My Boy Jack
My Boy Jack will be shown on PBS tonight at 9 pm. Click here to read my review of this powerful movie (Warning: spoilers) and here for Laurel Ann’s post on Carrie Mulligan, who played Elsie Kipling. Both posts also solicit your knowledge about movies in Six Degrees of Austen Adaptation Separation. Rudyard Kipling’s connection to Jane Austen is his powerful short story, “The Janeites,” which popularized the term, and his well-publicized admiration for the author.
Miss Austen Regrets
Miss Austen Regrets.com offers a variety of current posts and photos of the film, to be shown on BBC on April 27th. Click here to see the stills I pulled from the film, and here for my review, Miss Austen Regrets Perhaps a Bit Too Much For My Taste. Learn more about Olivia Williams on this PBS press site.
Andrew Davies
In a recent interview with the Birminham Post, Andrew Davies shares his well-known insights on sexing up the classics for film adaptations. In a slightly older interview with CNN, Mr. Davies continues to expound on his script writing philosophy.
Best Quote Seen Over the Ether:
“It was very entertaining, but shouldn’t have been called Mansfield Park.”
I meant the following for your Miss Austen Regrets thread, but WordPress has a perplexing will of its own … — I just now followed your link to this review, which I’d missed before, so this is sadly a bit belated of me and my memory’s dulled a bit since I’d watched. I very much enjoyed Olivia Williams in this role and thought her just expertly cast (and Fanny, too), particularly because I liked her so much as Jane Fairfax.
I was wondering if you had any opinion–that is, if I’m not imagining it–about how the script brought together Fanny’s husband-finding with Jane’s writing of Emma, and later her Persuasion, when the picture had her poignantly considering her [potentially] missed opportunities. It was fascinating, I thought, the way in which the circumstances of the storyline corresponded: the movie seems to exist somewhere inbetween the lighter-hearted and endearingly snarky Emma, and the wizened Persuasion.
As you said, Ms. Williams’ glittering portrayal sparkles a little less because of all the brooding; but Jane was long passed her “first bloom,” as it were, compared especially with her niece, and that I think might dull any shine, if just a bit.
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