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1beatles1964
Editado: Abr 20, 2009, 12:24 pm

I was just wondering if anyone has heard about a very different version of Pride And Prejudice one that has Zombies in it. Does anyone know when it's supposed to be coming out or who is supposed to be in the movie? I just found this on a Natania Barron web site.

Pride And Prejudice & Zombies, Oh, My!! Zombies in a Jane Austen movie, what's next? I'm not sure whether or not the word Zombies was even invented back in Jane Austen's day.

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2beatlemoon
Abr 20, 2009, 1:29 pm

I'm surprised this hasn't been added to anyone's library yet. Check it out:

http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/products_id,7847/...

Haven't read it myself; I'm waiting to hear a friend's opinion on it. Don't know anything about a movie, but I heard that the publisher has greenlit a novel which features Abe Lincoln as a vampire slayer.

3fannyprice
Abr 20, 2009, 1:32 pm

Heard that as well. I really don't know how to feel about this whole thing.

4saturnine13
Abr 20, 2009, 2:01 pm

The book's been out for a few weeks, and I've read it.

It's not bad. If you're the sort of person who thinks zombies and ninjas are TOTALLY AWESOME, then yeah, you'll like it, it's good silly fun. If you think it sounds stupid or juvenile or gross (and it is all three of those things, yes), then no, you won't like this book.

There are some other reviews up on LibraryThing for it; for some reason it's not coming up in search or in Touchstones, so here's a link that should work:

http://www.librarything.com/work/7653406/

5atimco
Abr 20, 2009, 2:07 pm

I heard about it and thought all three adjectives above, so yeah, won't be reading that :-P

6jennieg
Abr 20, 2009, 3:58 pm

I got into a discussion on The Green Dragon about this last week. I read about 20 pages. I thought it would be an entertaining send-up of Jane. I found it absolutely unreadable. It's marketed as 85% Jane, but it's probably only about 15% Jane. I particularly resented the statement on the back cover that now P&P had been recast into something that someone would actually want to read.

If you need to read this, hit the library or find someone who wants to dump their copy. Save your money.

7sskwire
Abr 20, 2009, 4:07 pm

I just finished it. It was diverting, but not much more than that. I'm an Austen fan and also a horror sci-fi fan, so I suspect I'm part of the slim target audience for it. I'm mostly pleased to have it so that it can lurk on the shelf next to my multiple copies of P&P, and lurch out to attack unsuspecting book browsers....

8randomarbitrary
Maio 23, 2009, 3:14 pm

I liked it. I didn't think it was great literature, but then, it's P&P with zombies. It's exactly what I expected. There were a few bits where I thought the author did not stay true to the characters (Darcy making jokes about balls -- the kind you dance at and the kind in his pants, for example), but overall it was what I expected.

Plus it has that great cover.

I am currently fascinated with pandemics and epidemics and plague and cholera and all that stuff (my interest preceded the current insanity about swine flu by several years, BTW) so that very probably adds to why I enjoyed P&P&Z. I don't think that it's really a book for those who absolutely adore Jane Austen, unless you are in that very probably teeny subset who also love zombie stuff.

9mstrust
Jun 12, 2009, 2:49 pm

I'm just a few pages from the ending and think it's a fun book- and I'm someone who dislikes all the fan fiction stuff. It's difficult not to like an Elizabeth who can take out a bunch of zombies with her Chinese martial arts training.

10foolofatook
Jun 29, 2009, 12:16 pm

I really wanted to like this book - but I couldn't finish it. I like both Jane Austen and zombies, but the joke just got old after a few chapters. I think I was expecting too much.

11QuiteTheHuman
Mar 7, 2010, 5:09 am

I read it. I picked it up without expectation. It would have been cute as a graphic novel or short story or something more appropriate.

To me, what is most remarkable about Pride and Prejudice is the language. The style, the cadence, the tone, ...it's absolutely beautiful. Stuffing random bits of averagely written text into the middle of it, ruins it.

