Pride and Prejudice (2005)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Pride and Prejudice |
| Original title | Pride & Prejudice |
| Country of production | France , Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 127 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK without age restriction JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joe Wright |
| script | Deborah Moggach |
| production |
Tim Bevan Eric Fellner Paul Webster |
| music | Dario Marianelli |
| camera | Roman Osin |
| cut | Paul Tothill |
| occupation | |
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Pride and Prejudice (Original title: Pride & Prejudice ) is a British-French drama from 2005 directed by Joe Wright with Keira Knightley in the lead role. The script is based on the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen from the year 1813th
action
The Bennet family lived in Hertfordshire, England , at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century, consisting of the Bennet couple and their five daughters Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, who everyone just called Kitty, and Lydia. Mrs. Bennet's only concern is to marry off her daughters appropriately in order to secure their future. Because the Bennets estate is not bequeathed to the female heirs; after Mr. Bennet's death it is said to come to a distant relative, Mr. Collins (an Anglican priest). The action begins when the family is talking about their new neighbor, a certain Mr. Bingley, who has rented the long-vacant Netherfield Park. The younger daughters dream of getting married because Mr. Bingley has a relatively large income of five thousand pounds a year. Mrs. Bennet is also planning to marry one of her daughters to the stranger.
- The ball at Meryton Town Hall
The family's first meeting with Mr. Bingley occurs at a ball in Meryton, a nearby village. The Mayor Sir Lucas is the host. He has a daughter named Charlotte, who is about the same age as the Bennets' two oldest daughters, Jane and Elizabeth, and who is especially close friends with Elizabeth. Before Mr. Bingley arrives, the attitude of the two sisters becomes clear. The very beautiful Jane, who wants a marriage out of love, is more of a shy and calm nature. For Elizabeth, only a love marriage comes into question, but she doubts that she will ever find true love. She is more skeptical and sees the world more realistically than Jane. Nevertheless, the two sisters share a deep friendship.
When Mr. Bingley enters the ballroom, he is not alone. In his company are his sister and friend, Mr. Darcy. Elizabeth, from whose point of view it is mainly told, is given detailed information about the newcomers by Charlotte Lucas. As the daughter of the resident mayor, she is well informed. While Jane is immediately fascinated by Mr. Bingley, Elizabeth is fascinated by the mysterious Mr. Darcy. He looks very bored and haughty. Charlotte reports that he has an income of ten thousand pounds a year.
Soon after arriving, Mr. Bingley asks Jane to dance, and it quickly becomes apparent that the two are about to fall in love. Mr. Bingley is friendly and frank, but also a little shy. Elizabeth believes that he is the ideal partner for her sister.
Her own cautious advances are immediately turned down, and Mr. Darcy just gives her the cold shoulder. A little later she overhears a conversation with Charlotte Lucas between Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy, in which the former expresses his admiration for Jane and the latter only the words "... quite passable ... not nice enough to irritate me" for Elizabeth finds. But she doesn't give in so easily, she pays him back his arrogance. After a polished dialogue, she lets him stand and leaves the field as the winner.
- Netherfield Hall
The next day, Jane from Netherfield receives an invitation to dinner. But Mrs. Bennet refuses her daughter the carriage and Jane has to go on horseback. Mrs. Bennet forces Jane to stay overnight in Netherfield. Soaked from a rain shower, she catches a cold and writes home the next morning. Elizabeth, enraged by her mother's audacity, immediately rushes to her sister.
At Netherfield Hall, she meets both Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley again. She recognizes his sincere love for her sister and is happy for the couple, whose affection becomes more and more evident. Suddenly she unconsciously awakens the desire in Mr. Darcy to get to know her better. He notices that Elizabeth hides a keen spirit and true wisdom behind her attractive appearance. His fascination, however, disturbs Mr. Bingley's sister Caroline, who has secretly kept an eye on her brother's handsome boyfriend. Like Mr. Darcy before, she feels disturbed by the low society that the Bennets represent in her eyes and tries to belittle the two sisters in the eyes of the men.
As the two women leave, Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth come into closer contact for the first time when he helps her into the carriage and takes her hand.
- Mr. Collins and Mr. Wickham
The next day, Mr. Collins, heir to the Bennet family estate, comes to visit his relatives. He quickly makes it clear that he plans to marry one of his cousins in order to keep the inheritance in the family. When he informs Mrs. Bennet that he is interested in Jane, she indicates an imminent engagement and asks him to befriend Elizabeth. He doesn't seem enthusiastic, but agrees. It quickly becomes clear that Mr. Collins is a very selfish, unctuous man of rather moderate mind and could never make a suitable partner for Elizabeth.
