The anticipation builds to a frenzy
Bob Mondello of NPR gets positively snarky, in a public-radio sort of way, over Becoming Jane.
Bio-pics are almost alarmingly common this summer. . .English novelist Jane Austen in Becoming Jane, a picture filled with sense and sensibility, pride and prejudice and lots of invented biographical details.
Glad to see the message is getting through.
Fellow-ette is annoyed by the trailer.
My ideal biopic would:
1-be somewhat feminist in that J.A’s life brings to light lots of interesting stuff about women’s roles
2-pay credit to J.A’s wit and powers of unobserved observation
3-not feature a pouting, dashing, dress-dragging through the woods gosh-darnit spunky heroine
4-not be a heavy-breathing inducing cliche designed to pander to J.A’s fan-club of YA/Romance writers
5-pride itself on its subtlety and merit a second viewing and
5-Be funny. The love story in Shakespeare in Love was a bit cliched and hackneyed, but what saved that movie was its full wealth of wit. It was a hilarious romp of literary in-jokes.
With particular attention to No. 5, we think.
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pay credit to J.A’s wit and powers of unobserved observation… Very well put. I like that.
I fear that BJ (oops!… I better not use that abbreviation. I thought of something else when my girlfriend used it the other day.)—Becoming Jane is not going to measure up to any of the five criteria. But I do have an open mind (you think?) so I shall wait until I see the movie before I make a judgment.