#austen adaptations

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has this been done before?? probably yes but im too scared to check since i already drew this out

so anyway here's finally some non-phantom art

[intothestacks]

I want someone to make a movie of one of Austen's novels but from the servants' perspective.

Like, I want the Bennets complaining about how poor they are while their servant is in the background serving them food just like

Or someone is dropping some piece of gossip and the servants are dusting something in the background while going

I don't care if it's a comedy or treated seriously or if it's a crossover between Austen's novels and all the servants of her characters know each other or something.

I would also accept this for any classic story about rich people.

I just wanna see things from the servants' perspective.

[edelweiss-maiden]

sense and sensibility and fifty shades of green (1995) dir. ang lee + stills that look like paintings

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

July: Blue Redux + Green Redux

I Have Found It (Kandukondain Kandukondain) / Aishwarya Rai as Meenakshi and Tabu as Sowmya

When I first designated the theme for July, I knew I had to include shots from this sequence, probably the most gorgeous riot of blue and green I've ever seen on film. I am including wide shots of most of the scenes to show the costumes of the chorus and extras as well. Note that when the two sisters are onscreen at the same time, the background characters divide themselves up so that those in blue are on Sowmya's side and those in green are on Meenakshi's.

(This is an adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, by the way. Sowmya is the equivalent to Eleanor and Meenakshi is Marianne.)

See the whole sequence here, because it's even more amazing with motion:

[mrdarcygenderenvy]

Recent Austen adaptations yelling

Ok I DID make this blog to review historical-set Pride & Prejudice adaptations (with an exception made for iconic B&P). But for everyone who was DEFINITELY WONDERING, yes I have also been storing away a lot of opinions about other recent Austen adaptations that I Must Tell Someone.

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Fire island (2022)

A modern gay party cheesy rom-com P&P that genuinely made me laugh. Having seen some other (whiter) cheesy gay romcoms that were extreeeemely PG & playing it safe, I was pleasantly surprised.

Also Bowen Yang and his story just came across really earnest in a way I was into - would watch this man cry again, 10/10.

Personally as an extremely disabled british nerd (now tragically unable to travel and/or go to the club...) this gay scene is a long way from my queer scene. But I still had emotions, you know?

Kinda wanted more of the Mary analogue and generally just normal looking people (almost everyone is so ripped) but I appreciate that's how beautiful smooth people often look in mainstream american films, we can't have everything.

DARCY WATCH: I do not want to dress like this adaptation's chinos Mr Darcy. But Conrad Ricamora was generally great and very hot and awkward and understood the assignment. Good ice cream throw.

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Emma (2020)

I know I know, it's pretty... but I don't think that's enough!!!!!

Lovely production, beautiful costumes, a candy wes-anderson cinematography that really suits the story, and it's fun to notice references to actual outfits and prints from the time but lads. LADS. UNPOPULAR OPINION TIME: Where is the chemistry???

You can’t make Mr Knightley a nice sweet boy (so funny to have cast a posh folksy singing man) and leave the plot the same and expect it to work!! Also I was personally pissed off that a lot of the promo/ ads for this made it look like ~forbidden love~ when it's the 2 richest white people in town getting together?? ? There's actually not even a class difference in this one, guys.

Basically this romance was nothing to me!!! I felt nothing!!!!!!!! WHERE'S THE DEPTH

I did like the bit where he lies down though. Relatable.

Also why are you drawing so much attention to the servants when you don’t seem to have anything to say about class...? 'Wow look how many servants they had! Anyway, they don't get any speaking lines'... it's 2020 guys!!! like what are we saying here. 'isn't it cool to think about how people were rich'??

kind of the point of Emma (character) is she's pretty superficial, but the story does not, in fact, have to be

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Persuasion (2022)

Weeping softly into a pillow........ did you know this version meant a version with Sarah Snook and Joel Fry got cancelled?? we could have had it all

(standing on a table yelling) THE MODERNISATION WAS NOT THE PROBLEM WITH THIS FILM!!!

Honestly I actively liked all the entire secondary cast in this. Louisa and Mary were extremely charming fun takes to watch. ('I'm an empath' IS right for the character if you're doing modern jokes!!!) And nobody can deny this was a correct and powerful use of Richard E Grant.

Henry Golding was naturally great. Apparently he got offered the lead and took the villain instead, which DOES mean the villain is super charming and fun to watch which is... hard to match and.... kind of shows up.... the main man.

It's been said before but the main two were WOEFUL imo. I have no beef with the actors I just question the DIRECTION and whether anyone making this knew (or cared) why people... enjoy things.

Book Anne is the quietest gentlest loser and I LOVE HER and so does basically every Austen nerd. Making her a quirky wine-bath girl who's honestly just cruel sometimes fully stops the main romance chemistry and plot from working.

