Polish your Cluebats, everyone!
We could handle people calling JA the founder of chicklit, and using her in parodies, but this is taking it a bit far. We’re talking about Jane Austen the author here, people, NOT the Made-up!Jane coming to a BECOMING JANE film near you.
April 25th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
So lame! As though “Jane Austen” is synonymous with “big SAT words.” It reflects more on the writer than on Jane.
April 26th, 2006 at 7:05 am
Why is this site so agains the movie “BECOMING JANE” they always say MADE UP STORY and we already know that.. and I have some feelings that they dont like it that way..
April 26th, 2006 at 8:16 am
We’re not against the film, we just want to stress that it’s a made up story, since a lot of the press that’s been out has accepted the plot as fact.
April 26th, 2006 at 8:51 am
Kareem, I can only speak for myself on this, but my main complaint about the made!up!Jane movie is this: I find Jane Austen really fascinating in her own right. I’m intrigued by her literary genius, and wish we could learn more about the real events which shaped her opinions and intellect. That some movie producer out in Hollywoodland should deem the true facts about her life uninteresting is practically an insult. It’s like saying “Well, the real Jane is boring, so we’re going to spice up her life with unlikely falsehoods to make her look better”. She doesn’t need to look better. She looks fine as it is. It’s especially frightening when the falsehoods they employ are exactly the kind of outlandish plot devices she used to criticize!
April 26th, 2006 at 9:01 am
Why, why for the love of decency, do lazy people who have never read JA always use her name as a convenient if inaccurate synonym for either using big words, or using sentences longer than 8 words?
Kareem, I have not yet completely made up my mind about “Becoming Jane” and won’t until I see it. But although YOU know it’s a made up story, not every one does. If the movie tries to position itself as “true story” when it totally fabricates half of JA’s live, it might lead unwary people astray.
April 26th, 2006 at 9:55 am
Why is this site so agains the movie “BECOMING JANE” they always say MADE UP STORY and we already know that.. and I have some feelings that they dont like it that way..
Because we are humorless dried-up spinster Middle-Aged Austen Whores, that’s why. Get with the program.
Translation from Snarkese: We’re not “against the movie.” If you don’t understand our position by now (and really it’s just mine, not Tasha’s or any of the other AustenBloggers, they can speak for themselves), you never will.
Oh, and please don’t hijack threads. If you want to discuss BECOMING JANE, do it in the proper thread. Thank you from the MAAWs, whose Delete Trigger Fingers itch when this sort of thing happens.
April 26th, 2006 at 11:49 am
Dear Kris Kridler - How could you ever use Jane Austen and spam in the same sentence? End of discussion. And Mags, you are NOT all dried up Austen-whore spinsters…Austen Whores, yes, ok, i’ll give you that. But as a 28 year-old just dying to become a dried up old austen whore, I Adore reading this sight and admire the writers on it.
April 26th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
Whatever…Fine
April 26th, 2006 at 1:38 pm
Why, why for the love of decency, do lazy people who have never read JA always use her name as a convenient if inaccurate synonym for either using big words, or using sentences longer than 8 words?
It is a fact universally acknowledged that a journalist in want of an angle will reach for a lazy JA reference, in the hope of acquiring an aura of wit and sophistication.
It never works, Mrs Darcy. Never, Mrs Darcy, Mrs Darcy, Mrs Darcy.
April 26th, 2006 at 2:43 pm
What, you were expecting a kick line of pom-pom waving cheerleaders or something? Sheesh.
Stephen–good one!
April 29th, 2006 at 3:59 pm
Odd that she would have used JA, unless of course Stephen is correct. Every time I see or hear “pulchritudinous” I think of Walt Disney’s “Dumbo.”
And it should be b-o-n-n-y not b-o-n-n-i-e. But then she spelled aesthetic wrong as well, though she might have done that to make a point.
“Because we are humorless dried-up spinster Middle-Aged Austen Whores, that’s why. Get with the program.” Hilarious, Mags! Are you writing these down (other than here)? They would make a wonderful book.