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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1995 BBC version was the overall best, hands down. Most realistic, captured the feeling of the time period in an accurate way, balanced the everyday humor of the family with the strong social conventions of the era. Lizzie Bennet was *not* a [b]girlboss feminist angry [/b]at the social conventions of the time, but well aware of her limited role as well as the hypocrisies of her society, and she had her own strong feelings on appropriate behavior and mannerism that we would find very formal and restrictive today. It's Lydia Bennet who challenges the social conventions and restrictions against women and we can see what Austen thought of her.

If I nitpick anything it's that 1995 portrayed the Bennets as slightly less affluent than they were in the book, the comic aspect of P&P is that the Bennets had a handsome income but spent every penny of it, unable to save for their daughters' futures. 2005 made Darcy much grander than he really was, he was of a great family but not ducal level like the settings indicated in the movie, but 1995 captured his rank perfectly. [/quote]

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The daughter of a gentleman from a minor landed family marries the rich heir to a greater landed family and is whisked off to a lifetime of leisure as mistress of a great estate where she gets to play lady bountiful to her tenants while wintering in London for the balls. The only real difference between Lizzie and Lady Catherine is that she's nice. Austen's moralism was not class or gender and she spares no thoughts for the vast fleets of servants in their drudgery, but failing to live up to the ideals of the rank you occupied with sincerity and respectability. [/quote]

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