In the beginning was no passion and no desire, no greed and not even this indomitable, endless hunger. In the beginning was a title: “Pride and Prejudice & amp; zombies”, that sounded while brainstorming for an editor at the publisher Quirk Books, Philadelphia somehow exciting, and he was then initially only these five words continue to the author Seth Grahame-Smith .
in 2008 she published the novel the title – and it must be admitted so that this combination will pop: the stiff gentlemen in the period around the English Regency era in which Jane Austen the starting material invented, and the maximum uninhibited zombies. The etiquette and the drive. Daughters looking for befitting husbands, and rotting corpses in search of fresh meat. Drop of blood, decapitations even on the salon carpets of high society.
Following this recipe, Grahame-Smith had one of the first “mash-up” novels written, the relish converted all the possibilities and practices of the digital age and its fan fiction, cultural content and überzuformen, highly profitable in the printed form rendered. Followed entanglements as “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, also written by Grahame-Smith and already in 2012 a film, “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters”, in Germany “Winnetou under werewolves” and “Sissi – The Vampire Slayer”. In summary, however slow it is silly – so quickly returned to the heads knocking
On this last means engages in the mother of all mashups Colonel Darcy (Sam Riley) in the estate of the noble family Bennet who viewed. withdrew like so many other early 19th century before only apparently inclosed zombie plague in their own little “gated community” – not knowing that one of the long ago infected her. To counter the constant threat, send the English fathers their daughters to the Far East, there to learn the martial arts.
This belongs back to the movies
Last but not least in this detail shows that the substance contains less that of an appropriation of Austen’schen novel by the mindsets current globalized pop culture is, but tells of the interpenetration of literary and cinematic genre. Beautiful women in period costume at martial arts contortions: That’s part but returns to the cinema, it promises the comedy of the unexpected and the fascination of the kinetic action simultaneously
Flying arms and legs, whether body or division from. separate body, but nevertheless are rare in the pictures of director Burr Steers, who first came on board, after numerous other directors had left the project again – including the in recent years as a nominated screenwriter and director five times for an Oscar David O . Russell ( “American Hustle”). The desire to go scenically with the youth-friendly rating PG-13 on the safe side, should have played a significant role
At the same time all the created confrontational narrative elements flowing yet interlocking surprisingly harmonious. The strange repulsion and attraction of Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James, “Cinderella”), which should finally like her four sisters married. Travelling in constant fear of death. The mysterious Wickham (Jack Huston, “Boardwalk Empire”), which proposes a very unique, unconventional approach to the undead while nurturing an intimate enmity with Darcy. The continued presence of military and sometimes romantic, sometimes vile intrigues simultaneously. Humor and history, conspiracy and corruption – the credible, nachfühlbare heartbreak but comes from time to time a little short there.
Perhaps because Steers, who also wrote the screenplay, the action just speeded up towards the end with leinwandgerechtem spectacle and thus further away from the original structure of Austen’s novel as Grahame-Smith did with its immediate historical document.
Battles and cannon announce at Steers from time perhaps final demise of an era. Surely already has Austen’s style, which dealt anything but nice or affirmatively with the company, which she described, laid the foundations on which were more refreshing disrespects and narrative excesses flourish. Simultaneously baffled sovereignty transferred to the Steers the desired clash of two worlds in fiction a surprisingly closed own.
In Video: The trailer for “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”
” pride and prejudice & amp; Zombies “
original Title: pride and prejudice and Zombies
USA / UK 2015
Written and directed by: Burr Steers
Cast: Lily James, Sam Riley, Jack Huston, Bella Heathcote, Douglas Booth, Sally Phillips, Charles Dance, Lena Headey, Matt Smith, Suki Waterhouse, Ellie Bamber, Millie Brady
production Cross Creek Pictures, Pierra Pictures, Pictures MadRiver et al.
rental: Universum Film / SquareOne Entertainment
Length: 108 minutes
Rated : 16 years
Start: June 9, 2016
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