The next day the daughters of the Bennet family and Charlotte Lucas visit the town of Meryton, where a regiment is currently stationed. The younger daughters Lydia and Kitty in particular are delighted with the prospect of officers and possible future husbands. While walking through town, Elizabeth meets Lieutenant Wickham, who appears to be attracting her. She is fascinated by his friendly, open manner.
She accompanies Wickham on the way back to Longbourn, the Bennets' family estate. The small group runs into Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley, who is on his way to Longbourn for an invitation to an upcoming ball in Netherfield. However, when Mr. Darcy recognizes Mr. Wickham, the friendly mood changes, and Darcy flees hastily and without saying goodbye. Elizabeth investigates at Wickham how this rift came about. Wickham tells her his version of the story: He and Darcy grew up together because his father was the estate manager of the Darcy family. Darcy's father loved Wickham as a son and knew he wanted to serve the Church one day. On his deathbed, he told his son to hand over the parish of the estate to Wickham, but after his father's death Darcy ignored the request and gave the pastorate to someone else because, according to Wickham, he could not bear his father's son preferred the estate manager to his own son. Wickham ended up in the army as a poor infantryman. Elizabeth is dismayed and taken with Wickham. She has a deep grudge against Mr. Darcy.
- The ball on Netherfield
At the ball in Netherfield that was soon to take place, Mr. Collins didn’t leave Elizabeth, making his concern all too clear - for everyone except Elizabeth. Jane and Mr. Bingley are one heart and one soul, and no one doubts they will be engaged soon.
Elizabeth is offended when Mr. Darcy asked her to dance. Not only does she vow to hate the man who ruined Wickham's future, but she can't explain why Darcy suddenly takes a liking to her. During the dance, the two clash, as Elizabeth asks him about the argument with Wickham, but he is unwilling to explain. Despite their open aversion, both cannot escape the fascination and the hypnotizing effects of the other.
- Two marriage proposals
The following morning, Mr. Collins proposes marriage to Elizabeth, which she flatly refuses. Mrs. Bennet is appalled because she was expecting Elizabeth to secure the inheritance and her marriage. She tells her husband that he should talk to his daughter again. But instead of getting her to marry, he makes it clear that he supports Elizabeth's decision and stands behind his favorite daughter.
At the same time, Jane receives a letter from Netherfield that destroys all her hopes. The Bingleys leave the same day with no prospect of returning. Elizabeth persuades Jane to go to nearby London and visit her aunt and uncle in the hope of seeing Mr. Bingley there again. Elizabeth believes that the Bingleys only left at the instigation of the sister to tear the brother out of Jane's surroundings. She implores her sister not to give up, although Jane assures her that Caroline would never be able to do such a thing.
Shortly after Jane's departure, Mr. Wickham also leaves Meryton as he has been transferred to the north. Elizabeth's hopes of a possible engagement or marriage must be buried. The days are getting long for Elizabeth. Some time later, Charlotte Lucas comes to Longbourn to tell Elizabeth about her engagement to Mr. Collins. Unlike Mrs. Bennet, who claims the Lucas are only interested in the inheritance, Elizabeth is shocked to hear that Charlotte has gotten involved with Mr. Collins. She sees her friend's hopes for a love marriage waning, but Charlotte explains the seriousness of the situation, as she is already 27 years old and will probably not get many more marriage proposals.
- Rosings and the third marriage proposal
After Charlotte's wedding and their departure to Rosings, where Mr. Collins owns a parish, Elizabeth remains alone in Longbourn. So she is only too happy to accept the new Mrs. Collins' offer to visit her. In Rosings, she discovers that the Collins' patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, is Mr. Darcy's aunt. She meets Darcy again in Rosings. Elizabeth learns from a friend who has traveled with Darcy that he recently saved a friend from an inappropriate marriage. Friend's name: Charles Bingley. Elizabeth is outraged that he destroyed the young couple's love and plunged their sister into misery. She is all the more astonished when she receives a marriage proposal from Mr. Darcy. But she refuses, snubbed, and the two begin to argue passionately about Bingley, Jane and Wickham.
