Becoming Jane #1: Her Own Life Is Her Greatest Inspiration

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I agree with you... Pride and Prejudice is better than this one... but the movie's okay...
 
Don't read this unless you want to be spoiled about the movie.

[sp] As awesome as it was that Jane became an independent woman and lived by her pen at a time when that was virtually unheard of, I still felt sad that she didn't marry Tom even though it as a choice she made out of love. It just seemed sad and depressing that she never got together with anyone after that while Tom did marry and had a a kid. [/sp]
 
I've never seen him before but he was really great in this film. The character was so great -- I loved his brawling and the innuendos he made to Jane -- and the chemistry between McAvoy and Anne Hathaway was great. :sigh:
 
I absolutely love this film. I know it is not completely based on fact - the screenplay writers did a tiny bit of research but not that much. Still, I think Anne Hathaway did a pretty good job :P even with her faltering (on ocassion) English accent. Its hard, lol I am American,its difficult to do an English accent. Anyway Tom & Jane's love was so darling:love: I just think they had a real love- very much with problems, etc.

The costumes & scenery were fabulous. So gorgeous.

I have to admit one thing I didn't like was that it was way too much based on Pride & Prejudice. :thud: i wish they had incorporated Jane Austen's works.. like Sense and Sensability or Persusasion, etc. That would have made my life

But in all...........I love love love :love: this movie & I don't care what you say!!!!
 
i love that it was real...
heres some quotes about Tom Lefroy from letters Jane wrote to her sister:

'At length the Day is come on which I am to flirt my last with Tom Lefroy, & when you receive this it will be over--My tears flow as I write, at the melancholy idea."


"After I had written the above, we received a visit from Mr Tom Lefroy and his cousin George. The latter is really very well-behaved now; and as for the other, he has but one fault, which time will, I trust, entirely remove--it is that his morning coat is a great deal too light. He is a very great admirer of Tom Jones, and therefore wears the same coloured clothes, I imagine, which he did when he was wounded."

"He is a very gentlemanlike, good-looking, pleasant young man, I assure you. But as to our having ever met, except at the three last balls, I cannot say much; for he is so excessively laughed at about me at Ashe, that he is ashamed of coming to Steventon, and ran away when we called on Mrs Lefroy a few days ago."

"I rather expect to receive an offer from my friend in the course of the evening. I shall refuse him, however, unless he promises to give away his white Coat."

Jane writing to Cassandra re: a ball the following evening, joking about expecting an offer from Tom Lefroy


" . . . I am almost afraid to tell you how my Irish friend and I behaved. Imagine to yourself everything most profligate and shocking in the way of dancing and sitting down together."

Jane to her sister Cassandra, in a letter of January 9, 1796 [1], re: flirting with Tom Lefroy at the ball the night before
 
Im looking forward to this movie, Ive always liked the Jane Austen and her work. James and Anne look like a perfect match in the movie.
 
I fell in love with him in this movie. Talking about it now is making me want to watch it again.
 
I saw it yesterday. It was good but not great--I can't exactly put my finger on it. I thought the ending was romantic.

I would actually prefer to read or watch Pride and Prejudice than watch this movie. It was depressing. The performances were good. I think the script could have been improved.
 
I cry during the whole second half of the movie. When he says "What value will there be in life if we are not together? Runaway with me." :thud:
 
Can't believe it took so long to air over here in the U.S. :sigh:

I saw it tonight and loved it. The performances were great. But, having said that, I also found the movie rather depressing.
 
Oh you should definately watch it :nod: such a great movie and James McAvoy is amazing in it :sigh:
 
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