Win a poster from The Jane Austen Book Club
Sony Pictures Classics will give posters from The Jane Austen Book Club to ten AustenBlog readers. If you would like to be added to the drawing, send your full name and mailing address to editor@austenblog.com by 10 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, September 27, 2007. If you like, tell us about “your private Austen.”
Nine winners will receive a copy of the poster; one grand prize winner will receive a poster, a copy of the movie tie-in edition of the novel, and a copy of The Jane Austen Handbook, A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World signed by the Editrix, which we are including because we are so happy to end our drought of Jane Austen-related films that we didn’t like! (If you would like to be in the drawing for the poster only, just let us know in your e-mail.)
To see a larger version of the poster, click on the smaller version at left.
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what is a “private austen”?
The first line of the novel is “Each of us has a private Austen.” In other words, why you like Jane Austen’s work.
Off topic, but this lady has 5 pics of the new S+S: http://ladybluelake.livejournal.com/22229.html#cutid1
*rolls eyes at the total Wet Shirt rip-off* seriously, they should just get over the Wet Shirt thing, it doesn’t even turn me on! and it’s sooo cliched. Cliches suck the originality and life out of a film. And Jane is meant to be original, freshing. David Morrissey as Brandon is scaring me. I can see where Marianne is coming from. He looks ready to be buried, he’s so pale. Totally bringing back Mr. Headstone memories (Our Mutual Friend)–creeble!
While the backdrop and certain Austenian themes appear in the book and movie, I can’t say it’s anywhere close to genuine Austen style. Jane Austen remains the incisive social commentator and lucid analyst of human nature and relationships…and brilliant writer. Haven’t seen any comparable yet, definitely not in today’s “chick lit” or “chick flicks”, no matter how intellectual they appear to be.
Warren Clarke is MY Bradley Headstone, if one could want such a thing as her own Bradley Headstone. Morrissey was good but Clarke is untouchable.