Music you ask? We never see the General consent to Henry and Catherine’s marriage. It has nothing, and I mean N-O-T-H-I-N-G, to recommend it. Her acting is also terrible- most of the time, when she doesn’t appear to be in a drug-induced stupor, she just bugs her eyes out.

When I was younger, I didn't think that this book by Austen measured up to her other books. This film has little of Austen's charm and ironically mimics the Gothic novels that Austen so wonderfully mocked. Of the Jane Austen novels I've read so far, this was my favorite. He was also always Mr. I love Robert Hardy and all, but there’s no way he would be considered attractive. She was beautiful, sweet, elegant, and refined, like the Eleanor of the book. Was that really Peter Firth? First of all, these actors are nothing like I pictured the characters as I read. If any of Jane Austen's novels could be acceptably adapted for … PG&E issues shutoff warning due to weekend Bay Area wind event, Alleged gunman who railed against 'f—in' Californians' at Idaho campground shot dead, Man steals from SF Walgreens as TV crew reports story on shoplifting, Wild hogs are ransacking lawns in San Jose. As in the 2007 version of Northanger Abbey, this version dramatizes Catherine's fantasies.
Not to mention the music they used.,.creepy and over the top really.

There are so many books that I really want to re-read that I have decided to host the 2015 Hard Core Re-Reading Challenge! heroines (that I've read so far) in that she tells it like it is. You’ve convinced me to change the rating (months after the fact). When talking about her mother’s death, Catherine actually asks if she saw the “corpse” and how it looked. They completely missed the point. Needless to say that as an adult I have much more empathy for the teenage heroine than I did as a child. She discovers that not all people are "nice.". HERE .

Directed by Jon Jones. Right out of the gate, she pulls out her favorite plot device: the unfortunate misunderstanding that won't get resolved until the final pages. While later Austen heroines would show a bit more sophistication, Catherine often comes off as a more than just a little naive. I originally purchased the BBC version and regret it. We have all of the other BBC produced Jane Austen films from the 80's - and very enjoy them. Catherine from the book was innocent and naive and liked to romanticize, but this Catherine really seems to have a hard time separating fantasy from reality. This one is an exception.

9 p.m. Sunday on KQED. My mom, my cousins, and I are pretty big Jane Austen fans. Emma 2020- First (Second) Impressions- Parallels with Prior Adaptations? Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. So says Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey - I can almost hear her voice: Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc. Make up your own mind and don't let others put you off! As you can probably imagine, I had far more in common with the protagonist in the first few paragraphs, when she was keeping pets and rolling down hills, than for the entire remainder of the novel. Note: this is a review for the 1987 movie, NOT the 2007 one with Felicity Jones. The only character that didn't bore me to sleep was Robert Hardy. I know that the subtitles are not often the subject of review, but it is something I always notice. I just found it that originally aired only two days after I was born.

I'm just really not surer that the makers of the movie realized that Jane Austen was writing a PARODY of Gothic novels... not actually writing a Gothic novel. When Jane Austen wrote 'Northanger Abbey' she intended to poke fun at the trashy Gothic literature of her day, aimed at silly, young, impressionable females.

( Log Out /  But "Northanger" also has its own charms, slight though they may be in comparison with Austen's later masterpieces. Maybe a 3 or a 4 is more on the mark. Take the Jane Austen Character Quiz here! ... Jane Austen films from the 80's - and very enjoy them. The music was an 1980's version of gothic music that really dated the film and was tough to get past in many scenes. The daughter of a country clergyman, she is dispatched to provide company for wealthy family friends the Allens (Desmond Barrit and Sylvestra Le Touzel) during the social season in Bath. I enjoyed the character of Mrs. Allen but most of the other actors have little appeal. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. This is my second Jane Austen read, and it was not as enjoyable as Persuasion. Like Mr. Allen, he was fine in his limited role. currently listening to: librivox on ipod while i walk to and from work. The filmmakers were clearly on drugs.

Good heavens! Found it gruesome. My interest in this particular production is because it is like an old-style radio drama, and as this, I feel it is quite good. :)  Share a link to your club list. In fact, there's a running debate in the story about whether it is in fact dangerous to read too many novels. Catherine, at least, was clearly on hallucinogens to be having all her weird dream sequences.

