Hollywood thinks they can just do whatever they want, whenever they want. They think it's allowable for them to take a story, any story, and turn it into what ever they want. Stupid bastards! It is one thing to take things out to save on time, but to totally change scenes, characters, and dynamic is wrong and nearly sacrilegious.
Especially a classic! You can't do that, I tell you.
This rant stems from the trash rendition of Pride & Prejudice released last year. I just saw it on DVD and was let down from the very first scene. First of all, the first scene should have clearly shown the family dynamic...the father that regrets his marriage to a silly woman, the oldest daughters being the most sensible, the middle daughter being puritanical, the two youngest not just being giggling dumbasses but also flighty flirts.
They totally lost the story line of Wickham and Darcy, the struggle between Darcy and Lizzy, and the issue of Collins inheriting everything of Mr. Bennet's.
I was disgusted. To top it off, they just change scenes. Lizzy's aunt knew Pemberly as a girl, because she grew up in the neighborhood! Lady Catherine does not barge in on the Bennets in the dead of night, slighting the garden's size. She comes in the day and slights it as she walks through it with Lizzy.
I won't even go into the fact that the acting, with exception of Judi Dench and Donald Sutherland, was horrific. Not a single one of the other characters were grasped...let alone portrayed. Darcy will never be played as he was by Colin Firth.
The screen writer and director will, most likely, burn for their abomination of a movie.
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