And it means the main boy is still like 'god I'm so horny for how KIND AND CAPABLE YOU ARE' which is just 100% no longer true. You can't transplant a personality in a romance but leave the plot the exact same and expect it to work. The chemistry IS the plot in a romance..........

you can't act morally superior to your siblings and still rate people out of ten.... also so funny to me that everyone else gets period outfits and hair whereas this protagonist looks like she just glanced at a picture of any time in the past and grabbed a couple shirts from primark. it doen't even look good or build character!!!!!

Anyway, not to be an elderly man like 'ohhh why does nobody care about character these days' but the reason something like Clueless works is because it has the heart of the story right, instead of just copying the surface level stuff.

[oscar-is-wild]

Mansfield Park (1999) might be a fairly dated and inaccurate Austen adaptation, but Henry Crawford is literally the hottest man on this planet

[rationalseries]

Did you hear? The whole of Rational Creatures is now released and ready to binge for free on YouTube!

Whether you're interested in a modern twist on Jane Austen's Persuasion or simply looking for a soft, HEA series full of queer people to get you through a long winter night, we think you'll like it.

The whole series takes just under 2 hours to watch (Less than most movies!) and was written and directed by an all-female creative team.

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Lindas ilustrações da edição em espanhol de Lady Susan da Jane Austen! Feitas por Javier Olivares (@olivaresilustracion) Apesar de menos conhecido, Lady Susan é envolvente, hilário e meio chocante. Dizem que Jane Austen baseou sua anti-heroína em uma de suas concunhadas. Para saber mais é só ler aqui.

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Amazing illustrations of Jane Austen's Lady Susan. By artist Javier Olivares (@olivaresilustracion)

[teruel-a-witch]

Your post regarding Danny joking about Steve asking him to prom (really the comment about Jane Austen and Mr. Darcy) has now given me a MIGHTY NEED for a McDanno Jane Austen-esque story.

Well done my friend. Well done.

regarding this post

hee, I will never shut up about about the similarity of s1 mcdanno to pride and prejudice 😁 the very first mcdanno graphic I made was a web-weaving/comparison parallel of the 'i know' moment. seeing as how the working title of pride and prejudice was first impressions, it's so fitting because let's be real steve did NOT make a good impression on danny when they met. meanwhile he got insulted by this sassy firey short little number and immediately fell into passionate love because danny was like nobody he's ever met and he was NOT fawning over him like everyone. there's even a parallel with steve not being impressed with danny's 'family' aka police because he didn't trust them to do their job and danny being a very obvious stand-out, he was ready to dismiss him on the spot until he turned out to be a real challenge etc.

danny really humbled steve. then he continued doing nice things for danny without expecting anything in return (especially since he thought danny would never like him back anyway), like when he used his connection with the governor to strong-arm stan and rachel into keeping danny's visitation rights and wasn't even going to tell danny about it if danny hadn't deduced that. how very darcy paying wickham to marry lydia and not wanting lizzie to find out of him.

and then of course we have this 'i know you' moment from 1x08 which basically parallels darcy's 'i did it all for you' ...so yeah, there's a reason I have a #pride and prejudice in hawaii tag for everything mcdanno/austen related.

i don't have real fic recs for you but I did write sort of a modern au emma/S2 of mcdanno fusion what-if scenario.

there's also a modern persuasion au that's been kicking around in my head for a few months but I haven't written it out yet.

and here's an alternate version of the graphic in a link above that I never posted

[ardentlyinlovedarcy]

[fictionturnedherbrain]

Aisha (2010) is definitely my second favourite adaptation of Emma (after the 2009 miniseries, of course). It's what Clueless would be for me if Cher wasn't in love with her stepbrother.

Also Abhay Deol in the Mr Knightley role. Yes, please.

[alexa-santi-author]

Continuing to hype the new Hallmark Channel version of Sense & Sensibility that my author friend Vanessa Riley worked on. Here’s a story about it from Essence with quotes from Vanessa.

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

January: Red Redux

Clueless / Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz

Cher wears a couple of red minidresses during the movie, but this one is the Alaïa! The other one is fine (see below), but a quick comparison shows how small details can make a difference even on a dress with so little to it. The different shoulder straps and neckline give this one a much more sophisticated look.

Cher wears this dress to a Christmas party. Mona May, the costume designer, made the jacket.

[literatureismyentirepersonality]

I have, quite shamefully, only just finished watching The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. Why have I been sleeping on this adaptation? It’s just as much fun as Bridget Jones.

It also made me really appreciate Lydia, and try to reconsider her perspective in the books. It’s so messed up that she has to marry Wickham, really. I always appreciate an adaptation that can completely change a character’s presentation and Mary Kate Wiles and co. did for Lydia Bennet what Florence Pugh and co. did for Amy March (though admittedly with less acting chops).

The one thing I didn’t enjoy so much is that I have no idea why Darcy fell for Lizzie in this rendition. The conversations between him and Caroline weren’t really translated quite so easily in this version and I think we lost that progression. I don’t mind though; it still took a completely different and interesting angle on the story and it was overall just a very fun idea.