A short time later, Elizabeth receives a letter from Darcy in which he explains his motives and the real facts: Wickham demanded the payment of the inheritance after the death of old Mr. Darcy and not the parish as such. Darcy gave him the money and let him go. However, after Wickham gambled everything away and asked for more money, he declined. Some time later, Wickham came back to the family and declared his passionate love for Georgiana, Darcy's younger sister, who was then just fifteen. He tried to persuade her to run away with him. However, when it was made clear to him that he would never see anything of Georgiana's legacy, which amounts to £ 30,000, in this way, he disappeared without saying goodbye.
Jane and Bingley separated Darcy for the seemingly simple reason that he did not see the love his friend invested in return. He believed that Bingley was indifferent to Jane. He explains to Elizabeth that it was a friend's reason. After reading the letter, Elizabeth realizes her fault and Darcy's true goodness. She is slowly beginning to forget her hatred.
- Derbyshire and Lydia's misstep
On her return to Longbourn, she meets her uncle and aunt from London, who have brought Jane home. Elizabeth is asked to come along on a trip to the mountains. At the same time, the family learns that Lydia has been invited to Brighton by a couple who are friends, where many officers are also staying. Elizabeth sees the danger that Lydia could be kidnapped, but the concerns are ignored.
On Elizabeth's trip with the relatives, they pass by the Pemberley Estate, Mr. Darcy's family property. Elizabeth is impressed by the dignity and cool elegance of the estate and realizes more and more that she was mistaken about Mr. Darcy. She slowly realizes that there is more to her than sheer remorse and realizes that she is well on the way to falling in love with Mr. Darcy, especially when they unexpectedly meet the homeowner and his sister. Elizabeth and her relatives are invited to stay in Derbyshire for an extra day or two. The delicate bond that developed between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy during this time, however, is suddenly cut when Jane reports in a letter that Lydia ran away from Brighton with Mr. Wickham. The shame that this brings on the family makes the relationship between the lovers impossible to continue, and both of them leave. What Elizabeth does not suspect, however - Mr. Darcy rides straight to London to find Lydia and Wickham there, to finance the marriage between the two and to limit the damage that Lydia has done.
However, when the newlyweds visit Longbourn, Lydia slips out to Elizabeth on Darcy's part in the wedding, and Elizabeth realizes how much he's done for the family. At the same time, it is also the next meeting between Elizabeth and Wickham. However, she has no more than a cold look for him. When Darcy and Bingley return to Netherfield a few days later, feelings arise again between Jane and her Mr. Bingley. He proposes marriage to her, advised by his friend, who is hoping for reparation, and while the family is looking forward to their new son-in-law, Darcy and Elizabeth leave the house separately. They feel that the possibilities for similar joy are wasted, as both think of the other that he is no longer interested in a connection.
- Morning walk
That night Lady Catherine de Bourgh appears in Longbourn; she wakes the Bennets up because she really needs to speak to Elizabeth. She asks what the rumors that she and Mr. Darcy are engaged to be about. She accuses her of interfering in things she does not understand and explains that Mr. Darcy is already engaged to her daughter. She insults Elizabeth and her lowly origins. Elizabeth herself cannot hide the fact that there is no engagement between them, but she refuses to promise to renounce such a relationship. She asks Lady Catherine to go and retires to her room. Since she cannot sleep, she gets up at dawn to go for a walk. She meets Mr. Darcy and they admit their love for one another. Darcy asks her father for her hand. Mr. Bennet takes his daughter to prayer, he can't understand where her sudden affection comes from. Beaming happily, she assures him of her love for Mr. Darcy, which has been strengthened after the misjudgment, and explains to him how much he has already done for her family, which convinces her father. Elizabeth thanks him for permission to marry.
backgrounds
Locations
Pride and Prejudice was filmed in England . The filming location for Pemberley, Mr. Darcy's house, was Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, the landscaped park of Stourhead with the multi-arched bridge there and the Temple of Apollo, where Mr. Darcy, drenched in rain, meets Lizzie and her first proposal of marriage power. Burghley House in Lincolnshire served as the castle of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Rosings . Basildon Park in Berkshire was Netherfield, temporarily leased from Mr. Bingley. And Groombridge Place , Kent, was home to Longbourn, the home of the Bennet family. Several streets in the town of Stamford in Lincolnshire provided the sets for the Meryton scenes. The scene with Lizzie standing on a rock over a demolished terrain was filmed in Stanage Edge in the Peak District National Park .
production
Emma Thompson , who received the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay and the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film "Sense and Sensibility," revised the script. She wrote two scenes in the film: Charlotte Lucas' confession when she told Elizabeth about her engagement and Elizabeth's attempt to tell Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner and Mr. Darcy about Lydia's escape with Wickham. According to the director, Thompson's idea was to have Knightley rush in and out of the room.
