Netflix bosses have axed an iconic moment from Pride and Prejudice in a new ‘woke’ move to avoid “objectifying men”. The Mail has more.
The unforgettable scene of Mr Darcy – played by Colin Firth – emerging from a lake was all the rage in 1995.
But show bosses have confirmed it will not resurface in the forthcoming version of the rom-com.
According to reports, many fans will be disappointed as the famous BBC scene is said to have “got millions of women hot under the collar”.
A source told the Sun: “It is also credited for sparking subsequent moments of male objectification on screen – likes Aidan Turner’s famous topless scything scene in Poldark.”
It’s claimed that Netflix bosses “don’t want a repeat”.
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Interesting – surely that will piss the gays off as well as the women?
Ofgs bloody grow up, pathetic! Just stupid.
That scene was a brilliant way of portraying wholesome, honest masculine beauty without any reference to sex or nudity.
And since the Satanic Globalists want to make all of humanity obsessed with sex, of course they don’t like anything wholesome to distract people’s attention from porn, which they’re sure to shoehorn into Jane Austen films as soon as they can.
What Netflix bosses hate about that scene is that it’s a healthy, handsome White Man, not “objectification”.
Wait for them to replace him with a Third World Ethnic.
My eldest son was forced to study Pride and Prejudice for his GCSE English. The parallel group got Lord of the Flies, which would have suited him far better.
To try and get him interested in doing the tedious but necessary work, I bought him a copy of
“Pride And Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen.” Even his teacher acknowledged that it did the trick!
Well done you – I gave my children the shortest book on the book shelf for the obligatory holiday book review “Love of Seven Dolls” by Paul Gallico. 125 pages.
And the shortest poem to memorise (4 lines) for the poetry competition.
What a shocking book to give your children! Some reviews by adults:
— ” The hero beats the girl daily and she stays with him.
He rapes her but she does not go away.”
— ” A young woman choosing to stay with her abuser because he can put on a good puppet show doesn’t exactly sit right with me.”
— ” Well that was actually quite disturbing”
— ” A dark and twisted story about a girl called Mouche, who joins a travelling puppet show run by an evil puppeteer. It reads and feels like a fairytale. But this is not your average Disney, sunshine and rainbows fairytale. It’s a fairytale of the gruesome Brothers Grimm variety.”
— ” ‘Lolita’ is better in that evil is evil and no excuses or exceptions are made for it. ‘Beauty and the Beast’ is alluded to in this book and is not a good comparison. A prisoner in an enchanted castle is not the same as a hopeless, innocent girl who is being verbally and physically abused, raped and gas-lighted.”
And you worry about what the Evil Marxist teachers are teaching your kids???
Lord of the Flies is a horrible book, and since your son is bombarded on a daily basis by porn in various forms, thanks to the Satanic Globalists’ plan to force the whole of humanity to be as pathologically obsessed with sex as the Satanic Globalists are, I think your action was as harmful as if you had bought him a book of porn.
in a new ‘woke’ move to avoid “objectifying men”
The concept of “objectification” is very, very odd even for the madleft. It appears to mean the notion that people have a socially-induced mental disease that prevents them seeing the people they find attractive as they really are, and that this disease is somehow sparked-off by pictures/videos. In other words, the idea of “objectification” is as close to literal nonsense as it’s possible to get.
Yes. It wasn’t in the book.
Never seems to stop the film industry from wholesale distortions of the truth when it feels like it and Netflix have from with their The Crown fiction.
I’m glad I grew up in an era when broadcasters didn’t have any qualms about depicting characters such as Superman, Wonder Woman, Charlie’s Angels, Casey Jean Parker (Baywatch), Daisy Duke, Mr T, Magnum PI, He-Man, Bo Duke, The Incredible Hulk. Presumably in any remake they’d have to be slightly flabby, wearing far too many clothes, and balding.
Thank God someone is taking this seriously. I’m more than just a pretty face, dammit….
Just one more reason to not watch Pride and Prejudice … which I can’t stand.
Aiden Turner in Poldark: yum, yum.
Aiden Turner looked like a Third World Ethnic in Poldark.
Oh FGS! That scene is a masterpiece of subtle sensuality, visually explaining the growing attraction between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth and turning Colin Firth from being just a great actor into a superstar, becoming the thinking-woman’s pin-up! I’ve watched the series more than once since it was made and it must rank at the top in the BBC’s ranking of period dramas. In fact, I don’t think they’ve made one since. I would’ve thought that the executives at Netflix had a bit more sense! OK, it’s not in the book but neither are many of the sex scenes that are thrust at us in so many “movies of the book” these days, where women are objectified, but I supposed that’s OK in the Media Industry. If you want good viewing numbers Netflix, do some research!