I just read Northanger Abbey for the first time,I read it in english ‘cause I thought it’s important to read at least one of Austen’s works the exact way she intented it to be.
I was really surprised.I mean,Northanger Abbey and Mansfield park are the only books of hers that I haven’t read and I assumed that I pretty much knew her style after four books.But I was wrong,this book was more sarcastic,cynical,satirical than any of her other novels and it introduced us to a very non-heroic heroine.
Catherine Morland has nothing a main character should have.She’s not very intelligent,she can’t tease anybody,she’s irrational,she hardly knows herself and hardly understands the world she lives in.Her only qualities seem to be her kindness and her devotion.
How wise if miss Austen to produce such a main character and transmit the information that it’s not the wit,the wealth or the remarcability of any sort that are responsible for making people happy.It’s the goodness of their heart.This is actually stated in Pride and Prejudice,Lizzie tells Jane “If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.”
So the book was pleasant,it was a nice and funny read and I ended up with some moral conclusions too.
As for the movie :)…it was very entertaining.I wanted to watch the 1980s BBC adaptation but the actors looked really ugly,the settings appeared to be shabby and mr Tilney was a bit too much bewitched by Catherine so I just skipped to the ITV 2007.
In my opinion NA was ITV’s best production in the Jane Austen season.It’s not only an adaptation,it’s creatively done.
The music prepares you for a great and wonderful adventure,as Catherine expects her months in Bath to be,or for horrid nightmare-like happenings,as Catherine imagines that are likely to come her way.Thumbs-up for the music then.
Also,thumbs up for sticking to the book enough so that we can get the picture but not enough to become bored(they were really inactive back then and their greatest entertainment was walking in circles in the Pump Room).
Another thumbs-up goes to the narrator.Of little appearance but of great importance was the superior,amused,satirical female voice that began and ended the story.
And now,the final thumbs-up goes to(‘tis so cool,I feel as if I’m presenting the Grammy Awards)…her dreams,her interesting almost erotic dreams.Honestly,the writer and the director should get an award for the dreams alone.Here’s a clip.And no,there’s no such dreaming in the book,which makes their idea even more worthy of praise.watch the first 30 seconds or so.
The thumbs-down go to the alterations in the story that I thought shouldn’t have been made.Like mrs Allen being smarter,general Tilney being waaay too creepy and Catherine being less silly.
Overall I’ll give it 9 out of 10.And now I am in search of a good Japanese period drama.I want drama!!!
Buh-bye now(Tommy hates you).
The period drama addict…Northanger Abbey
iulie 18, 2009 de Maria
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I just finished watching it for the Period Drama Challenge too! I totally agree that the whole adaptation was nicely put together – I thoroughly enjoyed it!
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