I think the flaw in this..

Or guys who plan to selfishly exploit women who are all too eager to swoon and fall to their feet and into their beds if the men display the right assortment of "Darcy triggers".

The trailer clearly shows how callous those "Regency gentlemen" were. The whole project seems to be doomed from the start, but the whole point of the film is probably to tell us why it was succesful, despite the odds. Suspend your disbelief big time.


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I want the Daily Poll back on the imdb homepage.

In the trailer the one guy says something along the lines of "I though you loved it up there, all those guys paid to adore you." So it would seem that it is mostly woman coming to Austenland, and the men there are part of the experience.

The Regency men are all paid actors employed by Austenland to act as companions and fake romantic interests to the guests (though with limits: the guests are warned that any behavior towards these men "outside of era propriety" would be grounds for removal.)

Basically, the men are NPCs.

How Austenland manages to work is that the 'experience' is very exclusive and tailored to each guest. Rather than a Renaissance Fair-type reenactment environment, there are only a few guests (3 in the movie) at a time. Each guest's tastes and background are investigated beforehand, and they spend the week fully immersed as a character with the servants and actors enhancing a guest's "story" experience.

Considering that the bare-basic Bronze level package, where you sleep in the servants quarters and have limited activities, costs a car and your life-savings for a single week, I'm sure the actors, who are chosen to directly appeal to a specific guest, are paid enough to flirt with any amount of crazy.

And, at that price, I'm sure any possible male guests would be accommodated with actors fit to their own tastes as well.

The only men at Austenland would be those without any awareness of the world's truly great literature. Pride and Prejudice is an interesting read because of its examination of the social structures of the era, but it is hardly a book worthy of the attention it gets.

They don't go there to meat real men they go there to act out a fantasy.