Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Prudence]

Oh yeah - I rounded out my vacation last week by watching Bride and Prejudice. I wish I had time to watch it again, because it took me a bit to figure out who was who. Probably because I was trying to match them up to their Austin counterparts.

It was a little bittersweet for me. On the one hand, I did enjoy the movie. I'm a sucker for Austin adaptations, and I did like this one - even if there was sort of a "I've brought along my random white boy friend" aspect to it. And did Darcy ever give a reason for recommending against buying the hotel? But still, I liked it. I liked the musical numbers. I wish there were more musicals like this. On the other hand, though, like the other two movies I watched last week, the effect on me was that I wish I was someone else. If my head didn't hurt, I'd take a moment to analyze how sanitized movie land makes a white girl which she was brown and how I might view the movie differently if I actually were brown.