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Subject: Movie review: Becoming Jane


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Elisa
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Date Posted: 17:15:57 08/26/07 Sun

Just saw the movie and thought I should share with my fellow Jane Austen lovers.

It was dumb.

Not really really really dumb, but not a great movie. They tried to do too much. The relationship between Jane and her love interest is not very well developed, and then all of a sudden they're supposed to be madly in love with each other but it seems forced. There are some subplots that mirror episodes in the novels, which I suppose they threw in there thinking "oooh, all those Jane Austen freaks will love this because they'll know she used this experience in Pride and Prejudice" but it just seemed silly to me. Plus, there were some things in it that just seemed totally out of character for the time. For instance, in the first 5 minutes of the movie it shows Jane's parents talking in bed and the husband goes under the covers to give her oral sex. Now, I'm not familiar with sexual practices of the period, but it seems to have been a society of restraint and that just doesn't seem to fit.

Anyway, disappointing. Not worth spending money to see it in the theater

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Re: Movie review: Becoming JaneKiersten20:57:48 08/26/07 Sun


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