Comments on: Jane Austen is a sassy chick!

By: Irene

Irene — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:50:23 +0000

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By: Jean

Jean — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:23:49 +0000

Collin H: Try ‘Pride and Promiscuity” – out of England a few years back – that should satisfy your longing for good Austen Satire!

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Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:13:51 +0000

[...] Blankenship finds P&P a “hot and sexy summer read” — but pray do not book a chaise to the charming village of High Dudgeon, Gentle [...]

By: Collin H

Collin H — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:49:20 +0000

Theres a Bollywood Pride and Prejudice? I must see it. Bollywood makes everything tenhundred percent more awesome. Look at how much more excellent they make Superman and Spiderman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHIQQVCe8Is

I found the Bedrooms and Hallways clip on youtube and laughed hard enough to get a disapproving glare from my boss.

Hey! McKidd was the uberhot Pvt. Cooper in Dog Soldiers! I’d love to know how someone with such a heavy Scottish accent is gonna play a Norse god.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:11:12 +0000

As an unashamed, grown-man Jane Austen obsessive, full to the brim with opinions about everything wrong and right about the recent film adaptation AND the preceding two TV versions AND the 40s Hollywood film of P & P, I write only to steer Collin AWAY from the Bollywood update of Pride and Prejudice–unless you’re far more forgiving of this sort of thing than I–and toward a comic dream scene in the 1998 British film Bedrooms and Hallways: our hero, lovelorn gayboy Leo (played by Kevin McKidd, soon to be Thor and lots of other heroes) asks a friend for a book to read that will help him forget his hopeless crush on an unavailable hottie; the friend loans him Pride and Prejudice and it leads to a hilariously smarmy Jane Austen parody dream in which all that polite language is twisted toward adolescent sex fantasy–it’s the costumes and the BBC intonations that make the joke work–and that’s pretty much how Austen’s prose comedy works, too.

By: Casey

Casey — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:58:18 +0000

If only they sold Cosmos at Pinkberry. It was almost a perfect grrl power evening.

By: Collin H

Collin H — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:23:16 +0000

I was never a big fan of Jane Austen back in school, but I find that as time goes on I am looking back on what I read from her more and more fondly.

What surprises me is that there isn’t more Austen satire/parody out in the world. I have this feeling in my gut that Pride and Prejudice is a comedy goldmine that hasn’t been fully explored.