Sunday, April 17, 2005
Degrees of separation
I watched the 1995 Pride and Prejudice mini-series yesterday for the first time ever. Now I actually can hold my own in DarcySoc! Woohoo!I give it five babylons. One for Jennifer Ehle, who was beguiling. One for the support actors- I loved Mr Bennet and his deadpan wit and Mrs Bennet steals the show. One for the lurvely sets, especially Pemberley. One for Colin Firth in broodissimus mode, and finally, because it deserves a mention in itself, one for The Famous Wet Shirt.
Anyhoot, I learned some interesting trivia when looking up the actors. It turns out thatJennifer Ehle, aka Elizabeth Bennet, is the daughter of the Aunt May character in Spiderman, Rosemary Harris. And they both were in My Ralph's film Sunshine playing the old and young versions of the same character. The director dude didn't even know they were mother and daughter when casting apparently. You must see Sunshine by the way, it's a huge epic. It covers the history of Hungary over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries and has everything you could want in a movie: incest, torture, romance, betrayal, war, sport, love triangles, family drama, rape, death, politics, revolution, sex, etc etc. PLUS, Ralphy in almost every shot, since he plays three generations of the same family. What's there not to like? Except that at 3 hours, it's rawther bum-numbing.
The other thing I found out was that the dude who plays Bingley, Crispin Bonham Carter, is the cousin of Helena Bonham Carter, the witch and creepy little girl in Big Fish.
*edited because it's spelt "Bennet", not "Bennett". I'm ashamed of myself.
# posted at 7:12 pm
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