I once read a comment, and I wish I could quote it exactly. A young woman and an older woman were conversing about a book they had both read. It turned out that the older woman had read it as a young woman, and then again quite recently.
"Oh," said the young woman. "Was the story just as wonderful to you the second time around? Did you cry?"
"Yes, I cried each time I read it," said the older woman. "But I cried at different parts."