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This was ACTUALLY pride and prejudice, and very good..

posted 8 years ago by northman742002
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I don't know why I chose to watch this...i've seen all the jane austen adaptions I think and expected this movie to be a silly zombie movie with a loose Pride and Prejudice theme ..but its the other way around, this movie is quite honestly a faithful and well done Pride and Prejudice adaption (for the most part) with a very loose zombie theme/adaption.

I've read nothing about the motives in creating this movie, but I have to believe it was to acquaint the current generation with jane austen and make it relevant to todays youth...its not actually a horrible idea..and maybe it worked for a lot of people.. Sherlock holmes is often reworked to attract a modern audience to great success...I think that may have been the intention here..

entire chunks of the movie are almost word for word taken from the book and to show veneration to the jane austen tone and mood no silly one liners or quips contaminated the dialogue and with one or two early exceptions there werent really any gratuitous slasher scenes..this is actually a bad zombie movie if you like zombie movies..but it was blatantly never intended to be a "good" zombie movie...the zombie theme was only to add a touch of modern "spice" to the story, much the way sherlock holmes living in modern day london or new york spices up that story.

ironically enough, its the prejudice I and others felt to the title of the movie that ruined its chances, because by title alone a jane austen fan would have rolled their eyes at the idea of zombies in their favorite book, and zombie fans vice versa.

this movie is worthy enough to be shown in a class intending to introduce its reluctant student population to jane austen for the first time.

[–] MissSealy123 8 years ago

I just watched it, and I am very sorry it did so poorly. I love odd romances like this one with class and such differences between the man and woman. I love zombies, and I love history. So this movie was perfect for me. The horror part being more mental in that Victorian England was, as was most of the world's history, much more vulnerable without their fast means of communication like we have today. I could imagine how not knowing what was happening in the world would make any even that much more horrific. I also loved that the women were strong and still feminine

That last scene was fantastic with the zombies spoiling the festive day, and you're right in that this movie made Victorian English class structures novel for today's viewers. Clueless did that back in the 90s, but as you mentioned, the title was divisive. I thought the movie was clever for all the reasons you mentioned. It takes a type of thoughtfulness to make a film like this that may ostracize the general public. It's a film that deserves a lot better than it did. Shows that marketing and the title are what sells most anything in the entertainment industry.