Pride and Prejudice (2003)

• (2003)
• PG
• 104 minuets.

With (Kam Heskin as....Elizabeth Bennet) (Orlando Seale as.........Will Darcy) ( Ben Gourley as............Charles Bingley) ( Henry Maguire as...........Jack Wickam) ( Kelly Stables as...........Lydia Merylon) ( Amber Hamilton as.........Kitty Merylon.) (Kara Holden as............Caroline Bingley) ( Rainy Korwin as.........Mary Lamblen) ( Hubbel Palmer as.........William Collins) ( Lucila Sola as...........Jane Vasquez)

It is Pride and Prejudice with a modern twist, but with the basic story line. Personally i liked it, it was funny and cute. It is not exactly a huge box office sensation but as i said it is cute. The characters were like the books but a bit exaggerated and comically more so. You sourly dislike Darcy then you like him. You basically like to laugh at Collins. Jane is so cute with her foreign accent, and Charles is so air headed funny. And Lizzy is just shyly stubbornly amazing.

(Lydia and her pooch)

(Lizzy and Darcy, as you can tell)

(Laughable Collins)

(The Pink Bible)

BOstan~

P.S

Not all will like it but that's OK.

Who

With the difference you can have a whole debate upon it, but i admit i have a favorite version and actors. But i liked them both, i first saw the 2005 version when it came out and it got me into all things Austen, and i did promise myself not to watch the older version, but eventually i did and i liked it. I personally like the 2005 adaption more and the actors are just in my head, but to me it doesn't take much away from the 1995 adaption. Now who do you like best as the older sisters?

(1995) Jane Bennet

(Below 2005) Jane Bennet

(1995) Elizabeth Bennet

(Below 2005) Elizabeth Bennet

False Colours, Regency Novel

I just read False Colours and it was exceptionally good, the characters were so colourful and the dialogue one of the best that i have seen. The plot is relatively simple but has twists that become the books character in itself.

One thing that i thought was cool, is that Georgette Heyer was writing not in her time and she really captured the whole writing style of what she was writing about.

BOstan~

Georgette Heyer????

Georgette Heyer was born on August 16 1902 in London, England and died on July 4 1974. She has written more than 50 books and writes from Historical Romance to Detective Fiction. Her writing career began in 1921 when she turned a story of her younger brother into a novel The Black Moth. she married on 1925 to George Ronald Rougier.

She was a very private woman, and even refused to grant interviews, telling a friend: "My private life concerns no one but myself and my family."

Her Regencies Novels were inspired by Jane Austen. And with her thriller novels her husband often helped with the basic plots leaving her to detail characters and dialogue.

Such books that she has written are:

ARABELLA

Plot: Arabella, the beautiful daughter of a country vicar, sets out to London to have a season and make an advantageous marriage. On her way there, her carriage has an accident and she has to stop over at the hunting box of Robert Beaumaris, the Nonpareil of the town and one of the wealthiest men in England. Mr. Beaumaris suspects the 'accident' to be a ruse on the part of someone chasing him for his fortune. Overhearing him make a remark to this effect, Arabella pretends to be an heiress. Mr. Beaumaris, knowing this is not true, but impressed by her daring, decides to encourage this falsehood. He is bored by society and views the town cynically. He is also amused by the fact that society will follow whomever leads, irrespective of the wisdom of the person's behavior.

THE GRAND SOPHY

Plot: For the past several years Sophia Stanton-Lacy (Known as Sophy to everyone) has lived away from England, following her diplomat father Sir Horace around Europe while the Napoleonic War raged on. Now that the Battle of Waterloo is over and Napoleon has once again been exiled, her father receives a temporary post in South America. Instead of taking his daughter along, he asks his sister Lady Ombersley to watch over his "Little Sophy" and help him find her a husband. However, "Little Sophy" is nothing like anyone expected. 5'9" in her stockings, she is outgoing, chic, and quite independent. Soon after her arrival, Sophy realizes that all is not well in the Rivenhall household and proceeds to go about making sure everyone ends up happy (Charles no longer engaged to his spiteful fiance, Hubert cleared of all debts and Cecilia married to the man she loves), herself included, through the use of some elaborate machinations.

COTILLION

Plot: Kitty Charing has been brought up in rural isolation by her rich and eccentric guardian, Matthew Penicuik, whom she calls Uncle Matthew. Uncle Matthew makes the whimsical decision to name Kitty as his heiress---but only if she marries one of his extensive collection of great-nephews, the offspring of his assorted and much loathed sisters.

BATH TANGLE

Plot: After the death of the Earl of Spenborough all are shocked when they discover that the late Earl has appointed Ivo Barrasford, Marquis of Rotherham, and formerly engaged to Lady Serena Carlow to be Serena's guardian. Though to Lady Serena may rage against it, there is no way out and therefore Serena moves to Bath with her stepmother where she meets up with her old love from six years past. What will happen in this tangle?

She has written other romances like False Colours (1963) and Ferderica (1965)

Georgette Heyer has also written thrillers like:

Footsteps in the Dark (1932)
Why shoot a Butler (1933)

The Unfinished Clue (1934)

More book reviews to come.

News?

I haven't actually heard of this directly but by other blogs like Enchanted Serenity Of Period Films and Jane Austen Today, both very cool places to learn neat stuff. I like this rumor because i love Jane Austen movies, so i think people will be very excited, i know i am.

The very well known actress Romola Garai (Atonement, Vanity Fair, Nicholas Nickleby, and As you like it) will play (by rumor) the beloved Emma Woodhouse. And Jane Austen Today says that Jonny Lee Miller (1999 version of Mansfield Park, and series Eli Stone) will play Mr. Knightly, their are some other characters that have been cast also. It will be the production of BBC One and four hours are said to the the time of it.

I can't wait to enjoy the movie.

BOstan~

ShakeSpeare~

Sonnet 117

Accuse me thus: that i have scanted all

Wherein i should your great deserts repay,

Forgot upon your dearest love to call,

Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day;

That i have frequent been with unknown minds,

And giv'n to time your own dear purchased right;

That i have hoisted sail to all the winds

Which should transport me farthest from your sight.

Book both within the level of your frown,

But shoot not at me in your wakened hate,

Since my appeal says i did strive to prove

The constancy and virtue of your love.

~Shake Speare~

April 1st

April First: Chawton Cottage, Mrs. Austen & Cassandra's graves.
Chawton House (Edward's home)

The First of April!!