2/7/16 Pride And Prejudice And Zombies?

    We went and saw this cool adaptation of an otherwise boring girlie movie.  Just last summer I forced myself to read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.  The original book is about five Benet sisters living in the country, sort of upper middle class, but with a desperate mother trying to marry them to men who will improve their station in life.  There is no action other than the word play between the girls and their respective suitors.  The movie version through in some zombies and now things are interesting.
    Just going to visit from one estate to the next, people might encounter a swarm of zombies, so people must be prepared for this.  In the intro, we are told the aristocracy either trains in Japan for the upper class who will be protected or in China where the individual trains to protect themselves.  The sisters are shown to be very close and well trained in hand to hand combat as well as skilled with swords.  All of London is falling to the plague of zombies, the military is fighting to keep them in.  The same characters exist but their jobs are slightly different.  Mr. Darcy, is a high level fighter and is constantly saving everybody.  He falls for the elder sister in the first scene when he sees her fighting.  Mr. Bingley is the rich bachelor who summers in the estate next to the Benet family.  He is best friends with Mr. Darcy, and thus all their lives cross paths when the meddling mother forces introductions in hopes he will be interested in marrying any of her girls.  Wickham, instead of being a fake aristocrat who convinces one of the sisters to run off like in the book, is the "bad" guy in this version.
    I'll save the rest of the plot, so I won't spoil everything, but it was an interesting way to make this old novel hip for todays market.  The five sisters didn't talk much but they jiggled about as much as you can considering they were in corsets.  The flavor of the original book remains, such as the father is the polar opposite of the mother who is nearly nuts in her obsession with money, he just wants to see his girls happy, and able to fend off a zombie when needed.
    Things have changed so much, I'm not sure girls today are looking for any security when they marry a man.  Shoot with a 50 percent divorce rate, idiots are just giving it  the old try, see if it works out.  There was a charm back in those times.  If they met and were agreeable, the man could propose and that would be it.  They would get married and live happily for the rest of their lives.