“And then the music that starts at the window you´ll recognised as being the music that we first hear when we enter Longbourn at the very, very beginning of the film. And the reason why I used the same piece of music is because it would remind her of home. That finding the person you´re supposed to be with is like coming home. And that, even though this house is so completely different from her house, it´s the same spirit, the same music moves there”.
(Joe Wright, Director)
“You have to know what the rules are, you have to know the etiquette in order to rebel from it. She puts her elbow on the table, she slumps, she laughs without covering her mouth. It’s fun to know when your breaking the rules and when you’re not”.
(Keira Knightley)
Letters.
“So many letters in a Jane Austen book, wich are difficult things to dramatise really. I think letters are really un-cinematic and quite boring in terms of film.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
“Wickham is much more obviously attractive than Darcy. He knows about how to chat to women, he is self-deprecating and modest wich is, of course, terribly attractive, he looks gorgeous in his uniform, and those aren´t of course Darcy´s qualities at all.”
(Deborah Moggach, Screenwriter)
“Jane Austen always got much better with her father than her mother, just like Elizabeth Bennet. Her mother was a hypochondriac, like Mrs. Bennet and wasted a lot of money in Bath on quack doctors for imaginary illnesses.”
“The cast went down there and spent a few days playing sardines, and just mucking about in the house so that they could claim it as there own house. They each had their own bedroom and a space of their own. Tom Hollander (Mr. Collins) also played sardines and claimed that when he was in a cupboard with the five Bennet sisters it was the happiest day of his life.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy are tantalizing early prototypes for a Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy ideal of lovers as brainy, passionate sparring partners. That the world teems with fantasies of Mr. Darcy and his ilk there is no doubt. How many of his type are to be found outside the pages of a novel, however, is another matter.
