Hey, who says Jane's cheap-proof.
Them's fightin' words...
(By which I mean that's my favorite scene in one of my favorite books, and I really really really didn't like the new film version so there. t pout )
You're a bloody puppet! You're a wee little puppet man!
Spike ,'Smile Time'
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Jessica - Apr 10, 2006 4:46:48 am PDT #1297 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
§ ita § - Apr 10, 2006 4:48:19 am PDT #1298 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I love Pride and Prejudice as written. Just wanted to point out that if you think letters are cheap, no reason to think they're not cheap in Jane's hands too.
Jessica - Apr 10, 2006 4:53:18 am PDT #1299 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Just wanted to point out that if you think letters are cheap, no reason to think they're not cheap in Jane's hands too.
Then he should leave the Jane-adapting to people better suited to it.
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Cashmere - Apr 10, 2006 5:04:56 am PDT #1300 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I definitely prefer the book above all film versions. This film couldn't even touch the Cliff's Notes version of P&P. I got a lot more understanding where the director was coming from on his commentary (and for the record, he needs to go back and read the book). I HATED his ideas on the evolution of Jane & Elizabeth's relationship as sisters. He just didn't get it.
Theodosia - Apr 10, 2006 5:44:24 am PDT #1301 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
(I hate letters, too. They don't strike anybody else as cheap expository techniques?)
Epistolary novels were the first flourishing of the book-as-we-know-it, they're a very old form indeed. It's more that they're hard to do well, and keep the interest of the modern reader with plot arcs, et cetera.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 10, 2006 5:49:32 am PDT #1302 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I'll x-post this in the Buffy thread, but Jonathan Woodward (he of the ME trifecta) is playing Bettie Page's boyfriend in THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE.
Calli - Apr 10, 2006 6:04:20 am PDT #1303 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I saw Thank You for Smoking last weekend. I found it loads of snarktastic fun.
Betsy HP - Apr 10, 2006 7:13:37 am PDT #1304 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Eee!
The comic filmmaker, who made a monster hit musical out of his 1968 movie "The Producers," says he is adapting another of his classic film comedies for the stage -- this time the 1974 "Young Frankenstein," a spoof on the Frankenstein saga which he says is perhaps the best movie he ever made.
With no deadline set, Brooks says he is in the middle of writing the score, including a song for scary Frau Blucher, the caretaker of the Frankenstein castle still madly in love with that late, unlamented mad scientist.
"It is going to be wonderful," Brooks said in a telephone interview, just before he burst into a German-accented version of his Frau Blucher song:
"He vus my boyfriend/He vould come home in a snit/He vould have a terrible fit/I am the first thing he vould hit/But I didn't give a s---/He vus my boyfriend."
Gris - Apr 10, 2006 7:14:38 am PDT #1305 of 10001
Hey. New board.
Have you read Pride and Prejudice?
Yep. Didn't like it much. Read Emma and Sense and Sensibility too. I tend to find Jane Austen to be an author whose brilliant stories generally make it worth the effort of wading through her (in my opinion) incredibly frustrating, over-expository prose, though not always. Emma is the only one I could honestly say I like, I think, and even that is a middling like.
I'm not a big fan of the expository letters from Lydia, etc, in the book, though I admit that the letter Elizabeth writes to Mr. Darcy is one of the few moments in the book that I didn't feel the drama was crippled by Austen's style. I can see the director's issues in catching the drama on film, however.
§ ita § - Apr 10, 2006 7:19:12 am PDT #1306 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In quality movie news:
Jessica Simpson is set to take over Pamela Anderson's role in the long-awaited big screen version of beach TV show Baywatch. The sexy singer is set to don the infamous red swimsuit adored by many fans of the popular lifeguard series when she plays CJ Parker, the role which launched Anderson to stardom. A source tells British newspaper The Sun, "Jessica really caught the eye in The Dukes Of Hazzard film last summer. She was the unanimous choice for the Baywatch role. Jessica has all the assets to make Pam's part her own." Producers hope David Hasselhoff will agree to star in the film in his original role as Mitch Buchannon.
and
English film-maker Gurinder Chadha is in talks to direct the movie adaptation of 1980s soap opera Dallas - a week after Robert Luketic walked out on the project. Luketic abruptly quit the 20th Century Fox-produced movie last week amid reports he was unhappy with the casting choices. Jennifer Lopez, Shirley MacLaine, John Travolta and Luke Wilson are currently in negotiations to play Sue Ellen, Miss Ellie, JR and Bobby Ewing respectively. Kenyan-born Chadha is known for her work on Bend It Like Beckham, What's Cooking? and Bride and Prejudice.