Pride And Prejudice - 1995 Directed By : Simon Langton There are some books written exclusively for adaptations. They make good stories. They have good 'plot'. Perhaps alluring mystery or some centerpiece around which the whole thing revolves. They hardly provide anything else. Once you read it, you are done with it. You might not look up to that book or film later on ever. Though it certainly may give some pleasure. And there are other types of books; where an adaptation is nearly impossible. Its characters are perhaps so intricate, intriguing and nuanced that they cannot be transformed to the screen. Sometimes these books give something so distinct of a feeling, mood or ambience that cannot be replicated. Like that one of Hardy's mysteriously dark, symbolic and tragic Tess, or The Mill On The Floss' brother - sister dynamic by George Eliot, or the social commentary in Dicken's Hard Times or even Oliver Twist. Pride And Prejudice is certainly one of those books. ...