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Nov 13/14 movie: Pride and Prejudice. What fun to watch this -- the BBC miniseries with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth -- while I was cutting my fabric. So much better than the movie with Greer Garson and Lawrence Olivier. It's hard to imagine a better Austen adaptation. There were a few things added, notably any scene with just men talking to each other (Austen never wrote a scene with no women present), and a few tiny things taken out, but it was extremely faithful overall. Plenty of swoonworthy scenes of course, but lots of funny stuff too. Georg has been going around all afternoon saying "I am deeply vexed!" like Lady Catherine de Bourgh.

The weird thing is, I'm on an Austen e-list and some of the people there are offended by this movie because they think it's too licentious. For three reasons: first, the scene early on where Mr. Darcy is taking a bath, stands up and puts a robe on and you can see his bare back -- not his backside mind you, his back. Second, in the letter when Mr. Darcy mentions that Mr. Wickham was dissolute, there's a flashback of Darcy walking in on Wickham macking with a girl in his room. Third, at the very end during the wedding ceremony, they show all the bad guys and the bad ends they've come to, and Wickham and Lydia are shown lounging on a bed. I actually saw a post where someone called these scenes "Austen porn." These people seriously need to get a life.