Sunday, 20 November, 2005

why can't it be wednesday... like now?

if any one knows me well enough they'd know that sometimes i wish things would happen "like NOW!"... f teases me a lot with it... as he did this morning in his self-imposed morning call from across the atlantic. i was still thickly encapsulated in sleep's cobwebs, dreamy with lizzy and darcy in my own concoctions of Hertfordshire, Netherfield etc. ... utterly pleasant. but i have to wait till Wed. before the film's released in a cinema that i could reasonably get to without whimpering for a ride in someone's car...

then he continued to torture me with details of an un-warranted extended ending in the US-version that seems not to do justice to the novel in its original form... a kiss... champagne... sunset... how kitschy is that?!... and so the divide between the anglo-saxons and their yankee cousins remains.

ahh... but Matthew MacFadyen, who plays Darcy, is a lot more palatable to the eye than Colin Firth (sorry Mr Firth)... in fact, if i could have had it my way, i'd engage Ralph Fiennes in the role, oh yes! oh, i can't wait... and while i am re-reading the novel... and enjoying every pomposity of Jane Austen's verbose use of the language... i am hoping that wednesday will arrive sooner...

like NOW!

posted by ~overacuppa~ on Sunday, 20 November, 2005 at 16:58 hrs
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We (the 100-acre-wood) have decided that we're going to watch this together! Hopefully we can settle on a date which suits everyone. But we will think of you when we're watching it. In any case, i think you'll be watching it before us!

Eeeks, the US version sounds quite kitsch! I wonder which version we'll get here in Singapore.

Posted by: dimsumdolly on Sunday, 20 November, 2005 at 18:56 hrs

i am so envious!!! it would be so fun!!! oh... i hope some people at work will join me in my Austen craze... otherwise i am determinded to go even if alone! *dreamy*

Posted by: overacuppa on Sunday, 20 November, 2005 at 20:21 hrs

i dragged your bro to go watch it on friday! i personally loved it! right down to the soppy ending (which i was thrilled by becos i had to be SURE they lived happily ever after...something the jane austen style underplays too much for my liking...i know...stupid american...resident that is). See u fri for some potter time.

Posted by: lollihen on Monday, 21 November, 2005 at 21:15 hrs

ooooowwww... i can't wait for my turn although i wouldn't quite know how i might react to the cheesy ending... by the by... the theatre near me should still be screening potter and co. let's hope so... it's walking distance from the door!

i shall delight in the caustic exchanges between Lady de bourgh and lizzy... it must be a sight.

=C)

Posted by: overacuppa on Monday, 21 November, 2005 at 21:37 hrs

Oi! I like Colin Firth ok! I have the DVD for the BBC production, all of us at 100acre wood can watch tog when u next come back.

Posted by: fatgirl on Saturday, 3 December, 2005 at 08:15 hrs

Des, i know you like Mr Firth... sorry, but i don't... yet i could still enjoy the BBC production all the same! let's watch it together someday!!! =C)

Posted by: overacuppa on Sunday, 4 December, 2005 at 12:46 hrs

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