Pride and Prejudice - Mr Darcy and Elizabeth at the piano

It's clear that they both are in the wrong.

Any one else notice that it is after Darcy sees Elizabeth flirting with Col. Fitzwilliam that Darcy proposes to Elizabeth. My guess is that he became jealous watching the two of them flirt, and he realized that Elizabeth was really quite a catch, and had no problem getting attention from men. So he one, realized that he would indeed be lucky to have her for a wife, and two, he needed to snatch her up before someone else did. Prior to this, Darcy believed he couldn’t marry a middle class women, but my guess is that after Fitzwilliam tells Elizabeth that he must marry for money, a polite way of letting her know he won’t consider seriously because of her lack of wealth and lower social class status, Darcy has the realization that because he has his own wealth, he actually has the freedom to marry whomever he wants, which means he actually can peruse Elizabeth. My guess is that Fitzwilliam played a big part in pushing Darcy, inadvertently, to actually pursue Elizabeth, confess his love and propose. If it weren’t for Fitzwilliam’s role, Darcy probably would have gone one denying and hiding his feelings for Elizabeth and eventually moved on like he had previously planned. Ironically, Fitzwilliam also played a big role in pushing Elizabeth, inadvertently, to reject Darcy’s proposal.

Lady Catherine is hilarious in this scene: partly the brilliant acting, but Jane Austen's dialogue is killingly funny.

Catherine is such a Karen. She sounds like all my aunts.
"I can't play for shit but I expect y'all to be world-class but I know I would've been lit at piano. I'm a hypocrite."

Darcy: "You like expressing opinions not reflecting your true thoughts" Also Darcy: "We neither of us perform to strangers"

Which is it man?! Poor thing's so blinded by how smitten he is that he doesn't understand just how much he's bewildering Elizabeth.

i love all versions of the movie for sure but 2005 wins bro

"You may come to Rosings as often as you like and play on the piano forte in Mrs. Jenkinson's room. She would be in no one's way in that part of the house." Ouch, poor Mrs. Jenkinson.

Mr collins reaction is so funny

The intellectual challenge and the subtlety of it are the core of their relationship in the book and that’s why the 2005 version is a bad version. There’s nothing of it, just an aggressive, bratty and sarcastic Elizabeth and a shy puppy Darcy. Here we have intelligent and ironic Elizabeth and a Darcy that can fence for himself

Please, someone - what is the name of the musical selection Elizabeth was trying to play at the beginning? I’ve heard it before and just🤔 can’t remember the name

This is really buggin' me...What is the name of this selection Elizabeth is playing? I know it from somewhere and I just can't remember what movie

“She will be in nobody’s way, you know, in that part of the house.” - Mr. Darcy, if you truly loved her, you would have defended her when your aunt actually equated her status with that of a servant through this appalling statement.

“We, neither of us, preform to strangers.”
Kills me! That’s quite profound and romantic for Darcy and I feel like it really gets at an element at the core of each of their characters that they have in common 🥰

Lmao "I know you find great enjoyment in professing opinions which are not your own"

Darcy: “I am not afraid of you”

Darcy two seconds later: (the John Mulany line) Thats a thing I’m sensitive about!!

Does anybody hear the resemblance in the piano at about 1 min mark while Lady C is playing that the first few notes Elizabeth plays sounds like the opening of the song "Smile" as in "Smile, though your heart is aching"...

Colin Firth is sooooooooo handsome. I can’t take my eyes off him. 😍

The acting in this movie was just superb.

What did he mean by “professing opinions which are not your own”? I feel like he’s making a reference to something else?

That little eye roll done by Mr. Darcy when lady Catherine interrupts his and Elizabeth's conversion always gets me, the fact that it was so subtle yet so powerful.

Practice!

Does anyone remember if Colonel Fitzwilliam was not a good match for marriage because of a lack of income? He otherwise seems very agreeable (especially in this version, dude is handsome as heck)

"You may come to Rosings as often as you like and play the piano forte. She can play the piano forte inMrs. Jenken's room. She would be in no one's way in that part of the house." You got to love lady Catherine's attitude: oh she won't be in anybody's way if she plays the piano in the room of what is basically a servant. In other words Mrs Jenkins isn't anybody in lady Catherine's eyes.

The shocking manners of only dancing FOUR dances at a ball might be lost on modern readers, but seeing as dances were usually arranged in pairs with each partner. Austen was also poking fun at the peculiar etiquette of balls.

“We neither of us perform for strangers” is haunting me. It’s so poetic and really captures the aspect of Elizabeth that bewitches him so much.

Also, I found it pretty hilarious that Lady Catherine is judging Lizzie’s playing, then proceeds to admit she doesn’t know how to play but if she had learned she’d be great at it, and brags like she’s better than Elizabeth because she has good *taste*. So ridiculous lol

I always wondered what Lady Catherine and Elizabeth’s relationship must’ve been like after she married Darcy.

What does he mean by “you have employed your time much better”?

In which Mr. Darcy is jealous.

Darcy to Elizabether: "We, neither of us, perform to strangers", and therein lies a big part of their attraction; they are non-conformists. 👏👏

You wouldn't want the ink to smudge your fingers

“ We, neither of us perform to strangers”… what a powerful line…😊

And darcy slightly shows his shyness to Lizzie…. That was really sweet.. he really is vulnerable in every conversation he had with Lizzie.

Ok, little musical joke: Lizzy apparently prefers the Glenn Gould interpretation of the Mozart!

I love this scene

I like how in this scene Elizabeth tells Darcy he only lacks conversational skills b/c he doesn’t practice them. She also doesn’t play the piano well here. But later at Pemberly, Darcy is much more practiced conversing with Elizabeth and her aunt and uncle, and conversely Elizabeth is much more skilled playing the piano and singing Mozart. They’ve both been practicing.

I've always laughed at Darcy realizing how rude his aunt is to Elizabeth but is ignorant of his own rudeness.

This is probably my favorite scene in this version! I love the eye interaction between Darcy and Elizabeth.

What is fundamentally annoying is that both actors are far too old and also look too old. Elisabeth is far too serene for a 21-year-old (!) and also appears much less attractive and older than Darcy. Her appearance is more like that of a good housewife on a sewing course. No one falls in love purely with intellect, the whole package has to be right. And unfortunately, unlike the book, that's not the case at all. A man like Darcy (Firth is brilliant) is a 10 on the points scale, while the plump, bland Elizabeth from the film is perhaps a 7. A Darcy would never have chosen her. In most Austen films, the men are much more attractive than the women. The 2007 film Persuasion is a real disaster: the drooling female protagonist with the constantly open mouth is almost repulsive, while Elizabeth here is at least just boring. The film's target audience is average women. And they are supposed to believe: I may only be mediocre myself, but I still get the most beautiful man. No, it doesn't work like that. And that's not what Jane Austen meant either.

What song is she suppose to be playing?

One of many things I really like about this scene is Darcy's realisation that his family is almost as embarrassing as Elizabeth's. You can clearly tell that he finds his aunt completely cringeworthy. I'm sure that realisation contributed to his overcoming his scruples and proposing to Lizzie.

Watch Anthony Calf (Colonel Firzwilliam) in Great Expectations—the only time he ever played a lead. He is amazing in that mini series.

Darcy’s eye roll at the end. Ehle and Firth had such great chemistry

Darcy's eyeroll at that shrill woman is hilarious.