five reasons to love 'lost in austen': a picspam

[dear_prudence]

being well known as an austen geek, when 'lost in austen' screened i had a lot of people asking me what i thought of it. i didn't get a chance to see it at the time, but sajee and i finally got around to watching it a couple of weeks ago, and i've got to say i thoroughly enjoyed it. yes it was silly, yes it messed shamelessly with a time honoured classic, but that was kind of it's charm. to celebrate said charm, i present:




5. mrs. bennet

apart from the fact that she was river song in period costume, and i love me a good dr who tie-in, she was just really fun. i wouldn't say she bore much resemblance to austen's mrs. bennet, but she was tenacious, she was wiley, and she was shrewd. what she did have in common with the original mrs. be was her absolutely one-eyed, determined interest in her daughter's matrimonial prospects. and i loved how bitchy and suspicious she was with amanda.


4. mr. collins

i think amanda sums him up perfectly when she says:
"collins. on the page, ok, he's pretty bad. in the flesh, he's all-time king of the mingers!"
guy henry played him brilliantly - he made me shudder!


3. another darcy

let's be honest - there just aren't enough mr. darcys in the world. elliot cowan was no colin firth, but he held his own on the brooding, tortured aristocrat front. and on the wet shirt front too.


2. worlds colliding

the best parts of this show were the parts where people found themselves outside of their own time. lizzy turning up in amanda's bathroom, mr. darcy on a london bus, lydia borrowing lip gloss for the ball. it took imagination, it was well executed, and there were a lot of laughs to be had as a result.


1. putting yourself in the picture

the beauty of this production was it's most obvious element - the way it puts the austen-geek in the picture. you feel like you're seeing pemberley for the first time the way amanda does, you feel like you finally get to tell wickham off for being such a bastard, you get to feel involved with the story. and that's particularly nice when it comes to the happy ending... :)

Comments

[lalumena.livejournal.com]

Aw, this was lovely! And so true, I agreed with so much of it.Eliot Cowan had some stiff expectations to live up to but I thought he did himself proud. (And I do love the bit with TinkyWinky.)

Your colouring is lovely too. :)

[dear-prudence.livejournal.com]

"tinkywinky - i've seen his likeness before."
XD

[wastxd-symphony.livejournal.com]

I must agree, it was a beautiful production. Apart from Mrs Bennet being seen wearing paisley, I loved it. Watching it with my ssiter, there were so many times when we laughed, gasped, or , when MR DArcy appeared on screen, cried out "HOT STUFF!!"

You've truly made it come alive. And I love it. Definitely memorizing it. :)

[dear-prudence.livejournal.com]

scroll back up and click the "memories" button - i circled it in the pic below:


and thanks for commenting - i'm glad you like the picspam :)

[wastxd-symphony.livejournal.com]

Ah ha! Thankyou!

[the-tim-world.livejournal.com]

i've got to say i thoroughly enjoyed it. yes it was silly, yes it messed shamelessly with a time honoured classic, but that was kind of it's charm. to celebrate said charm.
I felt the same way when I saw it.

apart from the fact that she was river song in period costume, and i love me a good dr who tie-in
YES!

I think Colin Firth left some really big shoes to fill.

[autumnjoy.livejournal.com]

Aside from the slight Alex Kingston issues I had (I think of her mostly as Elizabeth Corday from ER and having Dr. Corday in P&P just seemed all kinds of wrong), I loved Lost in Austen. :)
When Amanda made Darcy rise up out the lake soaking wet, I was just about doubled over laughing. "I am having a bit of a strange post-modern moment here. "

[happygoluckycat.livejournal.com]

I completely agree with reason number 1! When I saw this advertised on TV, my first thought was "ohmigosh Amanda's me!" It's so lovely to realise that the same thing happened to numerous people around the world!

Oh and Darcy on the London bus made me cry with laughter!

[iowagirl11.livejournal.com]

I ordered this from Netflix based on your recap and just watched it, and let me just say this: Five seconds after I finished it, I was on Amazon buying my own copy. OH MY GOSH. MR. DARCY ON THE LONDON BUS! I couldn't stop laughing for ten minutes! I'm sure I'll be sitting in my cubicle at work tomorrow and think to myself "Surfeit of negroes" and they will probably have to cart me out of work in a straightjacket.