{"id":168,"date":"2005-11-18T12:22:13","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T12:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2015-08-13T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T05:57:17","slug":"snort-nonsense-regarding-the-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/11\/18\/snort-nonsense-regarding-the-pig\/","title":{"rendered":"Snort! : nonsense regarding The Pig"},"content":{"rendered":"

The moniker for the new adaptation<\/a> of Pride and Prejudice is likely to be ‘the Kiera Knightley version’, but I am going to campaign for ‘the one with the pig’ until someone does a Wishbone<\/a>-type adaptation with Babe<\/a> animatronic technology (starring the pig) or puppet pigs (move over Miss Piggy, I don’t want a Muppet version!). I’m amused by the fuss the pig is causing – ‘It shouldn’t be in the house’ – ‘How many times must I explain it’s not in the house’ – ‘It’s too rural and makes the Bennets seem too poor’ – because I suspect the distaste probably stems more from the implication intended by juxtaposing the stud pig with Mrs Bennet gloatingly sending Jane over to Bingley at Netherfield:<\/p>\n

iW: Then you have this pig walk by and he has enormous balls.<\/p>\n

JW: That’s not something we thought of before we saw the pig. Then when we met the pig, we were incredibly impressed by him. I’m rather interested in the fact that a family like the Bennets would only own female pigs. They’d hire the male pig to come in and, as they call it, cover the sows, at a fee. I kind of liked the parallels between human and animal procreation.<\/p>\n

— Joe Wright, Director<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This rather puts new life into a rather jaundiced cartoon I did a few years ago:<\/p>\n

\"Snort!\"<\/p>\n

The only other Austen cartoon I made was this one of Charlotte shrewdly eyeing off Mr Collins:<\/p>\n

\"All<\/p>\n

Of course you could add cartoon bubbles to the pictures in the Jane Austen Colouring Book<\/del>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The moniker for the new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is likely to be ‘the Kiera Knightley version’, but I am going to campaign for ‘the one with the pig’ until someone does a Wishbone-type adaptation with Babe animatronic technology (starring the pig) or puppet pigs (move over Miss Piggy, I don’t want a Muppet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,19],"tags":[386,397,1381,385,396,384],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-fun","tag-adaptation","tag-all-your-base","tag-film","tag-jane-austen","tag-pig","tag-pride-and-prejudice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-2I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3461,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/3461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}