Saturday, February 12, 2005

Bride and Prejudice and so on...

Bride and Prejudice is a ground-breaking movie, because it shows us how to name knockoffs of Jane Austen's wonderful novel. Here's an alphabetful:

  • Aeried and Prejudice: In the Pixar version, all the characters are animated cartoon eagles.
  • Buoys and Prejudice: It's Jane Austen! It's a WaterWorld Sequel!
  • Cries and Prejudice: Turned into a long-running soap opera.
  • Droids and Prejudice: Darcy is a robot! Will that make a difference?
  • Eyed with Prejudice: Few clothes are worn in this version.
  • Fried and Prejudice: The Deep South version, and we don't mean Cornwall.
  • Guyed and Prejudice: The all-male version, somewhat unconvincing in its exploration of Austen's treatment of social mores.
  • Harried with Prejudice: "Go ahead, Make my day!" "No Darcy, you make MY day."
  • Ides of Prejudice: Ms. Austen's eternal plot conflated, somehow, with Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
  • Jawed and Prejudice: Watch out for that love-struck rich land-shark!
  • Kliegs of Prejudice: A documentary takes us behind the scenes to see how Jane Austen ripoffs are planned.
  • Lies and Prejudice: Unfortunately the least dramatic of Mike Leigh's oeuvre, as the entire cast figured out the plot on the second day of rehearsal.
  • Maid and Prejudice: Starring Ally Sheedy.
  • Neighs and Prejudice: In this Disney remake, all the characters are animated cartoon horses.
  • Oryxed with Prejudice! The plot's just beginning when Elizabeth and Darcy declare their true love. Can they discover and recover the fabled diamond oryx before it's too late? And why is Darcy wearing that battered old felt hat?
  • Pied and Prejudice: American Pie meets ... Let's not go there.
  • Qaid and Prejudice: You may have to wait awhile for this one. The nascent Saudi Romance film industry's not quite ready to film it.
  • Ryed and Prejudice: Set in 1951 and told entirely from the point of view of Darcy, who has become an intelligent, appealing, talky, troubled, angst-ridden teenager.
  • Sighed with Prejudice: Guess who gets terminal cancer in the tear-jerker version of P & P?
  • Tried with Prejudice: The next Law and Order spinoff series. (Well, wouldn't you prefer that to:)
  • Tied with Prejudice: Elizabeth and Darcy cement their love in their mutual attraction to S&M.
  • Umm, Uh ... Prejudice. Woody Allen plays both Darcy and a decidedly ambivalent Lady Catherine de Bourgh in his talky remake.
  • Voids of Prejudice: The intergalactic version (possibly part XVI of Star Wars).
  • Wide with Prejudice (or possibly Weighed with Prejudice): The Shallow Hal version.
  • X(xxxx) ... Too Easy.
  • Yikes! And Prejudice! In this disaster movie, the planet Mercury is falling oh so gently towards earth and will soon touch down next to England, adding to it over ten million acres of prime real estate. The value of Darcy's holdings will drop to nearly zero. Can something be done? And how do product placement ads for mortgage companies work, anyway?
  • Zed and A Prejudice: This reverse-alphabet retelling is strictly for young kids.

Improvements and comments are welcome. That's all, folks!

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