This won't recieve much attention .... - Miss Austen Regrets (2008) Discussion

[–] amoammo 17 years ago

no - this is to compliment PBS massive Austen season, where they're showing adaptions of all of her novels. And, anyway, i don't think attention is the key factor here.

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[–] amoammo 17 years ago

oh right - i can never get all those american channels straight in my head. anyway - it's clearly not primarily intended for the UK.

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[–] Peixinha 17 years ago

More info about it from the BBC Press Office today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/08_august/21/austen.shtml

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[–] rivergirl17 16 years ago

Spelling is clearly not your strong suit either. I before E, except after C. And the correct word is complement

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[–] vanishingirl 16 years ago

Apparently editing yourself isn't "you strong suit either." Sorry, I couldn't resist.

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[–] amoammo 16 years ago

either?

but no - i don't pay much attention to spelling and grammar online. that's how i like it. In real life however i am a demon proofreader. Go figure.

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[–] kikiscastle77 17 years ago

This is not based on the Anne Hathaway production. It comes from a factual point in Jane's life. The Anne hathaway production "Becoming Jane" is loosely based on a relationship she had with Tom Lefroy. I really hope the peeps at home decide to release this over here in the US, as I will not be home again til next year. I really like the casting for this.

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[–] randommovies2002 17 years ago

It will air in the US on PBS, as part of Masterpiece Theatre's "Complete Jane Austen." SO watch for it in the new year.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/austen/index.html

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[–] iluvcharlietodd 17 years ago

Maybe it won't receive much attention, but I know the movie will be absolutely brilliant!

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[–] Wonderland26 16 years ago

I won't receive much attention because it's airing on Superbowl sunday.

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[–] swolfcg 16 years ago

I don't watch Football, and do not know any woman that do. Except for the New England woman.

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[–] historymaker19 16 years ago

I don't watch football either, but I think that's just partially due to the fact that I'm Canadian. ;)

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[–] lucymaxx 16 years ago

As one of the few people who doesn't care about the Superbowl (and did watch Miss Austen Regrets), I can say that this production may not receive a great deal of attemtion because it simply isn't that good. There are some wonderful people in the cast (Olivia Williams and Phyllida Law), but I found this tele-film to be dull and rather bland. The film is very heavy on the melodrama, and I was left with the impression that the scriptwriters would have us believe that toward the end of her life Jane Austen was a bitter, angry woman. I was looking forward to it, but I didn't care a great deal for this production.

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[–] amyroy 16 years ago

Lucymaxx - I agree with you about the film. While Jane was portrayed as a complex woman, unlike the simplistic view many of us have of her, at times she was portrayed very differently from what I read about her in various biographies. Also, the film nearly ignored Cassandra until the last third. Cassandra was the most important person in Jane's life and encouraged her traveling and writing. Yes, she worked harder so that Jane could devote herself to her writing. The film spent too much time either ignoring her or making her look resentful as she read Jane's letters.
And, I don't know, the whole perceived rivalry between Jane and Fanny, it just didn't ring true. However, I do understand why Fanny was angry with her aunt after her Mr. Plumbrook (or whatever his name was) married another woman.

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[–] cynsoria 16 years ago

I am afraid that the prediction was right, it has not receive much attention or at least not as much as the new adaptations have received. As far as I have seen there are several less posts about MAR than about the adaptations here at the IMDB boards but also in the Austen sites. There are not even user's comments in the IMDB file.

One of the reasons is what you mentioned and what some critics pointed out last week in their reviews is that PBS foolishly scheduled it against the Superbowl, which turned out to be an interesting and surprising match.

Another indication that it unfortunately has not received much attention is that so far, I have not been able to find it available on-line. Nobody has uploaded it to the net to allow those of us outside US and Canada to see it.

I beg you, please, if anybody knows where could it be found on-line, tell me so.

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[–] Greenteeth 16 years ago

I didn't think it was bad- I'm an Olivia Williams fan- but it was a little bland.

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[–] lucymaxx 16 years ago

I didn't think it was awful either, just not very good. I could almost see the director shouting, "We need more angst! We need more drama!" Too bad for all of us that Cassandra destroyed so many of her sister's letters..... makes you wonder just what Jane could have written that Cassandra didn't want people to see?

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[–] wickedialogue 16 years ago

I thought the film did a good job of portraying the potential internal conflict Austen may have felt about her choices. Olivia Williams brought more life to Austen than previous efforts and the film seemed to portray with accuracy the known facts about her family.

There is a novel called The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James that is an interweaving of known facts about Austen with a fair bit of fiction. But it contains Austen's family tree in the beginning that is really interesting. Austen must have descendents alive today because her brothers had something like 33 children between them.

Jane's brother, Edward, had a daughter Fanny born in 1793. She was eighteen years younger than Jane. As an aside, Fanny lived to be 89, dying in 1882.

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[–] randommovies2002 16 years ago

According to the family tree in Claire Tomalin's bio, each brother (except George, of course; and Henry) have living descendants.

Anna Chancellor is descended from Jane's brother Edward.

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