Becoming Jane - A beautiful irony of life and literature
" My characters will have, after a little bit of trouble, all that they desire" - Jane Austen Becoming Jane is a movie on the author Jane Austen, celebrated author of Pride and Prejudice. It is believed that she wrote the novel when she was having an affair with the lawyer Thomas Langlois Lefroy on whom she based the character of Mr Darcy. The movie traces this controversial love affair of Jane Austen. Having grown up reading Pride and Prejudice and swooning over the dashing Mr Darcy, I anticipated that Thomas Lefroy would just be like Mr Darcy. Alas, I was wrong. The movie is a whole 2-hour piece of irony. Characters of the movie look familiar to the characters of the book, but they behave in an unconventional way. Jane Austen herself acts differently (more humanely) than the character of Elizabeth Bennet of the book. Watching this movie I was busy noticing how these actors onscreen look much like the characters of the book but act in a more relatable, l...