“Socially, Mr. Bingley is not as sure footed as Darcy. He comes from a family that only made its money one or two generations before so they have a more delicate social position. His sister is very aggressive because she feels threatened by her roots”.
(Joe Wright, Director)
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Joe Wright movies + Dawn
“I love shooting at dawn. I love the kind of preparation and the energy as you feel the sky lightening. I think it might be something to do with me old rave days, I don’t know. But I like dawns. People always say “well, you could just shoot it at dusk, and it’d be the same thing”, but to me it never looks the same.” - Joe Wright
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I felt there was a certain realist element to [the book] so I decided to shoot the film in a realist style. I tried to put the audience right in there within that environment so we shot the whole thing on location. You’re then able to go in and out of doors and in and out of windows and really see and feel the environment for a full 360-degrees rather than something very static and stage-bound.
-Joe Wright
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“This was all improvised, this little section. It was a much shorter section but Simon did it so well that we extended it”.
(Joe Wright, Director)
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Director Joe Wright and some Impressionism in his works, “Atonement” and “Anna Karenina”.
“Pride and prejudice is a youthful book, written by a twenty one year old girl when she wrote the first draft. So it’s got great energy, and I wanted that speed and energy running through it. I wanted that youthful telling of it. That’s not because I wanted a youthful audience, but because it was written by somebody young.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
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“My first thought was that I wanted to cast all the actors at the ages that Austen wrote them. The emotions only seemed real to me when they were experienced by very young people. And that was really the first decision I made. I wanted to make something that is about young people experiencing these emotions for the first time and not understanding the feelings they are having.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
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“I didn’t want to cast people who looked like each other though. What I did rather, was to find mannerisms that they all shared.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
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“The idea that all the women should be dressed in white at this ball was Jacqueline Durran´s idea. Was an idea she came up with in the interview that we had. And that was the idea that made me decide I wanted her to design the costumes. There was a massive fashion for wearing white at the time.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
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Basically, I’d planned lots more shots through windows which are all about veils of perception, the pride and prejudice…you’re seeing people through the windows of your own understanding.
-Joe Wright director’s commentary
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“This was fun stuff to shoot as well. It´s really a masterclass from Brenda Blethyn here. I love that moment that Lizzie hides from Darcy. It´s a visceral, physical shock to her. He affects her in the solar plexus. And she now can´t breathe.
Jane is obsessed with ribbons. She carries two or three ribbons with her wherever she goes.”(Joe Wright, Director)
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“In really simple terms they first see each other, they fancy each other and he can´t deal with the fact that he fancies her. So they´re like children in a playground, they hit each other. If you cast them as seven, he pulls her hair, she gives him a slap and now they´re enemies”
(Joe Wright, Director)
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favourite films:
Pride and Prejudice (2005)And then the music you’ll recognise as being the music that we first hear when we enter Longbourn at the very, very beginning of the film….also by Dario, the composer,who composed it before we started filming. The reason I used the same 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. (X)
- Joe Wright director’s commentary
“The fact that it´s difficult to talk to someone who you´re in love with is brilliantly highlighted in the etiquette of Austen´s period, where you actually, physically, weren´t allowed to talk to them alone, except for when you´re dancing. That´s the only time you were alone. So to be able to use those dances in that way was a great way of forming collisions between the characters.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
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“I also felt there was a certain realist element to the book so I decided to shoot the film in a realist style. I tried to put the audience right in there within that environment so we shot the whole thing on location. You’re then able to go in and out of doors and in and out of windows and really see and feel the environment for a full 360-degrees rather than something very static and stage-bound.”
(Joe Wright, Director)
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