Some
new little things I
discovered upon my first
few viewings recently of
Pride & Prejudice film starring
Keira Knightley &
Matthew Macfadyen on
Blu-ray...I first mentioned about this on
Facebook, I thought I'd list them here with images stills from the movie (see more
HD stills from blu-ray version here! Also, check out and read
Blu-ray Review: Pride & Prejudice and
More P&P Blu-ray Reviews) for your reading pleasure.
But first, check out and read my
previous post about...
Pride & Prejudice Movie: Little things you may have failed to noticed upon first viewing...Three years ago, I started listing the random lil' things I failed to noticed in
Thing you failed to noticed upon first viewing... (on standard dvd) thread at the
P&P Forum and fellow members/
P&P fans had also listed their own list of things they failed to noticed in their first few (or even as many times as an astonishing
50+ more times of) viewings. Check it out! You'll read some interesting things a lot of us have failed to noticed because we were too busy staring at the handsome
Mr. Darcy or his lady love,
Lizzie Bennet...even though we've seen this film too many times, lol.
Now, onto the
new things I discovered upon
my first view viewing of P&P on blu-ray...
- In the opening scene where
Elizabeth Bennet was walking and reading a book, it was said that she was reading the original
P&P novel's original title, "
First Impressions," but I never really paid attention to the text (on my countless viewings of this film) on the last two pages that Lizzie was reading until now when I viewed this film on blu-ray. It was shown on the movie, but it wasn't clear on the standard DVD. On blu-ray, you can kinda clearly see/read the text when you paused it. It was interesting how it was the same story she was reading, but the
characters' names and locations were altered. No wonder, Lizzie looked kinda amused when she was reading it, lol.
Here are the
characters name change and
locations from the book she was reading:
Elizabeth = Katherine
Darcy = Cardy
Lydia = Sophia
Bingleys = Ainleys
Miss Bingley = Miss Ainley
Pemberley = Eastley
Derbyshire = Wiltshire
Georgiana = Charlotte
The Gardiners = relatives
In the last paragraph, it read like this...
With the Gardiners relatives, they were always on the most intimate terms. Darcy Cardy, as well as Elizabeth Katherine, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire Wiltshire, had been the means of uniting them.
The End.
- At the beginning of the film where we hear "
Dawn" playing,
Mary was seen playing the piano...and there it sounded like you hear the sound of Mary's piano playing...
- At the
Meryton Ball (the
first Ball at
the Assembly), when
The Bennets were introduced by
Sir William Lucas to
the Bingleys and
Mr. Darcy, two young kids (including a lil' girl barely seen in front of
Mrs. Bennet, which I just noticed on this still I've seen so many times from the movie just now, lol...see still to your left!) were running in front of
the Bennet family in the middle of introduction. I never noticed this on standard DVD, but after watching the blu-ray version, I went back and watch my standard DVD and there it was...two young kids running around...it only took me a million times of viewing before I noticed it, lol.
- Also, at the
Meryton Ball (as well as
Netherfield Ball), the dancing scenes (and its floors and faces of extras) were seen much clearly on blu-ray.
- Some
wine glasses are randomly and clearly seen on the bleachers where
Charlotte and
Lizzie were watching and listening to
Bingley and
Darcy's
conversations.
- In that same
Bingley/Darcy conversations where
Darcy said,
"Tolerable I dare say, but not handsome enough to tempt me" about
Lizzie, he kept looking to his left side, probably looking for Lizzie, but what he didn't know she was under the bleachers watching and listening to him slight her, lol...
-
Darcy had his eyes only for
Lizzie on both the
Meryton and
Netherfield Balls.
- The
Lizzie/Jane under the covers combo in their bedroom looks
very clear in blu-ray, you can even see their bed covers' reflection at their glass window!
- I just noticed that
Betsy (the maid), besides her random humming songs, she actually uttered a small line handing
Jane the letter that
Caroline Bingley wrote to her from
Netherfield Hall. The letter's text to:
Miss Jane Bennet of Longbourne, Hertfordshire (though you can only see
"H" on the
still) and Betsy said: "
A letter addressed to Miss Bennet, ma'am...from Netherfield Hall."
- Also,
Betsy can be seen pretty much at every
Bennet house scenes as well as the other servants like
Mr. and Mrs. Hill.
- After the scene where
Jane went to the
Netherfield Hall on a
horseback to see
the Bingleys where she sneezed and got ill,
Lizzie was walking in the rain in the next scene where they have hanging clothes outside their house, you can see the chickens (and swans and goose?) clearly running around in front of her when she knocked at the door where
Mr. Bennet opened it.
