Yeah, it felt rom-comy, which felt a bit forced. There's not much that's actually laugh out loud funny in Pride and Prejudice. (Mr. Collins, at first, but after a week or two he becomes a threat.)
I don't usually think of period dramas as being aimed at a teen audience, but I guess this was just a few years after Knightly was in Bend It Like Beckham as a teenager, so maybe you're got something there. I don't the Lydia plot line would have felt that alien to younger viewers - sadly, I don't think we're that far removed from treating women's sexuality as a danger zone - but I think they could have done it by pushing just how *young* Lydia is. A grown man running off with a 15 year old and intending to abandon her in a strange place with no family and no way to get home? Obviously evil.
Eh, it's just a weird and rushed version of a story. It's not bad for being fast-paced, it just makes it feel much less like an Austen novel than a generic film.
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I don't usually think of period dramas as being aimed at a teen audience, but I guess this was just a few years after Knightly was in Bend It Like Beckham as a teenager, so maybe you're got something there. I don't the Lydia plot line would have felt that alien to younger viewers - sadly, I don't think we're that far removed from treating women's sexuality as a danger zone - but I think they could have done it by pushing just how *young* Lydia is. A grown man running off with a 15 year old and intending to abandon her in a strange place with no family and no way to get home? Obviously evil.
Eh, it's just a weird and rushed version of a story. It's not bad for being fast-paced, it just makes it feel much less like an Austen novel than a generic film.