Keira Knightley

Pride & Prejudice, the quintessential classic that has inspired countless iterations, returned to film in 2005 with fresh faces Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen as protagonists Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Its widely lauded soundtrack, composed by Dario Marianelli, was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures category for Original Score, among other awards. If Marianelli and director Joe Wright’s objective was to evoke music of the time period, they

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you'd have to talk to him." These are the opening moves in Joe Wright's new film "Pride & Prejudice," one of the most delightful and heartwarming adaptations made from Austen or anybody else. Much of the delight and most of the heart comes from Keira Knightley, who plays Elizabeth as a girl glowing in the first light of perfection. She is beautiful, she has opinions, she is kind but can be unforgiving. "They are all silly and ignorant like other girls," says her father in the novel, "but Lizzie has

E choing Austen’s irony, it is a truth universally acknowledged that romantic literature will return to the refined days of Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters. All mockery aside, Austen's celebrated Pride and Prejudice (1813) is a simple love story that continues to captivate audiences 200 years on. Romantic literature has grown into modern, sloppy rom-coms – luckily, we can always return to their roots: the timeless allure of Elizabeth and Darcy. Romantic love in literature re-emerged from the

harder to create proper adaptation of a famous and respectable book. An ex-ample of such book is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. This book has several adaptations. The movie that will be compared to the book which is the 2005 adaptation starring Keira Knightly and Matthew Macfadyen in main roles. The Pride and Prejudice was written by British author Jane Austen and was first pub-lished in 1813. The book tells the story of a young woman Elizabeth Bennet and the way she deals with issues of marriage

The movie starts off showing Elizabeth Swann (Kiera Knightley) when she was a young girl on her Father’s Commodore James Norrington (Jack Davenport) Ship and first meet William Turner (Orlando Bloom). Elizabeth Swan (Knightly) sees a pirate necklace around William Turners (Bloom) neck and she takes when he is unconscious. During the next scene, it shows Elizabeth Swan (Knightly) and William Turner (Bloom) around ten years into the future where Elizabeth Swan (Knightly) still has the necklace and

Over the years there have been many adaptions to Jane Austen’s: Pride and Prejudice; two well-known versions would be Sue Birtwistle’s 1995 BBC miniseries and Joe Wright’s 2005 version. Both films depict a love story between a man and a woman who have to overcome a series of obstacles to end up together. It is clear that these two very different directors interpret the original novel in their own way, but is it more important to stay true to the original, or to tweak and change some of it? When it

To Arthur there was nothing like the freedom of travelling on horseback. The few times when he sat in the car and watched Merlin steer their way across the countryside along the roads it felt unsatisfying to him. The world passed by the windows too fast for Arthur to take in his new surroundings. He needed to feel the elements around him, like the sun on his face or the wind blowing into his hair as it did today. Here in the wide open air it smelled like humid soil, grass and flowers. That was far

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, feminism is described as “the advocacy of equality of the sexes and the establishment of the political, social and economic rights of the female sex.” It emphasizes the many ways women have been suppressed, repressed, and oppressed. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, is about Elizabeth, a young middle-class woman who falls in love with Mr. Darcy, a rich, prideful man whom she has sworn to loath based on a misguided first impression. Furthermore, it’s

The Victorian era which lasted during the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901, established the foundations of many social, cultural and moral ideologies in which many are present to this day. Everywhere you look you can almost always see something Victorian-inspired from floral patterned curtains to elegantly hand crafted candlesticks. When visualizing ‘The Victorian Era’ lavish balls, lace covered dresses, tea parties and fancy lifestyles come to mind. However, the Victorian era is much more