Pride and Prejudice

In the great pantheon of stuffy old late-19th century British authors (for which the middle school English teacher is the most devoted evangelist) perhaps no other member has had their works adapted more often or in more mediums than Jane Austen, chronicler and critic of polite society in England. Austen’s books have weighed down many an American student’s backpack, but we all know that it’s easier to just watch the movie and then cobble together your report from that, so if you’ve recently been assigned Pride and Prejudice, may we recommend director Joe Wright’s 2005 adaptation as a substitute? You can knock it out in two hours, you can look at your phone while it’s playing, and best of all, after you’ve squeezed a thousand words out of your half-remembered experience you can listen to today’s episode of Magellans at the Movies! That’s right folks, today we’re buckling our shoes and dusting off our epaulets because we’re going to the only place with a higher concentration of emotional repression and undiagnosed nervous disorders than that which can be found on the internet: Victorian England! Disclaimer: failing to adhere to the clear parameters of school assignments is wrong and is not officially endorsed by Magellans at the Movies Inc. or any of its affiliates.