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09/08/2005 Entry: "Feeling Listless on Pride and Prejudice"

The author of Feeling Listless has been catching up on the Andrew Davies adaptation of Pride and Prejudice (in prep for the new movie version coming out, I guess). He had unaccountably never seen it! "The real joy is that it takes time to tell the story, whole scenes simply reflecting a mood or a meeting, any information being revealed simply an impression of a feeling if not necessarily some great gesture to move the plot forward. It takes time, allows characters to simply sit there, looking at each other, for minutes sometimes, wordless conversations with motives withheld from a wider group, glances seen only between lovers or confidents and the audience."

I agree that this relaxed quality is one of the deep pleasures of this version. Very few novel adaptations are five hours long nowadays.

(tags: PrideandPrejudice, FeelingListless)