Recently I visited my hometown and had a very long trip. I spent about 15 hours on a cramped plane. I don\u2019t watch a lot of movies in the theater and so I got the chance to catch up on a lot of movies I had not seen. I\u2019d like to write about one of the movies I saw.<\/p>\n
One movie I quite liked was \u201cPride and Prejudice and Zombies\u201d. As you may know \u201cPride and Prejudice\u201d is a Jane Austin novel about class and romance. Austin is known for her witty<\/b> dialogue and her satire<\/b> of British class at the time.<\/p>\n
I was a little worried when I watched the movie because the movie got bad reviews but I found I liked the movie. I think it was underrated<\/b>. I think the problem with the reviews was that the reviewers\u2019 expectation of the movie was different from what the movie was like. I think many of the reviewers were expecting a parody of \u201cPride and Prejudice\u201d and what they saw was an homage to the book with the addition of zombies.<\/p>\n
The difference between a parody and an homage is interesting. A parody makes fun of the original work. Parodies usually make jokes about the story of a book or movie. They do not take the original serious tone and focus on what is funny. Often the style or tone of the original is mocked<\/b> rather than respected.<\/p>\n
An homage, on the other hand, isn\u2019t as focused on making jokes about the original but is more focused on imitating the style, ideas or stories. An homage is usually made out of love for the original work. In this case the homage was a bit strange since it was an homage to two very different genres, but I found it very interesting.<\/p>\n
\u201cPride and Prejudice and Zombies\u201d was in no way a zany<\/b> parody of \u201cPride and Prejudice\u201d. The humor didn\u2019t focus on parody, it focused on witty dialogue, like the original. Often the tone of the story would become more serious and the focus of being funny was on the characters.<\/p>\n
Even the ideas of the original were mirrored<\/b> in \u201cPride and Prejudice and Zombies\u201d. In the original, class was an important theme. In the book, being of a higher or lower class was very important. You could move up in class by marrying into a higher class or you could move down because of a scandal. This was in the movie. Having a family member turned into a zombie would be a scandal and having a daughter who could fight zombies might mean more men would want to marry her.<\/p>\n
For the most part I thought the movie worked well and that the idea was creative. There were some parts of the movie which could have been explored better. For example, the movie shows that zombies are not 100% evil monsters and that many still have many human traits. Even though this is an important point of the movie I don\u2019t think it was handled well.<\/p>\n
My final conclusion is that the movie was interesting, witty and underrated but some of the story could have been better handled. Overall I would give it 4 out of 5 stars.<\/p>\n
Nathaniel<\/p>\n
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\nVocabulary<\/b><\/p>\n
witty (adjective) \u2013 using words in a funny and clever way
\nsatire (noun) \u2013 the use of jokes and humour to criticize people or ideas
\nunderrated (adjective) \u2013 to rate or evaluate something lower than it should be
\nmock (verb) \u2013 to laugh at or make fun of (someone or something) especially by copying an action, style, or a way of behaving or speaking
\nzany (adjective) \u2013 funny in a strange way
\nmirror (verb) \u2013 to copy or be very similar to (something or someone)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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