thoughts spurred by new BBC Emma!

[lettered]

One day, I'd like to post about these things:

1) The lecture I heard once on how Emma is a maturation of Sense and Sensibility.
2) The Gwenyth Paltrow Emma versus the Kate Beckinsale one (*waves flag for latter*)
3) How girls in period costume with modern accoutrement make me feel funny (a la here:
)
4) Whether Romola Garai looks like Katee Sackhoff, a la the great Connor // Jackson Browne debate.
5) How I miss good old days at Republic of Pemberley.
6) Me and Jane Austen! In particular: Emma
7) My hopes for the new BBC Emma, inspired via this picspam!

Comments

[entrenous88]

Girls in period costumes with modern accoutrements make me think of Maggie Jacobs on Extras.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

She looks WAYYY more like a wee Katie Sackhoff than Kartheiser ever remotely resembled Jackson Browne.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAH DID YOU NOT SEE WHERE CONNOR AND BROWNE WORE THE SAME SHIRT???

She's so hot, I die ded. ...I have a thing for people with big faces.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

That's...a weird fucking fetish, J.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Not much weirder than your love of massive foreheads.

(though I have that too.)

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

HEE! I try to keep my whacky forehead thing on a subconscious level. Half the time, I'm like "why do I find that guy so hot?" and Maze laughs and goes, "FOREHEAD."

[tinyholidays.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! Thanks for posting this! I'm guessing Romola Garai is Emma? I really like her. In fact, I like her loads better than Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Beckinsale. I saw her playing Cordelia in the Ian McKellen King Lear on PBS's Great Performances a few weeks ago, and she was very good. Looking at her imdb... apparently she was in a version of I Capture the Castle in 2003? How have I never seen that?

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I Capture the Castle was actually the first thing I saw her in! I actually haven't read the book, but I was a fan of Dodie Smith from--yes--101. I didn't like the movie that much, but from it I guessed that I wouldn't have liked the book, because the story isn't terribly compelling to me. But for all I know it was a quality adaptation of the novel. Mostly I remember it because I thought Garai was hot.

Anywho, she does play Emma, and I like her quite a lot better than both Paltrow (not a fan at all) and Beckinsale (AFAIK Emma is the only half-way decent thing she's done). I haven't seen Garai play a terribly diverse set of characters, though--mostly I've seen her in Amelia Sedley type roles (she was in that horrible Witherspoon Vanity Fair, and was the only thing I liked about it. I knew I'd hate it, but I'm a big Major Dobbin fan; I had to go)--which now I think about it is not so very different from Cordelia. Her character in Horation Hornblower XVI--I mean Amazing Grace was also similar. Dunno if she can pull of Emma's snark and conceit (Beckinsale did but didn't have the lovableness. Paltrow was mush). Though I have high hopes I'm expected Garai to be too watered down and sweet (a sort of not-quite-as-horrendous Witherspoon's Becky Sharp).

I'm not really looking forward to the Mr. Knightley. He was Edmund in the '99 Mansfield Park, and I found him v. lackluster there (then again so is the character and so was the script).

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, iirc I Capture The Castle had David Bamber reprise his role as Mr. Collins in it. Different vicar, same slimy. I love that guy!

[semby.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I didn't know there was a new BBC Emma! I'll have to find a way to watch.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I know I know I know!!! I've been waiting for it; I can't believe I missed the casting announcement. Apparently it will be on this autumn.

It's going to be 4 parts, which is nice. Though I wish they'd do some Austen 6 parters like P&P. It really upset me that they shortened Persuasion so much (it was just feature length) when they did the recent--uh, redo. That story benefits so much from a slow unfold and every adaptation I've seen of it really doesn't do it justice.

[icyaurora8.livejournal.com]

this is kinda off topic... but number 2 made me think of this (2) The Gwenyth Paltrow Emma versus the Kate Beckinsale one (*waves flag for latter*))

did you every watch Much Ado About Nothing? whenever i hear Kate's name, that is always one of the first things i think about. plus it always makes me giggle a little to see so many big name actors in it... it's rather enjoyable! and... though not the Emma you are talking about... gotta love Emma Thompson in it... her speech at the end to Benedick about killing someone for her... gah!

[my_daroga]

I think it's interesting that you want to do a post about you and Austen that is particularly about Emma.

But I will watch this with you!

[gaudy-night.livejournal.com]

Republic of Pemberley!

I remember surfing that in college under the guise of researching Jane Austen. LOL I swear that's the only place to find Colonel Brandon pr0n.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

ZOMG I spent college reading Colonel Brandon pr0n too. That was circa 2001-2. When were you in college? I WONDER IF I KNEW YOU THEN.

[gaudy-night.livejournal.com]

Can't tell if you're pulling my leg here :P, but what the hell... Class of 2001 and... 2004!

I remember really liking Alan Rickman's performance in S&S, but everything I could find on the Web was all about that damned other Dashwood sister. RoP was a godsend. :)

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I AM TOTALLY NOT PULLING UR LEG. Despite my use of capslock. I played a lot on RoP, but mostly I played with Brandon porn I mean fic because actually there wasn't that much porn. Did you ever read Barbara's fics? Shit, now I can't remember what they were called. Me and a few others (handle was Joyce Elizabeth [my name is Joy]) I think sorta kinda made it why they stopped allowing anything fun on BoI. ...I don't remember anyone else college age from the S&S board, but I only remember I very few people from those halcyon days anyway.

AR, and ET's writing, added a lot to the character. I still think Austen's character is a romantic at heart (HE FALLS IN LOVE WITH HER AT FIRST SIGHT) but S&S1's Brandon is a bore. AR's Brandon played music and POLISHED HIS GUNS and said, "Give me an occupation or I shall go mad, Miss Dashwood."

*faints*

[gaudy-night.livejournal.com]

It's been months since I've read Col. Brandon porn, but there was one I liked that had the Colonel's former mistress and a sword involved? I dunno. It's been a while. And of course, wedding night fics are always a win-win. :)

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

Hey! Just thought of you this evening, and realized I hadn't seen you post in an age. I hope you're well. ♥

[tkp.livejournal.com]

hey honey! I am well.

I know I haven't posted in forever! It has to do with me having a lot of work, being busy irl, wanting to switch to dw but not wanting to figure out anything new, having fandom commitments I haven't met, an flist that's too big for me to handle without anyone on it I want to cut, and being in a new fandom that has eaten my soul without having coherent things to say about it yet (Star Trek owns me; it really does).

But it's funny, I was trying to check the uncheckable flist last week and ended up reading up on you quite a bit because I realized I hadn't talked to you in forever. Wishing you the best with family and shiny Ron/Draco ;o)

Thanks for the line; I'll be back . . . eventually . . .

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

It's very good to hear back from you! You sound super busy with irl things -- hope that's good at least in part. Gah, fandom committments not yet met -- I hear that, and raise you!

Oooooh, you must be loving the Star Trek fandom explosion, then! I'm totally behind on it, but eventually I'll likely dive in, as everything is being recced to the high heavens. I think it's eaten many, many people's brains, so it must be fun to see all that outpouring for something you're loving.

Uncheckable flist, oh noes! Can you filter it down a little while you're busy, or filter so that you can check on half or a third of the flist one day, the other half later? It sounds like kind of a pain to set filters up initially, but if you use them for reading afterward I'm guessing it would pay off. So maybe it could be a help to you if you want to keep your toes dipped into flist fandom waters. Or not -- some people just feel uncomfy and itchy at the very idea of filtering.

Thanks so much for the good wishes! I wish you all good stuff in return. :D and I'll look forward to seeing your entries whenever you're back more regularly.