Movie Review: The Jane Austen Book Club
May. 25th, 2009 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jasonandrewI have always loved the concept of fiction dealing with the nature of fiction and our relation to stories. I suspect that has to do with my own soul wrangling over the idea.
"I think the idea of a secret live of a character that even the author doesn't know is kind of exciting" says Bernadette, the leader of the book club.
I think the international community of fanfiction writers would agree. Austin was one of the first writers to inspire a solid community of fanfiction writers called the Janeites. Robert Kipling, writer of the Jungle Book, wrote a short story titled "Janeites" about a group of World War I soliders who rabid fans of Austen's novels.
Jane Austin's work has inspired multiple interpretations and reimagining. Austin’s work has inspired everything from the movie Clueless to the upcoming book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
This movie revolves around the idea of a book club trying to live up to the ideals set forth in Austin’s novels. Several of the character’s stores are echoed in various plots from the novels.
The best scene in the movie is when Grigg, a modern day Darcy, meets Joceln (aka the movie’s Elizabeth Bennet) at a science fiction convention and has to explain why the creepy goth girl in the elevator won’t acknowledge her existence. Spoiler Alert: Turns out she is playing a crazy game called Vampire and is under obfuscate. Heh!
I imagine this is a movie I will watch again.
"I think the idea of a secret live of a character that even the author doesn't know is kind of exciting" says Bernadette, the leader of the book club.
I think the international community of fanfiction writers would agree. Austin was one of the first writers to inspire a solid community of fanfiction writers called the Janeites. Robert Kipling, writer of the Jungle Book, wrote a short story titled "Janeites" about a group of World War I soliders who rabid fans of Austen's novels.
Jane Austin's work has inspired multiple interpretations and reimagining. Austin’s work has inspired everything from the movie Clueless to the upcoming book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
This movie revolves around the idea of a book club trying to live up to the ideals set forth in Austin’s novels. Several of the character’s stores are echoed in various plots from the novels.
The best scene in the movie is when Grigg, a modern day Darcy, meets Joceln (aka the movie’s Elizabeth Bennet) at a science fiction convention and has to explain why the creepy goth girl in the elevator won’t acknowledge her existence. Spoiler Alert: Turns out she is playing a crazy game called Vampire and is under obfuscate. Heh!
I imagine this is a movie I will watch again.