I knew I missed some interesting items when I couldn’t keep awake reading Sense and Sensiblity!
Jane Austen's Fight Club
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
There is actually a good movie based on Sense and Sensibility by the same name.
Came out in 1995 and directed by Ang Lee.
It was great!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_and_Sensibility_%28film%29
Agree, Tito. I can appreciate why many gents don’t prefer Austin, but I for one greatly enjoy her novels and agree that the 1995 movie was first rate.
The recent BBC adaptation of Sense and Sensibility was quite good too — I’d say probably better then that 1995 Emma Thompson one.
DC,
I enjoyed them both and consider it a close call.
My wife is such a huge Austen fan – she has to see this!
Indeed, I enjoyed both as well. (Also a male Austen fan.) I think my favorite film adaptation of an Austen novel was the 1995 Persuasion.
Though, nonetheless, my wife and I got a big laugh out of this last night.
Love it. Both Jane Austen pure and Jane Austen parody (Fight Club, zombies, etc.)
Persuasion… next on my Netflix.
Along with the BBC version of Sense and Sensibility.