“The pace slows down in two places, one on the swing and the other where they walk towards each other across the dawn fields. That seemed to come from a different film. Maybe I was indulgent. I loved that shot. He looks lovely and the shot means a lot to me, to see your destiny walking towards you, I’d want that moment to last a really long time. Rhythmically, it worked for me.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
“Apparently there’s an internet campaign to get the North American ending in the British version. Do you have a preference?
I think I prefer the version without the kiss. Only because I find it quite difficult to watch myself anyway. But I don’t know, I find it saccharin”.
(Matthew Macfadyen)
Talking eyes.
“You have no idea, you know, when you come into a picture what Keira Knightley is going to be like. And it turns out, she is as extraordinary an actor as I’ve ever met in my life. Rosamund was…it’s indescribable how ethereally beautiful she was. Talulah was…oh, I just embraced her. Carey… they were like children, you know. And Jena, she just became this silly child. They were wonderful. It was just a wonderful family, you know. Headed and embraced and supported and catalysed by Brenda Blethyn.”
(Donald Sutherland)
“The two older sisters, they´re just perfect creatures. Then there´s the two younger girls who are giggly and silly. Then there´s Mary in the middle, who doesn´t know what she´s doing half the time.”
(Talulah Riley, Mary)
Lizzie: How long do you plan to stay?
Col. Fitzwilliam: As long as Darcy chooses. I am at his disposal.
Lizzie: Everyone appears to be at his disposal. I wonder he does not marry and secure a lasting convenience of that kind.
Col. Fitzwilliam: She would be a lucky woman.
Lizzie: Really?
Col. Fitzwilliam: Darcy is a most loyal companion. From what I heard, on our journey here, he recently came to the rescue of one of his friends just in time.
Lizzie: What happened?
Col. Fitzwilliam: He saved te man from an imprudent marriage.
Lizzie: Who was the man?
Col. Fitzwilliam: His closest friend, Charles Bingley.
Mr. Collins´ faces are priceless.
“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 was trying to find out what a man of Mr. Bingley´s means and age would do with his time, whether he´d work o have a job or anything, and they really didn´t. They were for walks and played cards in the afternoon…it was a weird period when men really do anything. He wasn´t in government, he didn´t have an estate so he really just had a big fat income and wandered round with it in his pocket. Basically, his aim is to get married, and once married to buy an estate and become a proper landed gentleman”.
(Simon Woods)
