Jane Austen Movie Throwdown

This week's poll concerns reading scenes or scenes involving a book in Jane Austen movie sequel adaptations. Which are your favorite scenes involving a book/reading?

Jemima Rooper as Amanda Price loves to read Pride and Prejudice. Before long, Lizzie Bennet steps inside her bathroom and she finds herself living inside the book. When Mr. Darcy (Elliot Cowan) reads Pride and Prejudice, he mistakenly thinks that Amanda revealed private information. Angered, he tears the book up and tosses it in a fountain.

In The Jane Austen Book Club, Prudie Drummond (Emily Blunt) convinces her husband Dean (Marc Blucas) to read Persuasion. He not only loves the book, but the story brings the couple closer and helps to mend their troubled marriage.

Cher (Alicia Silverstone) is an expert shopper in Clueless, loosely based on Emma, and one would never confuse her for a book worm. Her Mr. Knightley, Josh (played by Paul Rudd) is a serious law student in college. The snappy dialog makes watching the film a treat. CHER: Hey, granola breath, you got something on your chin. JOSH: I'm growing a goatee. CHER: Oh, that's good. You don't want to be the last one at the coffee house without chin pubes.

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Lost in Austen The Jane Austen Book Club Clueless

Clueless the 2nd?

Seen over the blogosphere: From Yahoo Buzz:

Alicia Siverstone was recently overheard talking to Amy Heckerling, the writer and director of Clueless, the movie that was based loosely on Jane Austen's "Emma."

Cher and her friends would reteam at a high school reunion. Let's hope this isn't a false lead! A new Clueless and a new Emma made in the same year would be beyond ironic. Read the article here: Buzz Log

Click here to see the totally buggin movie trailer.

Hip Hop Austen? Yo Hey Emma!

Hip hop Emma? Just when I was getting all melancholy over the conclusion of The Complete Jane Austen on PBS, hope arrives on the Austen horizon; er aa, well I think that it is hope, but my proprietous brain can not quite bend around the concept of Jane Austen’s novel Emma as a hip hop musical!?! Yes Janeites, the next Austen movie adaptation in the queue is Emma, and Miss Woodhouse shall sing and dance, and get all urban on us!

Screen Gems announced in Variety that they plan to produce a hip-hop musical version of Jane Austen's novel Emma, which will be transported to a modern-day urban high-school attended by a step-brother and sister. The movie, written by Tyger Williams (Menace II Society) will feature at least fifteen song-and-dance numbers and will be directed by Clint Culpepper.

This setting might sound a bit familiar, since Amy Heckerling’s 1995 movie Clueless was set amongst teenage culturally infused, valley speaking, fashion crazed, and matchmaking high-schoolers. So, if you can imagine that movie’s heroine Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) sans designer duds and BMW’s, all urbanized and street wise, hip hopping along with her friends from the hood, then there is hope that this movie will transform Austen’s Emma as successfully as Heckerling’s Clueless did.

So Janeites, if you thought that screenwriter Andrew Davies has really sexed up Austen, hold on to your bonnets, because hip hop is renowned for its provocative and demeaning inflections. I am all anticipation to see what they do with Austen’s outspoken character Mrs. Elton. They just might be able to make her more crass and offensive than Austen envisioned! Nahh…As if!

Read more about the upcoming production:

Emma why ya buggin?

Screen Gems Making Hip Hop Emma

Hip Hop Jane Austen

posted by Laurel Ann, Austenprose