We are all fools in love.
Jane Austen
“I think, at the beginning, you know it´s that fight within herself of trying to figure out why she likes this person. It´s a relationship full of misunderstandings and pride and prejudice”
(Keira Knightley)
“His costume had a series of stages. The first time we see him he’s at Meryton, where he has a very stiffly tailored jacket on, and he’s quite contained and rigid. He stays in that rigid form for the first part of the film. By the time we get to the proposal that goes wrong in the rain, we move to a similar cut, but a much softer fabric. And then later he’s got a completely different cut of coat, not interlined, and he wears it undone.”
(Jacqueline Durran, Costume designer)
“I think, at the beginning, you know it´s that fight within herself of trying to figure out why she likes this person. It´s a relationship full of misunderstandings and pride and prejudice”
(Keira Knightley)
“When he was Darcy and she was Lizzie something happened and they were just perfect together. Keira and Matthew were just wicked together.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
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Macfadyen recognizes that wounded pride can both humiliate and spark an attraction: “It is terribly attractive when your pomposity is noticed and then punctured in public. It is infuriating and embarrassing and you hate that person. When Elizabeth humiliates Darcy at the Meryton Ball, he finds it incredibly funny. I mean, he is mortified and hates her but goes home and locks all the doors and laughs hysterically into the pillow. That is why she is so attractive.”
“In really simple terms they first see each other, they fancy each other and he can´t deal with the fact that he fancies her. So they´re like children in a playground, they hit each other. If you cast them as seven, he pulls her hair, she gives him a slap and now they´re enemies”
(Joe Wright, Director)
“What do you mean what happens?!! You can tell. It ends in a ridiculously romantic way and it’s all lovely and all the rest of it. I refuse to let it be anything else!”
(Keira Knightley)
Jean Yves Thibaudet - English Chamber Orchestra
We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before.
Pride and Prejudice
Mr. Darcy: So this is your opinion of me. Thank you for explaining so fully. Perhaps these offences might have been overlooked had not your pride been hurt by my honesty…
Elizabeth Bennet: *My* pride?
Mr. Darcy: …in admitting scruples about our relationship. Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your circumstances?
Elizabeth Bennet: And those are the words of a gentleman. From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others made me realize that you were the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.
[they look at each other for a long time as though about to kiss]Mr. Darcy: Forgive me, madam, for taking up so much of your time.
Pride and Prejudice
Mr. Darcy: Miss Elizabeth. I have struggled in vain and I can bear it no longer. These past months have been a torment. I came to Rosings with the single object of seeing you… I had to see you. I have fought against my better judgment, my family’s expectations, the inferiority of your birth by rank and circumstance. All these things I am willing to put aside and ask you to end my agony.
Elizabeth Bennet: I don’t understand.
Mr. Darcy: I love you.
Pride and Prejudice
