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I absolutely love Jane Austen and this movie did not do justice to the story. There were so many historical inaccuracies I don't know where to begin. The Bennetts did not live on a dirty farm. Mr. Bennett was a Gentleman part of the upper middle class and would have had property supporting that status. He wouldn't have lived on a farm and he wouldn't have had a dog in the house. They would have had a carriage. Mr. Wickham was almost nonexistent. Miss Bingley looked like she was wearing a corset at the Netherfield Ball The costuming was wrong all around. Lizzy never was intentionally mean in her teasing. There was one spot in the movie where I was wanting to scream because they changed the dialog from the book. Where she's at Netherfield and she and Darcy are having one of many verbal sparing matches and he's talking about pride being a failing in the movie they have her saying, "I love to laugh, but I cannot" However in the book she says, "That is a failing indeed, but I cannot laugh at it". Mr. Darcy walks into the Collins' home in the middle of the night into her bedroom without anyone hearing him? Outside of that being a no-no particularly back then, The Collins' at least had a servant. Lady Catherine Jeudi Dench was a great Lady Cathrine. Which is why I don't mind paying the rental fee. However she wouldn't have come to the Bennett's house in the middle of the night to have it out with Lizzy. What's the point of mentioning the Bennett's have a small park on one side of the house if you're not going to walk in it. The argument between Lady Cathrine and Lizzy is one of the best cat fights in literature and they ruin it. Mr. Bingley is portrayed as a bumbling idiot and Darcy has to work with him to get the nerve up to ask Jane. When he had his mind made up in the first place and was a bit upset when Darcy concealed Jane being in town. Georgiana Darcy was not outgoing. In fact she was rather shy. There are so many more things I could mention, but I think I've made my point. I have no problems with modernized versions of Pride and Prejudice, but if your going to do it within a period piece that's where I draw the line. Either do the proper research of the period and get it right or don't do it at all.