Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice immerses one into the life of England's eighteenth century; a land of propriety, manners, and modesty. The adaptation of the film inevitably filters the novel through the social and cultural outlook of the eighteenth century. “Film adaptations have always acknowledged such synecdochical translation as highly effective in the visual medium and have rendered it by using its primary cinematic equivalent: the close-up of the heroine's face.” (Grandi ,46) The 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice works with Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice by providing similarities that reiterates the primary theme of the novel; but also, contributes difference that enhances the understanding of the characters and setting of Austen's novel. The differences between the film and the novel suggest that the film signals more of Darcy's interest toward Elizabeth in which the novel does not.
For the dinner scene in film Pride and Prejudice (2005) Lady Catherine De Bourgh invites Mr. Collins, Mrs. Collins (Charlotte), and Elizabeth to dinner at Rosings. At the beginning of the dinner scene, the guest are introduced to Lady Catherine's daughter Anne De Bourgh, and to of Mr. Darcy and Colonel Fitzwilliam providing the acknowledgment that they will also be attending dinner. The way the camera moves around with a close-up shot of Elizabeth following the reaction shot of Darcy leaves the audience with overwhelming suspense about how the story line will develop during the rest of the film (Grandi,47). At the beginning of the dinner scene, there is a long shot where, the camera angles the whole group into the shot. Lady Catherine sits at the head of the table, and her servants surround her and the guests helping each t...
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...a (Grandi, 50); even though the similarities reiterate the primary theme of the novel in the 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice. There are many differences in the scenes throughout the film and the novel that contributing to enhance the understanding of the characters and setting of Austen's novel.
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Grandi, R. (2008). The Passion Translated: Literary and Cinematic Rhetoric in "Pride and Prejudice" (2005). Literature Film Quarterly, 36(1), 45-51. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.
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