The contemporary American middle class and the love life of a 19th-century English estate

Charity 2022-04-21 09:03:34

Jane Austen represents the love fantasies and stories of teenage girls in 19th-century English country estates. The English countryside of the 19th century was natural and harmonious, yet bland and boring, similar to today's middle-class life in the United States. The film is based on Austen's six novels to interpret the love of six ordinary people in the American middle class. A woman whose life is the joy of her life and her marriage, a cheating wife and her gay daughter, a controlling single woman, a slightly neurotic French teacher, and a software who has never read Austen's novels Engineer, "Emma," "Mansfield Manor," "Northanger Abbey," "Pride and Prejudice," "Sense and Sensibility," "Persuasion," in that order, these six Americans "repeated" Austen's story.

With the backing of Jane Austen, this Hollywood film, which could easily be made into a vulgar lifestyle film, is worthy of admiration in terms of conception and atmosphere. Take the ending, for example, on a fresh morning, on the spotless roads of a typical American community, a couple of men and women who have no worries about food and clothing and live a leisurely life hug and kiss, how can I not be envied by people who are busy with their livelihoods like me?

Gay daughter and her first girlfriend look great!

I have only watched Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility of these six films, so I can understand and understand these two more clearly. Therefore, it is suggested that friends who are interested in Jane Austen can first watch "Becoming Jane Austen" starring Anne Hathaway to gain an understanding of her own love story; then read these six books or movies separately. At least understand the plot and idea; watching "Austin Book Club" at the end will achieve good results. I think many of Jane Austen's summaries in this film are quite reasonable. For example, she focuses on self-restraint and restraint in her feelings. Most of the handsome and romantic men are villains who abandon their feelings. Most of them are reunion endings but never describe marriage. life, etc.

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  • Breanna 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    It's wonderful to put life and stories together

  • Kylee 2022-03-26 09:01:13

    Maybe I will organize a book club too~

The Jane Austen Book Club quotes

  • Bernadette: Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

  • Daniel Avila: I was just thinking about something Allegra said at Jocelyn's the other day...so we're talking about how we all need to have connection, you know, conversation, sex, companionship, and Allegra says, "Well, you get all that from Mommy." I have to tell you, it really made me sad.

    Sylvia Avila: Aw, baby, she'll find somebody.

    Daniel Avila: No, it made me sad for us, because I've been struggling with whether a marriage can sustain all of that over, uh, over 20+ years or if it's just inevitable that after a certain amount of time-- maybe being with somebody else can have a renewing effect, because for me-- I've been seeing a woman at work. We've been together 6 months now . . . We, we can't think of this as a failure. We have had a very successful marriage. We've had a long marriage, by any standard. We got 3 wonderful kids. They're grown, they're working, they're--

    Sylvia Avila: Just open the damn door, Daniel, I need a tissue.

    Daniel Avila: The kids, that's, that's all you, you know, you made all the sacrifices, I know. But there's a logic to us quitting while we're ahead, and I think they'll be able to see that, you know?

    Sylvia Avila: I don't understand a single word of what you're saying, Daniel.