傲慢与偏见(2005)英文剧本.docx

傲慢与偏见(2005 )英文剧本1 EXT. LONGBOURN HOUSE - DAYFADE UP ON: A YOUNG WOMAN, as she walks through a field of tall, meadow grass. She is reading a novel entitled 'First Impressions'. This is LIZZIE BENNET, 20, good humoured, attractive, and nobody's fool. She approaches Longbourn, a fairly run down 17th Century house with a small moat around it. Lizzie jumps up onto a wall and crosses the moat by walking a wooden plank duck board, a reckless trick learnt in early childhood. She walks passed the back of the house where, through an open window to the library, we see her mother and father, MR and MRS BENNET.MRS BENNET: My dear Mr Bennet, have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?We follow Lizzie into the house, but still overhear her parents' conversation.MRS BENNET: (cont'd) Do you not want to know who has taken it? MR BENNET: As you wish to tell me, I doubt I have any choice in the matter.2 INT. LONGBOURN - CONTINUOUS.As Lizzie walks through the hallway, we hear the sound of piano scales plodding through the afternoon. She walks down the entrance hall past the room where MARY (18) the bluestocking of the family, is practising, and finds KITTY (16) and LYDIA (15) are listening at the door to the library. Lizzie pokes Lydia.LIZZIE: Liddy! Kitty - what have I told you about listening at 一 LYDIA: Never mind that, there's a Mr Bingley arrived from the North KITTY: - with more than one chaiseLYDIA: - and five thousand a year!LIZZIE: Really?LYDIA: And he's single!JANE, the eldest and very beautiful if rather naive sister, materializes at Lizzie's elbow.JANE: Who's single?LIZZIE: A Mr Bingley, apparently.KITTY: Shhhh!She clamps her ear to the door.LIZZIE: Oh, really Kitty.Lydia leans in, whilst Jane and Lizzie strain to hear without appearing to.3 INT. LIBRARY - LONGBOURN - CONTINUOUS.Mr Bennet is trying to ignore Mrs Bennet.MRS BENNET: What a fine thing for our girls!MR BENNET: How can it affect them?MRS BENNET: My dear Mr Bennet, how can you be so tiresome! You know that he must marry one of them.MR BENNET: Oh, so that is his design in settling here?Mr Bennet takes a plant he's been looking at from his table and walks out of the library into the corridor, where the girls are gathered, Mrs Bennet following.MR BENNET: (cont'd) Good heavens. People.4 INT. CORRIDOR - LONGBOURN - THE SAME.He walks through the girls to the drawing room pursued by Mrs Bennet.MRS BENNET: - So you must go and visit him at once.5 INT. DRAWING ROOM - LONGBOURN - THE SAME.Mr Bennet walks to a table and places the plant in the light. Mary is still practising the piano. The girls flock behind him.LYDIA: Are you listening? You never listen.KITTY: You must, Papa!MRS BENNET: At once!MR BENNET: There is no need, for I already have.The piano stops. A frozen silence. They all stare.MRS BENNET: You have?JANE: When?MRS BENNET: How can you tease me, Mr Bennet? Have you no compassion for my poor nerves?MR BENNET: You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for them; they have been my constant companions these twenty years.MRS BENNET: Is he amiable?MARY: Who?KITTY: Is he handsome?MARY: Who?LYDIA: He's sure to be handsome.LIZZIE: (ironically) With five thousand a year, would not matter 讦 he had warts and a leer.MR BENNET: I will give my hearty consent to his marrying whichever of the girls he chooses. Warts and all.MARY: Who's got warts?LYDIA: So will he come to the ball tomorrow?MR BENNET: I believe so.Lydia and Kitty shriek with excitement and jump up and down. KITTY: (to Jane) I have to have your spotted muslin, Jane!LYDIA: No, I need it! It makes Kitty look like a pudding.KITTY: - Oh please Jane, I'll lend you my green slippers.They both look onto Jane and pull at her arms. Mr Bennet winks at Lizzie.6 EXT. LONGBOURN HOUSE - DAYA wide shot of the house as we continue to hear the girls argue over what they will wear.7 INT. ASSEMBLY ROOMS - MERYTON VILLAGE - NIGHT.The local subscription dance is in full swing, (Dance 1). It's a rough-and-ready, though enthusiastic affair: yeoman farmers, small-time squires with their ruddy-cheeked daughters.Lydia and Kitty are dancing.LYDIA: I can't breathe. How am I going to dance all night if I can't breathe?KITTY: My toes hurt already.Lizzie and Jane are a little apart from their family. Jane looks breathtaking.LIZZIE: Well, if every man in this room does not end the evening in love with you then I am no judge of beauty.JANE: Or men.LIZZIE: Oh, they are far too easy to judge.JANE: They are not all bad.LIZZIE: Humourless poppycocks, in my limited experience.JANE: One of these days, Lizzie, someone will catch your eye and then you'll have to watch your tongue.She stops speaking and stares. A dazzling group enters the room: George Charles Bingley (25) a good hearted soul but prone to bumbling embarrassment when his enthusiasms get the better of him, his sister Caroline (23) a vict。