Jane Austen Club

NotATameLion said:
You catch little things and details that you missed to begin with when you watch a movie for the second time...and third, and so on. :D I love to watch movies over and over.
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Precisely! That was just my view as well.

I do need to watch "Mansfield Park" and "Persuasion" over again (I have them on tape). But "Mansfield Park" is very blurry. :eek:
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Mansfield Park was a good movie in of itself, but it was somewhat different from the book. I liked it, but it wasn't my favorite!
I do hightly recommed Persuasion thought! ...yeah, I know, I've said it before! :p Still goes!! :cool:
 
Now that Lent is over, I went back and read over the part in Jane's Memoirs about her love interests. Tom Lefroy was a good friend of Mr. Austen and the pastor from the neighboring parish. His wife was a person who strongly encouraged Jane as a child. Tom Lefroy was by no means a love interest for Jane. The book states that the only love interest for Jane was a young man that she met at the seashore who died shortly after they parted. What they say at the end of the movie may well be true about Tom and Mrs. Lefroy naming their daughter after Jane, but he was not a lawyer nor was he Jane's age. I want to correct one thing that I said was wrong about the movie, Cassandra's fiancee did die before they married, I got Cassandra and Jane's other sister mixed up.
 
It was sad that I had to go back several pages to find our lovely Jane Austen thread. :eek:

I finally read "Just Jane" a few weeks ago (I've been meaning to post this for weeks now). :D I liked it a lot. At the beginning, I didn't think I would like it too much, because of all the stuff about Tom Lefroy (I don't think his relationship with Jane was nearly as much of a big deal as people make it out to be). But it got better and better as it went along. I especially liked all of the extra things at the end of the book, telling what happened afterwards, and what in the book was real and what was imagined. :D So overall, I thought it was really good. Way better than "Becoming Jane" was. And I think, more realistic.

~Lava~ said:
What they say at the end of the movie may well be true about Tom and Mrs. Lefroy naming their daughter after Jane, but he was not a lawyer nor was he Jane's age. I want to correct one thing that I said was wrong about the movie, Cassandra's fiancee did die before they married, I got Cassandra and Jane's other sister mixed up.
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Well, I don't even think that part was true. I mean, I know they named their daughter Jane, but I read somewhere that she was named after some relative of Tom's, and they just added that part into the movie to make it more romantic. Even if it wasn't true, though, that was still one of the very few parts of the movie that I liked. :eek: But I don't quite understand what you mean about Jane's other sister. Jane only had one sister, and that was Cassandra.
 
I know what you mean, Audrey. All of the Jane Austen movies I see make me want to go to England...

NarnianPrincess said:
I've been trying!!! Thanks for coming back you two.


I enjoy it! I got it for $4.50 at Target! GOOD TIMES!
I love this...
"My heart is, and always will be, yours."
WOW! *melts*
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Thanks for reviving the thread. :) TDL is the only place where I can really talk to people about Jane Austen (and Narnia and classic movies), because no one I know is into those kinds of things. So I love our threads! :D Wow, I got my "Sense and Sensibility" at Food Lion for $10 and I thought that was a good price, LOL. :p

I love Emma Thompson anyway, because I think she's really talented. But she's especially good as Elinor. :)
 
NotATameLion said:
Thanks for reviving the thread. TDL is the only place where I can really talk to people about Jane Austen (and Narnia and classic movies), because no one I know is into those kinds of things. So I love our threads!
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Me too! It's so wonderful to find friends that you can share your interests with. :)
That's too bad that no one you know likes them. :(
Wow, I got my "Sense and Sensibility" at Food Lion for $10 and I thought that was a good price, LOL.
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LOL It is! :D I'd have probably paid that for it, but I just was blessed with a sale. :)
 
I love Jane Austen. Sad to say I've been slacking on reading her books.
I've read P&P twice. And I'm almost done with Northanger Abbey. I have seen both Pride and Predjudice movies
Northanger Abbey (2007)
Emma (The one with Gwenyth Paltrow sp?)
Persuasion (2007)
Sense and Sensibility (Kate Winslet)
I have yet to see either Mansfield Parks.
But I loved Becoming Jane! James McAvoy is frankly amazing!
 
Ooh Ooh Ooh!

Me=Huge Jane Austen Fan
Though I'm kind of a cheater--I've read bits and pieces of some of the books, but not from cover to cover. I do watch all the movies, though. The Masterpeice versions and stuff.... But Pride and Prejudice (my favorite) has only one good movie..THE ONE WITH COLIN FIRTH. Hehe. I don't like the Keira Knightly version.
 
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Llama-Llama-Duck said:
Ooh Ooh Ooh!

Me=Huge Jane Austen Fan
Though I'm kind of a cheater--I've read bits and pieces of some of the books, but not from cover to cover. I do watch all the movies, though. The Masterpeice versions and stuff.... But Pride and Prejudice (my favorite) has only one good movie..THE ONE WITH COLIN FIRTH. Hehe. I don't like the Keira Knightly version.
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Welcome to our Jane thread. :D Oh, you should definitely read all of the books through! They're all amazing, but of course "Pride and Prejudice" is my favorite, too, followed by "Emma." I think the BBC version of P&P is okay, but the new one is my absolute favorite Jane Austen movie, and my favorite movie, period. :p

In fact, seeing previews for that movie is what encouraged me to read the book (I wanted to see the movie, but I wanted to read the book first), and ever since then I've been hooked. :D
 
I actually like the new one better as well. I think they did a better job interperting the book. You really believed that the Bennetts were poor country folk from their house to their clothes to the dances. In the one with Colin Firth it was harder to tell. They are both fantastic though! Mr. Bingley is better in the new one too and I <3 Mr. Bingley!
 
I'm reading Mansfield Park, and though it's not my favorite, I'm finding myself liking Fanny Price more and more. Anyone have any other thoughts about it? It's certainly not the easiest Austen novel to wade through.
 
I'm reading Mansfield Park, and though it's not my favorite, I'm finding myself liking Fanny Price more and more. Anyone have any other thoughts about it? It's certainly not the easiest Austen novel to wade through.
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My favorite :D Ive only read it once, a long time ago, but i remember it took me quite some time (I'm a fast reader). I liked it, but when I saw the Masterpiece Theatre episode I decided i LOVED it :) I've been looking for a copy of it, but I cant find it (every other book EXCEPT the one i want..that always happens to me :rolleyes). I think i like it so much because Fanny is the Austen heroine that i would consider myself to be most like, and I can relate. And Edmund is my favorite Austen hero :D
 
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