"Becoming Jane Austen" with Anne Hathaway

Cecile 2022-03-20 09:02:04

In general, the so-called biographical films will more or less make a fuss about the legend of the protagonist. It is understandable to do so. After all, to create a complete and profound artistic image in a short period of about 2 hours, some techniques are needed to enhance the appeal of the drama. However, the biographical film of the British writer Jane Austen, the original author of the work "Pride and Prejudice", which has been put on the screen countless times, gives people a peaceful and wonderful feeling, just like her works.

Jane Austen's works do not have any earth-shattering stories. The adaptations of "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice" and the most recent "Northanger Abbey" that I have seen all tell the story of what the British upper class looks like today. Ordinary love stories, but hundreds of years later, these stories are still relished as handed down classics, thanks to the ingeniousness of the stories, and to magnifying the most valuable personality traits in the common combination of men and women. Therefore, these stories with similar backgrounds and endings can be passed down from generation to generation across time and space, regardless of how earth-shattering the stories are, what matters can be described by a line in "Becoming Jane Austen" - "the true meaning of the story".

The narrative focus and expression chosen for Becoming Jane Austen are extremely appropriate, starting from an ordinary, lively, wayward girl, taking the audience into the life of such a world-renowned writer with a humorous comedy prologue, and then going deep into her lifelong regrets A short-lived love story. Although this love story has twists and turns, it is not as unforgettable as ordinary love stories portrayed in various ways. It is quietly narrated like a film adaptation of Jane's works. Until the moment of elopement, the words and deeds of a girl who is in love at the beginning of her love is invisible. Her kindness and sense of responsibility burst out instantly. This love experience that ended in failure finally made the classic "Pride and Prejudice". Her optimism and enthusiasm for life did not make this classic story go to tragedy. Instead, it achieved a happy reunion. At the end of the film, Jane, who has become famous, and Lefroy, who already has a family and a book, meet again after many years. Jane's grace and generosity fully demonstrate the generosity and elegance of an excellent female writer. Although a love story that runs through the film is only a A side of Jane, but it is this experience of love development that reflects Jane's life attitude of personality quality throughout her life.

Jane Austen was once played by the eccentric "little princess" Anne Hathaway, who was called "the little princess" by everyone. In the two "Princess Diaries" filmed by Disney, this one night "sparrow turned into a phoenix" princess. Lovely and good, then collaborated with Meryl Streep in the self-improving and independent mature woman in "The Devil of Fashion", and now is a great writer with standard British pronunciation in "Becoming Jane Austen", three in a row Level jump, let the audience believe that this beautiful girl with a pair of charming bright and big eyes is not a vase who eats on her face, but an excellent actor who really has outstanding qualities. Her outstanding performance makes her fully qualified for next year's Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her excellent work "Becoming Jane Austen".

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Becoming Jane quotes

  • Judge Langlois: Wild companions, gambling, running around St James's like a neck-or-nothing young blood of the fancy. What kind of lawyer will that make?

    Tom Lefroy: Typical.

  • Tom Lefroy: I have been told there is much to see upon a walk, but all I've detected so far is a general tendency to green above and brown below.

    Jane Austen: Yes, well, others have detected more. It is celebrated. There's even a book about Selborne Wood.

    Tom Lefroy: Oh. A novel, perhaps?

    Jane Austen: Novels? Being poor, insipid things, read by mere women, even, God forbid, written by mere women?.

    Tom Lefroy: I see, we're talking of your reading.

    Jane Austen: As if the writing of women did not display the greatest powers of mind, knowledge of human nature, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour and the best-chosen language imaginable?