I don't like at all... It's only about her lover and her writings almost don't appear. There are lots of things they have invented and other things they have forgotten... It is just a film to make people "cry" but not a film about Jane Austen, the woman writer of XIX C. It's just another love film... I was really disappointed when I watched it.
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i de llavors ençà duc arracades.
No prengueu aquest bosc per una alzina."
Maria Mercè Marçal
I saw it and oddly enough enjoyed it even though i didnt expect to.
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W.B.Yeats
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I donot believe that I have not seen this movie yet...
I will add that at least near the top of my list of priorities
James Mcavoy... A girl can dream.
"Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day"
Oscar Wilde [The Picture of Dorian Gray]
I just rented the video and watched this last night.
I enjoyed it very much.
Anne Hathaway is a pleasure to watch, and
I preferred her Jane Austen to the BBC Jane Austen who was entirely too cynical for me.
I don't know how much of the story is true, but I liked it.
I found it an enjoyable movie and I thought it was fun to watch the persepctive the movie offered of how the story Pride and Prejudice and the characters might have developed for Jane Austen.
I did not take it all for true fact, but it was an interesting secnario to watch play out I thought.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Me, too.Originally Posted by Dark Muse
I loved James McAvoy in the movie...didn't llike Anne Hathaway much though. But the movie, generaly speaking, was okay.
I'm the patron saint of the denial,
With an angel face and a taste for suicidal.
Can't remember it that well so it did not have an indelible imprint like some movies do. But the "Devil Wears Prada" gal gave it her all, and the Brit guy with long hair who went for money instead of love, well, -- got used to him. Julie Walters and Maggie Smith are always good. Worth seeing. "Miss Potter," in some ways comparable, I remember clearly; maybe because it had some humor. Not much humor in "Jane" that I can recall.
Well, there was also the excellent characterization by the tall guy who she gives the "brush" to. Later he talks, or comes to her aid, or says he'll be an eternal friend, right? That was a fine character development, and well-executed by that actor.
I think that was Wisley, the nephew of the rich old lady.
Good thing I watched with subtitles on!
Those British names really confound me!
Wasn't the father also looking out for his daughter's happiness, in spite of all the emphasis on money? If so, that is a good theme. Fancy ballroom dancing too.
I saw it and it made me my chest ache for the rest of the day
I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE IN BOOKS OR MOVIES ARE SELFLESS
it annoys me so much!
anyway
going back to the movie..
it is very good but it has a sad ending. The guy is to die for.. ahem
His clothes are dirty but his hands are clean
And you're the best thing that he's ever seen
James McAvoy is delicious!!
On a serious note, I'm glad I had read about her life prior to watching the movie. It meant that there were no tears for me. It was a pretty good movie, though it was highly romanticized. Haven't seen the other one, 'Jane Austen Regrets'. Is it worth watching?
"Miss Austen Regrets" is worth watching.
It has an entirely different feel.
That Jane is sarcastic and cynical.
I didn't like her as much as I did the Jane in "Becoming Jane".
But it's still worth watching for what it does have to offer.
Thanks! I'll look for the movie ASAP!
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