Spring break is now over, and I guess I would say my mission was largely accomplished...which basically means I watched the movies I had wanted to see. Among them - the new Pride & Prejudice. Now you might expect some immediate excuses for this. Something like "a group of girls forced me to watch it at someone's house" or "only because Keira Knightley was in it" or maybe even "the video store mistakenly put the disc into the case for some war movie and I mistakenly watched it entirely by mistake." No, I am using none of those defenses. I rented it on my own and watched it by myself one afternoon. How is this possible? No self-respecting guy would do something like this...right? Probably true but then again the average guy has a hard time watching any movie that goes for more than 10 seconds without an explosion. I actually try to not be the typical "guy" in some ways. That doesn't mean you'll see me wearing a skirt and decorating my room with pink anytime soon. It just means I'm not intimidated by things like books (gasp!), or even long movies filled with talking. And Pride & Prejudice is both in essence. Don't get me wrong, I don't think I'll ever be caught dead with the Jane Austen book, or even the 6 hour long "classic" that every girl ever has watched. I too have my limits. But honestly this new movie is very good. It's well acted, has incredible photography, and, well, it's British! Those people are a little odd in more than a few ways, but if there's one thing they've mastered it's talking. I really wish I could talk like them. And I don't mean just the accent. Any truly patriotic American can use an awful British accent, but it's the way they word things that's so fascinating. All I can say is only the British could take a mundane part of everyday life like talking and make it their art. But it works - I've seldom found simple conversations as riveting as they are in this movie. So there you have it, my very long excuse for watching Pride & Prejudice. To summarize, I'm not a real man, that other movie is really long, and British people are good talkers.
P.S. The next day I watched The Great Raid, and the Americans shot a bunch of guys and blew up a bunch of stuff. So everything balanced out again. At least that's my next excuse.
4 comments:
Kent, you willingly watched P&P all by yourself?
Honestly, that wins you about 5,000 stars with every girl in the world.
I actually watched 5 versions of Pride and Prejudice over spring break. The only one I didn't see was the Laurence Olivier one.
OK, I've never seen the movie, but I respect your willingness to do something that challenges stereotypes. Yet another confirmation of your copious coolness.
I'm curious, though—can you whistle all the airs of that infernal H. S. Pinafore?
Well, I have watched P and P myself. It is a very good movie....and I got extra points for writing a paper on it for my costuming class. They were amazing though, so it was a fun paper to write!
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