- When
Lizzie was walking to
Netherfield Hall to see
Jane, in full screen mode, you can see
Lizzie a lil' closer walking, which she kind of trip and almost fell...I never noticed that on the standard dvd as it was too far and dark (unless you zoomed in and in full screen mode). Very interesting!
- The
pig on the
Bennets looks even huge on blu-ray! Not too mention
lights from the
candles (on every scene you see it in the movie) looked pretty big (see a still of
Jane with
candle lights to your right!) as well.
- When
Mr. Collins first arrived at the
Bennets home, I just noticed his
carriage behind him, which I never noticed on my countless viewings on standard dvd, lol.
- It's more clearer now on blu-ray when
Mr. Bennet and the
girls giggled when
Mr. Collins was talking about
Lady Catherine's daughter
Anne and her
"phaetons and ponies," lol...
- When
Mr. Collins was telling
Mrs. Bennet after dinner that the
"eldest Miss Bennet has captured his special attention," you can see
Mr. Bennet and his
daughters at the drawing room in the background clearly with
Jane fanning herself and yawning and
Mary on a table nearby writing.
- At the
ribbons shop, I just noticed the
same man can be seen (towards the end of the movie, he told
Mrs. Bennet,
Jane,
Lizzie, and
Mary about
Mr. Bingley's return to
Herthfordshire), who was standing next to
Jane looking for ribbons in the background where
Lizzie and
Wickham were talking...
- Part of
Lizzie's hair was in
braid and it looked like a
head band or was
styled to look like a head band for the
Netherfield Ball.
-
Mr. Collins rode his own carriage solo to the
Netherfield Ball. Looks like none of
the Bennets rode with him, lol.
- For the
Netherfield Ball, it looked like
small white pearls are styled around
Lizzie's
hair with
matching earings like a Christmas tree lights/ornaments, very interesting that it wasn't white flowers as they looked like on standard DVD. On blu-ray it was clear that it wasn't flowers, but they looked like small
white pearls!!! Very interesting!
- When
Mr. Collins asked
the Bennets if he could have a
"private audience with Miss Elizabeth," Mary looked up to him and had a brief smile. She clearly has a thing for him in this version, lol.
-
Mr. Collins had a
white flower at the
Netherfield Ball and a
pink flower when he proposed to
Lizzie. Also,
Jane had
"ribbons, the ribbons" (which was interesting as, according to
director Joe Wright on his P&P DVD commentary,
"Rosamund Pike is obsessed with ribbons") and
Mary and
Lizzie both
carried books in some scenes in the movie,
Mrs. Bennet had
apples and
The Gardiners (especially
Mr. Gardiner always eating a pie!) are always
eating and drinking at every scene, lol. Very interesting!
- After
Lizzie decline
Mr. Collins proposal, the eavesdroppers aka
Bennet women, lol...opened the door and you can see
Collins looked at
Mary briefly as
Mary tried to smile, lol.
- Just before
Darcy handed his
letter to
Lizzie at the
Collins' home, he had to
lower his head upon entering the door because
he's so tall and he was seen clearly in the background on blu-ray than on standard DVD. Not too mention when
Lizzie was reading his
letter (with
Darcy voice-over), his fast horse riding looks clearly and can be seen a lil' longer too. Very nice!
- Though I've noticed in my previous viewings on standard DVD the scene where
Lydia was saying goodbye to her family and
Wickham pulled her arms to sit back down the carriage! On blu-ray, I noticed how clear that part of that scene was and how
Wickham was mean and scolding
Lydia! Definitely a "
a reference to domestic violence there from Mr. Wickham to Lydia," as director
Joe Wright had pointed out on his
P&P DVD Commentary about this scene.
- You can see
Darcy and
Bingley walking to the
Bennets home in
Longbourne very clearly...and they look even bigger (and handsome!) on
full screen mode 2, lol.
-
I just noticed for the first time ever (after countless of viewings on standard dvd)
four swans swimming (not like
seven swans swimming like on the Twelve Days of Christmas song, lol)
on the lake just in front of the
Pemberley House just before the
US Ending "Mr. & Mrs. Darcy" scene. It's funny 'cause
Joe Wright mentioned it on his
DVD commentary and I never noticed it till recently when I watched it on blu-ray, lol. Very interesting!
- At the same
"Mr. & Mrs. Darcy" scene, on blu-ray you can see
Darcy's smile clearly than on standard dvd.
And many more...but those are the ones I can remember seeing for now... after seeing
P&P movie (again) on
blu-ray. I'm sure I'll see more when I watch the movie over and over again, lol.
No April Fools Joke here, just a lil' fun P&P Trivia game (April Fools Edition)... 
