![]() I must just mention the charming piano music by Carl Davis, so beautifully evocative of a beautiful period in history (for the rich). But apart from that, I heartily recommend this video. Many will disagree but I think she over-acted, turning her Mrs Bennet into a nerve- grating, neurasthenic caricature. He found it impossible to imagine that anyone in a lower strata of society, living in a small provincial town, could be his equal - until he met Elizabeth! However, I felt there was one weak link in the chain of superb acting Alison steadman. But Darcy was in no way shy, he was just proud, with every reason to have a good opinion of himself. Olivier falsely portraits him as appealingly shy and self-conscious. It is interesting to compare Colin Firth's Darcy with that of Lawrence Olivier's Darcy in the Hollywood film. This involved a fine piece of editor-timing a split second either way, either too long or too short, and the poignancy of that moment would have been lost. She is at the piano befriending Darcy's sister, Georgiana (Emilia Fox), when he holds her gaze with a silent declaration of his love and admiration. And the duel of wits and sharp dialogue between Darcy and Elizabeth (Jennifer Ehle) as they get to know each other is entrancing. ![]() Its series of climaxes make the novel difficult to put down just as one plot-line reaches its climactic conclusion, another is building. No one has ever written a more tightly plotted novel. It is its faithfulness to the original that makes this drama so good. David Bamber makes Mr Collins deliciously toadying and obsequious. In order to extend our knowledge of the characters of Darcy(Colin Firth), and Mr Collins(David Bamber), two scenes are added to demonstrate that Darcy is not just an effete aristocrat but a real man worthy of Elizabeth's love we are shown him indulging in manly pursuits fencing, and swimming in his private lake (it puzzles me why so many women seem to drool over his wet-shirt scene) and to demonstrate that Mr Collins is an idiotic, narrow- minded prude we are shown him trembling with embarrassment and horror when he happens to come across Lydia (Julia Sawalha) in a state of dishabille. The drama departs from the novel in only two instances. The greater part of the dialogue in the series is Jane Austen's own and every scene is included and follows the same chronological order. It is rare to find a Jane Austen dramatisation that comes so near to being perfect on every level and that stays so true to the original novel. It was almost perfect - though not quite. ![]() I've not seen its like on television before nor do I expect to see its like again. Like this story? Sign up to our newsletter to get other stories like this delivered straight to your inbox.This is a drama to rave about. My dad was an actor and my sister was very famous in Absolutely Fabulous, so I had a bit of a sense of what it was like. ![]() She added: "I was very lucky because I came from a family that had always been in the film business. At the time I was in it it had 20 million viewers, honestly to just have that sudden fame." And then suddenly that episode will come out and the next minute you are ludicrously famous. You come in and then you film for six weeks, and for six weeks you are in EastEnders you are working as a soap star, but you are not yet a star. Nadia has previously spoken about Julia's fame, and how she felt lucky that from her sister being in Ab Fab as well as her father working as an actor, she found that it slightly easier when she became well-known after joining EastEnders in 1997 as actress Annie Palmer.ĭuring a discussion on her YouTube channel in March, where she was discussing fame, she said: "Having been on a soap opera - I was in EastEnders 20 years ago - and I used to watch the youngsters come into it. Julia played Saffy Monsoon in the hit sitcom Absolutely Fabulous Richard Keith Herring (born 12 July 1967) is an English stand-up comedian and writer whose early work includes the comedy double act Lee and Herring (alongside Stewart Lee).He is described by The British Theatre Guide as 'one of the leading hidden masters of modern British comedy'. ![]()
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