Compare and Contrast
July 21, 2008
As I mentioned before, in preparing for our upcoming musical production of Pride and Prejudice, we’ve been working our way through the different film adaptations of the book that are available on DVD.
There are four straight adaptations (or translations):
…as well as two modernizations:
(What? You didn’t know there was a Mormon version of Pride and Prejudice?)
And as we were watching them, it occurred to me that it might be entertaining to do a few “compare and contrast” exercises. So today I’d like to start with the straight adaptations (we’ll cover the modernizations later) and look at Mr. Collins’ arrival.
