Episode 184: The “Best of” Series – In Search of the Austen Adaptation – Pride and Prejudice, Ep. 115

The Literary Life Podcast

Angelina Stanford

Education, Selfeducation, Classicaleducation, Reading, Literature, Homeschool, Arts, Books, Charlottemason, Homeeducation, Homeschooling

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Literary Life podcast we have a fun “Best of” Series episode for you from our collection of “In Search of the Austen Adaptation” podcasts! On this episode our hosts Angelina, Cindy and Thomas are joined by Atlee Northmore, and together they are debating which film version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is the best. Atlee shares some of the history of the Pride and Prejudice adaptations that were made for TV and film. Angelina highlights different ideas of what makes a good film adaptation of a book. Cindy brings up the importance of the casting, and Angelina talks about why she still feels like no film has gotten Mr. Darcy right. She also talks about the difficulty of embodying the virtues that Jane Austen gives her characters. Our hosts critique each major movies from over the decades, sharing what they like and dislike about each one.

Click here to download the PDF Atlee created for all the Pride and Prejudice film adaptations.

Commonplace Quotes:

If we cannot get the better of life, at any rate, we can be so free as to laugh at it.
Desmond MacCarthy

Jane Austen is thus a mistress of much deeper emotion than appears upon the surface. She stimulates us to supply what is not there. What she offers is, apparently a trifle, yet is composed of something that expands in the reader’s mind and endows with the most enduring form of life scenes which are outwardly trivial.
Virginia Woolf

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
G. K. Chesterton

Never judge a book by its movie.
Anonymous

False Though She Be

by William Congreve

FALSE though she be to me and love,     I'll ne'er pursue revenge;  For still the charmer I approve,     Though I deplore her change.   In hours of bliss we oft have met:     They could not always last;  And though the present I regret,     I'm grateful for the past.

Book List:

The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Literary Life Podcast.
0:03.0	We've grown quite significantly since our debut in 2019,
0:07.0	and we've had many requests to highlight older episodes that new listeners may have missed,
0:12.0	as well as revisit listener favorites.
0:15.4	To honor that request, I present to you this episode of the Best of the Literary Life Podcast.
0:22.1	This is not just another book chat podcast. Lifelong
0:26.6	reader Cindy Rollins joins teachers Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks for an
0:31.1	ongoing conversation about the skill and art of reading well.
0:36.3	Explore the lost intellectual tradition and discover how to fully enter into the great works of
0:42.3	literature.
0:43.6	Learn what books mean while delighting
0:45.8	in the sheer joy of imagination.
0:49.2	Each week we will rescue a story from the ivory tower and bring it to your couch, your kitchen, and your commute.
0:56.9	The literary life is for everyone because in the words of Stratford Caldecott, to be enchanted
1:02.2	by story is to be granted a deeper insight into reality.
1:06.2	Join us for an ever unfolding discussion of how stories will save the world.
1:12.1	This is the literary life of how stories will save the world.
1:12.9	This is the literary life podcast. Today we have a very special episode.
1:36.7	We are starting off a new series that we think is going to be a whole lot of fun and it's going
1:42.0	to pop up every now and then over the next year.
1:44.6	And we're calling it in search of the Austin adaptation. That's right, you heard that right.
1:51.2	We are going to explore all the different film versions and TV versions and internet versions of Jane Austin books.
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