Jane Austen’s legacy might be what’s single-handedly holding the idea of romance alive, even because the world descends into the darkish depths of modern-day relationship.
And Satisfaction & Prejudice, for so long as the Solar rises within the East, will reign supreme. The headstrong, quietly passionate, and burning need driving Elisabeth Bennet’s love story with Mr. Darcy IS the blueprint of what each girl deserves. And it is so, so extremely arduous to get proper once we’re talking about cinematisation.
It has been a number of instances over — the 6-part BBC collection being an extremely notable watch everybody retains operating again to. However in additional Hollywood-esque mainstream context, the 2005 Satisfaction & Prejudice takes the cake and the bakery. Directed by Joe Wright and led by Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfayden as Elisabeth and Mr. Darcy, ‘iconic’ and ‘cult’ aren’t phrases large enough to shoulder its cultural influence.
Now whereas Keira and Matthew’s seamless chemistry continues to reside in our heads rent-free, do you know that there have been a number of others being thought of to step into Mr. Darcy’s footwear? Throughout a Vainness Honest chat with Keira and Rosamund Pike (who by the way performed Jane Bennet within the manufacturing), the latter requested, “You should’ve met a number of Darcys” to which the previous promptly replied, “Sure, there have been a number of Darcys, and it was very clear that it was Matthew from the get-go. He is simply such a pleasant man”. Oh, we agree!
However what was it that gained Matthew the position?
In a 2005 chat with Leisure Tonight, Keira excitedly spoke of the second everybody within the room knew that the present millennium’s Mr. Darcy had been knighted! She shared, “It wasn’t within the script, we might almost kiss after which not. It is simply one thing that naturally occurred, within the audition, and all people across the desk went, ‘ohhh, that is excellent!’. So it was a type of very nice moments of simply two individuals who knew our characters very well, and it simply melted collectively actually properly. And Joe was identical to, ‘proper, do it, go for it!’, which is nice”.
All of this to say…it is undoubtedly time for a re-watch.
Satisfaction & Prejudice will full 20 years of getting having us swooning, this September 16.