新娘与偏见

This 2004 musical comedy from Bollywood gives Jane Austin’s novel a dramatic new and exotic touch. When you see the title, you know the reference, and you expect the informality and fun, which are very well presented in Bollywood style. All the twisted love stories in Austin’s original work become a single, hilarious and very much Bollywood coup de foudre.
The setting of the story is not much so different from 19th century Britain – a rather interesting or perhaps concerning fact, with parents yearning for someone socially advantaged, and daughters pursuing a Victorian free love. Yet the “Bollywoodness” of the film immediately removes all the formality, tediousness, and monotone of the Victorians.
  Knowing the film is a musical, one should perhaps be less concentrated by the capricious and appropriate appearance of dances and music, but their presence is dramatizing the film so much that perhaps they become the only thing that can last in my unfortunate memory. The colors and dances all make the film a gigantic flow of pictures. Even though one may be unsure about what exactly is going on in the flow, one can easily catch up with the plot and leave the brain relaxed and fully sucking the juices from visual nourishment.
  The Western actors give a mediocre display in the film. Martin Henderson, who plays William Darcy, lacks the ability to perform the initial aloofness, and the potential to love in him that can be found in the Darcy from Austin’s novel. Since the film, like Austin’s novel, tells the story from the heroine’s POV, it is important for Henderson to show Darcy’s world via his performance, which is way too static to show the character’s mind. I know his state of mind only because I read the novel.
  The Indian actors and actresses, however, give a rather vivid performance. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, playing Lalita, a character corresponding to Elizabeth in the original novel, gives her character the ambivalent state of mind, a remorse found in love stories, an unconscious preference, etc. Look retrospectively, one can find that she became more successful and sophisticated in her later performance, Jodhaa Akbar, for example, in which she played Jodhaa Bai, Mughal Empress. However, it does not change the fact that her performance in Bride and Prejudice is already outstanding. She has the skin color that drove the 18th century British sailors to mutiny, and blue eyes mysterious and exotic. Understandably she is found in the list of 25 hottest actresses on IMDB.
  The film is so not serious and so not tedious. It is a successful Indian rebellion against British formality, with weaponry of dances and music.

    我是在中央6看到的这部片子，因为当时没有看完全，就又从网上下了，看的很过瘾呢！以前就很喜欢印度的歌舞片，觉得有活力、热情，享受于他们的欢快和奔放。
    本片的内容并没有什么值得夸赞的地方，它是《傲慢与偏见（pride&prejudice)》的印度歌舞版。但是，不得不称赞女主角的美丽，我被她深深的吸引（还好我不是男生）。片中有几段女主角的歌舞，让我都想跟着节奏舞动起来了。而且，本片是个大团圆的结局，可以在心情不错的情况下看看。

和印度应该说是一种缘分吧,有种向往了,一定要去印度看看.舞蹈,音乐,海滩,小镇,金矿...古老的民俗民风,还有美女!
  从恋恋不忘的"阿育王子" 对了,还有王子.呵呵! 到"我爱贝克汉姆" 到"爱斗气爱上你" 几乎每一部片的推出都会烧红一拨人.男女主角们便成世人的宠儿. 但是在这部片里,我怎么就只记住了那个在美国发财了的表哥呢?又丑又庸俗的家伙. 那位幽雅的王子让我没有看懂,因为他不勇敢吧.
   还是说说舞蹈,我觉得该片的编舞抛弃了以前人们对印度舞到的模式化记忆,以为就只有那么几个经典动作,.... 很多现代热舞的动作,还有音乐也一样,有摇滚,融合了很多曲调... 海边的那场舞蹈真的是让人荤牵梦饶...

  

只能说可能05版的Darcy Elizabeth 已经牢牢抓住我的心了。
所以我看这个印度版的，即便女主角竟然是叫lolita 。。。OMG，让我几经感慨那个了火极一时的【洛丽塔】，无奈.......

反正我是看了各种没感觉。特别是Darcy和lolita 在一起，彼此心动，我看出没啥感觉啊。

还有一个美国人，在英国做生意，要娶个印度妹子，怎样，是要跨越全球么。

每次里头姐妹们跳舞或者在街上跳舞我就想笑，不知道为什么，可能美剧看多了，感觉美剧里那种才是最随性的，很自然。

而且【Bride & Prejudice】在我印象中也算是一部半宫廷的片子，王室气息算是，蛮浓重的，书上描述的感觉也是这样的啊。

印度这版拍的就一度让我联想到【歌舞青春】跟【high school】，看过的人懂的，后者与前者的差别。


怎么能把这么经典的作品拍成青春偶像片啊。我看的真的要疯了。

不过女主真的美，真心美、

无力了，小女子知识浅薄，略提小议.......

我喜欢这部电影，不是因为演员是多出众或者是歌曲多好听，我只是觉得会有误会在爱情之中，但是呢误会终究是会解决的
在爱情的眼里是没有距离的

So, I'm really not sure what to say about this Bollywood version of my beloved "Pride and Prejudice". The story, the music, the colors, the visuals, the glamorous settings, two attractive main characters, everything is there. However, I am just not loving it as I should be. I'll explain in a bit.

Quick summary of the story in case you don't know:
"The main plot focuses on the relationship between wealthy workaholic Will Darcy (Martin Henderson) and Lalita Bakshi (the "Elizabeth Bennett" role, played by Aishwarya Rai), the second daughter of a middle-class Indian couple. When Darcy arrives in Lalita's hometown of Amritsar, it's contempt at first sight, but as these two mismatched individuals get to know one another, love blooms. There are plenty of complications, not the least of which are Lalita's pride and Darcy's prejudice."

The film is enjoyable, light-hearted, funny at times, bright and colorful. However, some scenes are too obnoxious and loud, the relationship between Darcy and Lalita was developed too quickly, Darcy is way too pretty and not enough darkness in him, the lip-synching during musical numbers are hard to watch, and the whole idea that everybody (except Darcy) in the story are Indians is just a bit hard to grasp. It's difficult for me to accept a different approach to a story that I know so well, especially when the "Pride and Prejudice" miniseries(with Colin Firth) is still so deeply-rooted in my mind.

Also, please be warned, watching Sayid from "Lost" gettin' jiggy wit' it was an extremely painful experience.

After watching this, I think I'm anticipating the more traditional "Pride and Prejudice" remake that's due out end of this year more than ever now.

http://wintervalley.blogspot.com/2005/11/bride-and-prejudice.html