Talk:Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV serial)
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I am sorry, but there has been a terrible mistake. The A&E version has Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle and not the BBC version. --coolmallu 2005 July 7 22:19 (UTC)
- It's the same version. IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112130/combined states that it is BBC and A&E co-production. Przepla 22:45, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Episode breakdown to DVD scene breakdown
I swear my VHS copy had the individual episodes broken up, but my DVD copy (U.S.) does not. Does anyone know how the DVD scenes correspond to the T.V. episodes? -Acjelen 19:41, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
- I'm not sure of the answer to this, but it could be that you have the earlier DVD release. The 2005 tenth anniversary re-release is certainly in the original episodic form. Angmering 22:51, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Picture format"
The "picture format" is currently listed as PAL (576i). There is currently discussion about whether this should indicate the format the programme was produced in, or how it was originally broadcast. See Template talk:Infobox Television#Picture Format
The series was actually filmed on Super 16 film, not video. I'm not sure it's valid to say it was filmed in PAL ot 576i as to me they refer to analogue and digital video respectively. Originally, the series was shown with an aspect ratio of somewhere between 14:9 and 15:9. The recent DVD releases were remastered into 16:9 widescreen.
Perhaps the infobox should be changed. In any case, it would be nice to add a section to the article on the film format. JRawle (Talk) 00:44, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot (talk) 00:49, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Removed music list
For lack of reliable sources that would be allowed in a Good Article or Featured Article, I have removed the following list of music from the article.
- Carl Davis wrote the soundtrack. The theme music for the series is a three and a half minute concertino in E-flat for piano and orchestra.
- At the Meryton Assembly, the following English country dance music can be heard "The Comical Fellow" (Thompson 1776), "A Trip to Highgate" (Thompson 1777), "The Touchstone" (Thompson 1777),[1] "The First of April" and "The Happy Captive"[2]
- At Lucas Lodge, Mary Bennet plays Air con Varizzioni by Handel. She then plays "The Pleasure of the Town"[3]
- At Mrs. Phillips's house, Lydia Bennet entreats Mary Bennet to play "The Barley Mow" (Thompson 1779)[4]
- Elizabeth and her family climb the steps of Netherfield as the orchestra plays Mozart's "ecco la marcia" (English translation: here comes the march) which featured in The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni.
- Elizabeth and Mr. Collins dance to "The Shrewsbury Lasses" from Thompson (1765)[5]
- Elizabeth and Darcy dance to "Mr. Beveridge's Maggot".
- Mary Bennet sings "Slumber, Dear Maid" to Handel's Largo from his opera, Xerxes. Mary starts singing Franz Josef Haydn's Pastoral Song for Voice and Keyboard (English Canzonettas 1, H.26a/27) "My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair" before she is interrupted by her father.[6]
- In the Netherfield ball dinner, Mrs Hurst plays Mozart's KV331 Rondo Alla Turca (English translation: Turkish variation of the rondo) on the piano immediately after Mary Bennet's performance.
- When Elizabeth is climbing the rocks in Derbyshire a horn version of Franz Schubert's song for male choir "Die Allmacht" D875a is playing in the background.
- Elizabeth sings the English translation of Cherubino's aria "Voi Che Sapete" (English translation: Tell me what love is) which is from Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro.
- Georgiana Darcy plays Beethoven's Andante Favori as Elizabeth and Darcy share a longing glance across the room at Pemberley.
- Georgiana plays the second movement from Muzio Clementi's Sonatina No.4 in the evening at Pemberley after Darcy finds out about Lydia's elopement.
I have instead replaced it with information from the making-of book. Some "important" songs are still mentioned in the article in prose, but I don't know for how much longer. – sgeureka t•c 17:16, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Other removed information
Other removed information because of missing sources:
- Due to the huge popularity, the programme was quickly repeated the following year.
- The miniseries won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain Television Award for "Dramatised Serial".
- The serial was shot on Super 16,[7] but was broadcast in a 14:9 aspect ratio on the BBC in 1995, this being prior to the UK's move to digital widescreen transmission. However, for BBC Worldwide's 2000 DVD release, the serial was re-mastered for 16:9, although the opening sequence and the very final shot of each episode had to be digitally zoomed and cropped from the 14:9 broadcast version.
– sgeureka t•c 16:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Removed because it didn't "fit" but may be added later again if appropriate:
- Filming began in Grantham, England and finished in Warwick, England. The last two scenes filmed were Mr Darcy's second proposal and Lady Catherine's confrontation with Elizabeth at Longbourn.[8]
- The serial was shot on Super 16.[7]
- The actresses did not wear obvious makeup or mascara.[9]
- (mentioned in lead but nowhere else) John O'Connor of The New York Times considered Price and Prejudice "a witty mix of love stories and social conniving, cleverly wrapped in the ambitions and illusions of a provincial gentry".[10]
