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Lizzie: "Let's start with the name. What does 'Pemberley' mean?"
Darcy: "Oh, uh... Pemberley is the name of the place my father's family comes from in England."
I had a feeling they had to discuss the name somehow, and I think they did a pretty decent job of tying it into the original text. One of the other modernizations I really liked was the fact that Mr. Collins didn't propose to Lizzie for her hand in marriage, but her hand in partnership. The one thing I did have some issues with was the fact that she didn't really change the character of Mrs. Bennet to match the rest of the series... She didn't seem to be very modernized like everything else was.
After I looked past the original shock of being screamed at by the cast of the web series, I was able to see the intelligence and thought that went into creating it, and I actually really enjoyed it (until the end when it got RIDICULOUSLY corny, but that's a blog post for another day, I guess).
My main question would be: should the character of Mrs. Bennet have been modernized like the rest of the storyline, or was it "okay" that she wasn't really changed much to match the new narrative?
I honestly hadn't noticed that Mrs. Bennet was not modernized like the rest. It seems like it was intentional, and if that is the case, I think it was to stress how out-of-touch, literally, she was.
ReplyDeleteYes, this is a good observation. Mrs. Bennet is represented as totally over the top and not really modernized, and at first I attributed at least some of that to Lizzie's portrayal of her. But Jane seems to often corroborate Lizzie's observations (if reluctantly), and Darcy does, too. So I don't really know WHY she needed to be that over the top. I think many people (myself included) could identify with a mom who is always asking if we're seeing anyone, and if it's serious, and if we're going to get married, etc. (In my family, it was my grandma, but still.) Wouldn't that have worked just as well?
ReplyDeleteI think the fact that Mrs. Bennet wasn't modernized to the same extent the others were goes to show that the problems people faced "back in the day" are still faced by people today. While those problems may have a different face, the fact of the matter is people still have huge amounts of pressure put on them by their parents. So I think whether or not it was intentional doesn't necessarily matter. Plus, it helps to tie back to the original novel even more! So to answer your question, yes! I think it's okay that they essentially left her as is
ReplyDeleteThere are still a lot of moms out there pressuring their daughters to get married and have babies, so I'm not sure that her lack of update is that out-of-touch with our society! It's like her Jello Salad (see my comment on Nina's post, and yes, please do a Google image search for Jello Salad!!)
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