Having spent Sunday afternoon watching period dramas whilst attacking piles of ironing, I have decided that, despite numerous excellent adaptations of books including Middlemarch and Cranford in the years since, the 1995 Jennifer Ehles and Colin Firth version of Pride and Prejudice is my favourite TV adaptation of a book, ever.
Even if P & P were not my favourite book and Jane Austen my favourite author, I think that I would still love this adaptation. I like it better than any of the film versions of Pride and Prejudice, including the recent Keira Knightley version.
Poor old Colin Firth has become typecast in Darcy-type roles ever since. I don't know what happened to Jennifer.
What is your favourite TV or film adaptation of a book? And why?
7 comments:
You have my mouth watering for more. I haven't seen this, or any of the adaptations for P&P.
Hmmmm, I really enjoyed the film adaptation of John Grisham's "A Time to Kill" with Sandra Bulloch, and Matthew Maconahay--that's the only one I can think of that I enjoyed as much as the book.
I also enjoyed A Time to Kill, and I loved To Kill A Mockingbird with Gregory Peck. I prefer movies that follow the book's story line pretty closely. I was prepared to enjoy Firestarter becaust the book is one of my favourites, but after seeing it I was disappointed and couldn't read the book again for many years, because I kept seeing the scenes in my head that were so different to the way I had previously imagined them. It's a horror movie, the book written by Stephen King.
Oh, and James Clavell's Shogun. The 13 part mini series is still a favourite with me.
I have a bit of a Little House on the Prairie thing going here. Not that they're anything close to what happens in the books, really, but I love the show.
That and the movies of Janette Oke's "Love Comes Softly" series. Again, the movies change some rather significant details, but I still enjoy them.
The P&P version with Colin Firth is by far my favourite adaptation of a book.
But I also loved "Wives and daughters" , a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell.
And the latest version of the "Forsyte Saga".
I think I may be addicted to the BBC Colin Firth version of P&P. I borrowed it so many times from the video shop that it was embarrassing!. I recently had surgery and had to spend 3 weeks laying around recovering so I bought my own copy and lost count of how many times I watched it!!
BTW just found your blog, looks lovely, will have to investigate it some more.
Cheers, Michelle.
Poor, old Colin Firth? lol. I don't care how poor or old he gets, that Mr. Darcy can show up anytime here.
Twilight was a disappointment, but then it's not classic literature.
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