tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post4329556381428489829..comments2024-03-18T15:17:26.003-05:00Comments on l'astronave: Favorite Women in Film, Part 3Frescahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-59979169593971254892009-10-25T08:55:39.514-05:002009-10-25T08:55:39.514-05:00I like almost all the film adaptations of Jane Aus...I like almost all the film adaptations of Jane Austen --"Sense and Sensibility" is my second favorite (though I walked out of the interminable "Being Jane" and didn't even consider "The JA Book Club"); <br />but it seems to me they are becoming more and more about the romance and miss JA's edge--her cutting social commentary and, as Virginia Woolf said, the delight with which she slices off her characters' heads.<br />This version shows what a brutal economic position women were in, and what an economic arrangement marriage was. And the men in it are more "real" too--they get damp and chilly too!Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-85100484585936052062009-10-25T06:35:01.486-05:002009-10-25T06:35:01.486-05:00I did want to stop by here and second loving "...I did want to stop by here and second loving "Persuasion," one of my favorite Austen adaptions. I tend to like them, but "Persuasion" forgoes the glittery period-piece feeling to focus on the mud and drudgery and drabness of life so very well.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13923745480765984429noreply@blogger.com