Cordelia ,'Beneath You'
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Yeap. Set to Howie Day's "Collide" of all the songs in all the lands, like seriously, Howie fucking Day! I laughed until I cried.
I've been told from reliable sources that the movie is not actually the travesty as the trailer suggests. But this line of promotion is majorly testing my attachment to Austen (and MacFadyen, who's the main reason I'm so set to watch this flick at all costs.)
...they set... a Pride and Prejudice trailer... to... COLLIDE?
You're kidding, right? Tell me you're kidding. I want the wacky love montage between an anthropologist and her skull back now!
(and MacFadyen, who's the main reason I'm so set to watch this flick at all costs.)
So very true. Plus, Dame Judi as Lady Catherine. Pretty soon, there won't be a crochety old woman part she hasn't owned.
You're kidding, right? Tell me you're kidding.
Alas, I kid you not. I suppose it's an attempt to modernize the look and feel of the film in order to draw in the audience who may not be familiar with the novel (although, isn't Austen a part of high school curriculum? Or maybe I'm mixing the general American HS English class with that in Neptune High), but surely, they must realize something like this would alienate Austen fans.
It made me laugh doubly more because I, too, remembered that conversation about the montage from Bones pilot set to the same song, which is precisely where I decided to skip the show, all my goodwill to Le Boreanaz not withstanding. It's not an awful song per se, but it's so bloody ubiquitous that by now, I've been conditioned into a Pavlovian cringe-response.
Were people talking about Get Rich here or in Natter?
Because look at the title of Zap2it's review of the movie: 'Get Rich' Dies Tryin'
Alas, I kid you not. I suppose it's an attempt to modernize the look and feel of the film in order to draw in the audience who may not be familiar with the novel (although, isn't Austen a part of high school curriculum? Or maybe I'm mixing the general American HS English class with that in Neptune High), but surely, they must realize something like this would alienate Austen fans.
Well, we didn't read Austen in high school, no. I'm sure there are places where they do. But... it's set in the 1800s! They didn't HAVE Collide in the 1800s! I'm sorry, that's just bad song choice. Vividcon would kick their asses.
I just mentally insert "Solsbury Hill" when I see the commercial.
England. Austen was in our English Lit curriculum. I don't know who the hell collide is, though, so I don't count.
They didn't HAVE Collide in the 1800s!
The accursed song seems to transcend known time-space continuum. Or maybe Howie Day is an immortal.
It *is* sort of like vidding LOTR to an Evanescence song, isn't it?
I read in a fashion magazine (Vogue? Elle? I cannot remember) that the director decided to set P&P in the late 18th century in order to have different costuming/hair than would be usual during the Regency. More dramatic, perhaps?
I don't know. The rationale is that it was set when Austen wrote it rather than when it was published. (I may be remembering this wrong.)