The edited story was a cute enough little quirky thing, but I can't find it in myself to forgive the abuse of the language.

12TheUpturnedKnows
Mar 7, 2010, 9:20 am

It's just a ripoff, pure and simple.

13QuiteTheHuman
Mar 7, 2010, 9:36 pm

I don't think it's necessarily that cut and dried.

Rewrites can be really successful. I personally just think that they require more significant deviation from the original. Direct c/p of original text with other bits crammed in COULD be an interesting device...potentially...it's just not the brightest thing to attempt with prose this a)well known b)gorgeous ...unless you are one hell of a writer, which this guy (whoever he was, again) is not.

14TheUpturnedKnows
Mar 7, 2010, 10:00 pm

I was not talking about all rewrites, I was talking about this one. I did spend 15 minutes one day last year browsing through it, just to have an informed opinion.

I saw nothing worthwhile there, so I call it a ripoff.

15QuiteTheHuman
Mar 8, 2010, 12:58 pm

Well, by accepting that the concept of rewriting, in this style, is acceptable, you're stating that it's not a "ripoff".

Whether you think it's well written or poorly done is a seperate issue - one we seem to agree on.

I'm also not entirely sure a fifteen minute browse equals an informed opinion, but I can admit that's a subjective issue.

16TheUpturnedKnows
Mar 8, 2010, 1:05 pm

QTH, I have no idea how you managed to misunderstand what I was saying, which is that this particular rewrite is a ripoff, because it is so poorly done.

It doesn't take more than fifteen minutes to see what this guy was up to--it's a "one trick pony"--yeah, zombies, I get it.

What part did I miss? If you can show me where there was some sly additional twist that I overlooked, I'd be more than happy to check it out.

17QuiteTheHuman
Editado: Mar 9, 2010, 5:19 am

I apologize if I've offended.

To me..ripping something off is unfairly using somebody else's material for your own project - the "unfair" bit being subjective. If we're agreeing that it's acceptable to use another's material for rewrites, it's not a ripoff in that sense. Perhaps you were using the term in another sense? ...in which case, that would be where the misunderstanding arose.

18TheUpturnedKnows
Mar 9, 2010, 7:43 am

Yes, that is exactly where we've failed to connect. I should have used the word "travesty", because I have no problem whatsoever with pastiches which do justice to the original work in terms of the quality of the pastiche, in fact, I enjoy them very much when they're done well.

Heckerling's Clueless is a perfect example of a pastiche that is top of the line.

19QuiteTheHuman
Editado: Mar 11, 2010, 7:44 am

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20QuiteTheHuman
Editado: Mar 11, 2010, 7:49 am

Well balls, words are such tricksy things.

I had no idea that movie was done in book form first. I wasn't a huge fan of it, but that was mostly because of the acting, I think.

edit: orrrr it wasn't. nevermind:P

21TheUpturnedKnows
Mar 11, 2010, 9:22 am

? What??????

22QuiteTheHuman
Mar 11, 2010, 10:35 am

Are you talking about the movie Clueless by Amy Heckerling? I searched and couldn't find it in book form. Obviously, apart from its inspiration, Emma....

23TheUpturnedKnows
Mar 11, 2010, 11:32 am

Yes, Heckerling's Clueless is a really funny film in its own right, but it's also a very learned and sly but totally covert commentary on Emma. It is an example of a modern author (screenwriter) who interprets the shadows of the basic text, Emma, and depicts, in a seemingly unrelated setting, many of the central themes and humor of the original novel.

Whereas this zombie crap is something completely external and unrelated to the novel itself, which is imposed on the novel to exploit a market of mostly younger fans of Jane Austen many of whom have never read the novels themselves, but who have seen some of the crumby recent adaptations of the novels, and think they know Jane Austen.

24TheUpturnedKnows
Mar 11, 2010, 11:33 am

...and who happen to be fans of zombie, vampire and other supernatural movies and novels, and so why not combine these two? It's just exploitation, with no redeeming value.