Altogether an agonizing film that I had to force myself to watch to the end. Then again, this Catherine went beyond naive to just plain stupid, so maybe she would be fooled after all. I had to fight to keep my eyes open on this one, and I love Jane Austen movies usually. 113/2020. However, in the case of Northanger Abbey, it's a very, very bad thing. In the book Henry was not still angry and Catherine realized that she was projecting the fantasy of novels onto real life, and that was that. The bizarre music and dream sequences to me suggest drug-induced hallucinations rather than a naive, innocent girl with an overactive imagination, as Catherine of the novel is... My first hugely disappointing BBC/Jane Austen flick. Jane Austen was poking fun at the Gothic mania in her society, and much of the novel is tongue in cheek. Even some of the casting is off.

Northanger Abbey is made a dark and scary place whereas in the book it was disappointingly tame and modernized to Catherine's eyes. The lead actress is too ditsy and weird-looking to be a heroine, the leading man is too goofy-looking and effeminate to be a convincing hero and the music sounds like some kind of cheap new-agey pet project of the director's hippy daughter (I mean saxophone??? There are a lot of strange looking people and fantasy scenes, allowing access into the heroine's mind. La Niña is here. While "Persuasion" is a bigger challenge to try to squeeze into 90 minutes, the real difference between that film and "Northanger" is the latter's consistency of high-quality performances, a careful and attentive adaptation by Andrew Davies and solid direction by Jon Jones. She was terrible- first of all, the writing for her character was bad. A wonderfully romantic adaptation. VHS - I have watched this over and over and LOVED every minute of it so much so I have now ordered the DVD I only wished the film could have lasted longer. This was the first adaptation of the book (it's just not as… Proposition 21 explained: Why does Gavin Newsom oppose it? They should have paid me to take it. Awards Well, at least we had a big laugh about how bad this film is. It was still Anna Massey reading it, which was great, but talk about speeding through the story. How else do you explain this travesty of a Jane Austen adaptation? Poor Jane Austen ought to be glad she's not around to see this dreadful wreck of an adaptation. Some of the scenes in this movie are very similar to those in John Gielgud's "Prospero's Books," which I know is lauded as brilliant filmmaking. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our.

so nice! Northanger Abbey being my least favorite of her books but this movie version made me like the book even less. Which Hogwarts house will you be sorted into? Yuck. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. Loved the way she mocked the tropes of this type of book. I thought the best thing about that version of P&P was Mathew McFadden..lol.

Disabling it will result in some disabled or missing features. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. For one thing, he’s about ten years too old for the part. I also found the change in Austen's writing style interesting. In fact, it's taken me weeks to get through it. I think the worst scene of all was the singing scene. I got this from spotify and did not realize it was the abridged version. This is my third Jane Austen book and so far my favorite. While the complexities of this character type would be more credibly explored by Austen in later figures such as "Persuasion's" Capt. While I admire Jane Austen’s eloquent language, gripping plots are not her strong point. I may have pictured them somewhat differently from how Austen described them, but nevertheless I find it very hard to accept them as the characters in the book. Before The Chronicle, he was managing editor of Dole Newspapers in Somerville, Mass., and editor of the Amesbury (Mass.) I guess, if you really insist…, Elaine Ives-Cameron as the Marchioness de…whatever. After an unfortunate launch of its three-month Jane Austen series with Sunday's "Persuasion," PBS redeems itself with a nicely pitched version of the author's first completed novel as part of "Masterpiece" on Sunday night. The elder Mr.Tilney - YIKES! I mean weird, and oftentimes gory! :), I prefer the 1995 version but the more recent version isn't bad. but that wasn’t enough to save it! | John Thorpe?) It was scripted by Maggie Wadey, who also wrote the 2007 version of Mansfield Park….yeah, there’s your first hint that it isn’t going to be great. It didn’t seem like it was meant to be funny, unfortunately. I had to watch Pride & Prejudice ('95) immediately to get the bad taste out of my mouth. During this performance, a little page boy leads Catherine outside and does cartwheels for her while she watches with a glazed expression, as if in a drug-induced stupor.

I watched for 20 minutes. This performance upset me even more than Schlesinger, because while I don’t care that much about Catherine in the book, Henry Tilney is one of my favorite Austen characters!