Going to Pemberley & Together at last - Video

Seeing Pemberley - and Darcy, but first bad news

 

Together at last!

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Here's something from the distant past -

What's My Motivation?

Next Evening - After Dinner at Netherfield. The drawing room:

Jennifer: OK, I’m thinking, if that Caroline Bingley comes anywhere near me, I’ll throw this book at her. Look like you’re paying attention to your reading, but you’re really watching Darcy out of the corner of your eye. Reading -- Darcy -- Reading -- Darcy. Whew. What a headache I’m getting. Now Anna’s inviting me. I get up because she’s asked me? I get up to tease Colin? I get up just to do something different? Don’t forget perky. Keep those eyes sparkling. I need an aspirin.

Colin: I’m over here, reading, but not really reading.  Don’t forget the mannerisms. Hand to mouth, turn the page, look intelligent, where did they get this book? The Morals and Manners of Regency England? Give me a break! Here comes Anna the stick. Good actress, though. She leans over. What did she say? I can’t believe what she just whispered to me. B_____! Anything to steal a scene. Forget that! Cross your legs, get a grip. Say your lines...Right now I couldn’t get up and walk if...good motivation. “Why, that would defeat the purpose...” Expression?  Humorous, but serious, supercilious, but humble. Darcy the laughing lecher. That’s it. Jenny in that red gown and those....Here she comes, there she goes. I’m watching her with my usual shyness and arrogance, or was it arrogance and shyness? All in the eyes, all in the eyes. OK, lift the eyebrow, don’t show the teeth. Stop blinking so much. Damn these contact lenses! I think my eyebrows are beginning to run too...Get me out of here. I need a ciggie bad.

P&P Quotes

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From the book -- Darcy: I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit. Unfortunately an only son (for many years an only child), I was spoilt by my parents, who, though good themselves (my father, particularly, all that was benevolent and amiable), allowed, encouraged, almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing; to care for none beyond my own family circle; to think meanly of all the rest of the world; to wish at least to think meanly of their sense and worth compared with my own. Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty; and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

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From the TV Series: Mr. Darcy: You must know... surely, you must know it was all for you. You are too generous to trifle with me. I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I'd scarcely allowed myself before. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.

Some Ep 4 Questions

P&P Episode 4 (You can answer in the comments section to this post:

1. We have loved and talked about the letter writing scene many times, but why don’t you tell us which part of that scene you liked the most?

2. How do you think Lizzie felt when she read Darcy’s letter? She later tells Jane a bit, but at the first reading out there in the forest? Embarrassment? Some anger still?

3. When Mr. Bennet speaks to Kitty after Lydia leaves, saying that she’ll get over it in a year or two, did you think his words were cruel?  On the whole he wasn’t much of a caring father at all, was he?

4. I have always loved the scene where Lizzie climbs to the top of that small mountain, and exclaims “Beautiful! Beautiful!” It tells us so much about her character. What do you think?

5. What was your impression on the first viewing of Pemberley? Did YOU like the house?

6. Lizzie’s face when she looked at the portrait of Darcy was very revealing. I think this is where she really gave over and fell in love. Anyone else agree? Or was there another moment before this that “did it” for her?

7. Darcy’s disrobing and swim made Colin Firth a universal sex symbol to thinking women everywhere. But many Austen purists have said that such a scene did not belong. Your opinion on this?

8. Tell us what words and expressions you liked the most when the two meet unexpectedly on the grounds. Wasn’t this the first scene really where the real Darcy -- the one Lizzie would come to love -- showed through?

9. Didn’t you think the music was particularly mood provoking in this episode?

10. Why was it important to Darcy that Lizzie and Georgiana meet?  And shouldn’t this have been a big clue to L that he really cared for her? Do you think she picked it up?

And didn’t you love the way he ate her up with his eyes when the party left the grounds?