Field reconnaissance on BECOMING JANE

Alert Janeite Amo went to the cinema and sent AustenBlog a report about the preparations for the upcoming release of BECOMING JANE.

Huh, so went to the cinema today and they have new banners up for BJ (bigger than the posters they had, made of shiny plastic, some of the pics had been slightly cropped on the poster, and were bigger here).

Unfortunately it didn’t list an official website, just filmfactory.co.uk. Here is their microsite: http://www.thefilmfactory.co.uk/cinema/becomingjane.html

*laughs (in a good way) at Dame Maggie’s hair*

“Venus” used to have a crappy little page like that, and it’s recently become this: http://www.thefilmfactory.co.uk/venus/ (I love this site – worth waiting for the intro to finish.) Let’s hope the BJ site has such an indepth interview with the writer – I for one want to know what he’s go to say for himself!

Don’t we all!

There was a quote on the poster, from Baz Bamigboye, calling the film “Gloriously enchanting”.

We’ve read that before.

The rating was PG “contains mild sex references and scenes of boxing” – so perhaps the lake scene has been cut?

Hmm, interesting!

Might be a good idea as I now realise that the woman standing behind Jane in that scene (and running down the hill with her and Lefroy) is almost certainly Lucy Lefroy.

Lucy Lefroy, by the bye, was four years younger than Jane, which makes her sixteen at the time of this film. In a letter written in 1805, Jane described Lucy Lefroy, by that time married, as “my old acquaintance.” Considering that Lucy’s mother was Jane’s mentor and close friend, draw your own conclusions on the relative chumminess there.

The close up shot of Hathaway and McAvoy moonily holding hands doesn’t do them any favours. Although it’s cropped in the poster, you can see his decidedly un-romantic nails bitten right down to the quick (oops), and her ear piercings seem to have been dodgily edited out. Weird – people have been piercing for millennia!

True!

The tagline is:

“Between sense and sensibility
and pride and prejudice
was a life worth
writing about”

that is actually how it is written, weird paragraphing, and no caps for the book titles.

Let’s parse! The year 1795 as the setting of the story places it between the writing of S&S and that of P&P. So there is that “literal” translation. But then to parse out that the time “between” those books was the only thing in Jane’s life worth writing about is really obnoxious. We’ll take the metaphorical translation, and roll our eyes at the clichés.

Oh well, at least I got my first clear look at Anna Maxwell Martin in the trailer this time, and the official site has a nice close up pic of her.
Hoorah.

And she looks great!

*laughs again at Dame Maggie’s hair* (It’s funny!)

Alert Janeite Kendra sent us a link to a YouTube version of the behind-the-scenes stuff from the film that we saw previously, but we thought new arrivals or those who could not download the clip previously might like to see it again.