Trailer Trash

So I found a new trailer for the upcoming Pride & Prejudice, as opposed to the one from yahoo films which I have been playing back about 50 times a day in the throes of fangirl glee. This one I like better, although I don't know why, because they take what everyone knows is a Jane Austen rom-com & light social satire and make it look all dramatic, esp. at the end, where all the lighting is blue and the ominous music and unsmiling faces of the lead actors would make one think that death is in the cards here. I mean, besides Lydia and Wickham's mutual sluttery, there's not a lot of heavy social issues to deal with here. I mean, I was watching Sense & Sensibility the other day, and holy STD's, was there a lot of rakery going on. I mean, Wickham's a rake, but Willoughby is oodles of hotness and has actual charm (sorry, but Greg Wise wins my heart over Adrian Lukas, and I have an intense inner debate here, since Willoughby is undoubtably eviller in my view, not even attempting to change his ways until it is too late, but Wickham is forced into reform and doesn't even WANT to change.) I mean, the difference is in their redeeming qualities. Wickham fucked up and was forced to marry a penniless woman he doesn't truly love, whereas Willoughby has the harshness of having a worse reputation than Wickham, then being forced to marry a rich woman for money, while the penniless girl whom he really loves loses her mind and gives herself pneumonia during the most suicidal walk in the rain EVER. But still, I think Sense and Sensibility is the darker of the two novels, because of the whole dealy with Willoughby actually having a past to answer for with Beth and all. Wickham's victims are nameless and faceless plot-drivers.
Anyhow, watch the trailer, see if you don't agree that the trailer-makers are totally trying to make the ending seem ambiguous and even possibly sad/dramatic/dark/angsty, when in fact you know the whole thing will end in a Regency-era double wedding.
Firth and Ehle's Kiss in the '95 version is one of the most memorable moments of modern movies with women between the ages of 12 and 85.

Joe Wright: We know how it ends. Thanks for trying to make it appealing to the gothbabies who haven't a clue about Austen, but no dice for the die-hard fans or kids who lent half a brain cell to their studies in highschool Literature class.

Note that they also manage to make Mr. Collins make a sex joke during a sermon. I...don't...know...
All I can do is thank God they never had the same idea for David Bamber, who was perfectly all I expected Mr. Collins to be as a character, and creepy to the nth degree to boot.
The only reason Collins in this movie can get away with a *snerk* kind of sex joke is because Tom Hollander is just so damn adorably idiotic. Creepy morons get no sympathy. Hollander's portrayal just seems to be a mild, bumbling fool, but Charlotte Lucas has not much to complain about in the '05 version here. At least I can look at Tom without being all like 'For God's sake man, it's called anti-perspirant," as was the case with Bamber. Hollander is also closer, I think, to the book's description of Collins, a small, bantam man of about 25 years of age. Bamber was too stocky, and a little too old for a convincing 25 years old. Also a little too *shwa?* for my tastes. Hollander can do the awkwardness perfectly, without making girls in the audience go "ick." We know Lizzie can never marry Collins, but we can see why Charlotte Lucas has a couple of good reasons to marry Hollander's Mr. Collins. In the '95 version, every possible feeling revolts against the idea, and there is no sympathy nor understanding of Charlotte's position because Collins is just so bloody insufferable and not so rich as to be the man about town. Hollander's expression is that of a puppy who just got caught pooping on the carpet. "Awwww he's just so stupid. Let's forgive him this once and clean up the mess." Whereas Bamber was like the dog who humps your mother-in-law's leg under the dinner table while stealthily sneaking food off of blind old granny's plate. "Ew. Bad dog. BAD DOG! Let's have him spayed. No! Put down!"

Update: Turns out that the actor and actress who play Bingley and Jane ae currently dating. *cue the chorus of awwwwwwws!*