Yep, vidding has changed the entire way I watch everything.

[sapote]

I had a hankering to rewatch the 2005 Pride and Prejudice, and I am noticing, for instance, at 17:23? Mr. Darcy is having breakfast with Miss Bingley, and the camera is behind them as a squire-dude in a wig comes in and announces that they have a guest. Now, Miss Bingley is reading society gossip out loud, and Mr. Darcy is hunched over his newspaper ignoring her. The squire-person walks in, announces there is a guest, Mr. Darcy looks up and then looks back down at his newspaper, and then when he hears the name "Elizabeth Bennet" he looks up and his back unconsciously, gradually goes straight. At this point we can't see his face, just Caroline Bingley's profile as she looks at him, taken aback by his reaction. It is a lovely little bit of body language that I have just rewound and watched six times in a row, and I would never have noticed it before.

(Also just after that, when Elizabeth walks in, he looks terrified. That never fails to make me giggle.)
(Also, right when she walks out it is so obvious that he is kicking himself for not managing to say something cooler. Oh, Mr. Darcy, patron saint of socially-awkward introverts everywhere).


Basically I love everything in this movie that involves Caroline Bingley. I don't know if it's a cultural thing or just reflects badly on me as a person, but I am charmed by people insulting each other very politely.

Also, since I started sewing, I keep pausing movies to look at how the costumes are put together. I love the dresses in this movie (so flattering! So comfortable-looking!) and it was only yesterday that I figured out about the y-seam in the back of the bodice. Why is it there? What does it do? Is there really no side seam?

I realize that discussing this without screencaps is unfair to everyone who hasn't seen the movie as much as I have, but it's sunday morning and I'm having a livejournal ramble, so there.

Happy Sunday?

Comments

[summertea.livejournal.com]

I'm vaguely embarrassed to note how many times I rewatch this movie. I have a big crush on almost everyone. :>

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

I know. My roommate was the one who bought it, but I have put a lot of wear and tear on the dvd. (The first time I watched it was in Honduras, and the pirated copy I was watching cut out right at the argument in the gazebo. Right when Mr. Darcy yells "no!". It was months before I could see the rest of the movie (and find out what happened, because I never read the book).

[nimnod.livejournal.com]

I love the polite insults too, because they're so clever and so quick.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

I know! They rely so much on subtext, and I love me some subtext.

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

Caroline Bingley/Elizabeth Bennet. I'm just sayin'. I adore this movie and have no shame to say so. And though those dresses look flattering, they, um, are not. Comfortable yes, flattering, now. And I have the Pineapple looking into how they are made. Because I am curious now, and it is all your fault.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

The HATE = uncontrollable sexual tension theory of slash rises again!

And yeah, I figured one of the reasons the dresses looked nice was because our dear Ms. Knightly needs four or five yards of fabric around her to fill her out. On the average person they might be excessive bulk. Still, the 2005 dresses are more likely to be flattering than the 1995 dresses, don't you think? (As well as not requiring ones' breasts to occupy about the same space as one's collarbones, which, ow, Elizabethen corsets. Ow.)

[chibimuse.livejournal.com]

the costumer's guide to movies should become your new best friend.
http://www.costumersguide.com/cr_pride.shtml
http://costumersguide.com/pride_prejudice/index.html
This second one has all of Elizabeth's costumes and is very thorough!

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

wow. I have now been reading these for ::checks clock:: three hours. Thanks!

[chibimuse.livejournal.com]

Haha, no problem!
When I first found them it was a total godsend, I was trying to replicate a dress and couldn't for the life of me figure out how it was made. Then, tada! They told me!

I thought that would be more useful than me trying to explain the seams on my own with my tiny knowledge of 1900's fashion.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

If you still want to try to explain them, feel free, because hi, I have only the most basic understanding of how clothing is put together period. (And yet I suspect fairly soon I am going to start abandoning pattern-based sewing and wasting a lot of muslin, because I'm like that.)

On the other hand, these websites go a fair way towards sparing you the frustration of explaining it in little words I would understand *g*

[chibimuse.livejournal.com]

I am the kind of person who would buy a dvd just to look at the costumes because I couldn't find decent screencaps ;) I'm especially guilty of that in movies like Marie Antoinette with these epic gowns.

Well I'll try and explain:

The seams in the back that create the "Y" shape are really a matter of style more so than construction.
Their purpose is to help the dress curve and follow the naturally curved shape of the human back, while still lying nice and smooth. This could just as easily be achieved with darts, but the style of the period was these curved back seams.
It's kind of a visual choice, it looks nice!

There is usually still a side seam, because these Y seams are added on shaping.

[chibimuse.livejournal.com]

I'm at the 'wasting muslin' stage right now!

Personaly, using muslin for mock-ups is a load of crock, that stuff isn't that cheap. Go to the thrift store and buy some white bed sheets!

I've used up two already on Phnelt's top I'm designing, and I wouldn't have liked it if I had paid more than 2$ each!

[lessal.livejournal.com]

Hi! I sneakily follow you from OT3 and wondered, seeing as you're so cool, (i.e. you love P&P, Doc Who and I suspect Torchwood as obsessively as I do) if you wanted to be LJ buddies! ;-)

I’m of the ‘you can never have too many’ school of thought myself.

Also, I freely admit it’s partially so that I can read any other FF you write, you’re brilliant.

Lessal x

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Hey!
Very pleased to meet you! (and thanks for the flattery *g*)
Friend away, if that is your wish! I don't post any fic under friendslock, just so you know. (I probably should these days, heh)

Again, very nice to meet you! And yes, I love Torchwood exceedingly. John Barrowman and his enormous teeth ftw.