This is one of Keira Knightley’s best movies: American audiences didn’t see the ending like we did

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A quintessential work of romantic cinema, adapted from the great classic of British literature written by Jane Austen in 1813, Pride and Prejudice is one of the most beautiful love stories ever to grace the big screen.

It mainly follows the complex relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, a spirited girl of relatively humble origins, played by Keira Knightley, and Mark Darcy, a rather tough-looking secretive aristocrat played by Matthew Macfadyen.

In the course of the work, the two characters, who at first seem to be against each other, but from the beginning of the story seek and fight for each other, gradually develop feelings for each other, which leads to true romance. movie.

Alternate ending

However, even if Liz and Darcy end up together in every version of the full-length film, the conclusion is not exactly the same depending on whether we find the film in the United States or Europe.

Indeed, according to the articles tele-vacation and ColliderAfter seeing Elizabeth ask her father for permission to marry Darcy (a sequence that matches the traditional ending of the play), American viewers of Pride and Prejudice were treated to an additional scene between the two lovers, where they kiss. each other long and gently.

Two different conclusions

But this conclusion was not really to the taste of British audiences, who received it quite negatively during the first test screening of the film, finding it funny or too sexual, again in the Collider article.

To be more consistent with Jane Austen’s original work, this final sequence was removed from the European edits, but is kept in the United States.

Which of these two endings do you prefer?

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