New P&P3 fan fiction site
Alert Janeite Angela wrote to tell us about a new Web community for fan fiction and fanart inspired by P&P2005, The Longbourn Loungers.
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December 9th, 2005 at 12:30 am
Oh it looks interesting but I think I’ll wait till I have more time to read. I’m behind in my other sites as well. Are you affliated with the site, Mags? It seems to devote quite a section to your blog.
December 9th, 2005 at 1:55 am
No affiliation, that’s just an RSS feed.
December 9th, 2005 at 3:26 pm
The gallery is interesting, they’ve done a pretty good job of capturing Matthew! Keira seems to be harder to do, she’s all angles!
The fanfiction is intersting too.
December 10th, 2005 at 10:21 am
There’s a link to an interview with Joe Wright. What planet is this guy from??? Perhaps he is nit-picking “movie” vs. “mini-series”?
“There hasn’t been a movie based on Pride and Prejudice for 65 years now, the last version was with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson and I think it’s about time we had another one. “
And I am all astonishment at this:
“Elizabeth Bennet is a tomboy and she refuses to conform to the feminine ideals of the period.”
Where did he get that idea? One cannot read the book and walk away with that notion — but of course, Joe admits HE DID NOT READ THE BOOK.
December 10th, 2005 at 11:26 am
Just to clarify, as I see it commented a lot (that Joe Wright did not read the book). In his defense, he did not read the book before he was approached for this movie He did in fact then read it. Here is the source, from the Production Notes for the movie
The BAFTA Award-winning director’s unique approach was understandable since, as he admits, “I had never read Pride and Prejudice, nor seen a television version. I come from a background of television social realist drama, and so I suppose I was a bit prejudiced against this material, regarding it as posh. But as I read the script adaptation, I became emotionally involved and by the end I was weeping. So I read the book, and discovered that what Jane Austen had written was a very acute character study of a particular social group. I saw that she was one of the first British realists. She had read the gothic literature which was fashionable at the time, and she turned away from that, and started writing what she knew, thereby inventing a new genre.
December 11th, 2005 at 10:30 pm
I don’t get the tomboy thing, but didn’t she refuse to conform to the feminine ideals of her period?
You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking, and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.
December 13th, 2005 at 11:53 am
Hmmm, I have been thinking about commenter Julie B’s point, which responds to the director’s comment that Lizzy was a tomboy who rejected the feminine ideals of the time. I don’t think the quote supports the proposition that Lizzy rejected the feminine ideals of the day. I have been re-watching the 1980s BBC version of P&P, and having just seen the part where Darcy criticises as deceitful the arts women use to get men, I would say that in Julie B’s quote, Lizzy is saying she observed Darcy’s distaste for such deceitful arts, that she too rejected such arts, and this aspect of her personality — her rejection of deception — is what attracted him to her. But while use of the arts of deception may be common to many accomplished women, skillful use of such deceptive arts is not part of the feminine ideal, but is rather a defect, common and widespread as it may be among women who are otherwise accomplished, and therefore Lizzy’s rejection of that defect in fact makes her closer to the ideal woman of that time, rather than further from the ideal. And, of course, Lizzy was no tomboy.
December 13th, 2005 at 1:30 pm
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December 16th, 2005 at 12:19 am
Of Joe Wright and the question of reading the BOOK:
Q: How familiar with the story were you? Had you grown up reading it, had you seen the other versions?
Joe: Not at all, I had never read it; I had never seen any of the adaptations. So when I was sent the screenplay I was a bit reticent about reading it really. I thought this was probably something for girls and I was a bit cooler, more street than that. But out of respect for the production company I read the script and I was very moved by it and then I thought I better read the book. So I read the book and I was again incredibly moved by that, and also I felt like I had a secret, like I knew how to make it. I just felt that it was so fresh and so well observed and beautifully told and has such an energy to it, a youthful energy to it and that excited me.
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/features/2005/joewright/index.php
Another example of how the Austen brilliance triumphs over mere questions of gender. Not just for girls. How many have read P&P and felt like they too had a “secret”?
December 17th, 2005 at 12:52 am
If he had “grown up reading it,” had a long-term, deep understanding and love for it, P&P3 would have been a different film, I think.
January 9th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
We have a new forum for discussing Pride and Prejudice. Please come visit.
http://lifeandstuff.com/longbournloungers