I watched a few films yesterday. Hanna, Penelope, and Becoming Jane. The last two were compulsive downloads triggered by McAvoy sickness as I am like to call the transfixing quality of James McAvoy in anything he does.
I didn't know much about Jane Austen before watching the film, but I wiki-ed her after. The movie heavily embellished the romance between her and Tom LeFroy, but it was interesting to read that neither her nor her sister ever got married and that she had moderate success as a writer at a time when making a profitable marriage was deemed the proper course. Made me feel better about my anti-relationship way of being though the idea that she died a virgin while being heralded as one of the best social commentary romance author kind of hurts the soul.
It's been a Fringe day. Watched something like five episodes at work and then came home a decided to download the rest of the first season. Shit is pretty good, I must say. I have always enjoyed Joshua Jackson since Dawson's Creek or I suppose even since The Mighty Ducks, though I didn't really know him from any other character as I was fairly young when I watched those films. I am warming to Anna Torv as well which is surprising as my lukewarm reception of her on first viewing of the pilot when it originally aired convinced me to not continue watching. I still hear her accent slipping all over the place, though.
I didn't know much about Jane Austen before watching the film, but I wiki-ed her after. The movie heavily embellished the romance between her and Tom LeFroy, but it was interesting to read that neither her nor her sister ever got married and that she had moderate success as a writer at a time when making a profitable marriage was deemed the proper course. Made me feel better about my anti-relationship way of being though the idea that she died a virgin while being heralded as one of the best social commentary romance author kind of hurts the soul.
It's been a Fringe day. Watched something like five episodes at work and then came home a decided to download the rest of the first season. Shit is pretty good, I must say. I have always enjoyed Joshua Jackson since Dawson's Creek or I suppose even since The Mighty Ducks, though I didn't really know him from any other character as I was fairly young when I watched those films. I am warming to Anna Torv as well which is surprising as my lukewarm reception of her on first viewing of the pilot when it originally aired convinced me to not continue watching. I still hear her accent slipping all over the place, though.
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