| More rambling about Austen movies, you have been warned | [Aug. 19th, 2009|11:47 am] |
I wonder if the intense hatred period movie fans have for certain period movies is related to the fact that there is little fanfic for the fandoms? I mean, Lost in Austen, right, all the changes are viewed by a lot of people as heresy because Wickham is sympathetic and Caroline is a lesbian and ... I forget what else went on there, it's been a while, I guess drunk!Bingley counts. P&P fic is pretty much all sequels, though, there aren't shipper factions or people determined to side with the villain or fic with intentional genre changes (from romance to darkfic, from dark to fluff, etc.), so when it pops up in a movie it's more shocking. Plus since these are movies, visual changes such as curvy Jennifer Ehle to skinny Keira Knightley and, frankly, older actors to actors who are the right ages for their parts can seem as harsh as a characterization change.
On the other hand, there are people in regular fandoms who also have intense hatred for some of the newer versions. Hm. But the majority do seem to be straight-up Austenfen.
Really, I only harp on this subject because I don't understand it. Maybe I'll ask on my lj for someone to please explain, Knightley aside, what is so horrible about P&P05? |
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