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Here we are almost three months later 
I have watched a few modern movie/documentary takes on Jane's life, as well as a couple of rather silly modern offshoots from her life, one of which was quite entertaining, and the other not so much except perhaps from a shared Jane craze point of view...
I did recently watch the whole of the B&W 1940 movie with Greer Garson and Lawrence Olivier. My goodness, no wonder she looked a bit too old for the part of a twenty year old, for she was closing in on forty at the time! LOL. All the other sisters appeared about the same, overly aged for their parts. Anyways, I did not mind the movie so much as I thought I would, though as you mentioned, Galatea, the dress styles were wrong, yet still they were lovely and quite colorful (even in B&W they looked quite colorful!). The scene with Lady Catherine coming to call on Lizzie to protest the engagement is quite altered in that rendition, she being in cahoots with her nephew Darcy to see if Elizabeth's feelings have changed. Its seems a while now since I watched it...
I also found another BBC production of Pride and Prejudice that was done in association with the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Company or Corporation) from 1980, and I have been slogging my way through that. At this point it really is a slog LOL. It is about five hours long and done in a different style again. Though the dress fashion seems right, the whole air of it is more stately, though the visuals are remarkably drab in contrast, which does seem consistent with the BBC production values for films of that era. I don't like this Darcy at all, and there seems to be no real emotional connection between him and Elizabeth. It is interesting to notice the differences in dialogue and perceive where one production matches one or the other more closely. The 1940 movie was probably farthest off the mark.
It had been decades since I last saw it...
I have watched a few modern movie/documentary takes on Jane's life, as well as a couple of rather silly modern offshoots from her life, one of which was quite entertaining, and the other not so much except perhaps from a shared Jane craze point of view... I did recently watch the whole of the B&W 1940 movie with Greer Garson and Lawrence Olivier. My goodness, no wonder she looked a bit too old for the part of a twenty year old, for she was closing in on forty at the time! LOL. All the other sisters appeared about the same, overly aged for their parts. Anyways, I did not mind the movie so much as I thought I would, though as you mentioned, Galatea, the dress styles were wrong, yet still they were lovely and quite colorful (even in B&W they looked quite colorful!). The scene with Lady Catherine coming to call on Lizzie to protest the engagement is quite altered in that rendition, she being in cahoots with her nephew Darcy to see if Elizabeth's feelings have changed. Its seems a while now since I watched it...
I also found another BBC production of Pride and Prejudice that was done in association with the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Company or Corporation) from 1980, and I have been slogging my way through that. At this point it really is a slog LOL. It is about five hours long and done in a different style again. Though the dress fashion seems right, the whole air of it is more stately, though the visuals are remarkably drab in contrast, which does seem consistent with the BBC production values for films of that era. I don't like this Darcy at all, and there seems to be no real emotional connection between him and Elizabeth. It is interesting to notice the differences in dialogue and perceive where one production matches one or the other more closely. The 1940 movie was probably farthest off the mark.
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^^Darcy^^
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^^Elizabeth, reading Darcy's letter in his own defense^^
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^^The two of them walking together^^
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^^The Bennets at the dining table, minus Lydia^^
Last weekend I watched the four hour Gone With The Wind from 1939 ^^Darcy^^
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^^Elizabeth, reading Darcy's letter in his own defense^^
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^^The two of them walking together^^
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^^The Bennets at the dining table, minus Lydia^^
It had been decades since I last saw it...
I watched the Anne Hathaway version of Jane's life, and felt let down. I like Hathaway, but she just didn't seem like Jane Austen. I think there was a lack of something- she was too light. I don't mean that Austen's books are heavy, only the wit requires something more than superficial charm to be believed. Austen is too intelligent. Maybe 20 year olds were more intelligent in Austen's day than ours? With the exception of Tinuviel, of course. I guess I really can't fault Greer Garson, as she was always beautiful.
One of the things that disappointed me about the Olivier film is the messing around with the plot. That always gets my goat. I haven't seen it for years, but I remember it annoyed me. So I might have been thinking about the Lady Catherine de Bourgh episode you reference.
The pictures you posted look like a BBC production. The thing I like about those 1970s, 1980s productions is that most of them were filmed in real houses, so are very authentic (even though the sound quality is so poor).
What do you think of Gone With the Wind? It has been a while since I saw it. I just finished a biography about Stonewall Jackson, called Rebel Yell: the Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
He was really a complex person, a Christian- yet a marvelous soldier who liked being in battle.