OMG! NO!!!!
Jul. 13th, 2008 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scottishlassOkay, so I decided to watch Pride & Prejudice ... not the wonderful BBC series but the abomination of the same with Keira Knightley.
Apart from totally slaughtering the literary source of the book and thus belittling all the characters, there is another abomination ...
The costumes!!! OMG!! the costumes ... they are sooo NOT authentic. I saw Princess seams on a Regency gown ... OMG! No no no!!!!!!
*whimpers and slinks off into a corner to heal her bleeding eyes*
ETA: There is more ...
Miss Bingley goes to a houseball in her chemise (ROTFLMAO)
Lizzy's ballgown looks more like the tea gown of Rose in Titanic. NO NO NO SO WRONG!!!
And then the conventions ... no girl runs around in her shift and a flimsy pelisse in the early morning meeting a guy in his breeches and open necked shirt. ARGH!!! Any good re-enactor of that period (heck, ANY period prior 1920's) would feel abused by this.
Apart from totally slaughtering the literary source of the book and thus belittling all the characters, there is another abomination ...
The costumes!!! OMG!! the costumes ... they are sooo NOT authentic. I saw Princess seams on a Regency gown ... OMG! No no no!!!!!!
*whimpers and slinks off into a corner to heal her bleeding eyes*
ETA: There is more ...
Miss Bingley goes to a houseball in her chemise (ROTFLMAO)
Lizzy's ballgown looks more like the tea gown of Rose in Titanic. NO NO NO SO WRONG!!!
And then the conventions ... no girl runs around in her shift and a flimsy pelisse in the early morning meeting a guy in his breeches and open necked shirt. ARGH!!! Any good re-enactor of that period (heck, ANY period prior 1920's) would feel abused by this.
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Date: 2008-07-14 04:10 am (UTC)That would be like meeting a guy at Starbucks for coffee before work in stockings, garter belt and bra, and him in silk boxer shorts with hearts all over them, and flip-flops.