I didn't expect "Becoming Jane" to be released in China. I thought that this kind of "niche movie" would not be available on the mainland screen. Although the name was changed to "Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen", many suspected that Viewers who watched Pride and Prejudice under its name would be puzzled. In fact, I personally think that many of the characters in the movie echo with Pride and Prejudice.
However, the world is often cruel, far from the novel can make up for it, just like the picturesque manor of "Pemberley", but there is only the clumsy Mr. Weasley in it. Only from the novel can we see the perfect picture, the handsome, dignified and calm, sincere and keen Darcy seems to really exist in front of us. (In fact, in the movie, Mr. Weasley turns out to be a real gentleman.)
Becoming Jane is really about how a woman creates perfection out of imperfect reality, even though it requires the author to suffer, and then to elevate it to beauty. It lifts the veil of the politeness of the British Georgian middle-class era for us, and shows us the cold social reality, how the concept of family, the gap between the rich and the poor, and the shackles of hierarchy really exist in people's lives, and cannot become fairy tales The opposite of the story, except in Jane Austen's own writing. Everything she laughed at in the novel without revealing her voice and piercingly ridiculed it, but what pain it brought to her life back then, only she herself knows.
However, this film also shows a young Jane, young enough to run wildly on the grass like a boy, express her opinions without hesitation at the dinner table of the elders, love what I love in defiance of social norms, and reject the acquiescence of the family in person. The suitor can also be bold enough to run away with someone - you must know that in that era, it was a bet on a woman's reputation for the rest of her life. Intriguingly, in Austen's most famous novel, Pride and Prejudice, the consequences of the elopement are devastating. Of course, at the same time, because of her youth and prejudice, she fell in love with the flirtatious Tom, and misunderstood the truly respectable Mr. Weasley. In the end, it turned out that Weasley was the one who knew her best. Because I knew her, I finally gave up on her, but unfortunately they couldn't be together in the end.
My personal guess is that Weasleys (if there is such a person) should be the prototype for Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility, marked by the same two thousand pounds a year, the same ordinary appearance, but the same unremarkable appearance. Possesses a generous heart; is not good at words, is inferior to expressing, and is misunderstood but still silently loves the heroine, forgives her rudeness and has other hearts. In Sense and Sensibility, Marianne finally recognizes the qualities of Colonel Brandon and marries him. In the movie, although Mr. Weasley is portrayed as a character who can't speak well and can't dance well, his gesture of proposing to Jane is full of heroic demeanor. And when the heroine failed to elope and her reputation was damaged, he disregarded the rumors and stepped forward to protect her and care for her. However, he may also know that Jane likes an ideal hero, or a character as unruly as Tom, so he finally chose to use that word: Friend, and found his own place beside Jane.
In the film, Mr. Weasley said a sentence that eventually became the opening line of Jane's novel "Pride and Prejudice":
"It's a universal acknowledge that..."
Although Tom Lefroyin inspired the shorthand "Pride and Prejudice" Inspiration, ironically, I think his character is similar to the playboy characters in the novel - Wickham, Willoughby, etc. The only thing he resembles Darcy is when he likes to dance Talking with the woman... (Cang Nian...!)
As for the biggest villain behind the scenes, the clumsy and sanctimonious pastor (forgot his name), his pretentious, narrow-minded, and successful character is indeed very good Reminiscent of the famous Mr. Collins.
Jane's novels provide us with many classic male protagonists: Darcy, Bingley ("Pride and Prejudice") Edward, Brandon "Sense and Sensibility" Tierney ("Northanger Abbey") Knightley ("Pride and Prejudice") Emma") Colonel Wentworth ("Persuasion"). However, in her lonely life, she never found a man who could truly make her willing to marry. In her writings, it is often a happy ending in which a lover gets married. But after watching the movie about her, it was so sad, and after going back, watching "Pride and Prejudice", it couldn't immediately eliminate this sadness.
Maybe it's because life often doesn't look like a novel, or a fairy tale. Fiction can be very complete, but our lives have to accept many shortcomings, which may be what the film wants to tell us. This is an imperfect fairy tale about a woman who, through her own pen, has turned all her imperfections into perfection. Like all fairy tale heroines, she had the extraordinary courage that allowed her to shine in the years to come after an imperfect era ended. Such courage is still rare in our society today. That kind of courage is: being true to yourself.
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