An alternative ending was filmed for the US version. In the additional scene that follows the actual end of the European version, you see Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy sitting outside and kissing each other in the evening. The alternative ending can also be found as bonus material on the German DVD edition. The cost of production was estimated at $ 28 million. The box office income in the US cinemas was around 38.4 million and in the rest of the world around 82.7 million US dollars.
Scenes
The scene in the dining room in Rosings, in which Elizabeth is questioned about her family by Lady Catherine, was the first to be filmed, the conversation between Wickham and Elizabeth under the tree by the river the last. The opening sequence of the film shows Elizabeth walking through the landscape reading. The title of the book is "First Impressions", the working title under which Jane Austen wrote "Pride and Prejudice". The scene with Mr. Bingley's marriage proposal was planned to be shorter. Simon Woods was so brilliant that it was spontaneously renewed.
actor
The Bennet sisters' actresses (Rosamund Pike, Keira Knightley, Talulah Riley, Carey Mulligan and Jena Malone) and Tom Hollander, who plays Mr. Collins, turned up at the Bennet house in Kent earlier than the rest of the crew familiar with the house and with each other. In order to get to know the premises better, they played hide and seek and "robbers and gendarmes". According to the director, Tamzin Merchant played the piano as Georgiana Darcy herself. Rosamund Pike was director Joe Wright's first choice for the role of Jane Bennet. She turned down the role of Rita Skeeter in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". Matthew Macfadyen looks very bad. When shooting the scene in the fog at the very end of the film, Joe Wright stood behind the camera and waved a red flag to show the actor the direction. Jena Malone, who played Lydia Bennet, is actually older than Keira Knightley, who plays Elizabeth. The actors Rosamund Pike and Simon Woods, who play Jane Bennet and Mr. Bingley, had a relationship in the run-up to the film, but it ended. The director said he called Rosamund Pike after Simon Woods was elected and asked her if the cast was a problem, which she said no. The two had not seen each other for two years and the next day they danced together. Donald Sutherland, who portrays Mr. Bennet, reminds director Joe Wright of his father and was therefore the first choice - as was Judi Dench for the role of Lady Catherine. Keira Knightley met Wickham actor Rupert Friend while filming and was in a relationship with him until early 2011.
Reviews
- Jessica Winter praised the actors' work in The Village Voice .
- Peter Travers praised the script and Keira Knightley in Rolling Stone .
- film-dienst 21/2005: A lively, but ultimately rather insignificant literature adaptation that puts the comedic aspect of the material in the foreground and dilutes the socio-critical sharpness of the original a little.
- Andreas Kilb in FAZ.NET on October 20, 2005: With Joe Wright's film adaptation of pride and prejudice, which one could expect with some suspicion after all the television films (...), it is now that it is not just not a stiff one Costume film is, but a small miracle. A miracle of taste in the equipment and setting, of skill in casting the roles, of narrative economy.
Awards
At the 2006 Academy Awards , the film was nominated for Best Production Design , Best Film Music and Best Costume Design and Keira Knightley was nominated for Best Actress . However, Reese Witherspoon ( Walk the Line ) had to admit defeat. Keira Knightley and the film were nominated for a 2006 Golden Globe Award .
Joe Wright won the BAFTA Award in 2006 . There were four other nominations for this award, including for Brenda Blethyn and Deborah Moggach . The film won the Empire Award in 2006 in two categories (including Best British Film) and received two other nominations (Keira Knightley, Joe Wright).
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
literature
- Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice . Translated by Ursula Grawe and Christian Grawe . Reclam, Stuttgart, 2008, ISBN 978-3-15-021729-0 .
- Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice. Roman (original title: Pride and Prejudice ). German by Karin von Schwab [first edition. 1939]. Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2005, 364 pp. ISBN 3-7466-5106-9 - “Book about the film” with some film images
Web links
- Pride and Prejudice in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pride and Prejudice at Metacritic (English)
- Pride and Prejudice atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414387/trivia
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age identification for pride and prejudice . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ cinefacts
- ↑ http://www.imdb.de/title/tt0414387/business
- ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=prideandprejudice05.htm
- ↑ Additional material on the DVD
- ↑ http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0545,winter,69791,20.html
- ↑ http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/8748997/pride_and_prejudice
- ↑ In the spider web of love: "Pride and Prejudice"