#like i'm watching bridget jones' diary for the first time already knowing i wasn't going to like it but i'm bored and figured what the hell | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

darlinghowl · 2 years ago

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i've been a jane austen fan from a very young age but if people don't stop making pride and prejudice retellings i'm building a time machine, going back in time and physically stopping jane austen from ever writing it. i swear to god.

#there are MAYBE a handful that are good. MAYBE. but almost none of them capture the Spirit of the original #like i'm watching bridget jones' diary for the first time already knowing i wasn't going to like it but i'm bored and figured what the hell #and all of these article laud it the way they laud clueless of it being such a good modern adaptation except it ISN'T like.#clueless did such a good job in ways i can't explain. bridget jones' diary was like 'what if we cut all of lizzy's family (you know one of #the most important aspects of the book because of how tied they are to her story) and instead had her dealing with all of her issues on her #own. but that's not the POINT the POINT is that jane has entanglements with bingley which is a problem for darcy because the rest of her #family is so fucking nuts and jane is so shy that darcy thinks jane isn't good enough for bingley and the POINT is that kitty is enthralled #by wickham just like darcy's sister was and that's why he helps elizabeth's family and THAT'S what makes her change her opinion of him.#correction: not good enough just like. not as interested as he is in her #it's ALL tied to her family and if you remove her family from the equation elizabeth's character falls so flat bc her family is at the root #of half her fucking issues but also her relationship to jane is the thing that spurns her to make half of the decisions she makes i just #UGH! and it's not just this movie that does it. almost all modern retellings just completely write out the family as if it isn't central to #the story being told. it's so annoying. and don't get me STARTED on the dynamic between elizabeth and darcy i s2g #modern adaptation writers will be like 'this couple fights a lot. pride and prejudice retelling' and publish without a seconds hesitation #clueless is an emma adaptation btw. didn't mention it earlier bc i was fuming so it sounds like i'm saying its p&p it's not

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