Yet. Another. P&P. Film. Adaptation.
Not when the class is film and the homework is making a feature-length movie that will hit the big screen this spring and later be submitted to the film festival circuit.
“Movies are, like, my whole life,” Letkemann said during a break from a recent Sunday of rehearsals and shooting for How to Be Hated, based on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. “I love acting, it’s like a big passion for me. It’s not like it’s work, it’s homework or I have to be here. I want to be here.”
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Students spent the fall semester writing the script for the romantic comedy, which takes Austen’s tale of three sisters being courted by various men and focuses on the middle child, Liz, who is the new girl at her high school, struggling to fit in.
We kid, of course. Never enough Jane, right? And it’s not like it’s the first time somebody’s filmed fanfic.
(But…middle child? Middle child?!?)
March 24th, 2005 at 7:00 am
And how is this bad thing? Of cource I would like to see a new adaptation of NA too but new modernization of P&P will definelty get me to see it. They removed Kitty from Bride and Prejudice too, so Lizzy was a middle child there as well…
I think its nice to see that Jane Austen is loved and her legacy is alive. B&P and P&PUtah are proof of that Austen did not leave behind some old and dusty books but storys and characters that are even more appealing than a century ago.
March 24th, 2005 at 11:28 pm
Yes, Cairbre, I am torn between being all admiration of the way Jane Austen’s novels continue to inspire artists two hundred years after it was written and my semi-annual She Wrote Five Other Novels, You Know rant.