3 Hot Movies on Writers
And the 2nd place goes to…
Becoming Jane
“As if the writing of women did not
display the greatest powers of mind, knowledge of human nature, the liveliest
effusions of wit and humour and the best-chosen language imaginable?”_Jane
Austin in Becoming Jane (2007)
Even
if you haven’t read any of Jane Austen’s books, Becoming Jane will be entertaining. Becoming Jane is a British-Irish film with beautiful locations and
wonderful rhyming British accent. Of course, you can call this “colonial
nostalgia”, or whatever your professors taught you at the university. However,
the attraction the setting held out for me was immense. Along with the
storyline, the background of the charming countryside was speaking uninhibited
on matters of heart and mind in this 18th century woman writer’s
life.
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| Image Courtesy: Anne Hathaway |
Jane,
the younger daughter of Reverend George Austen and his wife, aspires to become
a writer, and in family gatherings, she prides herself in reading her long passages
with flourish. One day, a stranger happens to listen to her read out from one
of her passages and makes fun of her. This becomes a turning point in Jane’s
life, because as it happens in most of the Romances, the woman finds herself in
fires of lingering affection towards the stranger, a young man called Thomas
Lefroy, a promising loser as a lawyer, living under the patronage of his uncle,
the Lord Chief Judge Langlois.
The
romance between Jane and Thomas, aka, Tom goes to see its spring times and its
winters, it is interesting to see how Jane, a writer grows out of the cold ice
of the oppressing reality. She, with her wit and charming irony goes to become
a sensation in writing novels although her love life becomes a source of
constant pain, at the end of the movie. A historical film, Becoming Jane, thus offers biographical insights into the life of
Jane Austen.
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| Image Courtesy: Google |
Becoming Jane
also shows Jane’s beginning the manuscript, First
Impressions, which will become Pride
and Prejudice. Anne Hathaway performs Jane’s role and James McAvoy is
Thomas Lefroy.
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