Pride And Prejudice Film Analysis

Pride and Prejudice is a simple love story set in a complex period of time published in 1813 by Jane Austen. Joe Wright creates and adapts this novel into his 2005 Pride and Prejudice film. Cultural environment leads to drastic and thematic changes from the original novel to what is the 2005 film. An altered change is the overall sexual tone of the movie compared to what was written in a period of time where it would have been unacceptable to publish anything that resembled the movie. I will explore this change of tone by assessing Joe Wright’s translation of Pride and Prejudice and comparing it to the culture of the 19th century. Specifically I will look into three scenes to explore the change of the sexual tone of the film from the novel

This meant that the audience the book was aimed for were the aristocracy to the middle class. The basic plot of the novel is that Mrs. Bennet tries to get all of her daughters married so that they will live a good life after Mr. Bennet passes away, while Elizabeth Bennet struggles with the circumstances brought upon their lives caused by her mother’s goal. Pride and Prejudice is not just a simple love story; there is complexity to it. It deals with issues of etiquette, social class, economy, and the status of women. Austen’s readers of the 1800s would relate to this plot with majority of the issues the Bennets deal with because they would had to deal with those problems as well. In 2005 a lot of these issues are still around, however life is better off today than it was in the 1800s. Average moviegoers no longer relate as much to the topics presented in the novel, such as women do not have to marry to be able to live comfortably when their father passes away. Modern readers mostly read for the love stories within it. Hence, when the audience went to see the 2005 Pride and Prejudice film, they expect a beautiful love story of an independent woman and a mysterious man; they do not understand the cultural impact of the original novel. Joe

It was relatable story to much of the upper class. Joe Wright created his adaptation to focus on the love story, highlighting the sexual tension between Elizabeth and Darcy to translate the story to the 21st century audience. Modern viewers who no longer relate to the social climate of the 19th century were lead to expect the passion between the two characters in the movie created by the advertisement. Joe Wright took advantage of people wanting to see a love story as translated Pride and Prejudice into a modern retelling of the 1813