tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343940720320817704.post8950288593214208903..comments2023-10-30T02:01:44.676-07:00Comments on Fides and Film: Becoming JaneJP Catholichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16446106465330530473noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343940720320817704.post-72806410645905992312007-09-19T02:41:00.000-07:002007-09-19T02:41:00.000-07:00Hello from Denmark.I think it was a splendid movie...Hello from Denmark.<BR/>I think it was a splendid movie and the passion between Jane and Tom were so alive. After seeing the movie I became interested in knowing more about the love affair. I have read alot since then, and my conclusion is that everything that happened when Jane and Tom first met could wery vel be true. There is no record of them meating again after the ball when they kissed. Jane wrote letters to her sister Casandra about the insident and her lations to Mr Lefoy. But there is no record of Tom in letters after the ball night. We know that Cassandra burned a lot of the letters she recived from Jane at that time, So maybe the love affair carried on or maybe it dident. We know she started writing Pride and prejudice, just at that time she met Tom lefoy and Tom may have been an inspiration. So maybe it is a parralel. But because af the burned letters we may never know!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343940720320817704.post-72769111895421195422007-09-01T21:24:00.000-07:002007-09-01T21:24:00.000-07:00[warning: spoilers]Thank you for expressing what I...[warning: spoilers]Thank you for expressing what I felt but couldn't articulate after seeing this movie...some of the same things bothered me, including the idea that Jane could not write well unless she was more familiar with the ways of the world (ie, sex). And I could not approve of Tom. Are we supposed to approve of a man who would attempt to damage a woman's purity and utter such double entendres? And introduce her to the seamy side of life? According to her comment at the inn, Tom was a good guy masquerading as a profligate? [Note that she was willing to run off with him before she even knew that sliver of good about him.] He is either what his uncle sees him as...an irresponsible debaucher...or what Jane apparently perceives--a good enough guy who sets aside some of his allowance for his family, but spends the rest on wine & prostitutes. The latter is not quite believable to me. Is he a man torn two ways...between being a responsible man and sowing his wild oats?<BR/><BR/>And why would a woman like Austen want to have anything to do with such a man? Would she really have thrown caution to the wind like that? I doubt it. And what was with her chasing him in a way...her initiating their first kiss...and would Jane really have defied the convention of the time and engaged in such behavior in the garden? Maybe I'm an idealistic English major, but if you go by what she/her heroines espoused in her novels/letter, she as a protofeminist was willing to flout societal conventions that had no basis in morality and that confined women, but she held a strong moral standard and I doubt she would have behaved as she did in the movie.<BR/><BR/>I was also disappointed by the gratuitous sexual implications/innuendos and partial nudity. PG rating? I think not. Did Hollywood add that stuff in to be prurient, or was it a legitimate interpretation of Jane's romance? I lean toward the former.<BR/><BR/>On the plus side, as with the latest P&P, the scenery was great and gave a good idea of what life must've been like back then. But, my feelings are mixed about the movie. However, it provided much food for thought/conversation.Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05165243162515253571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343940720320817704.post-26726627009242312862007-09-01T11:42:00.000-07:002007-09-01T11:42:00.000-07:00Somehow it seems eternally fitting that Jane shoul...Somehow it seems eternally fitting that Jane should never marry. What man would have been good enough?Kelly Scott Franklinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01148710307041786096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343940720320817704.post-12419359164225677932007-08-18T22:25:00.000-07:002007-08-18T22:25:00.000-07:00I also thought that there was a bit of a stretch b...I also thought that there was a bit of a stretch between Tom's personality in the beginning of the movie and when he encounters Jane. As soon as he meets Jane, he goes from being a immoral jerk to a kindly gentleman. No gradual change takes place at all. I'm sorry, but have you ever known a man to completely change his bad habits overnight?Andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04080804050027464710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343940720320817704.post-12976693352856341632007-08-17T09:41:00.000-07:002007-08-17T09:41:00.000-07:00In my review, I agreed with all but your final con...In my review, I agreed with all but your final conclusion. I saw not passion vs calm in the marriage decision, but love vs money and position. I understand that it springs from the historical context of Jane Austen, where a woman's only chance to lift herself financially was a 'good' marriage. I read the short biography of Jane Austen from the Jane Austen society, and was surprised that modern sensibilities aside, the story of Mr LeFoy and Jane was based on reality, as well as the match her parents were trying to arrange for her. She evaded both and remained single till her death at 41.Leticiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08170455690163831806noreply@blogger.com