And now for something completely different
After the rather depressing post about dumbed-down Austen yesterday (and having visited the site, yes, they are dumbed-down, and there’s no other way to put it), fortunately Alert Janeite Laurie Viera Rigler sent us several YouTube videos as a bit of amusement.
First up is a little animation from Emma, made as an AP Literature project.
Next is a send up of Regency dramas in general, featuring some actors (and gowns) we’ve all seen before, and Alan Rickman in regimentals!
Did we mention it has Alan Rickman in regimentals? No? Alan Rickman in regimentals, being funny?
And lastly, a parody of Pride and Prejudice that is rather tasteless and not all that funny but we sort of laughed at the pond scene, and then felt dirty. No Alan Rickman in regimentals, unfortunately. Can’t embed, so here’s the link, but remember: tasteless.
We have some more stuff that we’ll post tonight, promise! In the meantime, consider this an open thread. So are we excited about the Complete Jane Austen?
January 9th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
I absolutely agree about Pride and Racial Prejudice. It made me cringe. Almost didn’t send you the link but figured Austenblog should know about everything in the Austen universe.
January 9th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Too funny! Alan Rickman is so fetching in regimentals! Phyllis and Dyllis were quite a hoot.
Several familiar faces as well.
Pride and Racial Prejudice was amusing enough, I particularly found the use of fans hysterical.
Oh, by the by, just went to IMDb and found The Complete Jane Austen advertised on their home page.
January 9th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Okay, I’ll grant you the fan part was funny.
January 10th, 2008 at 1:19 am
Who are the actors in Pride and Racial Prejudice? Fanny looks very much like that woman who played Hattie in Ella Enchanted (yes, I will admit to have seen that film and liked it) and the mother looks like Alison Steadman, but I can’t tell.
January 10th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Luv’d Plots & Proposals. Glad to see that somebody has a sense of humor.
January 10th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
The fan scene in PRP is a reference to Woody Allen’s — IMNSHO — best film, Love & Death (where it may well be a reference, too, but then I don’t know to what). However, in Woody Allen’s film, said scene has the advantage of being part of a story which is funny from beginning to end, indeed so much so that said scene is not particularly sticking out.
January 11th, 2008 at 5:43 am
It is Alison Steadman. Maybe you couldn’t tell because she doesn’t shriek in this the way she shrieks in P&P. Fanny was in Being Julia as the young actress who gets “Juliaed” on stage near the end of the film.
January 14th, 2008 at 12:00 am
“I have won five guineas! You can have a new house, and a bonnet!”
“I’ll get my toothbrush!”
LOL!