History and Context: Pride and Prejudice

Today in class we spent some time watching different kind of trailers from the movie "Pride and prejudice". This exercise was to challenge ourselves and see how does the context affect us, the viewers. After that we had to answer some questions.

1) Why do you think pride and prejudice continues to be a referent of modern tales?

Well the issues presented in the novel, although the time is set in 1700's, are mainly about love and economic issues, which now, and forever will be problems in our society, that's why Pride and prejudice is still a referent of modern tales, because the issues presented are still issues at these days.

2) What do you think it's the effect that these different authors want to achieve in today's audience?

I think they're trying to make the movies for this days, let's say, adjust them to this time issues so we could entertain ourselves more watching the movie, as we would feel identified with the movie and the protagonists.

3) If you had to choose one of the previous versions to analyze, which one would you analyze and why?

Well I would go obviously for the one made in 2005 because it keeps the idea of the novel, and at the same time making it newer. So we could say it's the most decent.