movie: Becoming Jane
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meganbmooreI have very little to say about this movie, based on a supposed romance of Jane Austen's that she had when she was young. While I don't know a lot about Jane Austen's personal life, my understanding is that her relationship with Tom Lefroy was friendship, not romance.
Overall, the movie is very charming, but really not a lot else. I've always liked Anne Hathaway, and she didn't disappoint. A lot of the f-list has been sighing over James McAvoy for a while now. While I don't quite get the big deal about him, he was very charming in the movie. Lefroy himself was...considerably less so. But then, as Jane never married, you knew going in that it had to end badly for the lovers in some fashion, and he had to live and become successful himself, so I guess they couldn't make him too great.
Pretty enjoyable with great costumes and scenery, and there's a lot of fun "guess which Austen character this is" going on, but it's not much more than an enjoyable way to spend two hours. And there are far, far worse ways to spend two hours.
ETA: Have been educated on the matter of Jane Austen and Tom Lefroy. Though it doesn't seem to reduce the number of liberties the movie took on that front.
Overall, the movie is very charming, but really not a lot else. I've always liked Anne Hathaway, and she didn't disappoint. A lot of the f-list has been sighing over James McAvoy for a while now. While I don't quite get the big deal about him, he was very charming in the movie. Lefroy himself was...considerably less so. But then, as Jane never married, you knew going in that it had to end badly for the lovers in some fashion, and he had to live and become successful himself, so I guess they couldn't make him too great.
Pretty enjoyable with great costumes and scenery, and there's a lot of fun "guess which Austen character this is" going on, but it's not much more than an enjoyable way to spend two hours. And there are far, far worse ways to spend two hours.
ETA: Have been educated on the matter of Jane Austen and Tom Lefroy. Though it doesn't seem to reduce the number of liberties the movie took on that front.
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Date: 2008-07-21 08:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-21 08:16 pm (UTC)(Though, not to negate any criticisms, it should be set somewhere around 1790~, which is a decent bit pre-Regency.)
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Date: 2008-07-21 08:17 pm (UTC)I refused to watch this film because all the trailers told me was that Jane Austen totally needed a man to dump her before she could actually write. Because as we all know she never wrote a word before him.
Plus while I find him okay elsewhere James McAvoy looked vaguely frog like in the trailers. Not sure why, though.
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Date: 2008-07-21 09:09 pm (UTC)The movie works best if you pretend it's a kdrama and completely deactivate your brain before watching.
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Date: 2008-07-21 11:41 pm (UTC)The fast recap is a thing of beauty. Painful beauty.