Monday, March 9, 2009

Lost in Austen

It was delightful watching the whole plot of Pride and Prejudice get subverted by the introduction of a contemporary character - I'm going to spend the entire week in anticipation of the second installment. Whether you like it or not might come down to whether you are the kind of person, as per Room with a View*, who likes comic songs or - not. I like comic songs. And I like this.

Now, did I blink and miss it somehow? Or did they NOT show the actual rendition of Downtown at the Bingley's house for some reason?

Well, here it is :


* one of the key moments in deciding that her fiance, Cecil, is after all, completely wrong for Lucy Honeychurch, is that he does not appreciate comic songs.

3 comments:

Nicole said...

Wow! They must have cut this out. Not sure why though!

Ali said...

That is so hilarious! Killed me ... They definitely didn't show that scene. What a pity!

Megan said...

I did a search and the ABC broadcast the international version as given to them - the missing scene must have been in UK version and copyright for the song only paid for, for that market....what a shame!
http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/Client/Message.aspx?b=81&t=1&a=0&ps=20&dm=1&m=42611&pd=1&p=1

looking forward to the movie version, it might include this scane or something like - as well as more on Elizabeth in London?